Faculty
Professor | Department Head
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D124
Research Areas: Climate change impacts on the hydrology and water quality in permafrost and glaciated watersheds, permafrost hydrology; hydrological pathways, mobilization and biogeochemical transformations of carbon, nutrients, and metals along the terrestrial to fluvial continuum; biogeochemistry of C and N in freshwater systems.
Research Areas: African urban futures and black futurity; urban ethnography work concerning issues of gender, spirituality, spatial exclusions and financial inclusion; popular culture, both on the continent and in the diaspora, that explores the issues of subjectivity and belonging and the use of Afrofuturism and Afropolitan Imagineering in geographic projects that address the politics of difference.
Associate Head and Director, SURP (on sabbatical) | Vice-President / President-Elect Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room E322
Research Areas: Travel Behaviour of Generation Y; Determinants of Changes in Urban Spatial Structure; Promoting Public Transit in Midsize Canadian Cities.
Research Areas: Photogrammetry; Remotely Piloted Autonomous Systems; Cartography; Mobile GIS; Surveying; Historic Aerial and Satellite Imagery; Critical Heritage Studies; Energy Geography
Research Areas: Aural/oral geographies; Geographies of colonialism; Historical geographies of nature and science; Psychoanalytic geographies
Research Areas: GIS; remote sensing; spatial data analysis and modeling; change detection; machine learning methods
Associate Professor | Associate Head, Geography Graduate Programs
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D319
Research Areas: Northern and Indigenous housing and home; community-led housing and self-governance; northern social policy; social determinants of health
Research Areas: Political economy; critical studies of finance; geographies of markets and marketization; surveillance pricing; geographies of education; monetary policy; urban policy and policy mobilities.
Research Areas: Healthy communities; health and the built environment; active and sustainable mobility; youth mobility; health and place; spatial justice; street rebalancing; motonormativity.
Research Areas: Arctic-alpine landscape ecology and species distribution modelling; Biodiversity conservation and protected area management; Forest-tundra ecotone dynamics and susceptibility to change
Research Areas: Cities and the natural environment; Natural Heritage Systems; Ecosystem services; Community engagement
Research Areas: Food geographies; The cultural economy of city regions; Urban governance.