People profiles

Alexander joined the Department in 2007 and has research interests in statistical geocomputing,and geomorphology. He is particularly interested in spatial classification, applied geotatistics and terrain analysis and has worked extensively on rock glacier dynamics and landslide susceptibility in alpine areas.

Room EV1-232 | Ext. 35783 | email brenning@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Tue. & Fri. 11:00-12:00
 

Peter’s research interest centre on using advanced geographic information technologies to model land cover changes in response to socio-environmental forces. He has been particularly interested in the of Agent Based Models (ABMs) to model environmental change.

Room EV1-114 | Ext. 33404 | email pjdeadma@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Wed. 1:00-3:00

Joining the Department in 2006, Claude’s main research interests are in the areas of Climate-Cryosphere interactions, northern hydrology, microwave remote sensing, and numerical modelling. Recent field, remote sensing and modeling investigations have been in northern Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. Dr. Duguay is the founding director of UW's Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change.

Room EV1-125 | Ext. 33610 | email crduguay@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Tue. 1:00-2:30, Wed. 10:30-12:00

Peter joined GEM in 2012 having been a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University. His interests are in the application and evaluation of geospatial technologies, especially agent-based models (ABM), geographic information systems (GIS), and the Geospatial Web 2.0 (Geoweb), for decision support systems. Recent projects have focused on community development, the inclusion of volunteered geographic information in governance, crowdsourced planning support systems and web-harvesting on-line content.

Room EV1-236 | Ext. 33078 | email peter.johnson@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Tue. 1:00-3:00

As a long-serving key member of the Department, Ellsworth’s research interests include climate-cryosphere interactions using passive microwave observations and numerical climate models, the exploration of high spectral and spatial resolution imagery for analysis of environmental stress on tropical coral reefs, the use of Earth observations in international energy management, and data management and archiving for Polar Environmental Science.

Room EV1-121 | Ext. 32783 | email ells@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Mon. 3:00-4:20

Merrin started in the Department in 2006 and has research interests in the linkages between hydroclimatology, biogeochemical cycling and surface-water chemistry in both natural and impacted systems under variable climatic regimes and following disturbance or land use change. I am particularly interested in carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus storage and movement in both temperate and high latitude environments.

Room EV1-237 | Ext. 33064 | email mmacrae@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Tue. 11:00-12:00

Bruce is a senior member of the University administration and is the current Associate Provost, Resources. His research interests are in broad environmental and resource management and is a world leader in integrated water management.

Room NH 3073F | Ext. 37502 | email mitchell@uwaterloo.ca

Sanjay joined the department in 2011 from Texas A&M University. In 2012 he received the Roy Wolfe Award from the Association of American Geographers for his research, which explores the links between biodiversity conservation and tourism, particularly in areas of resolving conflicts between wildlife agencies and local communities, tourism impacts on the environment (in parks and protected areas, and remote communities), community participation, and local level development through tourism.

Room EV1-124 | Ext. 31239 | email snepal@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Wed. 9:00-11:30

Jonathan’s research is broadly concerned with the hydrology of wetland systems. He is especially concerned with peatland and fenland systems from a management perspective but also from a restoration perspective, especially as a result of resource extraction processes.  He is also interested in the impect of climate change on peatland systems.

Room EV1-122 | Ext. 35711 | email jsprice@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Non-teaching term; contact by e-mail

Andre is the current faculty Dean having previously been a Canada Research Chair in fluvial dynamics at the University of Montreal until 2011. His variously funded research activities have been in the dynamics of the confluence of rivers, erosion runoff, turbulence and restoring rivers.

Room EV1-349 | Ext. 32884 | email agroy@uwaterloo.ca

Steffanie is President of the Canadian Association for Food Studies, and is engaged in research on sustainable food systems in China and Canada. Her work documents the emergence of the ecological agriculture sector and alternative food networks in China. She is also developing an urban food system sustainability assessment framework.

For more information, visit Steffanie Scott's personal page.

Room EV1-109 | Ext. 37012 | email sdscott@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Non-teaching term; contact by e-mail

Su-Yin joined the Department in 2008 and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the theory and application of remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) technologies.  Her interdisciplinary research interests are in the field of geomatics and spatial data analysis with diverse application areas within both physical and human geography.  Current research projects include exploring threshold concepts and teaching in the GISciences, crime mapping in Toronto and the Kitchener-Waterloo region, and remote sensing for examining biogeophysical patterns and mapping land use and land cover.

Room EV1-103A | Ext. 38772 | email sy2tan@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Wed. 1:30-3:00

Johanna joined the GEM in 2008 having worked on previously on high impact climate change adaptation research studies in Canada. Her research examines the critical relationship between humans and the environment and specifically addresses vulnerability and adaptation assessments in relation to climate change.

Room EV1-105 | Ext. 38669 | email jwandel@uwaterloo.ca
W2013 Office hours: Thu. 1:00-3:00

Room EV1-115 | Ext. 32433 | email aanthony@uwaterloo.ca

Room EV1-123 | Ext. 32730 | email scastela@uwaterloo.ca