Jean Andrey
Transportation geography; road safety; risk assessment; and global change
Sarah Burch
Governing responses to climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) in urban spaces. Exploring triggers of transitions toward more sustainable development pathways, and strategies for engaging a variety of actors in conversations about desirable futures
Daniel Cockayne
Perspectives from cultural, economic, feminist geography, and contemporary social theory and philosophy. This includes how people manage and conceptualize their work in the context of 'new media' startup firms that develop websites and applications for smartphones and tablets
Peter Deadman
Geographic information systems; natural resources management; common pool resources; computer modelling and simulation; artificial intelligence; recreation management; landscape architecture
Brent Doberstein
Resource and environmental management, with emphasis on developing countries; environmental impact assessment; sustainable development; capacity building; waste management; natural hazards
Christine Dow
Glacier hydrology and ice dynamics using methods including numerical modeling and insitu data collection; ice sheets and valley glaciers; assessing the impact of a warming climate on global ice masses
Claude Duguay
Remote sensing in northern hydrology, numerical modelling of ice growth and the thermal regime of lakes and reservoirs, and the study of climate-lake interactions, with specific interests in northern Canada (Quebec, Manitoba, Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory) and Alaska
Susan Elliott
Medical geography, with primary research foci in the area of environment and health, the global environment, urban social geography, and philosophy and method in the social sciences
Chris Fletcher
Using numerical models to investigate large-scale climate processes and climate change
Peter Johnson
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
Suzanne Kearns
Human factors and education within the aviation industry; e-learning in aviation; competency-based education in aviation; international aviation; aviation safety; safety management systems
Richard Kelly
Remote sensing of the cryosphere, especially snow and ice environments, using ground, aircraft and satellite earth observation data
Ellsworth F. LeDrew
Arctic dynamic meteorology and atmospheric synoptic studies; remote sensing of sea ice and snow cover; micrometeorology; remote sensing of corals and impact of climate change and variability on coastal ecosystems
Yuri Leonenko
Global warming; climate control; development of technologies for greenhouse gas reduction
Jonathan Li
3D city modeling; feature extraction from image and LiDAR data; impervious surface mapping; digital terrain modeling and analysis; environmental visualization; multi-sensor data fusion; spatial sensor web; Internet GIS for risk and disaster management; informal settlement management in Southern Africa
Merrin Macrae
Biogeochemical cycling in natural and impacted systems (agriculture, wetlands, forest) under variable climatic regimes and following disturbance or land use change
Clare Mitchell
Population growth, counterurbanization and heritage tourism within Canada's non-metropolitan settlements
Sanjay Nepal
Exploring 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. Current research focus is in Nepal, Thailand and Western Canada
Paul Parker
Energy efficiency; renewable energy policy; Japan and the Pacific; local economic development; ecological footprint assessment
Richard Petrone
Developing a further understanding of soil – vegetation – atmosphere interactions, especially as influenced by hydrologic and climatic conditions
Jonathan Price
Surface water and groundwater relations in wetlands; peatland restoration; forest hydrology
Derek T. Robinson
Land use, land management, and the carbon cycle
Daniel Scott, Canada Research Chair in Global Change and Tourism
Climate change impacts and adaptation, in particular the effects of climate change on tourism and recreation; protected areas and biodiversity conservation
Steffanie Scott
Agro-food system sustainability; small-scale producers; local food systems; organic and ecological food production; environment-development interfaces; East Asia and Canada
Mike Stone
Environmental planning; water quality; sediment/water interactions; water resources management
Maria Strack
Interactions between ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry and soil properties in wetland ecosystems. In particular, her research focuses on feedbacks between wetlands and climate by investigating controls on peatland greenhouse gas exchange in natural, disturbed and restored ecosystems
Su-Yin Tan
Geomatics and spatial data analysis with diverse application areas within both physical and human geography
Tara Vinodrai
Economic geography; urban and regional economic development and policy; creative and cultural economy of cities; labour market dynamics and workforce development; design, innovation and technological change
Johanna Wandel
The critical relationship between humans and the environment and specifically addresses vulnerability and adaptation assessments in relation to climate change
Nancy Worth
Feminist economic geography; (un)paid work, housing, precarity, social reproduction, inequalities, age and generations, and feminist theory
