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
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Judith’s research interests center around the impacts of tourism in developing regions. Specific projects have focused on the role of tourism on gender roles, indigenous people, employment and marine parks. Primary regional focus has included countries in Southeast Asia, South Pacific and the Caribbean.

Room EV1-126 | Ext. 35490 | email jcukier@uwaterloo.ca
W2015 Office hours: Wednesday and Thursday 10:00-11:00

Brent’s research interests lie in the general field of resource and environmental management in developing countries. Within this broad theme, his interests include sustainable resource and environmental management; hazard mitigation and disaster risk reduction; post-disaster reconstruction; institutional capacity building; and parks and protected areas.

Room EV1-220 | Ext. 33384 | email bdoberst@uwaterloo.ca
W2015 Office hours: contact professor

Susan is a medical geographer with particular interests in global environmental health.  She is an Adjunct Professor with the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (http://inweh.unu.edu/), a partner in much of the global water and sanitation research that she undertakes.  She is also a research lead for the AllerGen national centres of excellence on gene-environment interactions and allergic disease (http://www.allergen-nce.ca/).  More information can be found on her lab website:

Peter joined GEM in 2012 having been a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University. His research seeks to understand how governments, citizens, and private companies share information through geospatial technology, including open data, the Geoweb, social media, mobile devices, and the process of crowdsourcing. Recent projects have focused on understanding the value of government open data, the integration of volunteered geographic information in government, Geoweb platform development, and mobile application testing and evaluation.

For more information, visit Peter Johnson's personal website.

Room EV1-236 | Ext. 33078 | email peter.johnson@uwaterloo.ca

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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
W2015 Office hours: Tuesday 12:30-2:20

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
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Bruce’s research focuses on resource and environmental management; and, water policy, governance and management, with particular attention to integrated water resource management.  He is on sabbatical leave.

Room EV1-233 | Ext. 38158 | 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
W2015 Office hours: Wednesday 9:00-11:30

Rich’s research is focused on developing a further understanding of soil – vegetation – atmosphere interactions, especially as influenced by hydrologic and climatic conditions. Specific questions of interest to him include trace gas exchange in wetland and forested systems, interactions between vegetation and hydrology and climate (weather), and modeling the impacts of climatic and land-use stresses on these linkages. Rich’s research currently focuses on high latitude systems, specifically the Western Boreal Forest, where he is actively involved with these research questions and their applicability to landscape reclamation. However, he is also a lead-PI and node leader in the Southern Ontario Water Consortium where he is examining the effects of agriculture and landuse change on water quantity and quality in Southern Ontario. Rich is also one of the core faculty members in the Master’s of Climate Change Program.

Room EV1-223 | Ext. 39174 | email rpetrone@uwaterloo.ca
W2015 Office hours: contact professor

Derek joined the Department in 2012 with interests that lie at the center of land use, land management, and the carbon cycle. He uses agent-based modelling as an approach to integrate GIS, ecological, and human decision-making models to evaluate socio-economic contexts and policy scenarios on changes to land use and land cover, ecological function and the provision of ecosystem services, and human well-being.

For more information, visit Derek Robinson's personal website.

Room EV1-105A | Ext. 31789 | email dtrobinson@uwaterloo.ca
W2015 Office hours: Wednesday 1:00-2:00 or by email appointment

Steffanie is past 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 researching the urban food system in Nanjing, China.

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

Room EV1-109 | Ext. 37012 | email sdscott@uwaterloo.ca
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Maria’s research investigates the 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.

Room EV1-234 | Ext. 30164 | email mstrack@uwaterloo.ca
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Tara joined the department in 2008 and holds a joint appointment with SEED. At the core of her research program is a concern with understanding and theorizing the dynamics of contemporary economic change and the emerging and evolving geographies of the knowledge-based economy. Her research is highly interdisciplinary  in scope drawing on the social sciences, and innovation, organizational and management studies.

Room EV3-4321 | Ext. 33278 | email tvinodra@uwaterloo.ca
W2015 Office hours: Wednesday 2:30-4:00

Room EV1-113 | Ext. 33406 | email scastela@uwaterloo.ca

Geography and Environmental Management

Room EV1-120 | Ext. 32403 | email sara.stewart@uwaterloo.ca