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Jean Andrey
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Environment

Location: EV1 349
jandrey@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Transportation geography, road safety; risk assessment; global change.

Alison Blay-Palmer
Associate Professor, CIGI Chair in Sustainable Food Systems

Location: BSIA 247
ablaypalmer@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Sustainable communities, food studies, economic geography, corporate social responsibility.

Sarah Burch
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair

Location: EV1 103
sarah.burch@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Sustainability transitions, climate change governance, mitigation and adaptation in cities, sustainability entrepreneurship within small businesses, participatory scenario development.

Mary-Louise Byrne
Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3E10B
mlbyrne@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Great Lakes sand dunes, coastal dune management, beach management, sand dune morphodynamics and ecology; coastal change; sand transport on coasts; coastal applications in GIS.

Daniel Cockayne
Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 103A
daniel.cockayne@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Cultural geography, critical human geography, economic geography, entrepreneurialism and startup economies, feminist geography, queer geography and sexuality.

Jonathan Crush
CIGI Chair in Global Migration and Development, School of International Policy and Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs; Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: BSIA 318
jcrush@wlu.cajcrush@balsillieschool.ca

Faculty Interests: Migration, food security, urbanization and poverty in the global south.

Peter Deadman
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 102
pjdeadman@uwaterlool.ca

Faculty Interests: Geographic Information Systems; land use change; common pool resources; agent-based modelling and simulation; climate change.

Simon Dalby
CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change; Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: BSIA 310
sdalby@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Contemporary geopolitics, climate change, and environmental security.

Brent Doberstein
Associate Professor; Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Graduate Officer

Location: EV1 220
bdoberstein@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Resource and environmental management in developing countries, hazards and hazard mitigation, environmental impact assessment, sustainable development, capacity building, waste management, parks and protected areas.

Sean Doherty
Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 2E9
sdoherty@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Urban transportation geography; human activity-travel patterns; decision processes; interactive and computer-based social survey methods; use of GPS and GIS for data collection; integrated land-use and transportation modelling; gender issues; urban planning and policy assessment; energy efficiency and emissions; impact of telecommunications.

Christine Dow
Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 109
christine.dow@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Numerical modeling, glacial hydrology, ice dynamics, glaciology data collection.

Michael English
Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3E17
menglish@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Hillslope and stream flow hydrology and chemistry and groundwater acidification studies in the Canadian Shield; hydrology and chemistry of high Arctic terrestrial drainage; subarctic deltaic hydrology and geomorphology.

Claude Duguay
Professor, University Research Chair and Associate Dean, Research

Location: EV1 125
crduguay@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Climate-cryosphere interactions; northern hydrology; microwave remote sensing; numerical modelling.

James Hamilton
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 2E11
jhamilton@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Climate change and paleoclimatology; hydrology and geomorphology of karst terrains in cold regions.

Susan Elliott
Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 232
elliotts@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Environment and health, medical geography, global environment, urban social geography, philosophy and method.

Michael Imort
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3E15
mimort@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Cultural-historical geography and environmental history; European forest history; political uses of landscape ideals; 19th- and 20th-century Germany; environmental ethics.

Christopher Fletcher
Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 230
chris.fletcher@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Global climate change; climate modelling and dynamics; extratropical teleconnections and seasonal-to-decadal climate variability; land-ocean-atmosphere interaction; the representation of climate feedback processes in general circulation models.

Homa Kheyrollah Pour
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies; Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change

Location: Arts 3C13
hpour@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Remote sensing of environmental change, climate change and climate modeling, water quality and lake/atmosphere interactions.

Peter Johnson
Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 236
peter.johnson@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Community development, the inclusion of volunteered geographic information in governance, crowdsourced planning support systems and web-harvesting on-line content.

Christopher Lemieux
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3C10A
clemieux@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Natural resources policy, planning and management; parks and protected areas management; sustainability.

Suzanne Kearns
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 238
suzanne.kearns@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Aviation human factors and pilot training; human limitations and how they contribute to aviation accidents and incidents; educational theory related to aviation, including the shift towards competency-based education practices and the impact of e-learning in aviation.

Phil Marsh
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Cold Regions Water Science

Location: Arts 3E18
pmarsh@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Hydrology of Arctic Canada with a focus on the effects of snow, ice, permafrost on the hydrology of key northern ecosystems.

Link to personal website.

Richard Kelly
Professor and Chair, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 119
rejkelly@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Remote sensing of the cryosphere, especially snow and ice environments; hydrology and climatology of the cryosphere; energy and mass balance modelling of cryospheric processes; developing new remote sensing technologies.

Link to personal website.

Robert McLeman
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3C10C
rmcleman@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Human dimensions of environmental change, with particular attention to the relationship between environment and human migration; rural adaptation to climatic variability and change; and, fostering citizen participation in environmental science.

Ellsworth LeDrew
Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 121
ells@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Global change, Arctic dynamic meteorology; atmospheric synoptic studies; remote sensing of sea ice; micrometeorology; land use from LANDSAT; radiation modelling from digital terrain models and remotely sensed imagery; remote sensing of corals.

Rob Milne (RETIRED)
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

rmilne@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Landscape ecology, environmental monitoring and ecotourism.

Yuri Leonenko
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EIT 2048
leonenko@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Development of Climate Control technologies with an emphasis on Carbon Capture and Storage. Modeling and numerical simulation of multiphase flow in porous media, fractures and faults; interactions between CO2 and reservoir fluids; novel technologies for in situ and ex situ dissolution of CO2, risk and economic assessments are among the topics of his research.

Alison Mountz
Professor; Canada Research Chair in Global Migration

Location: BSIA 248
amountz@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Migration and political geography, struggles over border enforcement, asylum, and detention.

Jonathan Li
Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 111
junli@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Remote sensing of inland and coastal waters; Remote sensing of renewable energy potential; 3D infrastructure modeling using mobile laser scanning data; Earth observation of global changes; Online risk and emergency mapping; Spatiotemporal modeling of dynamic phenomena.

William Quinton Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3E6
wquinton@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Hydrological processes of cold regions, including the influence of the severe climate, permafrost, patterned ground, and organic terrains on snow cover, snowmelt, evaporation, runoff processes and pathways, and streamflow. The integration of these processes with regional climate/hydrology models.

Link to personal website.

Merrin Macrae
Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 237
mmacrae@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Biogeochemical cycling in natural and impacted systems (agriculture, wetlands, forest) under variable climatic regimes and following disturbance or land use change.

Steven Roberts
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3C11
sroberts@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Spatial data models and data structures; landscape ecology; combinatorial optimization; genetic algorithms; applied graph theory; scientific visualization; PC cluster (Beowulf) computing.

Ian McKenzie
Adjunct Associate Professor & Associate Chair Undergraduate Studies, Aviation and Geomatics Programs

Location: EV1 222
mckenzie@uwaterloo.ca

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Colin Robertson
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: 3C10B
crobertson@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Currently my research is exploring the use of volunteered geographic information in environmental research, spatial and space-time modelling of emerging disease risk, and spatial model validation techniques. The intersection of data-intensive computing, novel geographical analyses, and open source technologies forms the basis for much of my research.

Clare Mitchell
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 224
cjamitch@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Population growth, counterurbanization and heritage tourism within Canada's non-metropolitan settlements.

Bob G. Sharpe (RETIRED)
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

bsharpe@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Geographic information systems and their application to geographic education and socioeconomic development at different scales.

Sanjay Nepal
Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 124
snepal@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: 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.

Miguel Sioui Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3E3
msioui@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Indigenous knowledges (IKs), indigenous land use, environmental ethics and environmental management.

Paul Parker
Professor and Associate Dean, Strategic Initiatives

Location: EV3 4269
pparker@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Japan and Pacific economy; local economic development; Australian/Canadian resources; global resource trade; energy and environment; impact assessment.

Scott Slocombe
Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 2E10
sslocombe@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Regional environmental planning; protected areas; systems and ecosystem approaches to environmental management; resource and environmental policy; cumulative effects assessment; northern and western Canada, Alaska, Australia, North American Great Lakes, Italy.

Richard Petrone
Professor and Interim Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

Location: EV1 223
rpetrone@uwaterloo.carich.petrone@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Temperate and cold regions wetland hydrology and climatology; ecohydrology; wetland restoration; ecology and disturbance of boreal wetlands; land-use change and agriculture.

Link to personal website.

Jason Venkiteswaran
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3E4
jvenkiteswaran@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and related elements, and human and climate related disruptions of these cycles.

Jonathan Price
Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 122
jsprice@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Hydrology and geochemistry of coastal, maritime and boreal wetlands, and peatland restoration.

Margaret Walton-Roberts
Professor & Graduate Coordinator, Geography and Environmental Studies

Location: Arts 3E7
mwaltonroberts@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Canadian immigration and cultural diversity, how ethnic and gender differences shape settlement experiences, Indian immigration to Canada, processes of community formation across transnational landscapes.

Derek Robinson
Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 105A
dtrobinson@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: 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.

Brent Wolfe
Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies & Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Location: Arts 3C8
bwolfe@wlu.ca

Faculty Interests: Isotope hydrology and paleohydrology, paleolimnology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, climate change, northern hydrology, Mackenzie Basin Deltas.

Daniel Scott
Professor, University Research Chair and Director, Master of Climate Change Program

Location: EV1 106
daniel.scott@uwaterloo.cadj2scott@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Climate change impacts and adaptation, tourism and recreation, protected areas, resource and environmental management.

 

Steffanie Scott
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 114
sdscott@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Agro-food system sustainability, local food systems, organic and ecological agriculture, environment-development interfaces, small-scale producers, rural livelihoods, international development, East Asia (China, Vietnam) and Canada.

 

Michael Stone
Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 112
mstone@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Environmental management; sediment/water interactions; river ecology and restoration; drainage basin hydrology.

 

Maria Strack
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair

Location: EV1 234
mstrack@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Soil greenhouse gas fluxes, wetland restoration, ecohydrology, organic soil physics, mitigation of land-use change greenhouse gas fluxes.

 

Su-Yin Tan
Lecturer, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 227
su-yin.tan@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Geographic information systems (GIS); remote sensing; spatial statistics; ecosystem modelling and environmental monitoring; public health and medical geography applications; climate change.

 

Tara Vinodrai
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV3 4231
tara.vinodrai@uwaterloo.catvinodra@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: 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
Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 126
jwandel@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Human dimensions of global change; adaptation to climate change; vulnerability; drought management; agriculture; climate change.

 

Nancy Worth
Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Management

Location: EV1 229
nworth@uwaterloo.ca

Faculty Interests: Economic Geography; Social Geography; Feminist Geography; Social Justice; Identities and Belonging.