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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Urbanization; Infrastructure; Informal Economies; Racialization; Gender; Postcolonialism; Decolonization; Social Reproduction; Neoliberalism; Public Security; Southern Cities; Mega Events; Health.
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Professor Emeritus, FCIP, RPP
Department of Geography and Planning
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room E320
Multiculturalism and planning; urban development
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Economic Geography, tropical Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, and Third World underdevelopment.
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Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Aging across Canada, Geographies of voluntarism, Health status and access to health care among older Indigenous people, Health care delivery systems in Ontario and Canada, and Women’s health.
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Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Vegetation and landscape effects on nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from high-arctic ecosystems; land-use change effects on net (sources and sinks) greenhouse gas emissions; modeling of biogeochemical processes (e.g. carbon and nitrogen cycling) in terrestrial ecosystems; impacts of land-use history on contemporary ecosystem dynamics
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Urban spatial structure, housing, methods, finance.
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Adjunct Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Arctic Canada, historical and political geography, youth research, land claims, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
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Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Surface-atmosphere interactions influenced by management and human-induced modification of ecosystems; trace gas exchanges; wetland ecosystems.
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Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Active monitoring and prediction of northern landscape evolution using innovative geospatial, geophysical, and climate-coupled modelling techniques designed to identify and address current challenges facing the rapidly changing Arctic
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Geographic information systems, health care planning, the spread and control of infectious diseases with special emphasis on rabies in wildlife.
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Professor Emeritus
Department of Geography and Planning
Biophysical remote sensing of arctic and boreal environments, Environmental monitoring of arctic environments using SAR, Hyperspectral remote sensing, and Lidar remote sensing for forestry.
Term Adjunct | SURP 844 | 2025W
Term Adjunct
Department of Geography and Planning
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Adjunct Associate Professor, FCIP, RPP
Department of Geography and Planning
Approaches to planning with Indigenous peoples; equity and inclusion; race, space, and cross-cultural relations.
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Planning
Cryosphere; Climate Change; Arctic; Subarctic; Permafrost; Glaciology; Adaptation; Communities.