June 07, 2013

Congratulations to Dr. Nagissa Mahmoudi on the successful defence of her PhD.

May 15, 2013

Greg Slater co-authors research in World's oldest flowing water found deep in Timmins mine. CBC News, Hamilton Spectator

May 13, 2013

Allison Williams CIHR funded research on employee-caregiver relationships was
highlighted in Saturday's Spectator

April 30, 2013

Congratulations to Matt Adams on winning a URISA-Ontario (Association for GIS Professionals) Studentship.

April 29, 2013

Congratulations to Huyen Dam on passing her PhD comprehensives.

Congratulations to Corinne Schuster-Wallace (SGES Adjunct) on receiving a Grand Challenges Canada Stars in Global Health Grants for her project "From Waste to Health". The CBC also features her project.

Congratulations to Mike Waddington and his colleagues on receiving a grant from Syncrude.

April 26, 2013

Congratulations to Jessica Slomka on receiving the Walter Gibbins Memorial Travel Bursary.

April 24, 2013

Congratulations to Allison Williams who was awarded a new CIHR research chair to investigate gender, workplaces and caregiver-employee policy. Daily News

April 15, 2013

Congratulations to Mike Mercier, Luc Bernier, Maureen Padden and Walt Peace for receiving funding from the FWI fund for their proposal "Community-Based, Modular Learning Portfolio"

Congratulations to Sally Radisic on passing her PhD comprehensives.

April 10, 2013

Congratulations to MITL researchers, including Pavlos Kanaroglou and Mark
Ferguson on receiving a SSHRC Insight Grant.

McMaster celebrates its Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. The School of Geography & Earth Sciences is represented by John Eyles, Derek Ford, Richard Harris, Leslie King, Gerald Middleton, Henry Schwarcz and Roger Walker. Daily News Article.

April 04

Congratulations to Greg Zilberbrant on passing his PhD. comprehensives.

April 02, 2013

The School of Geography & Earth Sciences is pleased to announce the appointment of Janok Bhattacharya.

Congratulation to Paulin Coulibaly on receipt of a NSERC RTI.

April 01, 2013

Congratulations to Bill Morris, Mike Waddington, and Lesley Warren on the receipt of NSERC Awards.

March 21, 2013

Congratulations to Matthew Adams on winning the 2013 ESRI Development Centre (EDC) Student of the Year Award for McMaster University

March 11, 2013

Congratulation to Jess Slomka and Walt Peace on being nominated for a MSU teaching Awards.

March 05, 2013

Congratulations to Jess Slomka on receiving a SGS Grant in Aid of Travel Research and Field Study for her summer field research.

March 01, 2013

Congratulations to Bobbie Hendricks on passing his PhD comprehensives.

February 19, 2013

Allison Williams' research on the acculturation of immigrants has been featured in the Hamilton Spectator

February 14, 2013

Congratulations to Chris Higgins on the successful defense of his PhD comprehensives.

February 13, 2013

Congratulations to Nancy La Monica on receiving a Yates Scholarship.

Jack Rink's research on early human fossil dating and its implications, is featured on the Daily News website

February 06, 2013

Former SGES PhD student Simon Donato together with current McMaster facility services employee Paul Trebilcock spent the last half of 2012 traveling to and racing in some of the toughest endurance races on the planet. The TV show that follows their progress, Boundless, debuts on Feb. 17, 9 p.m. on the Travel and Escape Channel.

The show follows up on a documentary the two did of the Canadian Death Race in 2011. Simon is a modern day explorer! Good on him. Check out the TV show trailer here

February 05, 2013

Congratulations to Amy Elliott on winning best poster at the 27th Annual Gananoque Environmental Science and Engineering Conference.

February 01, 2013

Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Clark on the successful defence of his PhD.

Congratulations to Allison Williams on receiving a CIHR Career Award and Chair
in Gender, Work and Health

January 31, 2013

Walt Peace's upcoming presentation "Here be Dragons" is featured on CBC and in the McMaster Daily News.

January 29, 2013

Congratulations to Jeanette Eby on the successful defense of her MA. thesis.

Congratulations to Victoria Coates, a student in Level IV Hons. BA (Geography & Political Science) on receiving the Dr. Mary Keyes award for outstanding academic achievement and athletic excellence. Victoria is currently working with Dr. Richard Harris and was a USRA winner this past summer.

January 23, 2013

Ed Reinhardt's underwater research is featured in the Daily News

January 15, 2013

Mike Waddington's research into the effects of wildfires at the Wainfleet Bog was highlighted recently on the CBC and the Welland Tribune.

January 07, 2013

Congratulations to Scott Bennet for winning the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology.

CBC news article Nikolaos Yiannakoulias on Kids in low-income areas at higher risk of being hit by commuters.

Congratulations to Chris Higgins for winning the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology, the Transportation association of Canada TAC Foundation Scholarship, and the Canadian Transportation Research forum CN Scholarship.

Congratulations to Richard Harris on being elected as a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Congratulations to Rob Thorne on passing his PhD comprehensive exams.

December 21, 2012

Congratulations to Talitha Santini who was awarded an Endeavour Research
Fellowship by the Australian Government, Department of Industry, Innovation,
Science, Research, and Tertiary Education.

December 18, 2012

Congratulations to Randy Bui who recently passed his PhD. comprehensive examination.

Congratulations to Clare Atkins on the successful defense of her MA. thesis.

Congratulations to Nwanneoma Ngonadi on the successful defense of her M.Sc. thesis.

December 13, 2012

Congratulations to Dr. Kate Mulligan on the successful defence of her PhD.

SGES welcomes Alex Poulin. Alex will be filling the role of computer technician, and will be starting in late January, 2013. Many of you may have already met Alex, as he has provided computer assistance to SGES over the past months in his previous role with UTS.

December 12, 2012

Congratulations to Dr. Madeline Lee on the successful defence of her PhD.

Congratulations to Jessica Slomka on passing her PhD Comprehensive examinations.

December 03, 2012

Congratulations to Matt Adams who recently passed his PhD. comprehensive examination.

November 21, 2012

Congratulations to Walt Peace who has been nominated for a MSU Teaching award.

Congratulations to Kurt Kornelsen who successfully completed his comprehensive examinations.

Congratulations to both Jess Slomka and Riley Mulligan for their nominations for a MSU Teaching Award.

November 15, 2012

Congratulations to Alex Fitzgerald on the successful defense of his M.Sc. thesis.

November 14, 2012

Congratulations to the following students on receipt of scholarship awards:
Nagissa Mahmoud, awarded the Dr. Denis Shaw Memorial Award.
Chris Higgins, awarded the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport Bursary,
Md Moniruzzaman, awarded The E.B. Ryan Scholarship

November 12, 2012

Bruce Newbold was awarded the David E. Boyce award in recognition of service
to the field of Regional Science at the Ottawa meetings of the North American
Regional Science Association.

November 08, 2012

Congratulations to Maureen Padden on winning an Environmental Award from the Hamilton Conservation Authority for Envirothon (an environmental competition for high school students)

October 20, 2012

Mark Ferguson and Christopher Higgins in the Hamilton Spectator Illuminates issue of LRT for the City of Hamilton and the The Bill Kelly Show, CHML Radio

October 18, 2012

MITL, Pavlos Kanaroglou, and Charles Burke are mentioned in the Spectator Article regarding the recent TransLog conference.

October 12, 2012

Sweater Sale! GESS is selling sweaters during most of this month, and have sample sizes and colours in their office (BSB 346). Stop by and check them out!

October 05 ,2012

It is with profound sadness that the School of Geography & Earth Sciences announces the death of Dr. Susan Vajoczki early Satuday morning at the Stedman Hospice in Brantford. McMaster Daily News Article

Congratulations to Victoria Coates, a 4th Year BA student, on being named Macs Athlete of the Week. Victoria runs for Mac's cross-country team, which won a recent international meet in Chicago.

Congratulations to Dr. Lily DeMiglio on the successful defense of her PhD thesis.

October 04, 2012

Congratulations to Bill Morris on his award from NRCan for the project "Modeling and Interpretation of geophysical data to document geophysical properties and test spatial associations of circular and other magnetic anomalies for operation geo-mapping for energy and minerals (GEM), Nunavut and NWT"

September 26, 2012

Congratulations to Richard Harris on receiving aSSHRC Connections Grant.

September 25, 2012

Congratulations to Shawn Collins who recently passed his PhD. comprehensive examination.

Congratulations to Tom Lavery on the successful defense of his MA. thesis.

September 19, 2012

Congratulations to Michelle Reid (working with Lesley Warren) who has been awarded an OGS.

September 17, 2012

Congratulations to Benjamin Garden on the successful defense of his MA. thesis.

September 13, 2012

Congratulations to Steven Baisley on the successful defense of his M.Sc. thesis.

September 10, 2012

Congratulations to Rebecca Moumblow on the succesful completion of her comprehensive exams.

September 06, 2012

Congratulations to Dr. Aman Gill on the successful defense of his PHD thesis.

Congratulations to Kristina Cimaroli and Jenny Cho on the successful defense of their MA. thesis.

Susan Vajoczki, Director of the Centre for Leadership in Learning Introduces Teaching Assistants to Teaching and Learning at McMaster. Daily news

September 05, 2012

Richard Harris's book, Building a Market. The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, 1914-1960, has just been published by the University of Chicago Press.

August 31, 2012

Mike Waddington was featured in the St Catharines Standard "Professor keen to study bog fire"

August 27, 2012

Congratulations to Jennifer Hoesen (Level 4 Honours Environmental Science) is the inaugural recipient of the Walker/Middleton Fieldwork Fund.  The award funds will be used to assist with the costs associated for Envir Sc 3ME3 – Environmental Studies Field Camp.

Congratulations to Sue Vajoczki on her successful SSHRC Connection Grant proposal which will support ISSOTL's 2012 Annual Conference being hosted by CLL and McMaster University

August 23, 2012

Congratulations to Dr. Iris Lenauer on the successful defense of her PHD thesis.

Dr. Walt Peace is quoted in today's Hamilton Spectator:"A+ idea to buy Hamilton schools"

August 21, 2012

Congratulations to Michelle Molon and Martin Clark on the successful defence of their MSc. thesis.

August 15, 2012

Congratulations to Chris Drudge who was selected as a winner in the student presentations for the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Meetings in Montreal in June.

August 08, 2012

Congratulations to Kathy Fisher on the successful defence of her PhD. thesis.

August 07. 2012

Graduating students Chrissie Fandrich and Vlad Melnic have won the Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25 award from The Starfish.

July 25, 2012

Mike Waddington and Danielle Simkus, and their respective research interests, are featured on the front page of the Hamilton Spectator. See Daily News

Congratulations to Kate Stephenson on the successful defence of her M.Sc. thesis.

July 24, 2012

Ceinwen Giles is an alumnus of SGES (she did her HONS. BA in Geography and an MA in Geography with Richard Harris in the late ‘90s), and is a cancer survivor and was an Olympic torch-bearer in suburban London. CBC News

July 23, 2012

Congratulations to Adrian Klisz on the successful defence of his MA. thesis.

July 18, 2012

Congratulations to Rebecca Moumblow as a winner of the Jérôme Remick III Poster Awards, as judged at the GAC®-MAC conference for her paper "Nd isotope mapping of crustal sutures between accreted terranes of different ages within the deeply exhumed core of the Grenville orogen in Labrador"

July 17, 2012

Congratulations to our incoming students who have received undergrad wards:
The Leone Betty Blackwell Memorial Book Prize – Shawn Kovacs
The Lloyd Reeds Prizes – Melissa Gallina and Monica Perski,
The E.S. Moore Prize – Michelle Reid

July 16, 2012

Geography at McMaster is ranked within the top 100 geographhy programs according to the QS Rankingsas well Earth and Marine Sciences is ranked in the top 200.. McMaster Daily News

June 29, 2012

Congratulations to Kim Devotta who has defended successfully her MA thesis.

June 28, 2012

As Pavlos Kanaroglou steps down from his role as Director, we would like to take this opportunity to thank him for his service and commitment to the School over these past 5 years. The School has grown and benefited from his leadership.

The new Director Bruce Newbold is looking forward to working with you all over the coming years as we continue to grow SGES and its reputation.

Congratulations to Monica Perski who has received a 2012 Harry Lyman Sr. Hooker Fellowship.

June 25, 2012

Dr. Heather Dorries  has accepted our offer for a one year contractually limited appointment (CLA) position in Human Geography. Heather completed her

Jne 21, 2012

Congratulations to Dr. Sara Edge on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis.

June 14, 2012

Congratulations to Jarin Esita who has defended successfully her MA thesis.

June o8, 2012

Congratulation to Bruce Newbold who will become the new Director of the School of Geography and Earth Sciences effective July 1, 2012.

June 07, 2012

The Middleton Medal was awarded for the first time at the GAC meeting, on May 28.

May 28, 2012

Congratulations to Monir Monirruzzaman who was selected to receive the 2013 WCTRS Prestige Grant.

May 18, 2012

Green Mining Science Camp commences May 20th to 25th. Teachers and students from mining communities from across the country will participate in a week long hands on science camp that demonstratesthe issues with acid mine drainage. The event has been sponsored by the RBC Blue Water Foundation Endowment.

May 17, 2012

Classroom on the side of a mountain, Earth/Envr Sc 4FF3 Field Camp in the McMaster Daily News

May 16, 2012

Congratulations to Sandra Micucci who defended successfully her doctoral dissertation.

Congratulations to Rachel Humphrey for winning the 2012 CMOS Undergraduate Scholarship from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanography Society

May 15, 2012

Congratulations to Lily DeMiglio who won the Award for Best Oral Paper at the Hospice Palliative Care Ontario 2012 Conference, April 29 - May 2nd, held in Richmond Hill.

May 10, 2012

McMaster University is proud to announce the launch of two new awards honouring Gerard Middleton and Roger Walker. The Middleton/Walker Tribute Fund

Congratulations to Keri Cameron on passing her doctoral comprehensive examination.

Congratulations to Jeanette Eby who was honored by YWCA as a young woman of disctinction.

May 08, 2012

Allison Williams is interviewed on Hamilton Vital Signs, Gwetting started and Belonging in Hamilton. Video

April 04, 2012

Congratulations to Sarah Dickin who was awarded a H. Vincent Elliott Memorial Travel Bursary from the School of Graduate Studies.

March 29, 2012

Congratulations to Mike Mercier who was one of the finalists this year for the MSU teaching award.

Congratulations to Nicole Fallon on the successful defense of her of her Masters thesis.

March 26, 2012

Congratulations to Allison Williams for receiving funding from SSHRC for her Metropolis proposal.

March 22, 2012

Congratulations to Dr. Dan Thompson on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation

March 21, 2012

The McMaster team of SGES grad students – Jess Slomka, Riley Mulligan, Peter Tschirhart and Michael Cooley (Economics) competed in the AAPG Imperial Barrel Award (Canada Region) in Calgary on Friday and placed 4th.  The IBA is an annual oil and gas basin evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students from universities around the world.  This is the first year McMaster has been invited to the competition and the 4th place finish is one to be very  proud of.  Congratulations to our hard working team!

March 19, 2012

Darren Scott and Antonio Páez are quoted in the Canada.com article on Grey Gridlock:Car advances should ease commute for aging workforce

February 29, 2012

Allison Williams was on Global National News speaking about compassionate care. Global TV's website to stream the video: Part 2

February 15, 2012

Congratulations to Lesley Warren on a CSIRO Distinguished Visiting Scientist Award for her upcoming sabbatical leave in Australia. Also, with the University of Western Australia she was awarded a grant to look at bioremediation of bauxite

Congratulations to Lisa Sonnenburg  who has been awarded a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship.

February 10, 2012

Congratulations to Sue Vajoczki on becoming a 2012 3M National Teaching Fellow.

Congratulations to Sarah Dykeman won the Jacques May Thesis Prize for the Masters category. The formal announcement will be at the upcoming AAG meetings.

Congratulations to Alexandra Milanetti who has won the ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship for this year.

Feburary 06, 2012

Congratulations to Monir Moniruzzaman who won the award for the best Masters thesis in the Transportation Specialty Group Competition of the Association of American Geographers.

January 30, 2012

Congratulations to Bruce Newbold who was awarded a grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Congratulations to Allison Williams on the publication of her book 'Health in Rural Canada' by UBC Press.

December 13, 2011

Congratulations to James Sherwood who defended successfully his MSc. thesis.

Congratulations to Scott Bennet for passing his doctoral comprehensive examination.

December 06, 2011

Congratulations to Nay Kaneda who defended successfully his MA thesis.

December 05, 2011

Congratulations to Dr. Bin Chen on the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation.

November 29, 2011

Congratulations to Dr.Jennifer Asanin Dean who defended successfully her doctoral dissertation.

November 22, 2011

McLean’s Magazine article featuring quotations from our doctoral student Kate Whalen

Congratulations to Nagissa Mahmoudi for receiving the L'Oreal Women in Science award.

Congratulations to Andrew Brennan who received the Jerome H. Remick Poster Award for his presentation at the 2011 GAC meeting in Ottawa

November 21, 2011

Pat Deluca in the Hamilton Spectator Code Red: Born

November 16, 2011

Congratulation to Ewe Kielasinka on her successful Masters defense.

Congratulations to Yui Hashimoto for an award from the GSA Travel Assistance Fund.

October 31, 2011

Congratulations to Shakeel Ahmad on his successful Masters defense.

Congratulations to Samira Salimi on her successful Masters defense.

Congratulations to Dan Thompson who has just been hired as a Wildfire Research Scientist with the Canadian Forest Service in Edmonton, Alberta.

October 25, 2010

Congratulations to Sarah Dickin on passing her doctoral comprehensive examination.

October 12, 2011

Congratulations to Dr. Nick Kettridge (PDF in the Ecohydrology Lab) on accepting a position as Lecturer in the Dept. of Geography at the University of Birmingham in the UK

October 11, 2011

Congratulations to Kath Philp and Deane Maynard who recognized on October 5th for completing 35 and 30 years of service, respectively, by President Deane.

October 06, 2011

Congratulations to Paulin Coulibaly who was awarded a NSERC Strategic Grant.

September 30, 2011

Congratulations to Heidi Daxberger who passed her doctoral comprehensive examination.

September 29, 2011

Congratulations to Peter Tschirhart who was awarded a scholarship from the Canadian Exploration Geophysicists Society (KEGS)

September 26, 2011

Congratulation to Suo Huang who passed her doctoral comprehensive examination.

September 23, 2011

Congratulation to both Peter Dao and Tufayel Chowdhury on theirs successful defense of their Master's thesis.

Semptember 22, 2011

Congratulation to Andrew Brennan for the successful defense of his M.Sc. thesis

Congratulations to Kelsey Norland on defending successfully her doctoral dissertation and to Monir Moniruzzaman who defended successfully his MA. thesis.

september 20, 2011

Congratulations to Kate Whalen on the successful defense of her Masters thesis.

Congratulations Rob Wilton! The Board of Governors has approved the recommendation of the Senate to promote Rob Wilton to Professor.

September 15, 2011

Congratulations to Dr. John MacLachlan on his successful PhD. defense.

September 12, 2011

Congratulations to Jia Yang who defended successfully his MA. thesis

Congratulations to Xudong Liu who defended successfully his MA. thesis

September 09, 2011

Congratulation to Jessica Slomka for the successful defense of her M.Sc. thesis

September 07

Congratulation to Emily Nicholas for the successful defense of her M.Sc. thesis

September 01, 2011

Congratulation to Steven Holland for the successful defense of his M.Sc. thesis

August 30, 2011

Congratulations to Natalie Spina for the successful defense of her M.Sc. thesis.

August 23. 2011

Congratulations to Stacey Puckering for the succesful defense of her M.Sc. thesis.

Congratulations to Bonnie Chow for the succesful defense of her MA thesis.

Congratulations to Francesca Cardwell for the succesful defense of her MA thesis.

August 12, 2011

Congratulations to Dr. Dan Harrington on his successful PhD. defense.

August 09, 2011

Congratulations to Nagissa Mahmoudi who is awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship-Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS).

August 03, 2011

Congratualtion to Sarah Dickin on receiving the McMaster 2011 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. McMaster Daily News

July 21, 2011

We're Having a Heat Wave....Dr. Altaf Arain, Director of McMaster's Centre for Climate Change answers questions. McMaster Daily News

July 13, 2011

Congratulations to Jessica Slomka who received the Walter Gibbins Memorial Travel Bursary.

July 11, 2011

Madeline Lee is in the daily news "Researcher uses geophysics to bring water to African students"

Congratulations to Michele Vine who received a travel grant from the GSA travel assistance fund.

June 24, 2001

Patrick DeLuca's Code Red collaboration earns accolades, Daily News

June 20, 2011

Michelle Reid NSERC USRA on the daily news

June 14, 2011

MITL in the Hamilton Spectator, Think ‘gateway,’ think ‘hub,’ think cargo

June 13, 2011

Greg Slater in the Hamilton Spectator "Did meteorite help form life on Earth?"

June 10. 2011

Lisa Sonnenburg finds 'needle in a haystack' as lakebed yields microscopic clues about submerged archeological sites, McMaster Daily News, CBC's Quirks & Quarks

June 09, 2011

Congratulations to Kathryn Fisher who recieved a travel grant from the Yates fund.

June 07 ,2011

Congratulations to Sarah Underhay on her successful defense of her M.Sc. thesis.

June 01, 2011

Congratulations to Sarah Beatty on passing her comprehensive examination.

May 30, 2011

Congratulations to Max Lukenbach (incoming graduate student) who won a SGS International Excellence Award.

May 20, 2011

Congratulations to Dan Harrington who was awarded a travel grant from the Yates Fund.

May 18, 2011

Congratulations to Kelsey Norlund who won the first annual Tom Peters Memorial Student Award from the Ontario Chapter of the Canadian Land Reclamation Association (CLRA).

May 16, 2011

The Spectator’s Code Red series wins two major accolades, Congratulations to Patrick DeLuca and the Centre for Spatial Analysis

Congratulations to Tasca Santimano for winning the Jack Henderson Best M.Sc. Thesis Award of the Structural Geology & Tectonics Division of the Geological Association of Canada.

May 11, 2011

Congratulations to Jennifer Asanin Dean who was awarded a travel grant from the Yates Fund.

Congratulations to Sarah Dykeman on her successful MA. defense.

May 02, 2011

Congratulations to Dr.Jessica Pilarczyk on her successful PhD. defense.

April 29, 2011

Congratulations to Vickie Tschirhart for passing her comprehensive examination.

April 26, 2011

We will be moving to an e-thesis model for final submission of Ph.D. and Masters level theses as of May 1, 2011.  Students defending from that point onward will be expected to file their final thesis via Digital Commons on the library website. 

April 25, 2011

Nicole Forbes, a second-year student studying geography and environmental sciences, will travel to Kosovo and Macedonia as part of the Global Youth Network McMaster Daily News

April 21, 2011

Congratulations to Jeff Axisa who defended his MA thesis successfully.

April 19, 2011

Congratulations to Sarah Beatty on receiving the R. Edward Munn Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

Congratulations to Chris Drudge on receiving the Jan W. deGrijs Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

April 18, 2011

Congratualtion to Bruce Newbold as Acting Associate Director.

April 12, 2011

Congratulations to Chris Drudge for passing his comprehensive examination.

April 04, 2011

Congratulations to Jessica Pilarczyk for a travel award from the Yates fund.

March 31, 2011

Congratulations to Kelsey Norlund and Steve Holland for receiving travel grants from the Mineralogical Association of Canada to attend this year's GAC/MAC conference.

Congratulations to Dan Harrington and Jennifer Asanin-Dean for receiving travel grants from the Canadian Association of Geographers to attend this year's CAG conference

March 30, 2011

Congratulations to Aman Gill and Ron Dalumpines for being successful with a GSA travel award.

March 29, 2011

Congratulations to Nagissa Mahmoudi, Kurt Kornelson and Victoria Tschirhart for being awarded NSERC scholarships.

March 25, 2011

Congratulations to Carolyn Eyles, Antonio Páez, Pauline Couilbaly and Henry Schwarcz on their success with the Discovery Awards program. The School's rate of success was 100%. University wide 65 of 101 applications were funded. The overall NSERC rate of success for this year is not yet known.

March 14, 2011

February 22, 2011

Kate Mulligan speaks at prestigious science conference, Hamilton Spectator

February 14, 2011

Congratulations to Athena Tordjman-Goodfellow for passing her comprehensive examination.

February 02 ,2011

The SGES Photo Contest has come to a close. The winners are:

1) Yellowstone National Park- Suo Huang
2) Cinqueterre, Italy - Michael Mercier
3) 12 Apostles, Australia- Jeff Axisa

View the Winners Photo Gallery

January 26, 2011

Congratulations to Tessa Wilson who recently graduated from SGES, who will be receiving The Junior League of Hamilton-Burlington's Community Award as well as The Hamilton Transportation Club scholarship.

January 25, 2011

Dr. Sean Carey has signed the letter of appointment and he is going to be our new colleague starting July 1, 2011. My special thanks to the committee for the excellent job they did and thanks to everyone in the School that participated in the hiring process.

January 18, 2011

Congratulations to Altaf Arain on being awarded a grant from CIHR.

January 13, 2011

Congratulations to Amy Elliott on passing her comprehensive examinatiion.

December 22, 2010

Congratulations to Xudong Liu and Ron Dalumpines on passing their comprehensive examinatiions.

December 15, 2010

Congratulations to Michelle Vine and Iris Lenauer on passing their Ph.D comprenhensive examination on December 13, 2010.

December 06, 2010

Congratulations to Tasca Santimano on her successful MSc. defense.

November 16, 2010

Ed Reinhardt and Mike Waddington on CHCH TV News concerning the Mexican underground methane explosion.

November 15, 2010

Congratulations to Lisa Sonnenburg who defended successfully her doctoral dissertation.

October 28, 2010

Congratulations to Nagissa Mahmoudi on passing her doctoral comprehensive examination.

October 22, 2010

Congratulations to Sang-Tae Kim for an ACS-PRF award from the American Chemical Society.

Congratulations to Roberto Melfi who defended successfully his MA thesis.

October 21, 2010

Alumna's $1-million gift will create a new research chair in geology within McMaster's School of Geography & Earth Sciences.

October 06, 2010

Congratulations to Irene Albi who was recognized today at a luncheon for completing 20 years of service with McMaster University.

September 29, 2010

Congratulations to Altaf Arain on being awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant

September 24, 2010

September 16, 2010

Congratulations to Richard Harris who was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Daily News Article

September 14, 2010

Congratulations to Morgan Levison (MA) and Rebecca Hewitson(M.Sc.) on the successful defense of their Master thesis.

Congratulations to Kevin Burdette on the successful defense of his doctoral thesis.

September 01, 2010

Congratulations to Lana Wilhem and Samantha Mackay on the successful defense of their M.Sc. thesis.

August 30, 2010

Congratulations to Lisa Leoni on the successful defense of her M.Sc. thesis.

Congratulations to Andrew Clark who has won the SSHRCCC Sport Participation Research Initiative Award.

Congratulations to Sarah Ahmad on the successful defense of her M.A. thesis.

August 11, 2010

Congratulations to Bill Morris for being successful with a MITACS Accelerate award.

Congratulations to Jamie Stuckless who defended successfully her MA theses.

July 28, 2010

Congratulations to Kelsey MacCormack who defended successfully her doctoral dissertation.

July 26, 2010

Congratulations to Peter Saberton and Adam Drackley who defended successfully their MA theses.

July 20, 2010

Congratulations to Bill Morris for a research award from Votorantim Metals.

July 16, 2010

Congratulations to Anneliese Poetz who defended successfully her doctoral dissertation.

July 12, 2010

International study calculates Earth's 'breathing' rate

June 25

Congratulations to Tim Duval who defended successfully his doctoral dissertation.

June 23, 2010

Congratulations to Heather McLeod on passing her doctoral comprehensive examination.

June 14, 2010

Congratulations to Lesley Warren for being successful with a grant from Syncrude Canada Ltd.

June 09, 2010

Congratulations to Gloria Lopez who was awarded a post doctoral fellowship from the Azrieli Foundation International Fellows Program, Israel.

Congratulations to Steven Farber defending successfully his doctoral dissertation.

June 07, 2010

Imperial Oil donates to SGES to help spark interest in geology, mining.

June 02, 2010

Congratulations to William Spicer on the successful defense of his Masters thesis.

May 31, 2010

Congratulations to Dominik Papinski defending successfully his doctoral dissertation

Congratulations to Sarah Dykeman, Bonnie Chow and Franceca Cardwell who have received scholarships from SSHRC for their Masters studies

May 26, 2010

Congratulations to Dominik Papinski defending successfully his doctoral dissertation

Congratulations to Sarah Dykeman, Bonnie Chow and Franceca Cardwell who have received scholarships from SSHRC for their Masters studies

May 10, 2010

Congratulations to Sarah Beatty who won an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation at the 2009 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meetings in San Francisco, Ca.

May 07, 2010

Congratulations to all the OGS scholarships competition winners. This speaks volumes to the quality of our students, congratulations to all of them

Congratulations to Andrew Clark who was awarded a SSHRC doctoral scholarship.

May 06, 2010

Congratulations to Craig Maunder for the successful defense of his M.Sc thesis.

April 29, 2010

Congratulations to Henry Schwarcz who will be awarded a Honorary Doctor of Science degree in the June 2010 convocation.

Congratulations to Jaclyn Rhodes for the successful defense of he MA thesis.

April 27, 2010

Congratulations to Richard Harris who has been elected a member of the McMaster Senate. John Eyles is already a member of the Senate, so we have now two members from the School.

April 26, 2010

Bruce Newbold on Impact of Downsizing Boomers in the Hamilton Spectator

April 22, 2010

Congratulations to Lisa Sonnenburg who was selected to receive the R. E. Taylor Poster Award at the SAA 75th Anniversary Meeting in St Louis, MO

Congratulations to Eden Hynes on the successful defense of her M.Sc thesis.

April 21, 2010

Congratulations to Janina Plach for passing her doctoral comprehensive examination.

April 20, 2010

Congratulations to Lily DeMiglio on receiving a three year CIHR doctoral research award.

April 12, 2010

Congratulations to Heidi Daxberger who was awarded a dissertation scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Congratulations to Darren Scott for a grant from Geomatics for Informed Decisions.

CODERED, Where you live Affects your Health

April 05, 2010

Congratulations to Rob Wilton and Antonio Páez that were both successful with their applications for SSHRC grants.

April 01, 2010

Congratulations to Amy Elliott, Steven Holland and Stacey Puckering for being successful with their NSERC scholarship application.

March 31, 2010

Altaf Arain, Mike Waddington and Lesley Warren help Mac's new climate change centre is reaching out

Congratulations to Altaf Arian who was successful with an NSERC Research Tools and Instruments award

McMaster opens Centre for Climate Change

March 29, 2010

Congratulations to Rob Wilton who has been appointed as Book Review Editor of the journal Social and Cultural Geography for a 5 year term.

March 25

Congratulations to Jennifer Asanin Dean for an award from the GSA Travel Assistance Fund for her participation in the upcoming AAG meetings.

Congratulations to Antonio Páez and the team he led that won the Burrill award to be received at the April Association of American Geographers meetings.

March 08, 2010

Congratulations to Lisa Leoni for winning 1st place in the Poster Presentation at the 4th Annual International Women's Day Conference held at McMaster March 5,6, 2010

Ottawa re-invests in Canada Research Chairs at McMaster, congratulations to Greg Slater and Pavlos Kanaroglou

Congratulations to Lily DeMiglio and Paul Moore for passing their doctoral comprehensive examinations.

February 26, 2010

Congratulations to Paulin Coulibaly who received a research grant from the Hamilton Region Conservation Authority.

February 16, 2010

Congratulations to Kate Mulligan for being  awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarship - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement.

Congratulations to Dan Harrington for winning first prize in the student paper competition at the AllerGen Research Conference in Quebec City for this presentation:  Canadian perceptions of food allergy risk.

February 09, 2010

Mike Waddington and Mark Tarnopolsky aim to get kids off the sofa and on the trail

January 28, 2010

Congratulations to Ashley McDonald who successfully defended her MA thesis.

January 26, 2010

The work of Kelsey Norlund and Lesley Warren highlighted in the Canadian Light Source.

January 25, 2010

Sean Fletcher Moving mountains to teach students geology

January 04, 2010

Congratulations to Andrew Clark, Kathryn Fisher and Kate Mulligan for passing their doctoral comprehensive examinations.

News & Events

December 23, 2009

December 17, 2009

Congratulations to Jeremy Gabriel on the successful defense of his M.Sc thesis.

December 16, 2009

Congratulations to Darryl Pierce on the successful defense of his MA thesis.

December 11, 2009

Congratulations to Joshua Evans who defended successfully his doctoral thesis. Joshua has accepted a tenure tract appointment in Geography at Athabasca University.

ecember 04, 2009

Congratulations to Allyson Brady on the successful defense of her doctoral thesis.

December 01, 2009

Congratulations to Suo Huang who defended successfully his M.Sc thesis

November 30, 2009

Kelsey Norlund's PhD research is featured on the cover of December 1st issue of Environmental Science and Technology. Congratulations to Kelsey.

November 25, 2009 Congratulations to Mike Doughty for passing his comprehensive examination.

Congratulations to Antonio Páez who has been appointed to the editorial board of the major journal Environment and Planning A.

November 13, 2009

Antonio Páez, Bruce Newbold and Nancy Heddle research featured in Le Telejournal on blood donor research.

November 5, 2009

As CUPE has now agreed to hold a ratification vote on the University's best offer to Teaching Assistants and Research Assistants (in lieu), it is important that we ensure people are fully aware of the details of the University's offer, and that we encourage all TAs and RAs to vote. We ask you to provide any flexibility that may be required to give TAs and RAs the time to get the union's off-site offices to cast their ballots.

Teaching Assistants and Research Assistants represented by CUPE Local 3906, Unit 1 are on strike. McMaster remains open and classes are continuing.  McMaster’s top priority remains providing the best quality education to our students.
Students should continue to check their mcmaster.ca email account for updates. Other information is available at:
The Daily News, Student web pages, and McMaster’s Twitter feed

November 4 2009

Ed Reinhardt's research in the New York Times "In the Mediterranean, Killer Tsunamis From an Ancient Eruption"

November 2, 2009

Congratulations to Sara Edge for passing her comprehensive examination.

On Thursday, October 29th, Dr. Walt Peace presented his annual Halloween Lecture in Geog 1HA3.  This was the inaugural lecture of the "Open Classrooms" project put on by McMaster's Centre for Leadersips and Learning.  The lecture was entitled "Cultural Geographies of Life, Myth and Death".

October 23, 2009

Congratulations to Mark Zelek for successfully defending his M.Sc thesis

October 15, 2009

Congratulations to Maricris Marinas for winning the Outstanding Student Papers Award at the AGU Joint Assembly in Toronto.

October 14, 2009

Water Research in the School of Geography & Earth Sciences recieves funding from RBC. Congratulation Altaf Arain, Mike Waddington and Lesley Warren.

October 1, 2009

SGES and Highland Secondary School in Dundas appear in the Toronto star article Environmental film fest sparks change

September 24,2009

Congratulations to Mike Waddington for a sub grant from Laval University

September 22, 2009

Congratulations to Huyen Dam for defending successfully her MA thesis

Congratulations to Jason Lewis for defending successfully his M.Sc thesis

September 21, 2009

Congratulations to Genham Chen, Ivy Dam and Yifei Wang for defending successfully their M.Sc thesis

September 15, 2009

Congratulations to Sarah Beatty for successfully defending her M.Sc thesis

September 14, 2009

Congratulations to Esther Moore for defending successfully her M.Sc thesis

Congratulations to Maricris Marinas for defending successfully her M.Sc thesis

September 11. 2009

Congratulations to Jason Brodeur who will be receiving the Dean's Award for Excellence in Commmunicating Graduate Research.

Congratulations to Karen Wiley for successfully defending her MA thesis.

Congratulations to Stephanie Thomson for successfully defending her MSc. thesis.

September 08, 2009

Congratulations to Dora Pouliou for her successful PhD defense, Congratulations Dr. Pouliou!

September 04, 2009

Congratulations to Susan Elliott for being successful with a SSHRC International Opportunities Fund (IOF) Development Grant.

Congratulations to Mirjana Vuksan for successfully defending her MA thesis.

September 02, 2009

Congratulations to Antoine Repussard for the successful defense of his Masters thesis.

August 25

Congratulations to Meagan Leach for successfully defending her Master's thesis.

July 21

Congratulations to Matthias Peichl on his successful PhD defense, Congratulations Dr. Peichl.

July 16

Greg Slater is Exploring space in Pavilion Lake

July 15

Contratulations to Samantha MacKay, Sarah Dickin and Emily Nicholas on being awarded 'The David and Grace Prosser Scholarship' (OGSST) for the academic year of 2009-2010.

July 13

Sean Fletcher, Mac geologist hits the motherlode

June 23

Derek Ford's long term goal achieved as the Minister of the Environment announced a large expansion (30,000 square km added) for South Nahanni National Park in the Northwest Territories

June 19

Congratulations to Ulrich Riller for an award from Wallbridge Mining Inc. sponsored by MITACS.

Jim Smith in the news at Soil Science Society of America

June 15, 2009

Congratulations to Manolis Koronios on the successful defense of his M.A. thesis

June 10, 2009

Carolyn Eyles Graduates seek groundwater for Georgetown see Daily News Article

May 19, 2009

Congratulations to Kate Mulligan on winning both SSHRC/Vaniere Canada Graduate Scholarship and Alice E. Wilson award.

May 14, 2009

Congratulations to Jennifer Asanin Dean who was successful with Doctoral SSHRC awards. Also, congratulations to Kathy Fisher who was placed in the reversion list with good chance of being awarded a scholarship.

Congratulations to Duncan Findlay for the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation.

May 05, 2009

Congratulations to Sue Vajoczki on her appointment as acting director of the Centre for Leadership and Learning (CLL). See Daily News Article

April 29, 2009

Congratulations to Chris McGuire who was selected as student of the year for the ESRI Education Development Centre. As reminder, the School is the first established ESRI EDU in Canada.

Congratulations to Myroslava Khomik for the successful defense of her doctoral thesis.

April 28, 2009

MITL Research Project on Hamilton as a Transportation Gateway in the Hamilton Spectator and the Daily News

April 23, 2009

Congratulations to Altaf Arain for being successful in obtaining a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy.

April 21, 2009

A few of our students were successful in securing Ontario Graduate Student scholarships for 2009-10. Congratulations to all of them!

April 16, 2009

Congratulations to Jessica Pilarczyk for winning the Denis Shaw memorial award.

The School's Graduate Student Research Day was a major success. The student award winners are as follows:

April 14, 2009

Congratulations to Carolyn Eyles who was nominated by the MSU and was awarded the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) Teaching Award.

Congratulations to Walt Peace who has won the President's Award for Teaching Excellence for 2009.

Congratulation to all SGES Photo Contest Winners

April 08, 2009

Congratulations to Esther Moore and Kevin Burdette for being awarded travel grants for travel bursary for the 2008 - 09 academic year.

Dominik Papinski has also been awarded a travel grant for travel to the AAG.

We are pleased to anounce that The R. Edward Munn Ontario Graduate Scholarship for the 2008 - 09 academic year has been awarded to Nagissa Mahmoudi and Maricris Marinas.

April 02, 2009

NSERC graduate scholarships:Congratulations to the following students for their success:

McLeod, Heather  
Plach, Janina 
Elliott, Amy 
Leoni, Lisa 
Spicer, William 
Tschirhart, Victoria 
Wilhelm, Lana 

March 31, 2009

Jim Smith's PhD Student Kevin Mumford in the Daily News

Congratulations to Linda Reade for passing her Ph.D comprehensive examination.

March 26, 2009

Congratulations to Jim Smith for his promotion to Professor

March 19, 2009

Ulrich Riller, Mike Mercier, Jim Smith and Walt Peace have been nominated for MSU teaching awards.

Congratulations to Ting Huang for passing his comprehensive examination.

March 10, 2009

Hydrometeorology and Climatology Lab in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences unveils new weather station

March 5, 2009

Bin Chen passes his comprehensive examination and to Andrew Benson successfully defends his M.Sc thesis.

February 25, 2009

Ottawa renews funding for McMaster geographers Pavlos Kanaroglou and Greg Slater . Daily News article.

February 24, 2009

Congratulations to Dan Thompson for passing his comprehensive examination with distinction!

February 10, 2009

Congratulations to Maria Lucchese on the successful defense of her M.Sc thesis

February 09, 2009

Congratulations to Paulin Coulibaly for receiving the John C. Holland Award  (in the Professional Achievement Category) on Saturday Feb. 7. See the Hamilton Spectator.

Congratulations to John Eyles for a grant from Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI).

Congratulations to Kelsey Norlund for passing her comprehensive examination.

Congratulations to Darren Scott for a sub-award from the University of Vermont.

Carolyn Eyles is one of the selected 3M National Teaching Fellows for this year. Congratulations to Carolyn.See also the Daily News article.

February 04, 2009

Congratulations to Rhonda Donovan for completing successfully her comprehensive examination.

January 23, 2009

January 21, 2009

Congratulations to Daniel Harrington for completing successfully his doctoral comprehensive examination.

Congratulations to Bill Morris for being awarded a research contract from OCE Research Collaboration projects with Paterson, Grant & Watson Ltd., Geological Survey of Canada, and OCE-Centre for Excellence for Earth & Environmental Technologies.

Beverly Goodman, Ph.D, 2006 from SGES (Ed Reinhardt's student), was selected by National Geographic as an emerging explorer.

January 19, 2009

Congratulations to Greg Slater on his successful application for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. His new appointment will be effective July 1st, 2009.

Congratulations to Ulrich  Riller for being awarded a research contract from Vale Inco Technical Services Ltd.

Greg Slater "Looking for Life on Mars – in a Canadian Lake" Astrobiology Magazine

January 12, 2009

Jack Rink "Glowing Strong" in the McMaster Times publication

Congratulations to Richard Harris for being awarded a grant from the Arts Research Board of McMaster University.

January 09, 2009

Congratulations to Susan Elliott for being awarded a grant from Cancer Care Ontario

January 08, 2009

Congratulations to Darren Scott for being awarded a grant from GEOIDE (Geomatics for Informed Decisions).

News & Events

December 16, 2008

Congratulation to Esther Moore and Sarah Dickin on winning SGES first Annual Edible Structure Decorating Contest!

Congratulations to Jason Brodeur for passing his doctoral comprehensive examination

December 15, 2008

Congratulations to Farhana Ferdous on the successful defense of her MA thesis.

Congratulations to Bill Morris for being awarded a grant from Public Works and Government Services Canada.

December 5, 2008

Congratulations to Michele Love for the successful defense of her MA thesis.

Congratulations to Bill Morris for being awarded a one year contract from the Centre for Communication and Information Technology-OCE

For the 10th year in a row over 250 high school geography students and teachers got a special hands-on look at geographic information systems (GIS) and GPS technology at McMaster University's GIS Day on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008

November 18, 2008

School of Geography and Earth Sciences helps McMaster become the first Canadian university designated as an ESRI Development Centre

November 11, 2008

Congratulations to Jessica Pilarczyk for passing her doctoral comprehensive examination.

Greg Slater Research Profile in McMaster University, Faculty of Science Newsletter

October 6, 2008

Congratulations to Bill Morris for being awarded a grant from the New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources.

Congratualtion to Madeline Lee and Gillian Krezoski on the successful defence of their M.Sc. thesis.

Congratulation to Justin Ryan on the successful defence of his MA. thesis.

September 19, 2008

Congratualtion to Kelsey MacCormack for passing her comprehensive examination.

Congratulation to Lily DeMiglio on the successful defence of her MA. thesis.

September 15, 2008

Congratulations to David Neligan on the successful defence of his MA. thesis.

Congratulation to Julian Bonin on the successful defence of his M.Sc. thesis.

Congratulation to Ben Cowie on the successful defence of his M.Sc. thesis.

Congratulation to Hejun kang and Caroline Bakarat Hadad on the successful completion of their doctural thesis.

August 05, 2008

Congratulations to Richard Harris for being awarded a Research Development Initiative grant from SSHRC for two years.

July 25, 2008

Susan Elliott co-investigator in National survey to study food allergies in Canada

July 15, 2008

Driving the Inovation Economy at McMaster, Greg Slater, McMaster University Early Research Awards Recipient

Two new Associate Directores for the School of Geography & Earth Sciences. Altaf Arain(Physical) and Rob Wilton (Human Geography)

July 7, 2008

Congratulations to Dominik Papinsky on being awarded the Transport Canada Scholarship in Sustainable Transportation from the Canadian Transportation Research Forum for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Congratulations to Mike Waddington who has been appointed a member of the NSERC Strategic Projects Selection Panel- Healthy Environments and Ecosystems for a three year period ending ending March 31, 2011.

June 26, 2008

High school teachers apply lessons learned in workshop, hosted by the School of Geograph & Earth Sciences Outreach program

June 25, 2008

Greg Slater Dredging up clues about space from a BC lake appears in the McMaster Daily News

June 17, 2008

Congratulations to Ben Cowie on an award from the GSA Travel Assistance Fund towards expenses for attending the Geochemical Society meetings in UBC Vancouver later this Summer.

Congratulations to Paulin Coulibaly for being appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of Hydrologic Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Also Paulin was recently awarded a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.

June 13, 2008

Hanna Maoh and Pavlos Kanaroglou were awarded the Runner-Up for the best conference paper in the 2008 Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) conference held June 1-4 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Congratulations to Richard Harris and Lee Liaw who were awarded grants from the McMaster Incentive Fund.

Simon Donato, who convocated this week completing his PhD with Ed Reinhardt is in the Associated Press News

June 6, 2008

A recent study by Des Becstead, Mark Bown and Bruce Newbold, published through Statistics Canada made the Richard Florida blog (June 3). Please check out the following and look for Smarter Cities.

Congratulations to Susan Elliott who was awarded a one-year grant from Health Canada.

Congratulations to Lee Liaw who was awarded a grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan in support of his research visit to Academia Sinica for the time period October 1 to December 31, 2008

June 2, 2008

Congratulations to Mike Mercier and Walt Peace that received an Academic Innovation Grant (AIG) from the Experiential Education office of the Faculty of Social Sciences to revamp the labs of the first year Human Geography courses.

May 30, 2008

Antonio Paez and Darren Scott are quoted in a CanWest article on seniors and transportation that will appear in newspapers across the country this weekend.

Carolyn Eyles fourth-year field course Geo 4FF3 is in the Daily News

May 27, 2008

Congratulations to Mike Waddington for a NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements (DAS) award.

Congratulations to Ian Droppo, an adjunct faculty in the School from NWRI, who is being inducted in the McMaster Alumni Hall of Fame on Thursday this week.

Congratulations to Pavlos Kanaroglou, Bruce Newbold, Darren Scott and Niko Yiannakoulias for their success with three year standard SSHRC grants.

Congratulations to Niko Yiannakoulias for a grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).

May 21, 2008

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December 25,2005

It is particularly sad on Christmas to forward this note about the death of Dr Harold A Wood, Professor Emeritus of Geography. Harold was one of the very early members of the Department (from memory early 50's or late 40's) and retired in the late 70's. His speciality was Latin America.

Harold Wood's private family funeral was held last week. I have extracted the following from Andy Burghardt's history of the Department of Geography

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Harold Wood was the son of Baptist missionaries who had worked in the Caribbean, principally in Haiti. He attended McMaster as an undergraduate between 1945 and `48, majoring in geography under Wreford Watson, the department's founder. He was among the earliest Masters graduates from the department and was hired as a "sessional lecturer" to cover the cartography courses in 1950-51. He began his doctoral work at Toronto, graduating in 1958. His interests lay mainly in studies of land use, and in development in the Carribean and Latin America. He served as Chair from 1961-67, and became Professor in 1967.

Harold continued his Latin American studies in the Department in the 1970's, and served in various high positions in the Organization of American States.
In the early 1980's, as the Department's focus changed away from regional and development geography, he elected to become part-time and moved to Coldwater, ON where he continued to be dedicated to the cause of Latin America through various private undertakings. He retired from McMaster in 1986.
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December 22, 2005

Congratulations to Hejun Kang on the successful completion of the PhD Comprehensive Examination

Mike Waddington is quoted in a story in today's Globe and Mail about the use of peat for energy

December 20, 2005

The Board of Governors has approved tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, effective 1 July 2006, for Paulin Coulibaly, Darren Gröcke and Darren Scott

December 15, 2005

Congratulations to Rick Bourbonniere a grant from Ducks Unlimited for "Conventional farming inputs on nutrient dynamics and greenhouse gas exchenge on riparian wetlands in Southern Ontario"

and to Darren Gröcke on a grant from the McMaster Arts Research Board for "The impact and influence of paleontologist Miss Etheldred Benett on the development of geology in the early 19th Century, with particular reference on her communication with Gideon Mantell"

December 12, 2005

The History Channel will air "Giganto: The Real King Kong", which was partly filmed in Jack Rink's lab and also utilizes footage he made in China with his former student Rebeccah Marsh.

Thursday Dec 15, 2005 History Channel 9:00 PM

December 9, 2005

Congratulations to Natalia Restrepo on the successful defence of her PhD thesis "Water Vapour Energy and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes in a Chronosequence of Afforested White Pine Forests in Southern Ontario, Canada", supervised by Altaf Arain

Jack Rink's The Gigantopithecus story is nicely told in the National Geograpic News:

December 8, 2005

Congratulations and many thanks to Walt Peace, Niki Robinson and Darlene Watson on 25 years of service to McMaster! See McMaster Daily News

Congratulations to Eric Crighton on yesterday's successful defence of his PhD thesis "Pneumonia and infulenza hospitalizations in Ontario: a spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal analysis" which was supervised by Susan Elliott

December 5, 2005

Congratulations to Altaf Arain on a grant from CFCAS for "Development of a Canadian global coupled carbon model"

and to Bruce Newbold and John Eyles for an award from the Lambton County Community Health Services Department for "Review and analysis of the paper 'Declining sex ratio in a First Nation community"

December 2, 2005

Jack Rink's giant ape continues to be a hit, making ABC-TV news last week and now may feature in King Kong

November 22, 2005

The school is pleased to inform you that the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies has approved the continuation of our MSc/PhD program in Earth and Environmental Science (previouly Geology) with fields Geochemistry, Earth Surface Processes and Hydrological Sciences. The program is classified as of Good Quality (on a binary scale, the other choice being Not of Good Quality)

November 22, 2005

Walt Peace is a commentator in today's story in the Hamilton Spectator about traffic confusion in Hamilton

November 21, 2005

At the Fall Convocations on Friday, Nov. 18th we graduated:

16 BA Geography
6 BA Hons Geography

1 BSc Geoscience
0 BSc Hons E&ES

MA Geog - Stephanie Butcher, Gen Moreau, Stephanie Schuer
MSc Geog - Mel Greenwood, Mattias Peichl
MSc Geol - Kelsey MacCormack, Viktor Terlaky

PhD Geog - Valorie Crooks, Hanna Maoh

Congratulations everyone

November 15, 2005

Jack Rink's Giant Ape is featured in Times newspaper

November 10, 2005

Congratulations to Greg Slater on

(1) a grant for "Suspended sediment monitoring in Hamilton Harbour as an indicator of the Randal Reef project" from the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund, joint with Brian McCarry (Chemistry) and NWRI

(2) "A geobiological characterization of the freshwater microbialites from Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, Canada" from the National Geographic Society, joint with researchers at UBC

and to Altaf Arain on a grant for "Dissolved organic carbon and carbon cycling in Canadian forests" from an NSERC Strategic grant, joint with researchers from McGill

November 7,2005

Jack Rink is featured in a story in today's Daily News "A gigantic ape, measuring about 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds, co-existed alongside humans, a geochronologist at McMaster University has discovered..."
Jack Rink's work in China is the subject of an interview with him that with be shown on the Discovery Channel between 7 and 8pm tonight (Nov 8th)
There is also an article about Jack Rink in the current edition of Macleans. A nice counterpoint to the article on university rankings!

November 3, 2005

Congratulations to Ann Wallace on the birth of Ethan James, her second grandson, yesterday

October 27, 2005

Congratulations to Dimitris Potoglou has won the PhD award of the Canadian Transportation Research Foundation Student Paper Competition with his paper "Demand for Household Alternative Fuelled Vehicles in Hamilton, Canada: An Internet Survey"

October 25, 2005

Congratulations to Richard Harris on receiving the Francois Auguste de Montequin Prize for the best conference paper on the topic of North American colonial planning history, awarded by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, which just held its biennial conference in Coral Gables, Florida.

Congratulations to Bruce Newbold on the award of a grant from Hamilton Public Health and Community Services Department as part of the Public Health Research, Education and Development (PHRED) program

October 24, 2005

Congratulations to Andrew Kingston on winning the Best Student Poster Presentation Award at the Developing International Geoarcheology 2005 conference in St John, NB for his paper (joint with Aubray Cannon, Anthro, and Darren Grocke) "Climate Change and Shellfish Collection Strategies Revealed using Stable-Isotope Analysis of Butter Clams (Saxidomus giganteus) from Shell Middens at Namu on the Central Coastal Region of British Columbia, Canada"

Richard Harris is e-interviewed in "Raise the hammer", which is a "... a group of Hamilton citizens who believe in our city's potential and are willing to get involved in making the city a more vibrant, livable, and attractive place to live and work", see

and the Saturday Spec carried an article about Susan Elliott's revisiting of David Pengelley's sample of Hamilton children:

October 12, 2005

Mike Waddington's research into quarry rehabilitation at Fletcher Creek is profiled in today's Daily News:

October 3, 2005

Henry Schwarcz will be featured on the Discovery Channel tonight at 7pm and 11pm, talking about his work on forensic isotopes

September 26, 2005

Congratulations to McMaster's Team EAS which remains undefeated this season after winning the Salomon Adventure Challenge Canadian Championships this past weekend near Pembroke, Ontario. McMaster Daily News

The team is composed of McMaster professor Mike Waddington, PhD student Simon Donato, and McMaster alumnus Doug Mahoney.

Congratulations to Lori Wickert on the award of an NRCan/ESS Postgraduate Supplement to her NSERC PGS

Congratulations to John Maclachlan and Heather Stuart who were married on Saturday, September 24/05.

Susan Elliott's re-survey of participants in David Pengelly's 1980's survey of athsma and air pollution is featured in the Daily News

Semptember 21, 2005
Congratulations to Kelsey MacCormack on the successful defence of her MSc thesis "3-D modelling of Quaternary sediments, Dundas Valley"

September 20, 2005

Congratulations to Stephanie Butcher on succesfull defence on Monday of her MA thesis "She Wants To Be Like Everybody Else, Out Working". Young Adults With Intellectual Disabilities Transitioning To Employment

September 19, 2005

Congratulations to Stephanie Schuer on the successful defence on Friday of her MA thesis "They just want the best person, the most normal person":Comparing women with disabilities and employers perspectives on service work

September 13, 2005

Congratulations to Viktor Terlaky on the successful defence of his MSc thesis on Sept. 14th.

Congratulatioons to Kristen Harrison, a new grad student with Mike Waddington, who was married to Tim Grant on Sept. 10/05.

September 7, 2005

Congratulations to Merrin Macrae (PDF in Mike Waddington's lab) who has accepted an assistant professor position in the Dept. of Geography at the University of Waterloo.

Congratulations to: Genevieve Moreau on the successful defence of her MA thesis: "It's Not Probabilities, It's Possibilities - Lay Views of Disclosure Regarding Emerging Health Issues"

Congratulations to: Hanna Maoh on the successful defence of his PhD thesis "Modeling Firm Demography in Urban Areas with an Application to Hamilton, Ontario: Towards an Agent-Based Microsimulation Model"

September 6, 2005

Congratulations to: Valorie Crooks on the successful defence of her PhD thesis, "Life with fibromyalgia syndrome: a socio-spatial examination"

August 31, 2005

Congratulations on successful defences to

Dora Pouliou, MA, "Air pollution and respiratory health: re-analysis of the Hamilton Childrens cohort study" (on Aug 12, sorry for the delay)

Melissa Greenwood, MSc, "The effect of restoration on CO2 exchange in a cutover wetland"

Mattias Peichl, MSc, "Biomass and carbon allocation in a chronosequence of white pine (Pinus strobus L.) plantations in southern Ontario"

August 29, 2005

Dimitris Potoglou on a grant from the Yates Fund to attend the 9th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology on Rhodes Island, Greece, 1-3 Sept

Bill Morris on an NSERC grant with a collaborator at UofT for 'exploration of the Bosumptwi Impact Crater, Ghana"

Allison Williams on a CIHR grant for "Timely access and seamless transitions in rural palliative/end-of-life care'

Antonio Paez on an ARB conference grant to attend "Frontiers in transportation: social and spatial interactions" in Amsterdam.

August 8, 2005

A story in Saturday's Toronto Star describes Darren Grocke's role in unravelling the disappperarance of the Beothuk

July 18, 2005

Congratulations to Gloria Lopez on an award from the GSA Travel Assistance Fund to present a paper in Cologne, Germany and the Genevieve Moreau on one to present to the 11th International Medical Geographers' Symposium in Ft Worth, TX

Congratulatioons to Darren Scott on being awarded a research grant from GEOIDE for "Multi-scale multi-agent geo-simulation to support decision making in multi-actor dynamic spatial simulations"

and to Mike Waddington on a research grant from the Ontario Aggregate Resources Corp for "Optimizing ecohydrological protocols to enhance calcareous wetland rehabilitation in abandoned quarries"

July 13, 2005

Carolyn Eyles has been interviewed by a CBC crew for a segment to be shown tomorrow evening (July 14th) on 'The National'. They are doing a section on the 125 year anniversary of AAAS and wanted to explore some of the 125 'unanswered' questions posed in the recent issue of Science magazine.

July 5, 2005
Hok Woo in Alaska features in the Juneau Empire and reported in the Daily News today.

Congratulations to Talar Sahsuvaroglu on winning the award for the best PhD paper in health geography presented to the CAG meeting earlier this month - "Air pollution and asthma in children and adults in Hamilton, Ontario - how different are the effects?"

June 21, 2005

The School of Geography and Geology name is to be changed on 1st July 2005 to School of Geography and Earth Sciences.

Lesley Warren provides an explanation of an urban reality in today's Spectator

See the Daily News article about Bob McNutt leading the development of the McMaster Burlington Campus

June 14, 2005

Yesterday, John Drake received one of nine ORION award as a pioneer of the Ontario advanced research and education networks:

Bio's of the recipients are here

June 9, 2005

Henry Schwarcz's study of a murder victim's isotopes previously reported in a local paper in S California has now made it to the National Post:

Caroline Barakat Haddad on receiving an OGSST

One of the students appearing on CHtv news commenting on the award of an honorary doctorate to Jean Chretien at this morning's Social Science Convocation was Loreen Rudd, BA (Geography)

June 7, 2005

Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky (Medicine), Dr. Mike Waddington (School of Geography and Earth Sciences) and Simon Donato (PhD Candidate in Geology) are members of the Canadian adventure racing team EAS and are currently ranked 5th in North America by the Adventure Sports Magazine ranking system.

The team will be competing in adventure races across Canada and the United States this summer.
A longer article about Mike W and Simon's racing team is on the Daily News:

June 2, 2005

At next week's Convocations we will graduate:

MA Geog
Alex Chambers, Pat DeLuca, John Felice

PhD Geog
Godwin Arku, Ron Buliung

BSc Geoscience 5
Hons E&ES 32
Hons Sci (Geosci) 2

BA Geog 55
Hons Geog 47
Hons Geog&Env Stud 11
Hons Geog &another 4

Congratulations to Godwin Arku on accepting a two-year position in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfred Laurier University

May 24, 2005

Bruce Newbold's group featured in the Daily News, http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=2955

And Henry Schwarcz supervised the "...Canadian lab's tests on her hair..." etc noted in this intriguing story

Congratulations to Godwin Arku on accepting a two-year position in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfred Laurier University

May 03, 2005
Congratulations to Lee Liaw on a grant from the NIH through the University of Michigan for "US minority migration and metropolitan change"

and to Pavlos Kanaroglou on a grant from CIHR through Mike Jerrett for "A cohort study of mortality in relation to intra-urban air pollution variability and traffic exposure"

Congratulations to our OGSST winners:

Alison Hay -- Bank of Montreal
Kelsey MacCormack -- Shell Oil
Heather Slavinski -- Shell Oil

and also to Valorie Crooks on a grant from the Yates Fund to present her research to the Medical Geography group of the Association of American Geographers in Ft Worth, TX

April 19, 2005
Congratulations to Mike Waddington on being awarded the Canadian Geophysical Union's Young Scientist award, recognizing outstanding contributions to Canadian Geophysical Science in research, mentorship and collegiality. Mike will receive the award at the CGU annual meeting in Banff in May

Congratulations also to Sunny Xu on an OGS for PhD studies

April 14, 2005

Richard Harris's Guggenheim has made the Spectator: (See March 7th, 2005)

Henry Schwarcz appears on the Daily News, being about to receive a professional achievement citation from the University of Chicago

April 13, 2005

Congratulations to the following successful applicants in the OGS competition

Current PhD student - John Maclaclan (reversion list Ruben Mercado, Alison Hay, Karen King)

Current undergrads - Sara Edge, Peter vanb Hengstrum, Jennifer Etherington, Monique Waller, Sean Dickie (reversion to Jessica Pilarczyk)

Incoming grad students - Rhonda Donovan (MA), Allyson Brady (PhD)

April 12, 2005
Derek Amores and Lori Wickert on the successful completion of their PhD Comprehensive Examinations.

April 6, 2005
Congratulations to:

Gloria Lopez on being awarded the Walter Gibbins Memorial Travel Bursary to present the results of her work at an international confeence in Germany in July

Susan Elliott, with others, on a CIHR grant for "Understanding the individual and socio-environmental health risks of obesity: the Canadian heart health surveys follow-up study"

April 1, 2005

Congratulations on the award of 3-year SSHRC grants to:

Antonio Páez for "Social influence on travel behavior: a case study of the decision to telecommute"

John Eyles for "Anatomy of an Environmental Decision: The Restart of the Pickering A Nuclear Reactor"

Henry Schwarcz for "Identifying domesticated animals using tetracycline"

March 30, 2005

Congratulations to Hok Woo on being appointed and Antonio Páez on being reappointed as Associate Members of the Department of Civil Engineering

Pavlos Kanaroglou and others at Laval University on a grant from SSHRC for "The contribution of human behaviour to environmentally sustainable and safe transportation systems"

Paulin Coulibaly and others at Laval University on an NSERC Cooperative Research & Development with Hydro-Quebec for "Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Probabilistic and Deterministic Hydrologic Modelling"

Altaf Arain on an NSERC RTI grant for "Contin- uous soil CO2 concentration measurements using newly developed novel carbocap probes", and also on an NSERC Strategic grant with others at McGill for "Dissolved organic carbon and carbon cycling in Canadian forests"

March 21, 2005

Congratulations to our winners of NSERC and SSHRC graduate scholarships for Masters studies:

Sara Edge SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship
Jen Etherington NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship
Sean Dickie NSERC PGS
Lisa Melymuk NSERC PGS
Monique Waller NSERC PGS
Pete van Hengstrum NSERC PGS

March 20, 2005
Congratulations on the award of renewed NSERC Discovery Grants to:

Altaf Arain for 5 years for "Environmental and physiological controls over carbon dioxide and water vapour exchanges in a chronosequence of pine forests in Canada"

Henry Schwarcz for 5 years for "Isotopes in archaeology, health and the environment"

In addition multi-year awards are in place for Joe Boyce, Jim Crocket, Alan Dickin, Ian Droppo, Carolyn Eyles, Derek Ford, Darren Grocke, Pavlos Kanaroglou, Bill Morris, Antonio Paez, Ed Reinhardt, Jack Rink, Wayne Rouse, Darren Scott, Greg Slater, Jim Smith, Mike Waddington and Lesley Warren

March 17, 2005

Congratulations to Caroline Whitzman on winning the Canadaian Association of Geographers Robinson-Starkey Award that recognizes "high quality graduate research that furthers understanding of the geography of Canada"

Caroline's thesis "The Dreams Attached to Places: From Suburb, To Slum, To Urban Village in a Toronto Neighbourhood, 1875-2002", was supervised by Richard Harris. Caroline is now a lecturer in Urban Planning in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne

This award was also won by a student of Richard's in 2002 - Mike Buzzelli who is now on faculty at UBC

March 16, 2005

Congratulations to: Candy Nykiforuk on a travel grant from the Canadian Tobacco Control Initiative to present her results at the Annual SRNT meeting and European Conference in Prague

Allison Williams and a co-investigator at UVic on a research grant from CIHR for "Family caregiving in palliative and end-oflife care: a new emerging team"

Bruce Newbold and John Eyles on a grant from Health Canada for "Chemicals of concern in the Great Lakes"

Bruce Newbold on a grant form Health Canada for "Health science framework project under COA 2002"

March 07, 2005

Congratulations to Richard Harris on being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his studies on North American suburbs.

" The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The Foundation consults with distinguished scholars and artists regarding the accomplishments and promise of the applicants and presents this evidence to the Committee of Selection."
http://www.gf.org/broch.html#elig

January 26, 2005

Rob Wilton, with Dr DeVerteuil of the Univ of Manitoba, has been awarded an SSHRC grant for 'Clean and sober places; exploring therapeutic landscapes of addiction recovery'

January 25, 2005

Ruben Mercado on the successful completion of his PhD Comprehensive Exam

The MAGS Mackenzie basin Research Network led by Hok Woo and funded by NSERC has been renewed for phase 2

Hok Woo has a sub-grant for 'Modelling the hydrological system of high latitudes from point to basin scales"

Wayne Rouse has a sub-grant for 'Modelling the enrgy and water balance of lakes in the cold regions of Canada'

Gerry Middleton is the editor of "Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks" which Choice Magazine has included in its 2004 annual list of Outstanding Academic Titles.

Mike Waddington has received a grant for "Carbon life cycle analysis for trench peat extraction" from Premier Tech Lte

Congratulations to Maria Strack on the successful completion of her PhD Comprehensive Examination last week

January 14, 2005

Congratulations to

Darren Gröcke on being a co-investigator on a grant from NERC (in the UK) for "Exploiting a novel technique to extract biological and ecological information from fossil calcareous nannoplankton"

Mike Waddington on receiving a two-year research grant from the Ontario Aggregate Resources Corporation, Inc for "Optimising ecohydrological protocols to enhance wetland rehabilitation in abandoned quarries"

Carolyn Eyles(with Sue Vajoczki's help) has received a grant to help with the costs of the 4FF3 field trip to Arizona from the CIM Toronto Branch Field Trip Assistance Fund

Bill Morris reports that at the Ontario Association of Remote Sensing workshop in Toronto on Remote sensing applied to mineral exploration McMaster had by far the largest contingent of students present at this meeting -- this attendence was acknowledged by Ian Hale on behalf of the OARS.Grad students atending this workshop were all provided a certificate in recognition of their participation in this meeting

January 13, 2005

Congratulations to Shawn Collins. Shawn has been appointed the permanent replacement for Mike Herrell in the SGES Technician/IA position, which he has been filling on a temporary basis since the Fall.

News & Events

December 21, 2004

Congratulations to John MacLachlan and Ren Zhang on passing their PhD Comprehensive Examinations

December 13, 2004

Congratulations to Godwin Arku on the successful defence of his PhD thesis, and to Simon Donato on the successful completion of his PhD Comprehensive Examination.

December 10, 2004
The Board of Governors has formally approved our recommendation for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor for Altaf Arain and Joe Boyce, and that the three-year reappointments of Darren Scott and Antonio Paez have been reported to the Board. All of these take effect 1 July 2005.

December 9, 2004

Congratulations to Pat DeLuca on the successful defence of his M.A. thesis.

November 30, 2004
Congratulations to Dimitris Potoglou on winning the Jim Davey award of the Canadian Transportation Reserach Forum for the best paper by a PhD student, and to

Jamee DiSimone and Liz Kenny (BSc Hons students) on winning a Gold Ribbon for research excellence with their poster "The Longterm Effects of Peatland Drainage on the Concentration and Quality of DOC Along Microtopographic Gradients"
The poster was co-authored with Mike Waddington and Rick Bourbonniere. Sigma Xi is an international honour society for research scientists and engineers.

November 29, 2004 Congratulations to John Felice in the successful defence of his M.A. thesis.

November 24, 2004
Congratulations to Ron Buliung in the successful completion of his PhD.

November 22, 204
Congratulations to Caroline Barakat Haddad in the successful completion of her PhD Comprehensive Exam on Friday

November 11, 2004
Tomorrow's Convocations(Nov. 12) we will graduate
3 MA Geog (Sophie Jama, Allison Hay, Anneliese Poetz)
2 MSc Geog (Myroslava Khomik, Robin Thorne)
5 MSc Geol (Chris Clark, Shawn Collins, Ryan Mills, Marina Mironov, Vicki Thomson)

18 BA Geog
1 BA Hons Geog

Congratulations to all concerned, and to their instructors, our staff and TA's

November 9, 2004
Jack Rink is a co-author of one of the major papers in Nature that describes the discovery of the Flores hominin species in Indonesia.

November 2, 2004
Congratulations to:

Lori Wickert on receiving a CRESTech travel grant to the Int Geosci and Remote Sensing Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska

Ed Reinhradt on a grant form CFCAS for "Ultra high resolution Holocene paleocllimatic and paleooceanographic records from anoxic basins along the BC coast"

Alison Williams for a SSHRC grant for "Tracking quality of life in Saskatoon"

Mike Jerrett for a subgrant from CIHR for "IHRT: respiratory infection in older adults: an interdisciplinary approach"

November1,2004

Walt Peace won the Service to Ontario Geography award at the annual meeting of the Ontario Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers this weekend. The citation reads in
part:

"Walt's dedication to the geography of Canada, Ontario and the local Hamilton area is quite extraordinary, and his dedication is reflected in the success with which he teaches these topics. In addition to his contributions through the School he has participated in numerous community activities.
These include contributing to and appearing in the video history of Hamilton, being active in the cause of and editing a book on the Red Hill Creek expressway, and most recently being on the Board of Ruthven National Historical Site. Walt's main expertise lies in historical geography, but he is also well versed in the economic and urban geography of the region and has supervised numerous fourth-year students writing Honours theses which have all been very carefully and successfully completed.

Walt is a most deserving recipient of this award. His contributions to the geography of Ontario, and to generations of students learning about it, are truly outstanding"

At the same meeting Alison Hay was elected as the student representative for two years.

October 29, 2004

NSERC have announced that the Peatland Ecology Research Group (PERG) of which Mike Waddington is a member has been awarded a Synergy Award for Innovation in the 'more than 2 company category'.

PERG consists of one paleo-ecologist (Claude Lavoie, Laval), a plant ecologist (Line Rochefort, and head of the group), an animal ecologist (Andre Desrochers, Laval), a hydrologist (Jon Price, Waterloo) and one ecohydrologist (Mike Waddington, McMaster). They have 11 industrial partners and have developed a technology to restore mined peatlands to functioning peatland ecosystems.

More information is available at
http://www.nserc.gc.ca/news/2004/p041028bio.htm#laval

A previous Synergy Award was made to Jim Kramer of the School and his collaborators for their work with Kodak on silver in the environment

October 27,2004

Richard Harris is one of the guests on TVO's 'More to Life' program tomorrow, Thursday Oct.28, 1 p.m.- 2 p.m. The topic for discussion is the suburbs, and he will be promoting his recent book, published by University of Toronto Press, on the history of Canadian suburbs.

October 19, 2004

Congratulations to Lori Wickert on being awarded the Ontario Association of Remote Sensing (OARS) Graduate Research Award, supported by Spatial Geo-Link Limited

October 4, 2004

Congratulations to Simon Donato on being acclaimed as the Science graduate student representative to the University Senate

October 1, 2004

Gerd Westermann, Professor Emetitus, has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the VI International Symposium on Cephalopods. The citation is:

"In our lifetime, no ammonite worker has become more synonymous with the functional morphology and mode of life to ammonites that Gerd Westermann. His name is intimately associated with questions of the finctinoal significance of septa, buoyancy, and the siphuncular tube. Armed with a formidable intellect, an insatiable curiosity, and a non-nonsense style, he has intriduced the rigorous concepts and theories of architecture and engineering, pressure and depth, to the field of ammonite studies and has thus transformed our view of how these animals lived and evolved. Add to that, a world calss research program in Jurassic ammonites and an equlally profound knowledge of paleobiogeography, please join us in awarding Gerd Westermann a lifetime acheivement recognition in ammonite studies."

Gerd has also been honoured through his career by the naming of 2 genera and 5 species after him.

September 20, 2004

Congratulations to Shawn Collins on the successful defence of his MSc thesis

September 17, 2004

Congratulations to Chris Clark on the successful defence of her MSc thesis

September 14, 2004

Congratulations to Alison Hay on the successful defence of her MA thesis

September 13, 2004

Congratulations to Marina Mironov on the successful defence of her MSc thesis, and Anneliese Poetz on the successful defence of her MA thesis

September 7, 2004

Congratulations to Bill Morris on being awarded an NSERC grant in conjunction with researchers at UofT for "Exploration of the Bosumtwi Impact
Crater, Ghana"

Congratulations to Ryan Mills on the successful defence of his MSc thesis

Darren Scott (PI), Antonio Paez, Pavlos Kanaroglou and Bruce Newbold's project on the travel behavious of older drivers is featured on the Gov't of Canada'a National Centres of Excellence website

June 23, 2004

Congratulations to Jay Parsons on the successful completion of his PhD Comprehensive Examination

June 16, 2004

Congratulations to Rob Thorne on the successful defense of his MSc thesis

May 26, 2004
Congratulations to Kelsey MacCormack, Viktor Terlacky, John Maclachlan and Aaron Bertram on winning the Jerome Remick Poster bronze prize at the GAC. The poster is outside GSB 304

May 26, 2004
Congratulations to Maria Strack who won the prestigeous Don Gray Award for the best student paper in Hydrology Section of the Canadian Geophysical Union, for her paper with Mike Waddington "Ecohydrological controls on natural and drained peatland methane emission: implications for climate change"

Rob Thorne and Joe Shea (perviously BSc Mac) were finalists.

May 18, 2004,

Congratulations to Kristi Markham and Viktor Terlaky on receiving Shell Canada OGSST's, and to Valorie Crooks on receiving the E B Ryan Scholarship for research on aging.

Sandra Miccuci is profiled in the current edition of Socialights, the SocSci Alumni newsletter

John Eyles and Susan Elliott are also featured.

May 12, 2004

Congratulations to :Henry Schwarcz on being appointed to the Editorial Board of the American
Journal of Physical Anthropology

Antonio Paez on a Teaching and Learning grant form CLL

Allison Williams on a SSHRC research grant for "Tracking Quality of Life in Saskatoon"

Susan Elliott, John Eyles and Sue Keller-Olaman for conference travel grants from the Arts Research Board

Owen Sherwood (ex BSc, MSc with Mike Risk) on a GSA grant for his PhD work at Dal

Congratulations to Sunny Xu, Hanna Maoh and Valorie Crooks on being awarded
SSHRC Doctoral awards

April 28, 2004

Darren Gröcke CFI is profiled in the Daily News today:
http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=2658

Congratulations to Liz Haack on the successful defence of the PhD thesis

AprilL 22, 2004

Congratulations to Cathy Moulder, the University Map Librarian, on receiving a MUFA Faculty/Librarian Award for outstanding service.

The award will be presented at a reception in the Univ Club 3:30pm, Weds 5 May

Aapril 21, 2004

Congratulations to Jim Smith on being appointed to NSERC's Strategic Projects Program grant selection Panel on Environment & Sustainable
Development and to Lesley Warren on becoming an Associate Editor of Geochim Cosmocim Acta

April 19, 2004
Congratulations to Beverly Goodman on being awarded the Cecelia Connelly Memorial Scholarship for underwater research from the Women's Diving Hall of Fame.

Congratulations to Antonio Paez in being appointed as an Associate Member of Civil
Engineering.

Congratulations to our Ontario Graduate Scholarship winners:
PhD
Valorie Crooks
Alison Hay
Karen Hodges
Hanna Maoh
Maria Strack
Sunny Xu

For Masters
Melissa Greenwood

April 14, 2004

Jim Smith has been reappointed as an Associate Member of Civil Engineering, and Jack Rink appointed as an Associate Member of the Unit for Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences

Congratulations to Godwin Arku on being awarded the R Edward Munn Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and to Beverly Goodman on the award of the Walter Gibbins Memorial Travel Bursary to attend a conference in Istanbul. Beverly has also been awarded a Fulbright award to spend 9 months at the University of Haifa in 2004-05

April 6, 2004

Congratulations to Gloria Lopez on passing her PhD Comprehensive Examination

Rob Wilton, with Geoff Deverteuil (University of Manitoba) as PI has received a SSHRC standard research grant for "Clean and sober places: Exploring the therapeutic landscapes
of addiction recovery"

April 5, 2004

Susan Elliott is one of the 14 women leaders at Mac who are featured in posters that will appear across campus as part of the McMaster's Mary E.Keyes Leadership Program

Ed Reinhardt is a featured scholar in "Jesus and Paul: The Word and The Witness", on ABC-tv tonight, Monday April 5th, 8-11pm i

April 1, 2004

Congratulations on the awards of research grants to:
Paulin Coulibaly from the Ministry of Transport of Ontario's Highway Infrastructure Innovation Funding Programme for "Identification of the effect of climate change on future design standards of drainage infrastructure in Ontario"

Pavlos Kanaroglou on an SSHRC Standard Research Grant

John Eyles from Health Canada for "Using scenarios to explore disclosure
needs about potential health hazards"

March 30, 2004

Congratulations to Maria Strack and Melissa Greenwood on being awarded NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships, and

Ron Buliung on a 2 year NSERC PDF at UofT for Geocomputational Tools for the Analysis of Urban Household Activities and Related Travel

Congratulations to Joe Boyce and Greg Slater on their successful NSERC Equipment grant applications:
Joe - Portable marine seismic profiler for environmental geophysical and
geoarchaeological research

Greg - Compound specific radiocarbon analysis of contaminants in the environment

February 17, 2004

Congratulations to Mike Mercier on the successful defence of his PhD thesis

February 6, 2004

Mark Pagani (Yale) and Darren Gröcke have been accepted to organize a Topical Session at the 2004 GSA meeting in Denver: the session is
entitled, "The Evolution and Expansion of C4 Plants".

Dr Zavareh Kothavala has received a 6-month NCAR post-doctoral fellowship with Darren Gröcke to work on Global Climate Models.

January 31,2004

It is with deep regret that I inform you of Brian McCann's death this morning. The funeral will be private but a remembrance will be organised, probably for next Saturday morning (Feb 7) at McMaster. I will let you know the details when available.

January 21, 2004

Congratulations to Jamie Spinney on passing his PhD Comprehensive Exam

News & Events

December 24, 2003

Congratulations to the recipients of Arts Research Board grants:

Richard Harris to attend the 12th International Conference of Historical Geographers in New Zealand

Bruce Newbold for Immigrant Health: social, economic and environmental correlates

December 11, 2003

Congratulations to Valorie Crooks on the award of a grant from the Arthritis Health Professions Association for "Connecting chronically ill women's experiences of daily health care and everyday life in three communities: the daily lifeworlds of women living with fibromyalgia"

December 3, 2003

Congratulations to Sunny Xu on passing her PhD Comprehensive Exam.

December 2, 2003

Congratulations to Kristi Markham on passing her PhD Comprehensive Exam

November 27, 2003

Congratulations to Karen King on passing her PhD Comprehensive Exam

November 17, 2003

Congratulation to all concerned on a job well done - at Friday's Fall Convocations we graduated:
PhD: Godwin Djietror, Carolyn Whitzman, Rao Khan( supervised by Jack in Med Phys)
MA: Chantelle Richmond, Dana Wilson
MSc: Joanne Badley, Sarah Day, Roderick Amores, Beth Forrest, Laura Kobayashi

2 - BSc
13 - BA
2 - BA(Hons)
(note that most of our undergrads graduate at the Spring Convocation)

November 11, 2003

Congratulations to Lesley Warren on receiving a contract from Environment Canada for "trace metal geochemistry of Hamilton Harbour sediments"

This past weekend, Richard Harris and Tricia Shulist (MA 1998) were awarded the Catherine Bauer Wurster prize for best journal article in planning history to be published in 2001 or 2002. The prize was awarded by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. It was for a co-authored article on the history of the Canadian Veterans' Land Act that was based in part on interviews carried out in the Hamilton area.

November 4, 2003

Congratulationsto Altaf Arain on being awarded a CFCAS/NSERC Researchg Partnership for "Integrated modelling and scaling components of Fluxnet-Canada", and another for "Ontario Flux Station component of Fluxnet Canada"

Congratulations to Paulin Coulibaly on a three-year reappointment as Assistant Professor, effective 1 July 2004, and to Susan Elliott on promotion to Full Professor.

October 27, 2003 Congratulations to John Maclachlan on winning a grant from the Grad Student Assn. Travel Assistance Fund to attend the Geol Soc Amer confeence in Seattle; and to Talar Sahsuvaroglou on winning one to attend the Network for Environmental Risk Assessment and Mgmt in Rome (yes, the real one!)

October 24, 2003

Mike Jerrett and Talar Sahsuvaroglu study of the effects of Hamilton's air pollution appeared in the Hamilton Spectator.

October 15,

Two of this season's Sunday Science Lectures by the Royal Canadian Institute are being given by members of SGES:

Lesley Warren, Sun Nov 2, 3pm - Microbial geoengineering: acid mine drainage

John Eyles, Sun Nov 9, 3pm - Globalization, infectious diseases and the public's health

In Macleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Bldg, University of Toronto

October 14,

Darren Groke is co-convenor of a GSA Topical Session in Seattle Annual Meeting (November 2-5, 2003). The title of the Topical Session is: "Multi-Proxy Terrestrial Records and the Ocean-Climate System: Links and Perturbations in the Cretaceous".

More information can be found at:
www.geosociety.org/meetings/2003/top08.htm#81

October 8, 2003

Congratulations to Mike Jerrett, PI and Pavlos Kanaroglou and others (co-I's) on receiving a CIHR grant for "A cohort study of mortality in relation to intra-urban air pollution variability and traffic exposures"

Mike Jerrett will be appearing on one of the rotating spots with Leianne Pereira on the Weather Channel starting this Thursday evening, discussing his and colleagues' CIHR grant and their related air pollution research.

October 6, 2003

It is with great sadness that we announce that Denis Shaw died peacefully at home. He joined the Department of Geology in1948 and was very active until now -- last year he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the Geochemical Society, and he stood third on the SGES squash ladder.

Funeral arrangements are private, but we will be holding a rememberance of Denis' life at McMaster at 3pm, Friday 10th, October in Convocation Hall with a reception to follow.

September 24, 2003,

John Eyles, Susan Elliott and Sue Keller-Olaman are presenting a Seminar examining health in the city

Congratulations to Valorie Crooks on receiving the 2003-04 Arthritis Health Professionals Association Research Grant

Congratulations to Dimitris Potoglou on successfully completing his PhD Comprehensive Exam

September 22, 2003

Congratulations to Beth Forrest on the successful defence of her M.Sc. thesis.

September 22, 2003

Congratulations to Sarah Day on the successful defence of her M.Sc. thesis.

September 17, 2003

Congratulations to Laura Kobayashi on the successful defence of her M.Sc. thesis.

September 17, 2003

Congratulations to Derek Amores on the successful defence of his M.Sc. thesis.

September 9, 2003

Mike Jerrett has been spreading the word about the distribution and sources of urban air pollution

September 4, 2003

Congratulations to Natalia Restrepo on successfully completing her PhD
Comprehensive Exam

Please welcome Josie d'Alessandro as our new secretary

August 6, 2003

Congratulations to Henry Schwarcz on obtaining a research grant from CFCAS (Cdn Foundation for Climate and Atmos Sci) for "Holocene paleotemperature records from stable isotopic analysis of speeothems and their fluid inclusions"

August 5, 2003

Congratulations to Mike Jerrett as the co-PI and Pavlos Kanaroglou and Altaf Arain as a co-investigator on the award of a CIHR grant for "a cohort study of mortality in relation to intra-urban air pollution variability and traffic
exposures"

August 1, 2003

We are very pleased to announce that Ann Wallace will be our Grad Secretary,
effective Monday Aug 11.

July 30, 2003

Congratulations to Christine Ward-Paige on the successful defence of her MSc
thesis

July 22, 2003

Congratulations to Mike Jerrett on obtaining a contract with Health Canada for "Developing geographic exposure models for Montreal: assigning monitoring locations and deriving air pollution surfaces"

Congratulations to Vera Chouinard on being appointed to a 5-year term as Director, Women's Studies effective 1 July 2003

July 18, 2003

Congratulations to Joanne Badley on the successful defense of her MSc thesis.

July 16, 2003

Congratulations to George Pemberton (PhD Geology 1979) on being awarded the 2003 Raymond C Moore Medal for excellence in paleontology by the SEPM, and to Roger Walker (Prof Emeritus) on the award of the Sorby Medal by the International Assn. of Sedimentologists.

Congratulations also to Gerry Middleton (Prof Emeritus) on being awarded the SEPM's Twenhofel Medal for excellence in outstanding contribution to sedimentary geology and to Fred Longstaffe (PhD Geology, 1978) on the Geol Assn Canada's Logan Medal for outstanding contributions to geoscientific knowledge in Canada

July 14, 2003

Congratulations to Nancy Brand, who has accepted a significant promotion to become the Program Administrator for the new McMaster-Mohawk program in medical physics. Over the next four years this innovative program will grow to some 400 students.

July 4, 2003

I am pleased to let you know that John Eyles has agreed to be Associate Director for a one year term, 2003-04. John has been involved in numerous CP/M, T&P and other committees and has an excellent working knowledge of the School and university. The one-year term takes John to his next Research Leave, following which we will have most faculty back from other leaves etc. John has also been Chair of the SGES space committee, and space planning for GSB and BSB will be at the fore next year.

July 4, 2003

Congratulations to Dana Wilson on the successful defense of her MA thesis

June 13, 2003

Congratulations to Chantelle Richmond on the successful defense of her MA thesis

Congratulations to Susanne MacMahon on passing her PhD final oral exam

June 12, 2003

Congratulations to Susan Elliott on being appointed to a 5 yr term as Dean of Social
Sciences at McMaster, effective 1 July 2003.

June 9, 2003

Congratulations to Hanna Maoh who has received a Statistics Canada Research Stipend to work for 8 months in Ottawa on "Microsimulating Firm Demography: The Hamilton-Wentworth Case"

June 3 ,2003

Congratulations to Glenn Scott, a new MSc student with Hok Woo on winning an Ashbaugh Scholarship

May 29, 2003
Congratulations to Mike Herrell in accepting our offer of the permanent Instructional Technician position, effective immediately.

May 27, 2003
Congratulations to our graduates at the upcoming Spring Convocations:

Graduate
GEOGRAPHY MSC KAUFMAN STEPHEN
GEOGRAPHY MSC MARKHAM BRADLEY
GEOGRAPHY MSC TOTH KAROLA
GEOGRAPHY PHD SPENCE CHRISTOPHER
GEOL MSC SHERWOOD OWEN
GEOL PHD SEREFIDDIN FERIDE

Undergrad
Hons BA Geog 13
Geog - E&H 1
Geog - Urb/Soc 1
Geog GIS option 3
Geog & other 2
Total 20 (+5 from last year)

Hons BSc Sci Stream A 3
Geol 1
E&ES 3
E&ES Hydro 3
E&ES Geo 1
E&ES Biogeo 2
Env Sci Coop 6
E&ES Coop 1
Tot 20 (+5 from last year)

BSc three year 5 (+3 from last year)
BA three year 34 (+1 from last year)

May 20, 2003 Congratulations to Lesley Warren on signing a contract with Bechtel BWXT Idaho for "Grouted uranium mobility and speciation in INEEL sediments"

May15, 2003
Congratulations to Darren Grocke on the Tyrrell Award from the Geological Society of London for research in the Rocky Mountains near Banff.

May 7, 2003

Congratulations to Dr. Godwin Djietor on the successful defence of his PhD thesis

Congratulations to John MacLachlan on being awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology for 2003/04

May 6, 2003

Congratulations to Dr. Carolyn Whitzman on the successful defence of her PhD thesis.

May 5, 2003

Congratulations to Tracy Prowse on the award of an SSHRC Standard Research Grant for "Bioarchaaeological investigation of a rural Roman cemetery(2nd centuryAD) at Vagnari, South Italy.

May 5, 2003

Congratulations to Bev Goodman on being awarded the Archaeological Institue of America harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship for "Natural Embayments and Harbors in the Early Bronze Age: A Geoarchaeological Coastal Reconstruction of Liman Tepe"

May 2, 2003

Liz Haak on wining the Wlater Gibbins Memorial Travel Bursary

Maria Stack on winning the James Harvey and Helen S Harvey Travel Scholarship

April 17, 2003

The School of Geography and Earth Sciences is pleased to announce that Greg Slater has accepted our offer of the aqueous geochem position, and will be nominated for a CRC.
He will take up his appointment on September 1st, 2003.

April 15, 2003

Congratulations to our successful OGS applicants:

April 3, 2003

Congratulations to Carolyn Whitzman who, with Ali Grant (PhD '96, now a community and development research consultant in BC) and others, has been awarded a research grant from Status of Women Canada to investigate "Women and Urban Safety: From Making the Links to Changing Policy".

April 2, 2003

Congratulations to Erin Mifflin on her appointment as a Housing Policy Officer by the City of Hamilton's Planning & Development Dept.

March 31, 2003

Congratulations to Vicki Thomson on winning a CRESTech Conference Travel award to present at the European Geophysical Society Joint Assembly in Nice, France.

March 20, 2003

Congratulations to Talar Sahsuvaroglu on passing her PhD Comprehensive exam.

February 7, 2003

Congratulations to Bev Goodman on passing her PhD Comprehensive exam.

January 22,2003

Congratulations to Hanna Maoh on passing his PhD Comprehensive exam.