Hydrologic Sciences

This research group uses state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to generate new knowledge about the occurrence, distribution, and quality of water in the environment, its role as an essential component and driver within the environment, and the impact of human activities on the quality and quantity of water. That research has strong field, laboratory, and modelling components. Together with our graduate and senior undergraduate students we conduct world-class research on Climate Change, Soil water, Ecohydrology, Wetlands, Contaminant Hydrogeology, Artic and Cold Regions Hydrology, Vadose Zone Hydrology, Hydroclimatology, and Hydrologic Models including physical, statistical and Neural Network Models. Hydrologic Sciences Flyer

A. Arain Email: arainm@mcmaster.ca

Sean K. Carey Email: careysk@mcmaster.ca

P. Coulibaly Email: couliba@mcmaster.ca

J.E. Smith Email: smithja@mcmaster.ca

James Michael Waddington Email: wadding@mcmaster.ca

L.A. Warren Email: warrenl@mcmaster.ca

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Spatial Analysis

Spatial Analysis has a long tradition in Geography at McMaster University. Our focus is on understanding the nature and outcome of human and physical processes that take place over space with the use of quantitative methods, such as spatial statistics, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Recent focus of the Spatial Analysis group has been in applications of transportation geography, urban land use, urban and regional air pollution, and the impact of environmental pollution on human health. Faculty members from the group participate in multi-disciplinary projects, both within and outside the School of Geography and Earth Sciences. Research of the group is supported by the Centre for Spatial Analysis, a state-of-the-art laboratory facility. Graduates with Spatial Analysis training pursue academic careers or find employment in the public and private sectors. Spatial Analysis Flyer

P.S. Kanaroglou Email: pavlos@mcmaster.ca

K. Bruce Newbold Email: newbold@mcmaster.ca

Antonio Páez Email: paezha@mcmaster.ca

Darren Scott Email: scottdm@mcmaster.ca

Niko Yiannakoulias Email: yiannan@mcmaster.ca

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Social Geography

Social geography focuses on the relationship between social life and geographical patterns of change at various scales. At McMaster we are interested in both rural and urban settlements, present and past, and continue to do research in North America and the developing world. We are using a variety of theoretical perspectives including feminism, political economy, and postcolonialism, and diverse methodological tools, in order to understand topics that include disability, urban quality of life, health and health care, formal and informal caregiving, gender and legal issues, housing, suburban development, and colonial urbanism. Social geographers with graduate degrees from McMaster obtain jobs in a range of fields including housing, public health, planning, and education. Many have gone on to academic careers in leading departments of Geography in Canada and around the world. Social Geography Flyer

V. Chouinard Email: chouinar@mcmaster.ca

John D. Eyles Email: eyles@mcmaster.ca

R. S. Harris Email: harrisr@mcmaster.ca

Walter G. Peace Email: peacew@mcmaster.ca

Allison Williams Email: awill@mcmaster.ca

Robert D. Wilton Email: wiltonr@mcmaster.ca

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Earth Surface Processes

The focus of the Earth Surface Processes group is on earth and atmospheric processes occurring in the near-surface zone, extending ~1 km above and below the Earth's surface. Graduate research areas include physical climatology, physical hydrology and surficial geoscience (geoarchaeology, geophysics, glacial sedimentology). Emphasis is placed on understanding the impacts of human activities on the physical environment, including changes in climate, land-use and surface and groundwater quality. Man-environment interactions are also studied through interdisciplinary analysis of the archaeological record and through paleoenvironmental reconstruction of past climates and landscapes. Earth Surfaces Processes Flyer

J. Boyce Email:boycej@mcmaster.ca

C.H. Eyles, Email:eylesc@mcmaster.ca

W.A. Morris Email: morriswa@mcmaster.ca

E. G. Reinhardt Email:ereinhar@mcmaster.ca

J.E. Smith Email:smithja@mcmaster.ca

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Geochemistry

This research group is primarily interested in the application of stable and radiogenic isotopes in conjuction with orgabic and inorganic geochemical approaches to understand bio- and geo-chemical processes, geochronology and physico-chemical records. Researchers in this group investigate the entire geologic record, although a strong emphasis is on the Quaternary and modern environment. The understanding of geochemical processes in the earth and environmental sciences is obtained through the use of state-of-the-art analytical equipment for measuring elements and isotopic abundances from a wide range of materials. Geochemistry Flyer

A. P. Dickin Email:dickin@mcmaster.ca

Sang-Tae Kim Email:sangtae@mcmaster.ca

Maureen Padden, Email:paddenm@mcmaster.ca

W. J. Rink Email: rinkwj@mcmaster.ca

Greg Slater Email: gslater@mcmaster.ca

L.A. Warren Email: warrenl@mcmaster.ca

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Hydrologic Sciences

This research group uses state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to generate new knowledge about the occurrence, distribution, and quality of water in the environment, its role as an essential component and driver within the environment, and the impact of human activities on the quality and quantity of water. That research has strong field, laboratory, and modelling components. Together with our graduate and senior undergraduate students we conduct world-class research on Climate Change, Soil water, Ecohydrology, Wetlands, Contaminant Hydrogeology, Artic and Cold Regions Hydrology, Vadose Zone Hydrology, Hydroclimatology, and Hydrologic Models including physical, statistical and Neural Network Models. Hydrologic Sciences Flyer

A. Arain Email: arainm@mcmaster.c

Sean K. Carey Email: careysk@mcmaster.ca

P. Coulibaly Email: couliba@mcmaster.ca

J.E. Smith Email: smithja@mcmaster.ca

James Michael Waddington Email: wadding@mcmaster.ca

L.A. Warren Email: warrenl@mcmaster.ca

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