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Research Areas
Geography
- Physical hydrology
- Hydro-
& boundary layer climatology
- Groundwater
& contamination
- Bio-geography,
soil & vegetation
- Near-surface water environments
- Hydrological modeling and forecasting
- Soil-vegitation-atmosphere interaction modeling
- Urban & regional analysis
- Energy
& environment
- Population
- Sustainable Transportation
- Aging and health
- Travel behavior
- Intergrated transportaion and land-use models
- Individual & community impacts
- Environment
& health policy
- Environment
& development
- Spatial relationships
- infectious diseases and social & physical change
- Geographies of disability and mental health
- Health & health care
- Palliative
and end-of-life informal caregiving
- Disability,
law, and the state
- Gender
and cities of difference
- Urban
quality of life
- History
of housing and urban development
- Social and Science Policy
Earth Sciences
- earth and atmospheric processes occurring in the near-surface zone
- sedimentary processes, landforms and deposits in glacial basins
- Application of remote sensing to mineral and oil expoloration
- Catastrophic event Stratigraphy
- Structural Geology
- Stable and radiogenic isotopes
physical
processes
- geochronology
- interpretation of physico-chemical records in terrestrial materials
- Marine Geochemistry
- Aqueous Geochemistry
- Paleoclimatology
- Physical hydrology
- Hydro-
& boundary layer climatology
- Groundwater
& contamination
- Bio-geography,
soil & vegetation
- Near-surface water environments
- Hydrological modeling and forecasting
- Soil-vegitation-atmosphere interaction modeling
- Cold Regions
- Reclamation
Facilities for Reseach in Geography
The School of Geography & Earth Sciences is amongst the most advanced in Canada in terms of it's experience in training candidates for advanced degrees.
The facilities include; analytic and experimental laboratories for climatology, and geomorphology; a geographic information system laboratory; and a comprehensive map collection.
Facilities for Reseach in Earth & Environmental Sciences
The School of Geography & Earth Sciences is well equiped with analytical facilities including mass spectronmeters, X-ray fluorescence, atomic absorption, spectrometers, and gama ray spectrometer. Transmission and scanning electron microscopes with elemental analysis facilities are available and commonly used. School facilites for Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) and thermoluminescence (TL) age-dating techniques have been used in the study of archaeological sites, earthquake recurrence rates, coastal sediments and hominid evolution.
There are special laboratories for the study of aqueous geochemisry, experimental sedimentology,x-ray diffraction and fluorescence, rock/mineral analysis, radiochemistry, mass spectrometry and fossils.
the School operates a microcomputer laboratory comprising a suite of PC's with associated printers, plotters and flat-bed scanners. At the undergraduate level specific courses have been developed around the application of software packages to geological problems.
The school maintains a suite of geophysical equipment for the acquisition of magnetic, gravity and IP/Resistivity data. In addition, an industry standard computing system is used for the imaging of geophysical and remote sensing information and interpretive modeling of potential field data.
The choice of thesis topic is made in light of the interests of the student and the support available from research grants.