Founders Seminar Friday, February 1, 2013
Please join us for the Founders Seminar presented by Dr. David B. Brooks on Creating an Agreement to Share Water Between Israelis and Palestinians, Feb 1,2013 from 2:45-4:30.... More
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Founders Seminar Friday, January 25, 2013
Please join us for the Founders Seminar presented by Luisa Veronis, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Ottawa on Place, culture, and belonging in a transborder city: Immigrants’... More
Carleton Researcher Fraser Taylor Receives CFI Award for Indigenous Project
Carleton’s Fraser Taylor, distinguished research professor and director of the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC), has received $516,323 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s... More
DGES faculty member Derek Smith’s collaborative work on conservation in Panama
Derek Smith’s research team has been working for the past year on participatory mapping in the Comarca Ngabe-Bugle, western Panama. Read more about his work, the community he worked in and... More
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DGES faculty member Derek Mueller’s research on mapping ice islands featured in Globe and Mail
Derek Mueller’s research on ice islands in the high arctic and their impact on shipping lanes and and off shore oil platforms was recently feature in the Business section of the Globe and... More
Founders Seminar Friday, Nov. 30/12
Please join us for the Founders Seminar presented by David B. Brooks, PhD., International Institute for Sustainable Development, on Soft Path for Water – A Modern Approach to an Old Problem. ... More
DGES’s Fraser Taylor Wins 3M Environmental Innovation Award for Advances in Cartography
3M Canada has announced that Carleton’s Fraser Taylor is the recipient of the fourth annual 3M Environmental Innovation Award. The award was presented during a ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012... More
Geography PhD student researches Food Insecurity in Africa
Countries like Canada often debate how much aid they should send to developing nations. PhD Candidate Beth Mburu is hoping that her research could eventually lead to less dependence on foreign aid... More
Founders Seminar – Friday, September 28
Please join us for our first Founders Seminar of the year presented by visiting scholar, Dr. Dave Campbell. Conversion of peat wetlands to agricultural ecosystems in New Zealand: “clean and... More
Why choose DGES to do a graduate degree?
MSc student, Anna Crawford, explains in this video why she chose the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton to pursue her master’s degree.... More