GRADUATE STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES IN GEOGRAPHY AT CARLETON UNIVERSITY

 

Carleton University’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (DGES) is a comprehensive department offering graduate degrees in Geography (M.A., M.Sc. & Ph.D.). A full listing of DGES faculty is available at www.carleton.ca/geography/staff-faculty/

 We have funded positions for Master’s and Doctoral students available for September 2013 entry. Funding includes an entrance scholarship (varies with GPA); a teaching assistantship; and in some cases, funding from supervisors’ own research grants.

 Please consult our webpage for details of our programs:  www.carleton.ca/geography/geography/graduate/

 Interested students should email the professors identified with each subject area or the Graduate Administrator Natalie_pressburger@carleton.ca

The Department is in the midst of a significant period of renewal and we wish to highlight recent additions to our faculty who are specifically recruiting new graduate students to join their research teams:

 Emilie Cameron (emilie_cameron@carleton.ca)

-                      Critical approaches to northern geographies, particularly research into resource extraction, comprehensive land claims, climatic change, colonization and decolonization, Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations, and the production and circulation of ideas about “the north”; -                      Feminist, poststructuralist, anti-racist, decolonizing, and political economic theories and approaches

Currently, research funds are available for students to work on projects related to political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental change in the Arctic, and/or resource extraction in the Canadian North.

Elyn Humphreys (Elyn_Humphreys@carleton.ca)

-           Greenhouse gas exchange, biogeochemical cycling and microclimatology in arctic tundra, temperate peatland and forest ecosystems.  Educational background can be in any of the following or related disciplines: environmental science, physical geography, plant biology, soil science, atmospheric science.

Currently, research funds are available for a number of graduate student positions. Please see http://http-server.carleton.ca/~erhumphr/Site/Positions_Available.html for more details

Gita Ljubicic (Gita_Ljubicic@carleton.ca)

 -           Interface of Indigenous and scientific knowledge to address complex environmental issues; cross-cultural, collaborative, research methods and ethics; Indigenous content and contributions to educational materials and programs; relationships between Indigenous language, knowledge, and land use;

 -           Geomatics and multi-media tools to represent dynamic Indigenous knowledge and environmental systems;

 -             Human dimensions of environmental change;

 Please visit www.straightupnorth.ca for examples of past and current projects.

 Derek Mueller (derek_mueller@carleton.ca)

 -           Break-up of ‘extreme’ (extremely thick and extensive) ice features along the northern coast of Canada. These ice features have been in rapid decline over the last decade (e.g., the extent of ice shelves along the north coast of Ellesmere Island has reduced by nearly half since 2005) and are considered a sentinel of climate change. –           Oceanography of ice-dammed (epishelf) lakes that form between the coast and ice shelves and their relationship to ice shelf break-up.

-           The drift and deterioration of ice islands (large icebergs formed via ice shelf break-up) that may become ice hazards further south. Research funds are available for a graduate student to examine changes in ice features along the north coast of Ellesmere Island using ice penetrating radar.  Students with appropriate skills and interests in physical geography, geomatics and computer programming are encouraged to contact Dr. Mueller directly for further information about this opportunity.
 

Derek Smith (DerekA_Smith@carleton.ca)

-                       Use and management of natural resources by indigenous peoples in Central America and Mexico

-                       Critical cartography and participatory mapping approaches for understandinglocal geographic knowledge and cultural landscapes.Latin America

Jill Wigle (Jill_Wigle@carleton.ca)

 -           Geographies of urbanization in Latin America; housing, informality and spatial governance in Mexico City; and critical perspectives on urban planning and growth in Ottawa and Mexico City

 Currently, research funds are available for an MA student to work on research projects related to the spatial governance of informality in Mexico City and/or comparative “greenbelt” governance in Ottawa and the Federal District of Mexico City.

 Suitable educational background includes: geography, environmental studies, urban studies or planning; Spanish language abilities an asset.

 Theresa Wong (Theresa_Wong@carleton.ca)

 -           Critical geographies of development, particularly the postcolonial analysis of discourses and practices of development in the global South

 -           Nature-society relations, especially political ecology/economy of resource development and ensuing state-society relations in Southeast Asia (current emphasis on hydropower development in the Mekong river basin; Laos; Thailand).