Arts and Science Department of Geography and Planning

Faculty Research

Faculty listing and their research interests

	ALEC AITKEN, PROFESSOR Arctic marine biology; Quaternary geology and geomorphology; Paleo-Indian settlements on the Canadian Prairies
	ABRAHAM AKKERMAN, PROFESSOR Population and demography; Urban design; Origins of city form; Planning and development; Phenomenology of the built environment
	SCOTT BELL, PROFESSOR Geographic information science; Navigation and wayfinding; Cartography; Human spatial cognition; Health geography
	JILL BLAKLEY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Regional planning; Natural resource management; Strategic environmental assessment; Cumulative effects assessment; Public space design and measurement; Urban quality
	KRYSTOPHER CHUTKO, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Current and past variability in terrestrial and aquatic processes; Lake sediments and changes in lake productivity; Development of predictive models of lake productivity; Water sourcing and routing through the use of stable water isotopes
	MARTYN CLARK, PROFESSOR Development of spatially distributed hydrologic models; development of methods for hydrologic data assimilation; development of methods to quantify hydrologic model uncertainty
	Ehab Diab, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Land use and transportation planning; Public transit planning and operations; GIS application in planning; Travel behaviour, social equity in planning.
	DIRK DE BOER, PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT HEAD Impact of human activity on sediment quality using lake sediment; Detecting changes in water and sediment quality using long-term monitoring data; Modeling erosion and sediment yield in large-scale drainage basins
	XULIN GUO, PROFESSOR Remote sensing; Integrating measures of grassland functioning using remote sensing; Remote sensing applications for landscape change, physical systems and in urban environments
	PAUL HACKETT, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR History of Aboriginal health; Diffusion of directly transmitted, acute infectious diseases; Impact of cultural change on community health; History of tuberculosis among First Nations of western Canada
	LAWRENCE MARTZ, PROFESSOR, VICE DEAN, FACULTY RELATIONS Digital terrain analysis for hydrological modeling applications; Cartography; Hydrology; Geomorphology; Digital elevation models
	BRAM NOBLE, PROFESSOR Environmental impact assessment; Resource policy; Resource development; Water resources management Energy policy; Environmental decision making; Aboriginal engagement in resource development
	ROBERT PATRICK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Land use and watershed planning; Source water protection; Water security; Integrated water resources management and Indigenous communities; Low impact development in urban areas
	JOHN POMEROY, PROFESSOR, TIER 1 CRC Physical hydrology; Cold regions processes; Watershed modeling; Hydrometeorology; Impact of land use and climate change on hydrology; Snow processes; Improved prediction of floods and droughts
	CORINNE SCHUSTER-WALLACE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Coupled systems approaches to human health; climate change and water-related diseases; gender; equity; local water security in rural communities; water and sustainable development
	RYAN WALKER, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Urban planning and geography; Indigenous urbanism; Public space design and measurement; Age-friendly communities; Multi-level governance
	CHERIE WESTBROOK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Wetland science; Response of wetland form and function to natural and human stressors; Groundwatersurface water interactions in alpine wetlands; Decision support tools for flood risk management; Influence of beaver on wetland form and function