Physical Geography
Professor | Department Head
Mackintosh-Corry Hall, Room D124
Research Areas: Climate change impacts on the hydrology and water quality in permafrost and glaciated watersheds, permafrost hydrology; hydrological pathways, mobilization and biogeochemical transformations of carbon, nutrients, and metals along the terrestrial to fluvial continuum; biogeochemistry of C and N in freshwater systems.
Research Areas: Photogrammetry; Remotely Piloted Autonomous Systems; Cartography; Mobile GIS; Surveying; Historic Aerial and Satellite Imagery; Critical Heritage Studies; Energy Geography
Research Areas: GIS; remote sensing; spatial data analysis and modeling; change detection; machine learning methods
Research Areas: Arctic-alpine landscape ecology and species distribution modelling; Biodiversity conservation and protected area management; Forest-tundra ecotone dynamics and susceptibility to change
Research Areas: Renewable Energy Development and Implementation; Agricultural and forest bioenergy; Environmental and energy policy; Renewable energy mapping.
Research Areas: Biogeochemical cycling in natural systems, especially the role of microorganisms in waters, soils, and sediments
Research Areas: Vegetation and landscape effects on nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from high-arctic ecosystems; Land-use change effects on net (sources and sinks) greenhouse gas emissions; Modeling of biogeochemical processes (e.g. carbon and nitrogen cycling) in terrestrial ecosystems; Impacts of land-use history on contemporary ecosystem dynamics
Research Areas: Surface-atmosphere interactions influenced by management and human-induced modification of ecosystems; Trace gas exchanges; Wetland ecosystems
Research Areas: Active monitoring and prediction of northern landscape evolution using innovative geospatial, geophysical, and climate-coupled modelling techniques designed to identify and address current challenges facing the rapidly changing Arctic
Research Areas: Cryosphere; Climate Change; Arctic; Subarctic; Permafrost; Glaciology; Adaptation; Communities.