Core Faculty

Suburbs in Canada, Australia and USA; planning histories, especially Canada and Ottawa; capital cities; urban redevelopment, especially waterfronts; community design.

Planning for demographic and economic change; shrinking cities; economic decline; age-friendly communities; integrating play and fun into the urban landscape.

Biogeochemistry of cold environments, Carbon and nutrient cycling in permafrost and alpine catchments, and Climate change and disturbance impacts on hydrology and water quality in permafrost watersheds.

Renewable Energy Development and Implementation, Agricultural and forest bioenergy, Environmental and energy policy, and Renewable energy mapping.

Local government reform, regional governance, urban-rural fringe, urban planning and development in China.

Diaspora strategies, the State and development in the Caribbean, Economic transformation and the middle classes in the Third World, and Neoliberal restructuring and changing gender regimes.

I am interested in characterizing and understanding biogeochemical cycling in natural systems, especially the role of microorganisms in waters, soils, and sediments.  Due to observed and predicted increases in temperatures and hydrologic activity in the Arctic, this work helps us to understand how climate change will impact the terrestrial landscape of high latitude environments.

Urbanization; Infrastructure; Informal Economies; Racialization; Gender; Postcolonialism; Decolonization; Social Reproduction; Neoliberalism; Public Security; Southern Cities; Mega Events; Health.

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, Quantifying forest structural and forest management impacts on carbon storage, Impacts of land-use history on contemporary ecosystem dynamics, and Net greenhouse gas emissions from bioenergy crop production.

Arctic Canada, historical and political geography, youth research, land claims, Nunavut and Northwest Territories

Surface-atmosphere interactions influenced by management and human-induced modification of ecosystems; trace gas exchanges; wetland ecosystems. 

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