People Directory

Current research focuses on the confluence of transportation, ageing, and the built environment.

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.

Canada's countryside, Constructions of national identity, Symbolic landscapes, The place of heritage, and Sustainable tourism.

Remote sensing; forest disturbance mapping and monitoring; time-series change detection; extraction of information applicable to sustainable forestry planning and decision-making from multi-sensor satellite data (optical (Landsat, Sentinel-2, and PlanetScope), SAR (Sentinel-1), and LiDAR (GEDI)); quantification of primary/old-growth forest loss due to logging and other anthropogenic disturbances; changes in stand composition in disturbed forests.

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

Multiculturalism and planning; urban development

Economic Geography, tropical Africa, Trinidad & Tobago, and Third World underdevelopment.

Aging across Canada, Geographies of voluntarism, Health status and access to health care among older Indigenous people, Health care delivery systems in Ontario and Canada, and Women’s 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; impacts of land-use history on contemporary ecosystem dynamics

Urban spatial structure, housing, methods, finance.

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.