Identify a Potential Supervisor


After identifying and contacting potential supervisors, remember to complete the application process.

In our program, you will work closely with an academic supervisor.  Our faculty members are active researchers whose interests span the breadth of the discipline. We have research strengths in coastal systems, geomatics, human geography, physical geography, and resources management.

See a list of faculty members who are eligible to supervise graduate students and their interests below.

Name Specialization

David Atkinson
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Arctic weather and climate; weather impacts on communities/industry; storm impacts on coastal waves/water level; alpine/glacier weather; synoptic climatology; extensive Arctic/alpine field work

Chris Bone
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GIS; spatial analysis and modelling

Note: Not accepting new students for the 2024-2025 academic year

Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe
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Socio-ecological systems; spatial modelling; plurality of knowledge; tundra

Sophia Carodenuto
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Climate policy and practice; forest governance; Africa studies; global value chains; Indigenous environmental stewardship and co-management

Heather Castleden
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Transformative governance; planetary health; decolonizing energy; decolonizing the academy; climate justice; social justice; environmental racism; health equity; Indigenous-settler relations; research ethics, relationality, and accountability; community-based participatory research
Denise Cloutier
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Health; long-term care; seniors; older adults; services
Maycira Costa
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Remote sensing; coastal oceanography; wetlands; biogeophysical processes
Chris Darimont
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Conservation science; wildlife; community-engaged research; Indigenous knowledge and collaboration; conservation ethics; the "human predator"; marine-terrestrial interactions; niche space

Kris Dubrawski
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Water; community; nature-based solutions; techno-ecological synergy
Dave Duffus
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Biogeography; wildlife; marine; whales
Mark Flaherty
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Social, environmental, and regulatory aspects of coastal aquaculture; Southeast Asia
Jutta Gutberlet
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International development resource management; Latin America; Brazil
Christina Hoicka
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Energy geography; sustainability transitions; diffusion of innovations; renewable energy transformations
Eva Kwoll
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Geomorphology; sediment transport; flow-vegetation interaction; bedrock canyons
Sophie Norris
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Quaternary geomorphology, geochronology, ice sheet dynamics, glacial erosion, glacial lake outburst floods

Reuben Rose-Redwood
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Urban geography; cultural landscape studies; historical cartography; history of geographical thought
Randy Scharien
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Remote sensing; cryosphere with specialization in Arctic sea ice
Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles
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Critical Indigenous geographies; human-environmental interaction; political ecology; tribal cultural resource preservation; science/technology studies 

Crystal Tremblay
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Community-based and Indigenous-led research; water and land governance; community mapping; social justice