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Geography (MSc)

In the geography program, you’ll work on important issues affecting society today, like conservation and the changing climate’s effect on human systems. Our MSc program will help you develop your independent research abilities. You’ll write your thesis focusing on a specific area of geography under the supervision of a faculty member.

Our research strengths include:

  • Coastal systems
  • Geomatics
  • Human geography
  • Physical geography
  • Environment and sustainability

You’ll have the opportunity to get out into the field, apply to work as a lab instructor and attend the department’s colloquium presentations and other events.

Expected length Project or thesis Course-based
2 years Yes No

Quick facts

Program options:
Master's
Study options:
Full-time study
Program delivery:
On-campus
Dynamic learning:
Co-op optional

Outcomes

Students in this program will:

  • acquire an advanced understanding of fundamental concepts and skills in one or more of the major domains of geography
  • design, execute, produce and disseminate original research relevant to the discipline of geography
  • communicate research and data clearly through written, oral and graphic means
  • collaborate and build relationships of respect with communities, colleagues and other research partners
  • learn the role, ethics and responsibilities of a geography researcher

Find a supervisor

All graduate students in this program must have a faculty member who serves as their academic supervisor. When you apply:

  • you must list a potential supervisor on your application
  • this faculty member must agree to be your supervisor and recommend your admission

To find a supervisor, review the faculty contacts. When you've found a faculty member whose research complements your own, contact them by email.

Cameron Owens

Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Advisor, Honours Advisor Historical geographies; environmental assessment and sustainability; experiential learning

Chris Darimont

Raincoast Research Chair in Applied Conservation Science, Professor Conservation science; resource management; wildlife; marine-terrestrial interactions

Chris Bone

Associate Professor Geospatial technologies; spatial simulation modelling; human-environment interactions

Christina Hoicka

Associate Professor Energy geography; sustainability transitions; diffusion of innovations; renewable energy transformations

CindyAnn Rose-Redwood

Associate Teaching Professor Social geography; global migration; Caribbean studies; international student experiences

Crystal Tremblay

Assistant Professor Environmental governance; participatory community-based research; social justice

Dave Duffus

Associate Professor Whale research

David Atkinson

Professor, Department Chair Climate; weather and human and natural systems; data analysis; modelling; the Arctic

Denise Cloutier

Professor Older adults, health services research; quality of life; long-term care; social isolation; homelessness; mixed methods research; Indigenous methodologies

Dennis Jelinski

Professor Landscape and wildlife ecology

Deondre Smiles

Assistant Professor Critical Indigenous geographies; human-environmental interaction; political ecology; tribal cultural resource preservation

Eva Kwoll

Assistant Professor Geomorphology; sediment transport; flow-vegetation interaction; bedrock canyons

Ian O'Connell

Teaching Professor Geomatics

Jennifer Mateer

Assistant Professor, Limited Term Political ecology; environmental justice; socio-cultural geographies; critical geographies

Jutta Gutberlet

Professor International community-based development

Kristian Dubrawski

Assistant Professor Water; community; nature-based solutions; techno-ecological synergy

Mark Flaherty

Professor Aquaculture

Maycira Costa

Professor Remote sensing; coastal oceanography; wetlands; biogeophysical processes

Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe

Assistant Professor I am interested to better understand ecosystem functioning to solve applied environmental management and conservation issues. My research is interdisciplinary and thrive to create space for a multiplicity of knowledges (Indigenous, local, scientific) in a perspective of ecological and social justice. Spatial modeling is my tool of predilection which I use to synthesize complex information at the landscape to regional scale.

Randall Scharien

Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor Remote sensing; cryosphere with specialization in Arctic sea ice

Reuben Rose-Redwood

Professor, Associate Dean, Academic Social and cultural geography; critical urban studies

Shannon Fargey

Assistant Teaching Professor Climate; mountain meteorology; hydrology; spatial analysis

Sophia Carodenuto

Assistant Professor Climate policy and practice; forest governance; Africa studies; global value chains

Sophie Norris

Assistant Professor

Teresa Dawson

Teaching Professor Geography pedagogy; feminist geographies; learning in community

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Contact Janette DeLong at geog2@uvic.ca or 250-721-7350.

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