Affiliation Codes:

UW -- Department of Geography, UW
WLU – Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, WLU

B -- Department of Biology, UW
ERS -- Department of Environment and Resource Studies, UW
ES -- Environmental Studies, UW
P -- School of Urban and Regional Planning, UW
R -- Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, UW
S -- Earth Sciences, UW

† Approved PhD Supervisor

ANDREY, Jean  (UW)
Transportation geography, road safety; risk assessment; global change.
Email:  jandrey @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext.      3629
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/andrey.html

ARMITAGE, Derek (WLU)
Community-based resource management, conservation and development, political ecology, Canada’s North and Indonesia.
Email: darmitag @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2653
http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/People/DEREK%20A%20Web%20materials/home.htm

BLAY-PALMER, Alison (WLU)
Sustainable communities, food studies, economic geography, corporate social responsibility.
Email: ablaypalmer @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2604

BATES, Judy (WLU)
Local labour markets, changing work arrangements, gender, paid and unpaid work, quality of life.
Email: jbates @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2387

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/bates.htm

BRENNING, Alexander (UW)
Spatial statistics, geostatistics, spatial classification; Terrain analysis and visualization; Applications related to geomorphology and the cryosphere: Rock glacier distribution modeling, Landslide susceptibility modeling, Pedometrics, statistics in Precision Agriculture
E-mail: brenning @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 35783
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/brenning/index.html

BUNTING, Trudi, E.  (UW, G, P)  
Urban geography; Canadian cities; behavioral approaches to the urban environment; urban activity systems; environmental personality; inner-city housing; central-city revitalization.
Email: tbunting @ fes.uwaterloo.ca    
Ext. 3962
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/wlgpig/faculty/bunting.htm

BYRNE, Mary-Louise (WLU)   
Great Lakes sand dunes, coastal dune management, beach management, sand dune morphodynamics and ecology; coastal change; sand transport on coasts; coastal applications in GIS.
Email:mlbyrne @ wlu.ca
Ext.      2993
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/byrne.htm

CARMICHAEL, Barbara (WLU)
Tourism, marketing, and economic development.  Tourism image and recreation; special events.
Email: bcarmich @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2265

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/carmich.htm

CUKIER, Judith (UW, ES)  
 Tourism, employment and entrepreneurship, gender and development, tourism and community development, marine parks, Southeast Asia, Caribbean
Email: jcukier @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext.  2791
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/cukier.html.

DEADMAN, Peter (UW)  
Geographic information systems; water resources management; land use change; common pool resources; agent-based modelling and simulation; climate change; recreation management.
Email: pjdeadma @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext.  2791
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/deadman.html.

DECKER, Jody (WLU)
Cultural, historical and medical geography; gender and the environment; Native issues.
Email:  jdecker @ wlu.ca

Ext. 2215
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/jdecker.htm

DOBERSTEIN, Brent (UW)
Resource and environmental management in developing countries, hazards and hazard mitigation, environmental impact assessment, sustainable development, capacity building, waste management, parks and protected areas.

E-mail: bdoberst @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3384

http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/doberstein.html

DOHERTY, Sean (WLU)
Urban transportation geography; human activity-travel patterns; decision processes; interactive and computer-based social survey methods; use of GPS and GIS for data collection; integrated land-use and transportation modelling; gender issues; urban planning and policy assessment; energy efficiency and emissions; impact of telecommunications.
Email:sdoherty @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2044

http://www.wlu.ca/~sdoherty/

DUDYCHA, Douglas J. (UW)
Geographic information systems; automated cartography; urban system modelling; marketing geography.
Email: dudycha @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3019
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/dudycha.html

DUGUAY, Claude (UW)
Global change and the cryosphere
crduguay @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 33610
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/claudeduguay/

ELLIOTT, Susan (UW)
www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/hsg/research/elliott.html

ENGLISH, Michael C. (WLU)
Hillslope and stream flow hydrology and chemistry and groundwater acidification studies in the Canadian Shield; hydrology and chemistry of high Arctic terrestrial drainage; subarctic deltaic hydrology and geomorphology.
Email: menglish @ wlu.ca
Ext.  2159

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/english.htm

FEICK, Robert (UW, P, G)
GIS, multi-criteria evaluation methods for land management, spatial decision support systems, public facility systems
Email: rdfeick @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 5493
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/feick.html

FLETCHER, Christopher (UW)
cfletch@uwaterloo.ca

GIBSON, Bob (UW, ERS, G)
Environmental and sustainability policy issues; decision-making successes and failures in environmental planning, assessment and regulation in various Canadian jurisdictions; environmental assessment law and process, the development of environmental thought.
Email: rbgibson @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3407
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/ers/faculty/bgibson.html

GUELKE, Jeanne Kay (UW)
Historical geography, past societies' beliefs about nature and their environmental impacts, rural women in the West.
Email:  jkg @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 6833
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/jkguelke.html

HAIGHT, Murray (UW, P, G)
Ecology; environmental planning; emphasis in waste management planning; municipal and industrial waste management; international focus in southeast Asia.
Email: mehaight (at) fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3027
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/planning/faculty/haight.html

HALL, G. Brent ( UW, P, G) 
Geographic information systems; spatial decision support in education and health care planning; Web-based spatial decision support; Open Source geospatial software; development problems in Caribbean and Latin America.
Email: gbhal @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 2399
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/gbhall/index.html

HAMILTON, James (WLU)
Climate change and paleoclimatology; hydrology and geomorphology of karst terrains in cold regions.
Email: jhamilto @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2061
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/hamilton.htm

HANNA, Kevin (WLU) 
Natural resources management; economics and environment; land-use planning, including growth and sprawl, forests and landscape conservation; local planning and its role in economic transition in resource-based communities; the Pacific northwest, western North American rivers and the north Pacific salmon.
Email: khanna @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2211

http://www.wlu.ca/~khanna/kh.htm

IMORT, Michael (WLU)
Cultural-historical geography and environmental history; European forest history; political uses of landscape ideals; 19th- and 20th-century Germany; environmental ethics.
Email: mimort @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2076
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/imort.htm

IRVINE, Jane (UW)  
Geomorphology; coastal and cold climate dune systems; applied geomorphology; air photo interpretation; digital terrain modelling; sublimation of pore ice from frozen sediments and the release of sand grains for aeolian entrainment.
Email:  jirvine @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3285
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/irvine.html

KAY, Paul (UW, ERS,G) 
Climate and society: patterns of variability, assessment of impact, especially water resources; especially Israel and Arctic Canada.
Email:  pkay @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 5796

http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/ers/faculty/pkay.html

KELLY, Richard (UW)
Remote sensing of the cryosphere, especially snow and ice environments; hydrology and climatology of the cryosphere; energy and mass balance modelling of cryospheric processes; developing new remote sensing technologies.
Email: rejkelly @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 5451
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/kelly.html

LeDREW, Ellsworth F. (UW)
Global change, Arctic dynamic meteorology; atmospheric synoptic studies; remote sensing of sea ice; micrometeorology; land use from LANDSAT; radiation modelling from digital terrain models and remotely sensed imagery; remote sensing of corals.
Email: ledrew @ fes.uwaterloo
Ext.  2783
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/ledrew.html

LI, Jonathan (UW)
Urban remote sensing to distributed geospatial information services. His current research interests include 3D city modeling, feature extraction from image and LiDAR data, impervious surface mapping, digital terrain modeling and analysis, environmental visualization, multi-sensor data fusion, spatial sensor web, Internet GIS for risk and disaster management, informal settlement management in Southern Africa.
E-mail: junli @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 34504
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/jonathan_li/index.html

MACRAE, Merrin (UW)
Biogeochemical cycling in natural and impacted systems (agriculture, wetlands, forest) under variable climatic regimes and following disturbance or land use change
Email: mmacrae @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3064
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/macrae.html

MCALLISTER, MaryLouise (UW, ERS, G)
Governance and Sustainable Communities, Public Health and Healthy Communities, Local public policy and administration, Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Administration, Canadian/Brazilian Studies, Political Ecology, “Silos and Systems", Political Communications.
Email: mlmcalli @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 5614
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/ers/faculty/mlmcallister.html

McBOYLE, Geoffrey (UW)
Climatology, global warming, ozone depletion, purposeful weather modification; climate and the skiing industry.
Email:  grmcboyl @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 2785

http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/mcboyle.html

MICHAELS, Sarah (UW, P, G)
Institutional decision making for managing the environment. Her research agenda advances four overlapping and complementary research themes integral to environmental policy and hazards management.
Email: michaels @ fes.uwaterloo.ca Ext. 6863
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/planning/faculty/michaels.html

MITCHELL, Clare J.A. (UW)
Population growth, counterurbanization and heritage tourism within Canada's non-metropolitan settlements.
Email:  cmitchel@fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 6863
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/cmitchell.html

MITCHELL, W. Bruce (UW)
Resource and environmental management; decision-making and institutional arrangements; policy and program evaluation; integrated resource.
Email:  mitchell @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3087

http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/bmitchell.html

MURPHY, Brenda (WLU Brantford Campus)
Community vulnerability and capacity in the management of both natural and technological risks and disasters including nuclear fuel waste facilities, tornadoes, electricity power failures and water-borne contamination. Special areas of interest include social capital and environmental justice.

Email: bmurphy @ wlu.ca
http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwbrant/pages/people/brenda.shtml

MURPHY, Stephen D. (UW, ERS, G)
Restoration ecology, conservation, and management of natural and built environments
Email: sd2murph @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 5616
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/ers/faculty/smurphy.htm

OELBERMANN, Meren (UW, ERS, G)
Soil ecosystems, especially in tropical regions, and agroforestry.
Email: moelberm @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 7552
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/ers/faculty/moelbermann.htm

PARKER, Paul (UW)
Japan and Pacific economy; local economic development; Australian/Canadian resources; global resource trade; energy and environment; impact assessment.
Email:  pparker @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3610
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/parker.html

PETRONE, RICH (WLU)
Temperate and cold regions wetland hydrology and climatology; ecohydrology; wetland restoration; ecology and disturbance of boreal wetlands; land-use change and agriculture.
Email: rpetrone @ wlu.ca
Ext. 3744

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/petrone.htm

PRICE, Jonathan (UW, G, S) 
Hydrology and geochemistry of coastal, maritime and boreal wetlands, and peatland restoration.
Email:  jsprice @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 5711
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/price.html

QUINTON, William (WLU)
Hydrological processes of cold regions, including the influence of the severe climate, permafrost, patterned ground, and organic terrains on snow cover, snowmelt, evaporation, runoff processes and pathways, and streamflow. The integration of these processes with regional climate/hydrology models.
Email: wquinton @ wlu.ca
Ext. 3281
http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/People/Quinton%20Web-page/Quinton.htm

ROBERTS, Steven ( WLU)
Spatial data models and data structures; landscape ecology; combinatorial optimization; genetic algorithms; applied graph theory; scientific visualization; PC cluster (Beowulf) computing.
Email: sroberts @ wlu.ca

 ext. 2420
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/SRoberts.htm

SAUNDERSON, Houston (WLU) 
Flow and sediment transport in rivers; sedimentology of glaciofluvial landforms; radial basis functions, including multiquadratic functions, their applications to geomorphology.
Email: hsaunder @ wlu.ca 
Ext. 2573
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/saunderson.htm

SCOTT, Daniel (UW)
Climate change impacts and adaptation, tourism and recreation, protected areas, resource and environmental management.
Email: dj2scott @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 5497
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/dscott.html

SCOTT, Steffanie (UW, G, ES)
International development, food system sustainability, rural livelihoods, land reform, poverty, participatory development approaches, gender and ethnicity, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Email: sdscott @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 7012
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/sdscott.html

SHARPE, Bob G. (WLU)
Geographic information systems and their application to geographic education and socioeconomic development at different scales.
Email: bsharpe @ wlu.ca

Ext. 2684

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/sharpe.htm

SLOCOMBE, D. Scott (WLU)
Regional environmental planning; protected areas; systems and ecosystem approaches to environmental management; resource and environmental policy; cumulative effects assessment; northern and western Canada, Alaska, Australia, North American Great Lakes, Italy.
Email: sslocomb @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2781
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/slocombe.htm

STONE, Mike ( UW, P, G)
Environmental management; sediment/water interactions; river ecology and restoration; drainage basin hydrology.
Email:  mstone @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3067
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/planning/faculty/stone.html

SUFFLING, Roger (UW, P, G)
Natural resource planning and management; protected areas planning; landscape ecology of boreal forests and of urban areas; fire ecology; global warming; ecological restoration; community and economic development in small northern communities, environmental assessment.
Email: rcsuffli @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3184
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/planning/faculty/suffling.html

VINODRAI, Tara (UW,
Economic geography; urban and regional economic development and policy; creative and cultural economy of cities; labour market dynamics and workforce development; design, innovation and technological change
Email: tvinodra @ fesmail.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 33278

WALL, Geoffrey (UW, G, R) 
Tourism and recreation, particularly impacts of and planning for tourism in Asia; socio-economic impacts of climate change.
Email:  gwall @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
Ext. 3609
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/wall.html

WALTON-ROBERTS, Margaret (WLU)
Canadian immigration and cultural diversity, how ethnic and gender differences shape settlement experiences, Indian immigration to Canada, processes of community formation across transnational landscapes.
Email: mwalton @ wlu.ca
Ext. 2609

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/MWaltonRoberts.htm

WANDEL, Johanna (UW)
Human dimensions of global change;
Adaptation to climate change; Vulnerability; Drought management; Agriculture; Climate change.
Email: jwandel(at)uwaterloo.ca
http://www.environment.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/wandel/index.html

WOLFE, Brent (WLU, S)
Isotope hydrology and paleohydrology, paleolimnology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, climate change, northern hydrology, Mackenzie Basin Deltas.
Email: bwolfe @ wlu.ca
Ext. 3470

http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2500&p=12450&pv=1

Adjunct Faculty and Professors Emeriti

BATER, James H. (UW)
Russia and Post-Soviet States, Indonesia, economic development.
Email: jbater @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/bater.html

GUELKE, Leonard T. (UW)
Historical geography; history and philosophy of geography; comparative frontier settlement; Southern Africa.
Email: lguelke @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/guelke.html

HECHT, Alfred (Viessmann European Research Centre @ Laurier)
Regional development in Canada, Europe, Russia and Paraguay; Income variation of ethnic and religious groups in Canada.
Email:  ahecht @ wlu.ca     
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/hecht.htm

HEWITT, Ken (WLU)
Mountain geomorphology, risks, disasters

HOWARTH, Philip J. (UW)
Remote sensing; change detection in digital satellite data; analysis of radar imagery; evaluation of high resolution multispectral digital data. Emphasis on applications in agriculture, forestry, and urban studies.
Email:  howarth @ fes.uwaterloo.ca
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/faculty/howarth.html

MUNCASTER, Russell (WLU) (Emeritus)
Commercial geography, urban and economic geography, geography of Canada
http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/facstaff/muncaster.htm

YOUNG, Bruce S. (WLU) (Emeritus)
Tourism planning and touristization of islands and villages; development geography of Caribbean, Mediterranean, South-Pacific and Southern Africa; Antarctic exploration (Byrd).


Jo-Anne Horton
Waterloo-Laurier Graduate Program in Geography
Geography & Environmental Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5

(519) 884-0710, x. 2325
Email: johorton@wlu.ca


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