Faculty

Full-Time Professors

  Name Contact Information Research Interest
Dan Shrubsole Dan Shrubsole
Professor and Chair
SSC 2322D
519 661‑3126
Ext: 83126 dashrubs@uwo.ca
Integrated resource management (water)

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On study leave: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
See James Voogt, Acting Chair
Godwin Arku Godwin Arku
Assistant Professor
SSC 2427
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85343
garku@uwo.ca
Housing and economic development; Urban development and policy analysis; Regional and local economic development policy and planning;  Third World development issues (esp. Africa)

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Peter Ashmore Peter Ashmore
Professor and
Undergraduate Chair
SSC 1405
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85026
pashmore@uwo.ca
Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport

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Jamie Baxter Jamie Baxter
Associate Professor
SSC 1407
519 661-2111
Ext: 81241
jamie.baxter@uwo.ca
Environmental risks from hazards, community responses to hazards, health, noxious facility siting, and methodology

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Rachel Bezner Kerr Rachel Bezner Kerr
Assistant Professor
SSC 2409
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85020
rbeznerkerr@uwo.ca
Globalization, agriculture and food; food security/food sovereignty; participatory research; sustainable agriculture; maternal and child nutrition; HIV/AIDS and food security; knowledge, science and participatory educational methods; Malawi; colonial history in southern Africa

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Brian Branfireun Brian Branfireun
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair

Cross Appointment with Biology and Earth Sciences
BGS 3028
519 661-2111
Ext: 89221
bbranfir@uwo.ca
Ecohydrology, biogeochemistry, and wetland ecosystem science

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Michael Buzzelli Michael Buzzelli
Associate Professor
 
SSC 2429
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85329
michael.buzzelli@uwo.ca
Health, Urban, GIS

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On sabbatical: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012
Irena Creed Irena Creed
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair

Cross Appointment with Biology
B&GS 3023
519 661‑2111
Ext: 84265
icreed@uwo.ca
Watersheds, forests, hydrology, biochemistry, GIS and remote sensing

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Belinda Dodson Belinda Dodson
Associate Professor
SSC 2413
519 661‑2111
Ext: 87319
bdodson@uwo.ca
Human-environment relations, geography of migration

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Jason Gilliland Jason Gilliland
Associate Professor and Director, Urban Development Program

 

Cross Appointment with School of Health Studies and the Department of Paediatrics
SSC 1403
519 661‑2111
Ext: 81239
jgillila@uwo.ca
Urban studies, health geography, children's environments, GIS

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Suzanne Greaves Suzanne Greaves
Assistant Professor
SSC 1412
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85028
greaves@uwo.ca
 
Milford Green Milford Green
Professor
SSC 2415
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85025
mbgreen@uwo.ca
Foreign direct investment mergers

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Jeff Hopkins Jeff Hopkins
Associate Professor
SSC 2423
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85027
jhopkins@uwo.ca
Cultural geography, gender, public places

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Isaac Luginaah Isaac Luginaah
Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair
SSC 1409
519 661‑2111
Ext: 86944
iluginaa@uwo.ca
Environment and health, air pollution, GIS and health, HIV/AIDS

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Jacek Malczewski Jacek Malczewski
Professor
SSC 2422
519 661-2111
Ext: 85030
jmalczew@uwo.ca
Quantitative methods, location analysis, GIS

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Gordon McBean Gordon McBean
FRSC and Professor

 

Cross Appointment with Political Science

SSC 2431
519 661-2111
Ext: 84274 or 86036
gmcbean@uwo.ca
Climate change science and policy, natural hazards-prediction and mitigation, weather and environmental prediction systems

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Diana Mok Diana Mok
Associate Professor

Joint Appointment with Management & Organizational Studies
SSC 2316
519 661‑2111
Ext: 80114
dmok3@uwo.ca
Urban economic geography, real estate economics, GIS and quantitative methods

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Desmond Moser Desmond Moser
Assistant Professor

Joint Appointment with Earth Sciences
B&GS 167
519 661‑2111
Ext: 84214
dmoser22@uwo.ca
Tectonics, geochronology

 

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Katrina Moser Katrina Moser
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
SSC 2407
519 661‑2111
Ext: 80115
kmoser@uwo.ca
Paleolimnology, climate change, paleoecology, quaternary environments, water quantity and quality, limnology

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Joy Parr Joy Parr
Professor and Canada Research Chair
SSC 2432
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85328
jparr@uwo.ca
The historically specific sensing body; the influences of large scale technologies on their neighbours; chemical, radiological and microbiological contamination in landscapes and workplaces; social and cultural responses to power generation; ergonomic design in manufactured goods
 

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On sabbatical: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012

Micha Pazner Micha Pazner
Associate Professor
SSC 1416
519 661‑2111
Ext: 81469
pazner@uwo.ca
GIS, image processing, cartography

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Chantelle Richmond Chantelle Richmond

Assistant Professor

Cross Appointment with First Nations Studies

SSC 2433
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85324
chantelle.richmond@uwo.ca
Aboriginal health, social determinants of health, social support, health impacts of environmental change, community-based research, mixed methods


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Chris Smart Chris Smart
Professor
SSC 1402
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85007
csmart@uwo.ca
Hydrology and geomorphology

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Graham Smith Graham Smith
Associate Professor
SSC 2405
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85011
lgsmith@uwo.ca
Sustainable globalization, capacity building & individual empowerment in the implementation of sustainability, dynamism as an approach to environmental change, & inquiry-based learning

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Phil Stooke Phil Stooke
Associate Professor

Cross Appointment with Physics and Astronomy
SSC 2425
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85022
pjstooke@uwo.ca
Planetary mapping and space exploration

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Marco Van De Wiel Marco Van De Wiel
Associate Professor
SSC 2412
519 661‑2111
Ext: 80161
mvandew3@uwo.ca
Computational geomorphology, fluvial geomorphology, landscape evolution modelling

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On sabbatical: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012

James Voogt James Voogt
Associate Professor and
Acting Chair
SSC 2401
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85018
javoogt@uwo.ca
Urban climatology

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Acting Chair: July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012

Jinfei Wang Jinfei Wang
Professor
SSC 2402
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85017
jfwang@uwo.ca
Remote sensing and GIS

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Tony Weis Tony Weis
Associate Professor
SSC 2314
519 661‑2111
Ext: 87472
aweis@uwo.ca
Globalization & agriculture, political ecology, land reform & social movements, environmental conservation in inequitable landscapes

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Adam Yates Adam Yates
Assistant Professor
SSC 2403
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85008

adam.yates@uwo.ca
Aquatic Ecosystems in Populated Landscapes; Development and Application of Ecological Assessment Methods for Aquatic Ecosystems; Watershed Description and Analysis

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Part-Time and Adjunct Professors

  Name Contact Information Research Interest/Geography Teaching Responsibilities
Jane Bowles Abednego Aryee
Lecturer
SSC 2312
aaryee@uwo.ca
Geography 3441G: Conservation & Devepment
EnvrSust 9012: Pillars of Environment & Sustainability-Planning and Management
Robert Bailey Bob Bailey
Adjunct Professor
robert_bailey@cbu.ca Bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems, from the values and objectives that lead to initiation of a program, to its design, execution and interpretation of the information collected that leads to action. With my students, I have looked at this in the context of Yukon streams affected by placer gold mining, BC streams affected by forestry and agriculture, Alberta wetlands exposed to urban and fossil fuel development, and southern Ontario streams altered by intensive agricultural management.
Jane Bowles Jane Bowles
Professor
Staging Building 110,
519 661‑2111
Ext: 80084

jbowles@uwo.ca
Assessing the effects of forest fragmentation aAdjunct nd other human-induced impacts on the biodiversity and ecosystem function of natural communities.

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Wendy Dickinson
Assistant Professor
UCC 210 or SSC 2312
519-661-2111
Ext: 88616 or 80577
wendyd@sdc.uwo.ca
 
Steve EvansSteve Evans
Lecturer
SSC 2312

519 661‑2111
Ext: 85077
sevans4@uwo.ca

Geography 3462F:  Land Use Planning
Rick Fehr
Assistant Professor
SSC 2312
rfehr@uwo.ca
Geography 2411G: Indigenous Environments
(aka Anthropology 2601G)
Mireya Folch-Serra
Associate Professor
SSC 2420
 519 661-2111
Ext: 85021
folch@uwo.ca
Geography 2050B: Western Europe and

Geography 2142B: Geopolitics

Clare Gordon
Assistant Professor
SSC 2312
 519 661‑2111
Ext: 85077
cgordon@uwo.ca
Geography 2040A: Geography of East and Southeast Asia
Geography  2041G:  Geography of China
Kim HollandKim Holland
Lecturer
Weldon Library 122
519 661‑2111
Ext: 84612
kholland@uwo.ca
Geography 1100: Fundamentals of Geography
Beth Hundey Beth Hundey
Lecturer
SSC 2312 / SSC 1432
ehundey@uwo.ca
Geography 1300B: Physical Geography
John KovacsJohn Kovacs
Adjunct Professor
Nipissing University
Dept of Geography and Environment

johnmk@nipissingu.ca

Remote Sensing, Coastal Forested Wetlands

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Greg Levine Greg Levine, LLB
Assistant Professor
SSC 2312
glevine@uwo.ca
Geography 3415B: Geographic Perspectives on Law and Society
Paul Mkandawire Paul Mkandawire
Lecturer
SSC 2312 / SSC 1424
pmkanda@uwo.ca
Geography 2030A: Africa South of the Sahara
Geography 3431B: Geography of Health and Health Care
Mark Moscicki Mark Moscicki
Lecturer
SSC 2312
mmoscic@uwo.ca
Geography 2310A:  Weather and Climate
Sergio Pompilii
Lecturer
SSC 2312
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85077
sergio@sepompilii.on.ca
Geography 2162B: Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning
Bharat Punjabi Bharat Punjabi
Lecturer
SSC 2312
bpunjabi@uwo.ca
Geography 3441G: Conservation and Development
Rick Sadler Richard Sadler
Lecturer
SSC 2312 / SSC 1428
rsadler4@uwo.ca
Geography 2220B: GIS I
Gabor Sass Gabor Sass
Assistant Professor
SSC 2312 / BGS 3025
gsass@uwo.ca
Geography 2320A: Introductory Biogeography
Joe Shaw, MBA
Lecturer
SSC 2312
Geography 3464F: Muncipal Feasibility of Urban Development
Geography 4460G: Real Estate and the Cities
Arja Vainio‑Mattila
Adjunct Professor
Huron University College A7
519 438‑7224
Ext: 205
avainiom@uwo.ca
Community based natural resource management, participatory development, gender issues, poverty reduction, "community" in a developing urban context, international development praxis and theory, Africa, China, South and South-East Asia
Colin WilliamsColin H. Williams
Adjunct Professor
Cardiff University, UK
williamsch@cardiff.ac.uk
Ethnic relations, political geography, geolinguistics, comparative international law and minority rights, political philosophy and multiculturalism.

Professors Emeriti

  Name Contact Information Research Interest
Brian Luckman Brian Luckman
Professor Emeritus
SSC 1420
519 661‑2111
Ext: 85012
luckman@uwo.ca
Geomorphology, dendrochronology

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Cheryl Pearce Cheryl Pearce
Professor Emerita
SSC 2322
519 661-3423
cpearce@uwo.ca
Landscape ecology and remote sensing

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Elaine Bjorklund

 

Chicago, 1955

embjork@rogers.com

 

Richard Butler

 

 

Glasgow, 1973 r.butler2@btinternet.com

 
 

Don Cartwright

 

 

Western Ontario, 1973
dgcartwr@uwo.ca

 
 

Bill Code

 

 

 

 

California(Berkeley), 1971

wcode@uwo.ca

 

 

Mireya Folch Serra

 

 

 

 

Queen's, 1990

folch@uwo.ca

 

 
 

Don Janelle

 

 

Michigan State, 1966

janelle@geog.ucsb.edu

 

 
 

Roger King

 

 

PhD Saskatchewan

king@uwo.ca

 

 
 

Robert McDaniel

 

 

Western Ontario, 1954
mcdaniel@uwo.ca

 

 
 

Charles Whebell

 

 

London, 1961

 

 

 
 

Robert Wightman

 

 

Durham, 1964

 

Visiting Professors and Post-doctoral Researchers

  Name Contact Information Research Interest
Radu-Dan Capitan Radu-Dan Capitan

Post-doctoral Research Associate CPSX

SSC
Tel: 519 661-2111
rcapitan@uwo.ca
Martian landforms, dating planetary surfaces, GIS applied on extra-terrestrial morphologies

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