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Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Arts
May 18, 2013
 
 
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Our Faculty Members




BLAY-PALMER, Alison
Sustainable communities, food studies, economic geography, corporate social responsibility.

BATES, Judy
Local labour markets, changing work arrangements, gender, paid and unpaid work, quality of life. 

BYRNE, Mary-Louise
Great Lakes sand dunes, coastal dune management, beach management, sand dune morphodynamics and ecology; coastal change; sand transport on coasts; coastal applications in GIS.

CARMICHAEL, Barbara
Tourism, marketing, and economic development. Tourism image and recreation; special events.

DECKER, Jody
Cultural, historical and medical geography; gender and the environment; Native issues.

DOHERTY, Sean
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.

ENGLISH, Michael C.
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.

HAMILTON, James
Climate change and paleoclimatology; hydrology and geomorphology of karst terrains in cold regions.

HANNA, Kevin
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.

IMORT, Michael
Cultural-historical geography and environmental history; European forest history; political uses of landscape ideals; 19th- and 20th-century Germany; environmental ethics.

MURPHY, Brenda (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.

PETRONE, RICH
Temperate and cold regions wetland hydrology and climatology; ecohydrology; wetland restoration; ecology and disturbance of boreal wetlands; land-use change and agriculture.

QUINTON, William
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.

ROBERTS, Steven
Spatial data models and data structures; landscape ecology; combinatorial optimization; genetic algorithms; applied graph theory; scientific visualization; PC cluster (Beowulf) computing.

ROBERTSON, Colin
spatial analysis, spatial epidemiology, spatial ecology, GIS, global health


SAUNDERSON, Houston
Flow and sediment transport in rivers; sedimentology of glaciofluvial landforms; radial basis functions, including multiquadratic functions, their applications to geomorphology.

SHARPE, Bob G.
Geographic information systems and their application to geographic education and socioeconomic development at different scales.

SLOCOMBE, D. Scott

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.

WALTON-ROBERTS, Margaret

Canadian immigration and cultural diversity, how ethnic and gender differences shape settlement experiences, Indian immigration to Canada, processes of community formation across transnational landscapes.

WOLFE, Brent
Isotope hydrology and paleohydrology, paleolimnology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, climate change, northern hydrology, Mackenzie Basin Deltas.

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