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Katrina Eyvindson
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Paleolimnology, climate change, paleoecology, quaternary environments, water quantity and quality, limnology
Teaching
Paleolimnology and Global Environmental Change; Paleolimnology (Graduate)
Godwin Arku
Graduate Chair, Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Housing and economic development; Urban development and policy analysis; Regional and local economic development policy and planning; Third World development issues (esp. Africa)
Teaching
People, Places and Landscapes; Urban Development; Urban Economic Development; Urban Geography of the Developing World
Agnieszka Leszczynski
Undergraduate Chair, Associate Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Digital geographies, platforms and cities, digital location/geolocation, GIScience & Society
Teaching
Geographic Information Science; Digital Geographies
Vanessa Ambtman Smith
Assistant Professor, Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies
Research Interest/Specialization
Indigenous traditional healing spaces within hospital contexts: Examining relationships to health, healing and reconciliation
Jamie Baxter
Professor, SGPS Associate Vice-Provost
Research Interest/Specialization
Social construction of risk, community responses to technological hazards, renewable energy policy, noxious facility siting, and methodology
Evan Bowness
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Equity
Research Interest/Specialization
Land-based "Community-Directed Adaptation Research" (C-DAR), Traditional food systems, Visual research methods
Teaching
Climate Emergency, Conservation and Development
Michele Buzzelli
Associate Professor, Director - Western Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance
Research Interest/Specialization
Higher education policy, research on teaching and learning, society-space relationships with a focus on housing, health and GIS
Teaching
Housing, The Geoweb & Geomedia, Research Design and Methodology
Laura Chasmer
Associate Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Geospatial, hydro-meteorological and field data to better understand Boreal wetland, forest and discontinuous permafrost changes within natural and disturbed environments
Jason Gilliland
Professor, Director - Urban Development Program
Research Interest/Specialization
Healthy Communities, Active Transportation, Children's Geographies, Food Environments, Health Geography and GIS
Teaching
Healthy Cities; Land Use and Development Issues; Graduate Seminar in Urban Studies; Advanced Urban Social Geography; Systematic Reviews for Environment, Development and Health
Cortney Golkar-Dakin / Sâkihitowin Awâsis
Assistant Professor, Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies
Research Interest/Specialization
Indigenous geographies, political ecology, and energy justice
Teaching
Climate Change and Collective Action
Chris Hopkinson
Professor - Western Research Chair
Research Interest/Specialization
Integration of in situ, high-resolution remote sensing, spatial and temporal data sources to better understand such processes as glacial and periglacial dynamics in alpine environments to novel carbon balance assessment routines in forest environments
Carol Hunsberger
Associate Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Political ecology, energy justice, biofuels, pipeline politics, environmental governance
Teaching
Environment and Development Challenges; Energy and Power; Climate Change and Collective Action; Environmental Justice
Jinhyung Lee
Assistant Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Transport geography, spatial accessibility, inequalities, urban resilience, GIScience
Teaching
GIScience, transport geography
Jed Long
Associate Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
GIS/GIScience, GPS tracking, movement, space-time models, spatial ecology, open source software
Teaching
GIS, quantitative geography, computational geography
Isaac Luginaah
Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Environment and health, air pollution, GIS and health, HIV/AIDS
Teaching
Geography of Health and Health Care; Environment and Health; Advanced Studies in Environment, Development & Health
Natasha MacBean
Assistant Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Global environmental and climate change, carbon and biogeochemical cycles, vegetation dynamics, Terrestrial Biosphere/Land Surface Modeling, environmental remote sensing, model-data fusion/data assimilation
Teaching
Environmental modelling, Global Change Biology
Geneviève Metson
Associate Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Urban ecology, sustainability, biogeochemistry (phosphorus and nitrogen), organic waste management, food systems
Teaching
Introduction to Statistics for Geographers, Water and Cities, Research Design & Presentation (Graduate)
Chantelle Richmond
Professor, Canada Research Chair - Indigenous Health and the Environment
Research Interest/Specialization
Indigenous health, environmental change, Indigenous knowledge, environmental repossession, relational accountability, decolonization, structural determinants of health, community-based research, Indigenous methodologies, health training environments
Teaching
Indigenous Environments; Geography 4900-4901 (Undergraduate Thesis); Indigenous Health (Graduate); Qualitative Methods (Graduate)
Dan Shrubsole
Professor
Telephone: 519-661-2111, x. 83126
Email: dashrubs@uwo.ca
Office: Room 1416, SSC
On administrative leave until June 2026
Research Interest/Specialization
Integrated resource management (water)
On administrative leave until June 2026
Roza Tchoukaleyska
Assistant Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Urban planning, cultural geographies, public space, food cultures, community-engaged research
Teaching
Economic geography, qualitative methods, sustainable urban planning
James Voogt
Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Urban climatology
Teaching
Physical Geography; Weather and Climate; Micrometeorology
Jinfei Wang
Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Research Interest/Specialization
Teaching
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Remote Sensing; Advanced Topics in Remote Sensing; Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Graduate); Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis (Graduate)
Tony Weis
Professor
Research Interest/Specialization
Global agro-food systems, industrial agriculture (especially livestock production), political ecology
Teaching
Climate Change; Animal Geographies; Globalization and Uneven Development; Biodiversity Conservation; Agriculture and Food
Lewis Williams
Associate Professor, Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies
Research Interest/Specialization
Indigenous and cultural studies; cultural-ecology and globalization; socio-ecological resilience; and social innovation
Teaching
Indigenous Knowledge and Traditions; Indigenous Research Methodology