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Katrina Moser

Department Chair Associate Professor geoenv-chair@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 80115 Room 2407, SSC
Research Areas Paleolimnology, climate change, paleoecology, quaternary environments, water quantity and quality, limnology Teaching Paleolimnology and Global Environmental Change; Paleolimnology (Graduate)

Vanessa Ambtman Smith

Vanessa Ambtman-Smith

Assistant Professor
Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies
vambtman@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 89310
Room 3213, SSC

Research Areas
Indigenous traditional healing spaces within hospital contexts: Examining relationships to health, healing and reconciliation

Teaching
TBD

Godwin Arku
On sabbatical July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025

Godwin Arku

Professor Western Faculty Scholar garku@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85343 Room 2427, SSC
Research Areas 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

Peter Ashmore
Retired July 1, 2024

Peter Ashmore

Professor pashmore@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85026 Room 1405, SSC
Research Areas Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport Teaching Physical Geography; Geomorphology & Hydrology; Geomorphology of River Channels

Jamie Baxter

Graduate Chair Professor Associate Dean Graduate Affairs (Social Science) jamie.baxter@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 81241 Room 1407, SSC
Research Areas Social construction of risk, community responses to technological hazards, renewable energy policy, noxious facility siting, and methodology Teaching Environmental Hazards & Human Health; Qualitative Methods; Research Design, Environment, Economy and Society

Evan Bowness

Assistant Professor
ebowness@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 82817
Room 1411, SSC

Research Areas
Food sovereignty, agroecology, agri-tech

Teaching
Climate Emergency, Conservation and Development

Michele Buzzelli

Michael Buzzelli

Associate Professor Director, Western Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance mbuzzel@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85329 Room 2429, SSC
Research Areas 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

Jason Gilliland
On sabbatical July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025

Jason Gilliland

Professor Director, Urban Development Program Cross Appointed with School of Health Studies, the Department of Paediatrics and the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics jgillila@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 81239 Room 2432, SSC
Research Areas 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

Cortney Golkar-Dakin

Assistant Professor Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies cdakin2@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 81551 Room 2425, SSC
Research Areas Indigenous geographies, political ecology, and energy justice Teaching Climate Change and Collective Action

Jeff Hopkins
(No longer accepting students)

Jeff Hopkins

Associate Professor jhopkins@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85027 Room 2423, SSC
Research Areas Cultural geography, gender, public places Teaching Social Geography; Urban Culture; Cultural Geography; Geography of Gender; Advanced Cultural Geography

Carol Hunsberger

Associate Professor chunsber@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85020 Room 2409, SSC
Research Areas 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

Jin Lee

Assistant Professor
jinhyung.lee@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 85025
Room 2422, SSC

Research Areas
Transport geography, spatial accessibility, inequalities, urban resilience, GIScience

Teaching
GIScience, transport geography

Agnieszka Leszczynski

Undergraduate Chair Associate Professor aleszczy@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 80161 Room 1402, SSC
Research Areas Digital geographies, platforms and cities, digital location/geolocation, GIScience & Society Teaching Geographic Information Science; Digital Geographies

Jed Long

Associate Professor jlong83@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 87319 Room 2405, SSC
Research Areas GIS/GIScience, GPS tracking, movement, space-time models, spatial ecology, open source software Teaching GIS, quantitative geography, computational geography

Isaac Luginaah
On sabbatical Jan 1, 2025-June 30, 2025

Isaac Luginaah

Professor Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences Co-Director of the Western Centre for Climate Change, Sustainable Livelihoods and Health (WeCLISH) iluginaa@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 86944 Room 1409, SSC
Research Areas 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 nmacbean@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85008 Room 2412, SSC
Research Areas 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

Genevieve Metson

Associate Professor
gmetson@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 85011
Room 2403, SSC

Research Areas
Urban ecology, sustainability, biogeochemistry (phosphorus and nitrogen), organic waste management, food systems

Teaching
Introduction to Statistics for Geographers, Research Design (Graduate)

Desmond Moser

Professor Joint Appointed with Earth Science desmond.moser@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 80115 Room 167, B&GS
Research Areas Tectonics, geochronology Teaching Geography & Geology of Southwestern Ontario, Isotopic Dating of Planetary and Resource Evolution

Chantelle Richmond

Professor
Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Health and the Environment
Joint Appointed with Indigenous Studies
Co-chair, Indigenous Faculty Advisory Council
chantelle.richmond@uwo.ca

519-661-2111, x. 85324
Room 2433, SSC

Research Areas
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
(No longer accepting students)

Dan Shrubsole

Professor Associate Dean (Undergradute) to Faculty of Social Science dashrubs@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 83126 Room 9438, SSC
Research Areas Integrated resource management (water)

Roza Tchoukaleyska

Assistant Professor rtchouka@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85030 Room 2413, SSC
Research Areas Urban planning, cultural geographies, public space, food cultures, community-engaged research Teaching Economic geography, qualitative methods, sustainable urban planning

James Voogt

Professor javoogt@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85018 Room 2401, SSC
Research Areas Urban climatology Teaching Physical Geography; Weather and Climate; Micrometeorology

Jinfei Wang

Professor jfwang@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 85017 Room 2402, SSC
Research Areas Remote sensing and GIS 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
On sabbatical July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025

Tony Weis

Professor aweis@uwo.ca	519-661-2111, x. 87472 Room 1403, SSC
Research Areas 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