Undergraduate Facilities

The undergraduate geography curriculum is supported by advanced teaching labs, workshops and seminar rooms located in the Environmental Sciences Centre. A key feature of geography courses is the use of the impressive natural and cultural landscapes of the Trent University campus and the surrounding Peterborough and Kawarthas region. In addition, through various field courses, students study human and physical geography in places as diverse as Algonquin Park, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the United Kingdom.

Research Facilities

Geography faculty members maintain several facilities as part of their programs of research including:

The Blue Lab, located in the Environmental Science Centre, facilitates several research projects related to atmospheric science and is an active group within the Department of Geography and Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program. (Lafleur)

The Borderlands Research Lab, located in the Science Complex, is the home to faculty and graduate student political geography research on the Canada-US Border, circumpolar North, and Canada-Cuba relations. (Nicol)

The Health Geography Research Lab, located in the Environmental Science Centre, provides resources and facilities for ongoing social science and community-based research in health, rural and social geography, including support for graduate students in the Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies and Sustainability Studies MA programs and Canadian Studies PhD program. (Skinner)

The Historical-Cultural Geography Research Lab, located in the Environmental Science Centre, facilitates feminist and historical-cultural geography studies in the Canadian context. (Wurtele and Brunger)

The Hydro Lab, located the the Environmental Science Centre, is the focus of ongoing research into hydrological processes in urban, agricultural and forest ecosystems, and supports the work of undergraduate students in the Department of Geography and graduate students in the Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program. (Buttle)

The Hydrochemistry Research Lab, located in the Environmental Science Centre, investigates the influence of climatic variability and human activities on water quality and quantity. (Eimers)

The Trail Studies Unit (TSU), located in the in the Environmental Science Centre, was created in 1992 and is a resource and research center concerned with recreational trails. (Marsh)

The Trent Climate Station, located on the northern outskirts of Peterborough, Ontario, has been recording daily temperature and precipitation statistics since 1968 as well as half-hourly statistics of a broad range of meteorological variables. (Lafleur and Eccelstone)

The Trent University environmental boundary layer Wind Tunnel (TEWT), located in the Environmental Science Centre, is a low-speed research facility designed for simulation of air-borne particle transport within the atmospheric boundary layer. Instrumentation includes laser doppler anemomentry (LDA - 2D), particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), surface shear stress (Irwin) sensors. and PM10 optical monitors. The temperature in the tunnel can be controlled down to -15 deg C. (McKenna Neuman)