Trent University :: Geography

Geography in the News

January 20, 2012: Order of Ontario Awarded to Trent University Professor Emeritus

November 15, 2011: Debunking Rural Myths and Getting Students into the Field

July 20, 2011: Trent Professor to Investigate Palliative Care in Rural Communities

June 17, 2011: Internationally Recognized Scientist at Age 15, with Help from Trent University

April 20, 2011: Ice Loss from Canadian Glaciers Documented by Trent Professor's Research

Prof. Cathy Eimers receives major CWN Grant.

January 2012. Geography Professor Catherine Eimers recently received $600,000 from the Canadian Water Network for her collaborative project: “Managing the cumulative effects in the Muskoka River watershed: Monitoring, research and predictive modelling". Her team, involving 10 university and four government scientists across seven universities and institutions, will build a conceptual model, develop physical, biological and chemical indicators and assessment criteria, design a comprehensive monitoring program and predictive models for cumulative effects.

NSERC Strategic Grant for Physical Geographer.

January 2012. Geography Professor Catherine Eimers was awarded $433,950 from NSERC for her three-year project: "Causes and implications of changes in phosphorus delivery to Precambrian Shield Lakes during the critical spring melt period". The NSERC grant involves several others including Peter Dillon and Shaun Watmough (Trent), Lew Molot (York) and Roland Hall (U. Waterloo) and Andrew Paterson and Jennifer Winter (ON Ministry of Environment).

Political Geographer in the News.

January 2012. Geography Professor Heather Nicol was quoted about border security in The Globe and Mail. She was interviewed about unspoken exceptions carried out at Canada-U.S. border crossings. Read the story here Flash of an iPad gets man past border security.

January 20 2012. A focus article by Dr. Nicol regarding Arctic

sovereignty is now published online - Environment and Sustainability

CBC Radio interview with Prof. Mark Skinner.

November 2011. Geography Professor Mark Skinner was a feature interview on CBC Radio Ontario Morning (Friday 18 November). He talked with host Wei Chen about the decline of volunteering in Canada's rural communities. Listen to the pod-cast.

Physical Geographer named RCGS Fellow.

November 2011. Congratulations to Geography Professor Cheryl McKenna Neuman on her induction to the College of Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The citation presented at the RCGS meeting in Ottawa last week read: Cheryl McKenna-Neuman, Peterborough, ON: A Professor of Geography at Trent University since 1989, Dr. McKenna-Neuman has also served as President of the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group. She is a world-renowned expert on wind erosion, and has installed monitoring stations on Baffin Island and in the deserts of Nevada. She is known for her mentorship of young women in science.

Geography faculty win Awards for Excellence in Refereeing.

November 2011. Geography faculty members Graham Cogley and Peter Lafleur are to receive AGU 2010 Editor's Awards for Excellence in Refereeing at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco in December 2011. Professor Cogley's award is for reviews of manuscripts submitted to the journal Geophysical Research Letters and Professor Lafleur's for reviews in Water Resources Research. Both are leading scientific journals. The AGU Awards for Excellence in Refereeing are bestowed in recognition of work that is essential for the health of the peer-review process but is generally unsung.

Award winning graduate student.

October 2011. Otto Bedard (BSc'11) has been awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) for 2011-12. Otto is a student in the Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program at Trent. Otto is working on a wind tunnel simulation of bedform self-organization under the supervision of Professor Cheryl McKenna Neuman.

"...fieldwork is the heart of Geography"

September 2011. Check out the new webpage for GEOG 3860H Field Research in Geography, showcasing last year's projects from Kananaskis, Alberta. For more information about opportunities for human and physical geography students in this and other field-based courses check out the Field Courses link on the left.