Our faculty are engaged in a broad spectrum of research ranging from health care and gender studies to work on polar regions, atmospheric processes and water resources.The research intensive nature of our department provides many value added opportunities for undergraduate students to get involved while offering outstanding training for graduate students. Our research activities shape our degree programs with emphases in water, climate and geomorphic processes in our BSc program and Canadian geography, urban-economic geography, and recreation-resource geography in our BA program. Students may undertake an honours thesis in their fourth year of study which often is aligned with faculty research programs. Selected students are hired each summer as research assistants working in labs and field settings. Undergraduate students have participated for many years in maintaining glacier mass balance measurements in the high arctic, for example.

Further information can be obtained by accessing the faculty research webpages to the right, and examples of peer-reviewed publications involving undergraduate and graduate students are listed below.

Post-Doctoral Research Associates:

Dr. Jason Kerr, PhD (Griffith University, Queensland Australia)

Hydroclimatic controls on water quality in Precambrian Shield watersheds (office ESB A117, jasonkerr@trentu.ca, supervisor: C. Eimers)

Dr. Bailiang Li, PhD (Texas A & M, USA) Wind erosion simulation (office ESB A 130, libailiang@trentu.ca, supervisor: C. McKenna Neuman)

Recent Student Publications:

Casson, N.C., Eimers, M.C. and Buttle, J.M., 2010. Regional assessment of the contribution of rain-on-snow events to NO3-N export from a forested landscape. Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.7692.

Darke, I. and C. McKenna Neuman, 2008. Field study of beach water content as a guide to wind erosion potential. Journal of Coastal Research, 24(5), 1200-1208.*

Hember, R.A. and P.M. Lafleur, 2008. Effects of serial dependence and large-scale tropospheric circulation on mid-latitude North American terrestrial carbon dioxide exchange. Journal of Climate, 21, 750-770.

Herron, R.V., and M.W. Skinner (in press, 2011). Farmwomen's emotional geographies of care: a view from rural Ontario. Gender, Place and Culture.*

Hurlington, K.G. (general editor), 2010. Oxford Atlas Project 1 (Oxford University Press).

Lafleur, P.M. and A.G. Farnsworth, 2008. Light interception and canopy radiation balance of staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina). Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 38: 1695-1700.*

McKenna Neuman, C. and S. Sanderson, 2008. Humidity control of particle emissions in aeolian systems. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 113, F02S14, doi: 10.1029 / 2007JF000780.*

Preston, M.D., M.C. Eimers, S.A. Watmough, 2011. Effect of moisture and temperature variation on DOC release from a peatland: conflicting results from laboratory, field and historical data analysis. Science of the Total Environment, 409: 1235-1242.

Sutton, S. L. F. and C. McKenna Neuman, 2008. Sediment entrainment to the lee of roughness elements: Effects of vortical structures. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 113, F02S09,doi:10.1029/2007JF000783.

Sutton, S. L. F. and C. McKenna Neuman, 2008. Variation in bed level shear stress on surfaces sheltered by non-erodible roughness elements. Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface, 113, F03016, doi:10.1029/2007JF000967.

(* honours thesis research)