Earth systems science
Geography professors who conduct research in this area include:
- Claude Duguay - Extraction of geophysical parameters from optical and
microwave imagery, development and improvement of numerical ice growth
and heat transfer
- Richard Kelly - Remote
Sensing of the cryosphere, especially snow and ice environments, using
ground, aircraft and satellite earth observation data
- Ellsworth LeDrew - Atmosphere-cryosphere-hydrosphere
feedback processes in the Canadian Arctic, Study of climate variability
and the impact on tropical corals, Change detection of sea ice from radar
imagery, The use of satellite imagery in global change studies, Validation
of geophysical indices on radar imagery
- Merrin Macrae - Biogeochemical
cycling in natural and impacted systems (agriculture, wetlands, forest)
under variable climatic regimes and following disturbance or land use
change
- Jonathan
Price - Hydrology and hydrogeology of coastal, maritime and boreal
peatlands; peatland restoration
- Mike Stone - Sediment/Water interactions, river ecology and restoration, drainage basin hydrology.
A list of graduate student research provides an idea of the types of projects our students undertake.
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