Research
Research
Advancing spatial science and innovative methods to understand environmental change, human settlement, and resilient futures.
Our faculty members and students are addressing local and global challenges to our environments and cities using a broad range of methods and tools, while enhancing our communities, creating policy change, and supporting the currency of classroom activities.
The expertise of faculty members in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies spans a broad range of topics, with notable clusters in the following six themes:
- Economies of Space and Place
- Environment & Sustainability
- Geotechnology
- Health & Wellbeing
- Immigration & Cities
- Indigenous Geographies
Dr. Cheryl Rogers uses advanced geospatial techniques to understand how vegetation is impacted by climate change and how this contributes as feedback to global environmental systems.