Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics

How do researchers react when an ice shelf that they have been monitoring for years suddenly breaks off? Read the comments from Dr. Luke Copland, Professor, uOttawa GEG ENV, Dr. Adrienne White, Analyst at the Canadian Ice service and alumnus from uOttawa GEG ENV, and Dr. Derek Mueller, Associate professor, Carleton University.

Ottawa public health has released an interactive map though the ONS, co-led by Elizabeth Kristjansson and Michael Sawada (GEG), that shows shows neighbourhoods with higher and lower rates of COVID in Ottawa.  From CTV News "... the Ledbury—Heron Gate—Ridgemont neighbourhood topped the list for having the most COVID-19 cases and the highest per capita rate."

Professor Luisa Veronis is one of seven University of Ottawa professors recipient of millions in funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) aimed at improving the response to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The new realities created by the pandemic are providing an overdue opportunity to shine a spotlight on Indigenous knowledge (IK), Inuit self-determination in research, and meaningful North-South science partnerships"

"Should geographers be content with the study of the real places that the real world has to offer? Why should they be attracted to the fictional worlds, or fictive geographies, found in literary works? Is not geography a serious, if not scientific, enterprise dealing with empirical facts? Generations of geographers have had different answers to these questions, and intellectual motivations for resorting to literature have varied significantly." For the complete text by Dr. Marc Brosseau, see Literature in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography