McGill University - The Canadian Association of Geographers

UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG 219Current ResearchModelling clouds and ultra-violet biologically active radiation (UV-B) (Binyamin)Modelling the energy transfer of high latitude Canadian lakes (Binyamin)Surface-atmosphere interactions and boundary layer processes (Binyamin)Battery storage and optimization in plug-in hybrids (Blair)Butterflies as bioindicators of climate change in Manitoba (Blair)Climate variability in the eastern Canadian Prairies (Blair)Synoptic climatology of hydroclimate variability in the Western Interior (Blair)User-friendly eigenvector classification of synoptic maps (Blair)Development and application of stable-isotope methods for evaluating isotopiccompositions of organic and inorganic materials from natural archives such asgroundwater, lake sediments, and terrestrial organic matter (Buhay)Pre- and postglacial isotope-climate and hydrology linkages in central and westernNorth America and western Europe (Buhay)Water, climate and greenhouse gas emission studies using isotope tracers; isotopegeochemistry; isotope climatology and paleoclimatology (Buhay)Diversification of crops and livestock on the Canadian Prairies (Carlyle)Aging post-war suburban neighbourhoods (Carter)Housing and immigration (Carter)Housing markets (Carter)Housing policy: Canada and international (Carter)Inner city decline and revitalization (Carter)Planning big box developments (Carter)Refugee housing and integration (Carter)Social policy and poverty alleviation of inner city populations (Carter)Composition of main belt asteroids (Cloutis)Design of planetary spectrometers and mission concepts (Cloutis)Hyperspectral remote sensing data analysis (Cloutis)Remote sensing detection of organic geological materials (Cloutis)Spectroscopic studies of art work for forgery and underpainting detection (Cloutis)Surficial geological properties of Mars (Cloutis)Housing and homelessness (Distasio)Mental health and housing (Distasio)Urban Aboriginal issues (Distasio)Environmental assessment (Fitzpatrick)Public participation and learning (Fitzpatrick)Resource and environmental management (Fitzpatrick)A Hutterite atlas (Lehr)Heritage tourism in western Canada (Lehr)Social structure and pioneer settlement: ethnic groups on the western Canadian frontier(Lehr)Symbolic landscapes (Lehr)Ukrainian settlement in Latin America (Lehr)Aboriginal urbanization (Peters)Urban social geography (Peters)