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specialization in one of these sub-fields. BA students usually pursue a<br />

concentration in Environmental Science, Global Studies, and/or<br />

Urban Studies and Planning, and concentrations can be completed as<br />

part of an Honours degree. Field trips, community-based research, and<br />

lab science are emphasized. Directed studies and directed readings<br />

options are available.<br />

The BSc major program focuses on four key sub-fields of Physical<br />

Geography: biogeography/ soils, climatology and hydrology,<br />

geomorphology, and water quality, in addition to technical geography<br />

courses in GIS, remote sensing, and modeling. Students engage in<br />

laboratory and field-based data collection, and many pursue additional<br />

research experience in one of the department’s research facilities.<br />

Interdisciplinary programs: Geography faculty are involved in<br />

research and degree initiatives in Agriculture and Food Security,<br />

Borderlands Studies (with Western Washington University), GIS,<br />

Global Development, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Studies,<br />

Indo-Canadian Studies, Migration and Citizenship, Peace Studies,<br />

Science Communications, and the Woods Hole World Rivers Group.<br />

RESEARCH FACILITIES: The UFV Department of Geography and<br />

the Environment is home to the Luminescence Dating Lab, the<br />

Paleoecology Lab, and Watershed Research Lab. A GIS and Food<br />

Security studies lab is planned. The Department maintains a<br />

comprehensive classroom-oriented mineral, map and aerial photo<br />

collection, a student computer lab, full capacity GIS software and<br />

hardware, current meters, surveying and GPS equipment, water<br />

quality testing probes, and weather monitoring and soils analysis<br />

instruments.<br />

ACADEMIC PLAN, ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS, AND<br />

FINANCIAL AID: Three terms: Fall (Sept-Dec); Winter (Jan-Apr),<br />

and condensed and full-term courses in Summer (May-Aug) term.<br />

Courses offered at multiple campuses: Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and<br />

Mission, BC, and in Chandigargh, India. Degree: 120 credits,<br />

minimum 2.0 CGPA; Honours: 120 credits, minimum 3.33<br />

CGPA. Requirements for entry into the BA and BSc programs vary.<br />

Financial assistance, including loans, bursaries, scholarships, and<br />

work-study, is available. Information on financial aid and criteria for<br />

program entry are found in the UFV calendar, available at:<br />

www.ufv.ca/home.htm.<br />

FACULTY:<br />

Carolyn Atkins, MSc., Saskatchewan, 1994, Lab Instructor—Physical<br />

Geography<br />

John Belec, Ph.D., Queens, 1988, Associate Professor—Urban<br />

Studies, Housing Studies, Canada, Borderlands<br />

Cherie Enns, Ph.D. Candidate, Darmstadt University (Germany),<br />

Associate Professor—New Urbanism, Community and<br />

Sustainable Development, Children and the City, History of<br />

Planning<br />

Garry Fehr, Ph.D., Guelph, 2007, Associate Professor —International<br />

Development, Political Ecology, Social/ Cultural Geography<br />

Claire Hay, M.Sc., Alberta, 1998, Associate Professor—<br />

Geomorphology, Geographic Techniques<br />

Jonathan Hughes, Ph.D., Simon Fraser, 2002, Associate Professor—<br />

Biogeography, Paleoecology, Dendrochronology,<br />

Paleoseismology<br />

Olav B. Lian, Ph.D., Western Ontario, 1997, Associate Professor—<br />

Quaternary Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Paleoenvironments,<br />

Geochronology, Paleoecology of Non-glacial Intervals,<br />

Paraglacial Sedimentation, Loess-Paleosol Sequences, Holocene<br />

Aeolian Activity<br />

Steve Marsh, M.Sc., Regina, 1988, Associate Professor—Climate<br />

Change, Water Quality, Environmental Studies<br />

Kathy Peet, BSc, University of Northern British Columbia, 1997, Lab<br />

Instructor—Physical Geography<br />

Michelle J. Rhodes, Ph.D., Simon Fraser, 2002, Associate Professor<br />

—Resource/ Economic Geography, Geopolitics, Housing<br />

Studies, Tourism, Environmental Studies<br />

Scott Shupe, Ph.D., Arizona, 2000, Associate Professor—Geographic<br />

Information Science (GIS, Remote Sensing), Land Use/ Land<br />

Cover Mapping and Monitoring, Natural Resources, Arid Lands<br />

EMERITUS FACULTY<br />

David Gibson, M.A., University of California-Davis, 1969, University<br />

College Professor Emeritus—Cultural Geography, Mexico<br />

CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR (TIER II)<br />

Lenore Newman, Ph.D., York, 2004, CRC in Food Security and<br />

Environment—Canada’s Food Cultures/ Systems, Agriculture<br />

Lands Conservation, Food and the City, Sustainable Food<br />

Systems<br />

ADJUNCT FACULTY<br />

John Clague, Ph.D., British Columbia, 1973—Natural Hazards,<br />

Quaternary Geology<br />

Lionel Pandolfo, Ph.D., Yale, 1992—Synoptic Climatology, Climate<br />

Variability, Modeling<br />

Bernhard Puecker-Ehrenbrink, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute<br />

(Germany), 1994—Global Rivers Project (WHOI),<br />

Geochemistry<br />

Dan Selbie, Ph.D., Queen’s, 2008—Fisheries (salmon) and Aquatic<br />

Ecology, Paleolimnology<br />

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS<br />

Christina Neudorf, PhD., Wollongong (Australia), 2012, Hakai<br />

Scholar—Luminescence Dating, Geochronology<br />

Lisa Powell, PhD., University of Texas-Austin, 2013—Agricultural<br />

land conservation, resource communities<br />

UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA<br />

DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY<br />

DATE FOUNDED: 1949<br />

GRADUATE PROGRAM FOUNDED: 1966<br />

DEGREES OFFERED: B.A., B.Sc., M.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.<br />

GRANTED 1/1/15-12/31/15: 165 Bachelors, 14 M.Sc., 4<br />

M.A., 5 Ph.D.<br />

STUDENTS IN RESIDENCE: 600 Majors, 46 Masters, 58<br />

Ph.D.<br />

NOT IN RESIDENCE: 32 Masters, 23 Ph.D.<br />

CHAIR: Johannes Feddema<br />

DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER: Kathie<br />

Merriam<br />

FOR CATALOG AND FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE TO:<br />

Chair, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, PO Box<br />

1700, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 2Y2.<br />

Telephone (250) 721-7327, Fax (250) 721-6216.<br />

Email: geoginfo@uvic.ca.<br />

World Wide Web: http://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/geography/<br />

PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH FACILITIES: Geography faculty<br />

members conduct research all over the world, from re-introducing<br />

tigers into south China through to empowering the "binners" in<br />

Victoria, BC and Sao Paulo, Brazil. All faculty members have<br />

vibrant, active research programs with varied socially and<br />

scientifically relevant foci, including: climate change impacts and<br />

adaptations; coastal zone; community-based research; geomatics;<br />

geomorphology and quaternary science; health and society; hydroclimatology;<br />

international development; landscape ecology,<br />

biogeography, and spatial ecology; marine aquaculture; protected<br />

areas planning and management; urban planning; and Arctic sea ice<br />

variability.<br />

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