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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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