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inequities and urban structure, social gradients in health
outcomes, disability and public policy
Dennis E. Jelinski, Ph.D., Simon Fraser, 1990, Associate Professor—
landscape ecology, biogeography, wildlife management,
conservation biology
C. Peter Keller, Ph.D., Western Ontario, 1985, Professor—GIS:
decision making, cartography, tourism
Michele-Lee Moore, Ph.D., Wilfrid Laurier, 2011, Associate Professor
—global/local water governance, river basin management,
social-ecological resilience, social innovation; transnational
networks
Trisalyn Nelson, Ph.D., Wilfrid Laurier, 2005, Professor—spatial
analysis and GIS, spatial pattern analysis, spatial analysis of
epidemic mountain pine beetle infestations
K. Olaf Niemann, Ph.D., Alberta, 1988, Professor—remote sensing,
geomorphology
Ian J. O'Connell, Ph.D., Victoria, 2003, Assistant Teaching
Professor—geomatics
Aleck Ostry, Ph.D., British Columbia, 1998, Professor—health
geography, social determinants of health, geography of food
security and nutrition, Aboriginal people’s health
Cameron Owens, ABD, Simon Fraser, 2010, Assistant Teaching
Professor—social theory and politics in relation to urban and
regional development, land use planning, and environmental
assessment
Terry Prowse, Ph.D., Canterbury, 1981, Professor—cold regions
hydrology, impacts of climate change on water resources, hydroecology
of river systems, hydro-climatology
CindyAnn Rose-Redwood, Ph.D., Penn State, Assistant Teaching
Professor—urban social geography, immigrant geographies,
geographies of higher education
Reuben Rose-Redwood, Ph.D., Penn State, 2006, Associate Professor
—urban geography, cultural landscape studies, historical
cartography, history of geographical thought
Randall Scharien, Ph.D., Calgary, 2010, Assistant Professor—Arctic
sea ice variability and climate change, remote sensing with
synthetic aperture radar, radar polarimetry
Dan J. Smith, Ph.D., Alberta, 1985, Professor—geomorphology;
dendrochronology
Simon Springer, Ph.D., British Columbia, 2009, Associate Professor—
anarchist geographies, geographies of violence and nonviolence,
political and development geographies, political
economy of Southeast Asia
Ian J. Walker, Ph.D., Guelph, 2000, Professor—sediment transport and
erosion, Aeolian, coastal, desert, beaches, dunes
MANITOBA
BRANDON UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
DATE FOUNDED: 1962
DEGREES OFFERED: B.A., B.Sc.
GRANTED 9/1/13-8/31/14: 4 B.A, 5 B.Sc.
MAJORS: 34
CHAIR: D. Eberts
PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH FACILITIES: The Department
offers 3-year B.A. and B.Sc. degrees, 4-year B.A. and B.Sc. degrees,
4-year B.A. and B.Sc. honours degrees, and 4-year B.A. and B.Sc.
Degrees with Environmental Studies and Geomatics Concentrations.
The Department also participates in a 2+2 articulation agreement with
Assiniboine Community College. ACC graduates can transfer directly
into the third year of a B.Sc. or B.A. in either the Environmental
Studies or Geomatics Concentration.
The Department is located in the Brodie Science Centre. The
department houses the B.U. Department of Geography Centre for
Geomatics and oversees operation of the John Tyman Map Library.
The Department is a depository for the Canadian National
Topographic Map Series and has an extensive collection of air
photographs of southwestern Manitoba.
ACADEMIC PLAN, ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS, AND
FINANCIAL AID: Brandon University operates on a semester
system. In order to obtain a 3-year major in geography a student has to
take a minimum of 30 credit hours out of a total of 90 credit hours for
the degree. The 4-year degree requires a minimum of 48 credit hours
in geography from a total of 120. Students are required to take a group
of common core introductory, methods and techniques courses
followed by either the B.A. or B.Sc. stream.
Admission to the faculties of arts and science is by graduation from
a Manitoba high school, or the equivalent for other provinces or
countries. There is also the possibility of mature admission or special
admission for students who have not followed the traditional
education route--in these cases the admission requirements are more
flexible. The University offers a number of entrance scholarships and
bursaries to applicants from Canadian high schools. Also, general loan
funds are available to Brandon University students, of which the most
frequently used is the Canada Student Loan Fund.
FACULTY:
Derrek A. Eberts, Ph.D., York, 2001 Associate Professor—economic
restructuring, work organization and technological change, rural
diversification, tourism, the brewing industry
Rachel V. Herron, Ph.D., Queens, 2015, Assistant Professor—rural
health, aging, dementia, care and caregiving, voluntarism, and
gender and health
Wenonah L. Van Heyst, M.GIS, Calgary, 2001, Instructional
Associate—GIS, remote sensing, physical geography
Christopher D. Malcolm, Ph.D., Victoria, 2003, Associate Professor—
biogeography, wildlife management, wildlife ecotourism, human
dimensions
R. Douglas Ramsey, Ph.D., Guelph, 1998, Affiliated Professor—rural
development, agriculture, popular music
Pete Whittington, Ph.D., University of Waterloo. 2013—Assistant
Professor- physical geography, hydrology, soil physics, wetlands
Dion J. Wiseman, Ph.D., Indiana State, 1997, Associate Professor—
Physical geography, GIS, remote sensing, cartography
PROFESSORS EMERITUS:
John C. Everitt, Ph.D., UCLA, 1972, Professor—urban, behavioural,
cultural, aging, Commonwealth Caribbean
Rod A. McGinn, Ph.D., Manitoba, 1979, Professor—climatology,
hydrology, river mechanics, glacial geomorphology
FOR CATALOG AND FURTHER INFORMATION WRITE
TO: Department of Geography, Brandon University, 270 18th
Street, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, R7A 6A9. Telephone (204) 727-
9677 (Faculty of Science Administrative Assistant). Fax (204) 728-
7346 (specify for Department of Geography). E-mail:
geography@brandonu.ca. Internet: www.brandonu.ca/Geography.
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