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Studentship
- 2006: Maxwell
Studentship in Human Geography: Cory Dobson
from the University of British Columbia for his
research on Curbing Gentrification: Preserving
Canada’s affordable housing stock.
- 2006: RCGS Studentship
in Northern Geography (Masters level): Suzanne
Jarvis from Wilfrid Laurier University for her research
on the Hydrology of the Peace River over the
past 1000 years from Oxbow Lake sediments, Peace-Athabasca
Delta northern Alberta.
- 2006: James W. Bourque Studentship
in Northern Geography (PhD level): Jessica Tomkins
from Queen's University for her research on Climate
forcing factors and the records of climate variability
in the Canadian High Arctic during the past 2000 years.
2006 Research
grants
- Elizabeth Flanary from McGill University for her
research on Plant zonation and geomorphic factors
at a recovering salt marsh.
- Sarah Hart from Mount Allison University for her
research Addressing Alpine ecotone shifts in Cavell
Meadows, Jasper National Park.
- Heather Penner from Brandon University for her
research on the Development of whale-watching
management for Churchill, MB.
- Carolyn Reardon from Mount Allison University for
her research Dendrochronological applications
of wetland restoration: a study of tree growth in
a bog environment.
- Véronique Tremblay from Université de
Montréal for her research Géomorphologie
quaternaire de la vallée de la rivière
Cap-Chat, Haute Gaspésie.
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Maxwell
Studentship
- 2005: Martha Stiegman from Concordia
University was awarded the 2005 Maxwell Studentship
for her research project How the movement to strengthen
Community-based Fisheries Management is building alliances
between native and non-native coastal communities
in Southwest Nova Scotia. Read
more.
- 2004: Suzanne Belliveau from the
University of Guelph for her research project Vulnerability
of Rural Agricultural Communities in Canada to Climate
Change: A Regional Comparison.
- 2003: Shirley Chiu interviews Carribbean
and Indian Hakkas to determine the role of place in
forming their identity. Read
more about this study in cultural geography.
- 2002: Through a RCGS grant, Hubert
Pelletier-Gilbert explored the issue of conservation
on private property, focusing on the efforts of the
Appalachian Corridor Project. To learn more about
this research, read the May/June 2002 Inside Story article,
'Saving
Sutton'.
- 1999: Kerry Lake of Trent University
takes a unique look at Canadian icons such as the
lighthouse and prairie grain elevator. Read
more about her project.
Studentship
in Northern Geography
- 2005: James W. Bourque (PhD level):
Rebecca Zalatan from the University of British Columbia
for her research project Climate variability and
barren-ground caribou abundance cycles in the Canadian
Low Arctic.
- 2004: James W. Bourque (PhD level):
John Iacozze from the University of Manitoba for his
research On the relationship between snow covered
sea ice processes and polar bear habitat.
- 2005: RCGS Studentship (Masters
level): Jamie Reschny from Memorial University of
Newfoundland for his research project Mining, Inuit
Traditional Activities and Sustainable Development:
A Study of the effects of the Voisey's Bay Nickel
Mine winter shipping.
- 2004: RCGS Studentship (Masters
level): Vincent Desormeaux from Université Laval
for his research project Les Bases biophysiques historiques
et culturelle de la rehabitation du couvert vegetal
a Whapmagoostui Québec subarctique.
Research
grants
- 2005: Ben Phillips from Mount Allison
University for his project Long-term Climate Study
in the Fundy Coastal region using tree-ring Analysis. RCGS
Research Grants recipient discovers oldest living
red spruce tree, 445-years old. Read
more.
- 2005: Alysia Garmulewicz for the
Canadian Youth Climate Change Conference (YC3) July
3 -6, 2005
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Tara Dupuis,
2005 research grant recipient |
- 2005: Tara Dupuis from the University
of Saskatchewan for her research project Mapping
the Extent of Crested Wheatgrass in Grasslands National
Park Saskatchewan;
- 2005: Isabelle Gagnon from Université de
Montréal for her project Description de
glaciers rocheux en Gaspésie;
- 2005: Gregory King from Carleton
University for his research on Post-fire succession
and regeneration patterns of lodgepole pine, Fox Lake
YT
- 2005: Lanna Campbell, a geography
and environmental studies student at New Brunswick’s
Mount Allison University. Read
more.
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Biogeography
- Ian Scott, an honours geography student at the
University of Victoria, was awarded $1,150 to document
the distribution and feeding sites of gray whales
off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
- Paul Kindy, Nipissing University, Ont.: Long term
changes in the population of Bythotrephes cederstroemi
in Harp Lake, Ont.
- Eva Kristina Sadowski, Brock University, Ont.: The
biogeography of alpine amphibians: An evaluation
of measuring and monitoring methods for use in Glacier
National Park, B.C.
Urban Geography
- Dr. Joan Marshall, Hudson, Que.: Redefinition of
social relations and the meaning of 'place' in the
context of profound changes in a Maritime island economy.
- Mike Buzzelli, McMaster University, Ont.: Toronto's
postwar Little Italy: An urban ethnic landscape
study.
Transportation Geography
Snow and Ice
- Anne-Pascale Bartleman, University of Guelph, Ont.:
Vegetation succession in a retrogressive thaw slump,
Mayo, Yukon.
- Laurent Mingo: Towards a prediction of surface hoar
growth based on local meteorological conditions: Application
to avalanche forecasting.
- John Janes, Memorial University, Nfld.: The runoff
regime and mass balance estimates on the northeastern
sector of South Dome, Barnes Ice Cap.
Forest Studies
- Heather Christine Schenk, University of Waterloo,
Ont.: The impacts of climatic warming and forest fires
on the vegetation distribution in Wood Buffalo National
Park, Northwest Territories.
- Larissa Motiuk, University of Victoria, B.C.: Persistence
of forest soil compaction under two different disturbance
regimes in central British Columbia.
Miscellaneous
- Professors Jeff Keshen and Nicole St-Onge of the
history department at the University of Ottawa, were
granted $1,800 to help publish a collection of essays
on the nation's capital in 'Ottawa: Building a Capital.'
- Tim J. Fedak, Fundy Geological Museum: The preparation
and analysis of a prosauropod dinosaur from Nova Scotia.
- Ivan Miles Shukster, Medicine Hat, Alta.: Nesting
raptors of the Milk River Natural Area, Alberta.
- Kevin P. Clute, University of Waterloo, Ont.: A
study of animal mortality linked to automobile collisions
along the Frank McDougall Parkway in Algonquin Provincial
Park.
- Sarah Kennedy, University of Waterloo, Ont.: Shoreline
change on the Rondeau Coastal Zone at Dike Road.
- Colin Hanley, Saint-Lambert, Que.: Development
of GeoQuiz 1997.
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