gLoeb Xpress

DGES has a new digital version of their newsletter called the gLoeb Xpress. It will bring you all the news and information about the activities going on in the department. Here are a few highlights:

• Mapping Mayan Landscapes
• DGES Contributes to Carleton Community Engagement Initiative
• DGES Alumnus, Alette Willis, writes award-winning children’s novel
• Recent PhD graduate accepts SSHRC PDF in The Hague
• DGES students examine permafrost along the Dempster Highway

Source: gLoeb Xpress

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal award

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society has honoured Carleton’s own Professor Christopher Burn for his contribution as vice-president of the society. He was presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, given to outstanding Canadians who have contributed to Canada through their service and achievements.

Professor Burn has been a part of Carleton’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies since 1992. His research centers on the impact of climate change on permafrost terrain. He has been studying frozen ground for nearly 30 years and has an immense amount of experience conducting research in Canada’s north. For the past three decades, Burn has been dividing his time between central Yukon and the western Arctic. He holds the NSERC Northern Research Chair and is editor of a new book entitled, Herschel Island Qikiqtaryuk: A Natural and Culture History of Yukon’s Arctic Island. It will be released at the Internationl Polar Year Conference in Montreal on April 23, 2012.

The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal is a tangible way for Canada to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians, 60,000 of whom will be recognized throughout 2012.

Congratulations Professor Burn!

Source: Carleton Newsroom

Library Construction Update – Alternative Study area

Due to the construction in MacOdrum Library an alternative Silent study area has been created in Porter Hall during the exam period.

Open from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Thursday April 5

Tuesday April 10 – Friday April 13

Monday April 23 – Tuesday April 24

Geography Literacy Award: Nominate now

Each year, the Canadian Council for Geographic Education (CCGE) honours individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the development, enhancement or promotion of geographic literacy in Canada.

If you know an individual who you would like to nominate for the Geographic Literacy Award, forward letters of nomination to the chair of the CCGE briefly explaining why the nominee deserves consideration. The award recognizes the dedication of educators who have exceeded the expectations of their profession in increasing youth understanding and appreciation for Canadian geography.

The deadline for nominations this year is June 1.

For more information, visit www.rcgs.org/awards/geographic_literacy.

Source: RCGS News

“Greenbelt” Governance Research at Carleton

Collaborating on Comparative “Greenbelt” Governance Research with Mexico

Assistant Professor Jill Wigle is currently collaborating on a SSHRC-funded research project on comparative “greenbelt” governance and related processes of socio-spatial appropriation and management in Mexico City and Ottawa with Priscilla Connolly, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Master’s Programme in Planning and Metropolitan Policy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City.

In April 2012, Professor Connolly will visit Carleton University and begin the Ottawa part of the research, along with one of the Mexican Research Assistants working on the project, Hector Hidalgo Paez. DGES graduate students, Andrea Carrion, Gary Martin and Chris Bisson are also participating in the project as Research Assistants. In Ottawa, the project will focus on the city’s greenbelt, while in Mexico City the project will look at the governance of informality in the city’s largest remaining conservation zone which now also represents its southern urbanizing periphery.

Source: CAGList GeogNews

Lecture on Environmental, Social, Governance Standards

The Department of Geography & Environmental Studies presents:

Responsible Investing: How Investors Are Raising Environmental, Social and Governance Standards Around the World
Tessa Hebb, Director, Carleton Centre for Community Innovation
Friday, March 23rd, 2012 at 2:45 p.m.
A220 Loeb

All Welcome
More information www.carleton.ca/geography

Water Week starts March 19th

Celebrate Water Week and World Water Day (on March 22nd) by checking out some of the Library’s books, e-journals and videos on water:

Books

The World’s Water

Risk Assessment for Water Infrastructure Safety and Security

Water Quality Concepts, Sampling and Analyses

The Water Footprint Assessment Manual: Setting the Global Standard

Water and Ice

e-journals

Urban Water Journal

Water History

Videos

White Water, Black Gold

Reducing Water Pollution

Blue Gold: World Water Wars

The Last Drop: is the world running out of water ?

Carleton University will also celebrate World Water Week with Professor Banu Ormeci who will deliver a lecture entitled; Water, Sanitation and Health on Tuesday, March 22 at 1 p.m. in Room 3444 of the Mackenzie Building.

See you there!