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Aishwarya Bhattacharyya
Aishwarya Bhattacharyya
Alexander Quesnel
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Cryptogeographies: Bitcoin Mining and the Production of Space
Altrisha Rodrigues
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Impacts of metal contamination on Phytoplankton communities in sub-arctic lakes (tentative)
Amanda Little
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Seasons of change: the influence of seasonality and climate change on arsenic toxicity to plankton communities in mining-impacted lakes near Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada).
Arushi Singh Parmar
Arushi Singh Parmar
Ayesha Shahid
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Precarious Livelihoods and ‘Nowhere People’: Between the Agrarian Crisis, Urbanization and Migration in Pakistan
Brian Waters
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Seasonal Changes of Water Insecurity in the Informal Settlements of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Bridgette Norwood
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Finding space in disappearing space: A critical ethnography of 2SLGBTQI+ Young Adults in the changing urban landscape
Cheryl Forest
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Understanding the Gendered Experiences of Female Urban Greenspace Users in Master-Planned Communities
Christopher Sorio
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Best Before Date: 2nd Feb 2024—The Breakdown of Protections for Precarious Workers in the GTA: The story of Del Monte in Oshawa
Cindy Maharaj
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Educational and Economic Pathways of the Children of Caribbean Caregivers in Toronto: Intergenerational Cartographies of Care
Claire Howell
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Gentrification, food security and community engagement across North American Chinatowns
Claire O'Hagan
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Assessing the impacts of recent, intense permafrost thaw slumping on lakes in the Mackenzie Delta uplands, Northwest Territories, Canada
Claire Perttula
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Tackling Transitions: Informing a New Food Systems Planning for Ontario
Darren Gens
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Political Ecology, Agriculture, and Development in Bangladesh
Esmond Lee
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Elusive Territories: Spatial Vocabularies of Racialized Suburbs in Scarborough, Toronto
Farida Abdelmeguied
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Spatio-Legal Exclusion, Migrantization, and Permanent Displaceability: Transnational Trends in Illegalizing the Urban Poor
Fatma Taran
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Multi-hydropower dams, environmental-social-energy justice, and (im)mobility at the margins: Case of transboundary Çoruh/Ch'orokhi River between Türkiye and Georgia, South Caucasus Region
Fatma Ugur
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Borders within Toronto: Exploring Inaccessibility in Relation to Food, Housing and Transportation within the Jane Finch Community (Analysis of the Jane Finch Initiative)
Federico Arevalo
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Comparative studies on housing through the use of gamification and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Francis Calingo
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Socioeconomic conditions of Filipino youth in North York
Genevieve Minville
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Climate-induced displacement, Disasters, Post-Disaster Recovery and Climate Justice
Grace Hoskin
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Environmental change in lakes of the Northwest Territories related to thermokarst processes
Grace Pawliw-Fry
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Labour geographies of neurodivergent adults in the workplace and local labour markets
Haley Klassen
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Comparison of Two Reanalysis Models, NARR and ERA5 for Describing the Behaviour of Sea-Ice on Hudson Bay
Imran Sarwar
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Power building, resistance, and organizing in land protection and reclamation movements in Canada and Palestine
Ismail Bahadir Ozturk
Ismail Bahadir Ozturk
Jad Aswad
Research Topic: Comparing Ephemeral Stream Detection Methods Using Remote Sensing.
Jasper Wong
Jasper Wong
Jesse Hughes
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phytoplankton communities in The Great Lakes, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. I have not pinned down or specified exactly what I am doing, but I also have and an interest in limnology and ecology and how to solve ecosystem management issues with both these fields.
Josh Watterton
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Miltary Spending and Arms Production: A Geographical Analysis
Katherine Tse
Katherine Tse
Kyle Derry
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Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure Applications
Lawrenz Decano
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I smell precarity: Exploring the geographies of migrant labour in southern Alberta's Feedlot Alley
Leonardo Martins Cavalcanti Furtado
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Searching for Belonging and Living With Saudade: Mapping Emotions in Brazil-to-Canada LGBTQ+ Migration
Mariyam Chowdhury
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Urban public space, land justice, Palestine, anticolonial resistance
Mohammad Rahmatyan
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Hydrology, tracer-aided modeling, stormwater runoff, flow pathways, water quality, Black Creek
Navjot Dhaliwal
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Water Governance in Lake Nipigon: Re-imagining the Ecosystem Approach to Incorporate Western Science and Indigenous Knowledge
Patricia Farias
Patricia Farias
Philip Lynch
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Learning Post-disturbance Boreal Recovery Trajectories for Backward Prediction
Polina Volkova
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Art-based community economies and politics of resistance in Windsor, ON.
Prateeksha Pathak
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Feminist Geographies of the Intimate: Analysing the Intimate Politics of Afghan Women's Visual Culture
Rachel Pellegrino
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Assessing environmental changes in Lake Nipigon (NW Ontario, Canada) using siliceous paleolimnological subfossils
Rajinder Singh
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The health crisis due to climate change across social class, gender, and caste in Punjab, India
Raushan Bhuiyan
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Human geography; the lived experiences of low-income, racialized women in Lawrence Heights, Toronto. The project reflects insights relevant for municipal housing policy in regards to the planning of housing redevelopment initiatives
Rebecca Gasman
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Increasing Incidences of harmful Cyanobacteria blooms in lakes across a trophic range in central Ontario and Subarctic Northwest Territories
Rebecca Tuz
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Assessing recovery in storm surge impacted lakes of the outer Mackenzie Delta
Ria Jhoanna Ducusin
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Flood Disasters in the Coastal Urban Environments: A Political Ecology of Philippine Localities
Romeo Joe Quintero
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Building Liveable Futures in Camps: Everyday Placemaking Practices of Internally Displaced Persons in the Southern Philippines
Saeideh Sahebivayghan
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Mapping wildland fire risk with hybrid deep learning and optimization method using Google Earth Engine for Ontario's boreal Managed Forest
Said Hadaya
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War and its Impact on Health in the Middle East
Shane Timbers
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Wetland Remote Sensing / Machine Learning Classification
Shweta Parajuli
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Estimating soil carbon from vegetation stock using allometry, models and remote sensing
Sophia Ilyniak
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Rebuilding Ukraine: sub/urban geographies of the third sector
Sven Huycke
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Application of hand-held LiDAR scanning for above ground biomass estimations
Tahmid Rouf
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Civic diasporic organizations, cyberspace and superdiverse locales: Bangladeshis in Toronto.
Tejumade Ojo
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Comparing boreal forest regeneration structures between harvesting and wildfire disturbance with 3D morphology
Theryn Arnold
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The impact of the Canadian and Chinese government's promotion of green capitalism through state-backed projects such as the NextStar and Xiaomi EV plants
Thomas Wu
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Paleolimnological assessments of climate change and wildfire-stimulated permafrost thaw as drivers of long-term colour shifts in small shallow discontinuous permafrost peatland lakes in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Tyjana Connolly
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The resilience strategies of Afro-Caribbean subsistence based and land-based communities in the Caribbean to cope with the impacts of climate change/the changing physical environment
Victoria Carroll
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Permafrost thaw impacts on drinking water sources and treatments in Northern Canada
Vivien Bediako
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Return Visits to the Homeland through Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Tourism: Ghanaian Canadians' Negotiations of Home, Belonging and Place Attachment
Wali Rasta
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Immigration, refugees and settlement
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