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Alexander Quesnel
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Crypto Geographies: Labour, Populism and Digital Asset Mining
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).
Amir-Ali Ebrahimirad
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Technologies of Transparency: The Role of Information and Communications Technologies in Promoting Labour Rights in Distant Water Fisheries
Baillie Weiderick
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Examining Interspecific Competition of Colonial Waterbirds at Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto, ON
Barbara Kerr
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Process- versus pattern-based measures of fragmentation: a simulated sensitivity analysis
Biftu Yousuf
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Invisibilized Providers: The Role of Racialized Diasporas in Refugee Sponsorship
Carli Melo
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Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Production Networks: The Case of Myanmar Migrant Seafood Processing Workers in Thailand
Caroline Hill
Research Topic: Residents' experience of policing in the Atkinson Housing Cooperative: Race, Space, and Class.
Chan Arun-Pina
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The Critical Geographies of Non-Normative Homes: Student Housing in Delhi and Mumbai, India.
Charlie West
Research Topic: Algal Pigments and Thaw Slumps: How Arctic Lake Phytoplankton Respond to Disturbance.
Cheryl Forest
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Understanding the Gendered Experiences of Female Urban Greenspace Users in Master-Planned Communities
Christian Costanzo-Vignale
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The Canadian Far-Right: Articulations of an Imagined Architecture of a White Supremacist Canadian Settler State Through Expressions of Xenophobia and Anti-Immigrant
Claire Perttula
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Supporting New Farmers for Ecological and Social Sustainability
D´Moi Keen
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Hydrogeomorphology of Lava Rise Pits in the Laki Lava Field, Southeast Iceland.
Danielle Legault
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Animals and Development: A Case Study of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund
Dominik Formanowicz
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An Immigrant Neighbourhood as a Site of Planetary Urbanization: Example of St. James Town, Toronto
Elle Buckvold
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Walking potatoes & wilder-beasts: Researching human-animal relationships in urban agriculture
Emile Baril
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Food delivery in Toronto and Paris: Platform labour, migration, citizenship and resistance.
Esmond Lee
Esmond Lee
Genevieve Minville
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Climate-induced displacement, Disasters, Post-Disaster Recovery and Climate Justice
Hiba Sha'ath
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Encountering borders in a North African city: sub-Saharan migrants’ experiences of illegalization in Tunis.
Jacob Roberts
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Staging an Olympic Myth: Democracy and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
Jad Aswad
Research Topic: Comparing Ephemeral Stream Detection Methods Using Remote Sensing.
Josh Watterton
Research Topic:
The Military-Industrial-Production-Complex.
Kathleen Bao
Kathleen Bao
Kimberly Roberts
Kimberly Roberts
Kristen Coleman
Research Topic: Investigating Variability in Lake Response to Permafrost Thaw in Southern NT
Linn Biorklund Belliveau
Linn is researching Geographies of Violence and Contestation Across Borders: Everyday Politics of Migrant Women at the Mexico-Guatemala U.S. Proxy Border.
Lord-Emmanuel Achidago
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Quantifying the Effect of Stressors on Vegetation Communities in the Bruce Peninsula
Mallory MacDonnell
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Investigating the State of Labour in Distant Water Fisheries with a Focus on Vessel and Catch Species Variability.
Mandy Huynh
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Tracking the dispersal of the endangered Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia cespitosa) by animal vectors in Canada
Mantha Katsikana
Research Topic: Affective geographies of social reproduction: The Case of Athens under austerity.
Marina Goldgisser
Research Topic: Fire in the desert: the effects of structural changes following the Cima Dome fire on the avian community.
Maryam Lashkari
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Locating Feminist and Queer Urban Movements within Iran-US Geopolitics.
Maya Campo
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Masculinity and Gig Work: A Case Study of Rideshare Workers in Toronto
Megan Whitney
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Regimes of Labour in Thailand's Animal Tourism Industry
Melissa Giblon
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System in Crisis: A Critical Analysis of Toronto’s 2021 Inclusionary Zoning Bylaw and Supply-Side Housing Affordability Measures
Michelle Gonzalez Gomez
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Newcomer Integration & Professional Accreditation
Misba Chowdhary
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Triggered Town: Communal Violence in the Wake of the Gujarat Earthquake
Nadia Keshmiri
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Characterizing boreal forest fire disturbance boundaries through space and time in Ontario
Navjot Dhaliwal
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Water Governance in Lake Nipigon: Re-imagining the Ecosystem Approach to Incorporate Western Science and Indigenous Knowledge
Nikki Pagaling
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From Caregiver to Personal Support Worker: Labour Market Segmentation Amongs Filipina Former Live-in Caregivers in the Great Toronto Area
Philip Lynch
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Learning Post-disturbance Boreal Recovery Trajectories with Satellite Remote Sensing for Backward Prediction
Prateeksha Pathak
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Configuring and Constructing Home in Exile: Chronicling Kashmiri Homemaking Practices
Rachael Abulu
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Carbon And Mercury Accumulation In Lake Sediments Of Thawing Permafrost Peatlands (Scotty Creek, Nwt)
Rebecca Gasman
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Increasing Incidences of Harmful Cyanobacteria Blooms in Eutrophic Subarctic and Oligotrophic Waters Central Ontario Lakes
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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Wayward pratices of hope, joy and care among internally displaced persons in southern Philippines who are in protracted displacement.
Sabika Zaidi
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Spatial Politics of Indian Muslims within Ethno-Nationalist Governmentality
Saeideh Sahebivayghan
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Neural networks for quantifying and mapping natural fire risk in boreal forests
Sarah Mehain
Sarah Mehain
Sophia Ilyniak
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Rebuild Ukraine: governing sub/urbanization through civil society
Sorin Alexandru Gruia
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Reconstructing ecological change in a western Arctic lake with a highly active thaw slump (Northwest Territories, Canada).
Stefanie Kiriazis
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Chronically Excluded? Public Toilet Access for Suburban Youth with Gastrointestinal Illnesses
Sumbal Gillani
Sumbal Gillani
Tahmid Rouf
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Civic diasporic organizations, cyberspace and superdiverse locales: Bangladeshis in Toronto.
Taliya Seidman-Wright
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Activist perspectives on decolonization and Indigenous-settler solidarity in Toronto’s food sovereignty movement
Thomas Wu
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Impacts of climate change and thawing permafrost peatlands on mercury and carbon cycling in the Five Fish Lakes, NWT, Canada
Vanessa Sobocan
Vanessa Sobocan
Victoria Carroll
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A paleolimnological assessment of the impact of cryogenic landslides on low-lying lakes of the Mackenzie Delta (NT, 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
Vladimir Dvoretskiy
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Corporate social responsibility in large-scale mining: the case of Kansanshi mine
Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera
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Sand and stone materials mining in the Jeneberang River in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Wiley Sharp
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LGBTQ2S+ youth place-making in suburban Toronto
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