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Aishwarya Bhattacharyya
Aishwarya Bhattacharyya
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
Ayesha Shahid
Ayesha Shahid
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
Brian Waters
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The impact of gender and ownership models on informal urban water systems in West Africa
Carli Melo
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Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Production Networks: The Case of Myanmar Migrant Seafood Processing Workers in Thailand
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
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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Supporting New Farmers for Ecological and Social Sustainability
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 Neighborhood as a Site of Planetary Urbanization: An 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
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Informal spatial (re)production in Toronto’s peri-urban suburbs
Fatma Taran
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The socio-ecological and political dynamics of multiple hydropower dam developments, exploitation of natural resources, development-based displacement, and immobility in the Eastern Black Sea, Türkiye
Felicia Achamah
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The dynamics of mercury supply in small-scale gold mining communities in Ghana
Genevieve Minville
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Climate-induced displacement, Disasters, Post-Disaster Recovery and Climate Justice
Grace Hoskin
Grace Hoskin
Grace Pawliw-Fry
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Labour normativity, worker strategies, and micro geographies of neurodivergent adults in the Toronto labour market
Haley Klassen
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Investigating Factors Contributing to Variations in Sea-Ice Thickness of the Hudson Bay Complex Using Two Energy Budget Models
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
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The Military-Industrial-Production-Complex.
Kathleen Bao
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Carbon Pools, Carbon Dynamics and Carbon Budget of the Bruce Peninsula Soils, Aboveground Biomass, Litter and Roots
Kristen Coleman
Research Topic: Investigating Variability in Lake Response to Permafrost Thaw in Southern NT
Leonardo Martins Cavalcanti Furtado
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Queer Geography, Migration and Displacement
Linn Biorklund Belliveau
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Gendered 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.
Mantha Katsikana
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Affective geographies of social Reproduction: Athens in crisis, post–2007
Marina Goldgisser
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The impact of fire on the reported presence of animals in California Deserts using open-source data
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
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: Canada’s Caregiver Programs and Labour Market Segmentation Among Filipina Women in Toronto
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)
Rachel Pellegrino
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Assessing environmental changes in Lake Nipigon (NW Ontario, Canada) using siliceous paleolimnological subfossils
Randelle Adano
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Paleolimnological study of Chironomidae (non-biting midges) assemblage responses to past mining and hydroelectric projects in Lake Nipigon (Northwestern Ontario)
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.
Rosario del Pilar Rodriguez Romani
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Latin American decolonial feminist geographies, Latinx geographies, fat studies and virtual geographies and activisms
Sabika Zaidi
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Racialized Lives of Property: The (re)Production of ‘Illegal’ Identities in Urban India
Saeideh Sahebivayghan
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Neural networks for quantifying and mapping natural fire risk in boreal forests
Sarah Mehain
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The role of transportation in access to education for students with disabilities
Sophia Ilyniak
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Rebuilding Ukraine: sub/urban geographies of the third sector
Sorin Alexandru Gruia
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Reconstructing Long-Term Ecosystem 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
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Geographies of Hope and Fear: Public Manifestations of Contrasting Political Ideologies in Two Socio-political Movements in Lahore, Pakistan
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
Tejumade Ojo
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Comparing boreal forest regeneration structures between harvesting and wildfire disturbance with 3D morphology
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
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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