Geography Graduate Students

Geography Ph.D. Candidates

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Sanjo Abolarin Abolarin, Sanjo (he/him) Email: abolarin.sanjo@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Energy Justice; Resource Governance; Sustainable Energy Extraction; Green Extracivism; Transition Minerals
Supervisor: Dr. Kesha Fevrier
​​​​Monique Assuncao Assunção, Monique (she/her) Email: 20mca1@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Racial Capitalism; Uneven Development; Feminist Political Economy; Black Geographies; Water Justice
Supervisor: Dr. Dan Cohen and Dr. Carolyn Prouse
Masoud Babadi Ataabadi Babadi Ataabadi, Masoud (he/him) Email: 22mba1@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Landsat Timeseries Reconstruction, Transformers, Agroecosystems
Supervisor: Dr. Dongmei Chen
Rachel Barber Barber, Rachel (she/her)

Email: rachel.barber@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Left-Behind Places; Shrinking Cities; Economic Decline; Age-Friendly Communities; Demographic Change
Supervisor:  Dr. Maxwell Hartt
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Photo of Bhavya Bogra Bogra, Bhavya Email: bhavya.bogra@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Urban Planning and Governance; Sustainable Development; Climate Action Planning; Future cities;
Supervisor:   Dr. Ajay Agarwal
Photo of Susan Collis Collis, Susan Email: collis.s@queensu.ca
Research Key Words:
Supervisor: Dr. Beverley Mullings
George Kofi Danso Danso, George Kofi (he/him) Email: george.danso@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Migration, Racialized geographies, Global Higher Education  International students Mobility, Socio-economic Policies
Supervisor: Dr. Kesha Fevrier


Nahuel Deltrozzo Deltrozzo, Nahuel Email: n.deltrozzo@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Biogeography; Landscape Ecology; Remote Sensing; Vegetation Dynamics
Supervisor: Dr. Ryan Danby
Janine Dodge Dodge, Janine Email: janine.dodge@gmail.com
Research Key Words: Play; Social Connectedness; Healthy Ageing; Age-Friendly Communities; Brazil
Supervisor: Dr. Maxwell Hartt
Alyssa Foerstner Foerstner, Alyssa (she/her) Email: 9af26@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Economies of higher education; Critical internationalisation; Bourdieu
Supervisor: Dr. Dan Cohen
Christina Goldhar Goldhar, Christina (she/her) Email: christina.goldhar@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: housing insecurity and homelessness; Northern and Indigenous geographies; gender; crisis; settler colonialism
Supervisor: Dr. Julia Christensen

Photo of Erika Hille Hille, Erika Email: erika.hille@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: geochemistry; hydrology; permafrost; climate change; arctic
Supervisor: Scott Lamoureux

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Photo of Kimberly Hill-Tout Hill-Tout, Kimberly Email: 13knht@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Food Sovereignty; Climate Crisis; Community Resilience; Indigenous Studies
Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Prouse
Saba Hosseini Tabesh Hosseini Tabesh, Saba Email: 23ldp2@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Remote sensing and spatial analysis; modeling; Atmospheric sciences; Hydrology
Supervisor: Dr. Dongmei Chen
Photo of Kristen Jones Jones, Kristen Email: 12kaj@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: GIS, Cultural Heritage, Data Management, Photogrammetry, Surveying
Supervisor: Dr. George Bevan
Vanessa Koetz Koetz, Vanessa (she/her) Email: vanessa.koetz@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Biosurveillance; Big Data; Capitalism; Technology; Smart cities
Supervisor: Dr. Carolyn Prouse

Photo of Alexander Makin Makin, Alexander Email: makin.alexander@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: renewable energy, community-based participatory research (CBPR), Pact for a Green New Deal (PGND), Indigenous Off-Diesel Initiative (IODI), Indigenous-Settler reconciliation
Supervisor: Dr. Heather Castleden
Dairon Luis Morejon Perez Morejon Perez, Dairon Luis (he/him) Email: 17dlmp@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: diaspora, urban geographies, placemaking
Supervisor: Dr. Beverley Mullings
Photo of Kirsten Noltie Noltie, Kirsten Email: kirsten.noltie@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Lyme Disease, Ticks, Climate Change, Geographic Information Science, Remote Sensing
Supervisor: Dr. Dongmei Chen
Photo of Tinyan Otuomagie Otuomagie, Tinyan

Email: tinyan.otuomagie@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Gender; Entrepreneurship; Urban; Class; Financial;
Supervisor: Dr. Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin and Dr. Dan Cohen

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Alexandra Overvelde Overvelde, Alexandra (she/her)

Email: a.overvelde@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Grocery Workers; Health Geographies; Labour Geographies
Supervisor: Dr. Patricia Collins

 

Photo of Channon Oyeniran Oyeniran, Channon (she/her) Email: 20cao@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: digital diaspora, community, placemaking, black feminism, migration
Supervisor: Dr. Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin

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Lili Paradi Paradi, Lili (she/her) Email: 25wk13@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: ecosystems, cryosphere, climate change, landscape change
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Cedelle Pereira Pereira, Cedelle (she/her)
Email: 19cp4@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Permafrost Hydrology; Carbon; Nutrients; Biogeochemistry; Climate Change
Supervisor: Dr. Melissa Lafrenière
Photo of Mary Smida Smida, Mary Email: 5mes2@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Regional Development; Economic Sustainability; Northern Communities;
Supervisor: Dr. Maxwell Hartt
Margot Smith Smith, Margot Email: 18MS90@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: geomicrobiology, astrobiology
Supervisor: Dr. Chris Omelon
Photo of Sandra Yaacoub< Yaacoub, Sandra Email: s.yaacoub@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Remote Sensing; Forestry; Ecology; Boreal; Arctic;
Supervisor: Dr. Paul Treitz and Dr. Ryan Danby
Photo of Hong Yao Yao, Hong Email: h.yao@queensu.ca
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Photo of Priscilla Yohuno Yohuno, Priscilla Toloo Email: 15pta@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: renewable energy; community participatory research; mining; environmental justice; corporate accountability
Supervisor: Dr. Heather Castleden
James Zhao Zhao, James Email: zhao.y@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Micrometeology, Boreal, Arctic Ecosystem, Surface-atmosphere interaction
Supervisor: Dr. Ian Strachan

Geography M.Sc. Candidates

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Photo of Katherine Bot Bot, Katherine (she/her) Email: 20kab11@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Carbon exchange, peatlands, eddy covariance, greenhouse gases, land cover changes
Supervisor: Dr. Ian Strachan
Photo of Natalie de Freitas de Freitas, Natalie (she/her) Research Key Words: Biogeochemistry, Hydrology, Arctic, Permafrost
Supervisor: Dr. Melissa Lafrenière
Photo of Zainab Gharib Gharib, Zainab Email: 15zg15@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: historic aerial imagery; stereoscopy; deep learning-based super-resolution; GIS; landscape change
Supervisor: Dr. George Bevan
Sofia Guest Guest, Sofia Email: 22smg@queens.ca
Research Key Words: Glaciology, Isotopes, Arctic, Climate Change, Firn
Supervisor: Dr. Laura Thomson and Dr. Alison Criscitiello
Darby Hayward Hayward, Darby (she/her)

Email: 19dkh@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Greenhouse Gas Exchange, Peatlands, Climate Change, Restoration
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Nicole Johnson Johnson, Nicole (she/her) Email: 18nmj2@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: geochemistry, glaciology, hydrology
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MJ Jumeau Jumeau, Madison ("MJ") (she/any) Email: 24bb99@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Microtopography, peatlands, climate change
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Malaika Khan Khan, Malaika (she/her) Email: 24rd27@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Biogeochemistry, Climate Change, Agriculture, Soil Science
Supervisor: Dr. Neal Scott
Meagan Moroney Moroney, Meagan (she/her/they) Email: 24bnw7@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: UAV, Permafrost, Climate Change
Supervisor: Dr. Robert Way
Samuel Poirier Poirier, Samuel Email: 23tbg1@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Hydrology, Arctic, Permafrost, Climate Change, Biogeochemistry
Supervisor: Dr. Melissa Lafrenière
Declan Roche Roche, Declan (he/him) Email: 20dwr2@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Carbon emissions, land atmosphere gas exchange
Supervisor: Dr. Christopher Omelon
Ozlem Sencan Sencan, Ozlem (she/her) Email: 17os5@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Microwave remote sensing, synthetic aperture radar methods, applications, image processing and data analysis
Supervisor: Dr. George Bevan
Jingheng Yan Yan, Jingheng

Email: 17jy55@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: GIS; Urban Planning; Remote Sensing; COVID
Supervisor: Dr. Dongmei Chen

Photo of Samiha Zaman Zaman, Samiha (she/her) Email: samiha.zaman@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: carbon management; ecology; carbon sequestration; sustainability
Supervisor: Dr. Warren Mabee

Geography M.A. Candidates

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Liat Schultz Schultz, Liat (she/her) Email: 25vnd@queensu.ca
Research Key Words: Playfulness, Relational Placemaking, Spatial Affordances, Social Responsiveness
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