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Carleton University (CU)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Carelton university, Canada’s capital university, is located in Ottawa, Canada. It has international reputation for its geoscience, geography, and environment-related programs.

Carelton offers a wide range of GIS-related disciplines and offers four graduate degrees in different disciplines (MA, MSc, and PhD).

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  • Department of geography and Environmental Studies -The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies has three programs of study leading to an undergraduate degree in Geography, Geomatics and Environmental Studies. Students can obtain a B.A. or a B.Sc., Honours, or Combined Honours Degree. At the graduate level, M.A., M.Sc., and Ph.D. programs are offered.

    Professors:

  • Dipto Sarkar: GIScience, Social Network Analysis, OpenStreetMap, and Biodiversity Conservation;
  • [Peter Pulsifer(https://carleton.ca/geography/people/peter-pulsifer/): Geospatial data interoperability; Participatory Mapping; GIS, Remote Sensing, Cartography and Visualization; Community-driven Geomatics; Building Communities of Practice;
  • Koreen Millard: Multi-sensor data fusion for improved understanding of hydrology/vegetation change and interactions; Modelling spatial and temporal biophysical variables with time-series remote sensing and field-measurements; Machine learning image classification for mapping environmental change;
  • Murray Richardson: Northern watershed ecosystems, high resolution landscape analysis and environmental geo-computation
  • Sheryl-Ann Simpson: Migration, place and citizenship; Environmental justice, health and well-being; Spatial analysis (participatory, quantitative, qualitative, interpretive).

University of British Columbia (UBC)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The University of British Columbia, or UBC, is located in Vancouver, Canada, with campuses in Vancouver and Okanagan. It has international reputation for its geoscience, geography, and environment-related programs.

UBC offers a wide range of GIS-related disciplines and offers four graduate degrees in different disciplines (MA, MASc, MSc, and PhD) as well as master’s degrees in other related departments, including the Department of Forestry, which offers a master’s degree in Environmental Geomatics. The Okanagan campus hosts a Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences. The rest of the related programs located on the main campus in Vancouver.

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Professors:

  • Brett Eaton: Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS, Water, Ice, Landscapes
  • Brian Klinkenberg: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS
  • Dan Hiebert: Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows, Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS
  • Dan Moore: Water, Ice, Landscapes
  • Derek Gregory: Knowledge, Ideas, Practices Power, Colonialism, Justice War, Security, States
  • Elvin Wyly: Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS, Gender, Race, Class Knowledge, Ideas, Practices.
  • Geraldine Pratt: Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows Gender, Race, Class Knowledge, Ideas, Practices Power, Colonialism, Justice
  • Ian McKendry: Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows, Climate: Science, Change, Action
  • Jamie Peck: Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows Knowledge, Ideas, Practices
  • Jennifer Williams: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Climate: Science, Change, Action
  • Jessica Dempsey: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows, Gender, Race, Class, Power, Colonialism, Justice
  • Jessica Wang: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Knowledge, Ideas, Practices, War, Security, States
  • Jim Glassman: Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows, Gender, Race, Class, Power, Colonialism, Justice, War, Security, States
  • Juanita Sundberg: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Gender, Race, Class Knowledge, Ideas, Practices, Power, Colonialism, Justice
  • Karen Bakker: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows, Climate: Science, Change, Action, Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS, Knowledge, Ideas, Practices, Power, Colonialism, Justice, Water, Ice, Landscapes
  • Luke Bergmann: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics Cities, Economies, Transnational flows Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS
  • Marwan Hassan: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS, Water, Ice, Landscapes
  • Matthew Evenden: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Power, Colonialism, Justice, War, Security, States, Water, Ice, Landscapes
  • Merje Kuus: Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows, Climate: Science, Change, Action Knowledge, Ideas, Practices War, Security, States
  • Michele Koppes: Climate: Science, Change, Action, Knowledge, Ideas, Practices, Water, Ice, Landscapes
  • Naomi Klein: Climate: Science, Change, Action, Gender, Race, Class, Power, Colonialism, Justice
  • Naomi Schwartz: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Climate: Science, Change, Action, Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS, Water, Ice, Landscapes
  • Philippe Le Billon: Biodiversity, Ecology, Politics, Climate: Science, Change, Action, Knowledge, Ideas, Practices, Power, Colonialism, Justice, War, Security, States
  • Sally Hermansen: Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS
  • Sara Knox: Climate: Science, Change, Action, Water, Ice, Landscapes
  • Simon Donner: Climate: Science, Change, Action
  • Trevor Barnes: Cities, Economies, Transnational Flows, Digital Geographies, Geospatial Analysis, GIS, Knowledge, Ideas, Practices War, Security, States
  • Mathieu Bourbonnais: Geographic information sciences, spatial analysis and statistics, movement ecology, remote sensing;
  • Jonathan Cinnamon: digital geographies; data studies; GIS and society; science and technology studies; urban studies; surveillance; digital and visual methods; alternative urbanism;
  • Jon Corbett: Participatory Mapping, Geoweb, Community Based Research;

University of Calgary (U-Calgary)

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Founded in 1945 as a branch of the University of Alberta, and then as an independent institution since 1966, the University of Calgary has a reputation for geological and mapping engineering, as well as research in petroleum science.

The Department of Geography at the University of Calgary offers graduate programs in geospatial science, including remote sensing, geoinformation, navigation, mapping, spatial statistics, and geographic data mining. This program also has collaborative programs with other programs in the same department (e.g., resource geography, social geography, geomorphology, glaciology, etc.). There are two types of graduate programs: project-based (including MA, MSc and PhD degrees) and lecture-based (MGIS degrees). The subject-based degree requires participation in scientific research and completion of a thesis, during which time courses closely related to the research content are required. The taught degree MGIS does not require research participation, but requires more advanced courses related to geomatics and remote sensing with more comprehensive coverage, which also takes 2 years to complete. In addition to the Department of Geography, the University’s Department of Geomatics Engineering also has a GIS-related program.

The University of Calgary has a long and world-renowned history of surveying and mapping engineering, covering navigation, mobile surveying, GIS, and other fields. At present, the department is home to many famous scientists. The Department of Surveying and Mapping offers three graduate programs: a one-year taught master’s degree, a thesis master’s degree, and a PhD. The dissertation master’s degree is usually completed in 2 years, and the PhD is completed in 3-4 years. The dissertation master’s degree also has the opportunity to transfer to a PhD program.

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Department of Geography：

  • Darren Bender: GIS, quantitative spatial analysis, biogeography, ecology;
  • Stefania Bertazzon: spatial analysis, public health;
  • Ryan Burns: digital geography, social big data, cartography, web mapping;
  • Victoria Fast: Canadian Urban Geography, Urban GIS, Critical GIS, Feminist Geography, Smart Cities, Geographic Visualization & Cartography, GIS Application, Sociospatial analysis;
  • Geoff Hay: GIS, spatial data science, image processing, remote sensing;
  • Dan Jacobson: digital humanities, cartography, history of GIS;
  • Greg McDermid: remote sensing, environmental informatics.
  • Sayeh Bayat: Artificial Intelligence, Smart Cities, Health Monitoring, Mobility and Driving, Healthy Aging;

Department of Survey：

  • Steve Liang: device-cloud communications, cloud-cloud communications, geo-sensor networks, distributed computing;
  • Emmanuel Stefanakis: intelligent and autonomous systems, engineering for the environment, smart cities;
  • Xin Wang: big data, advanced analytics, AI and data analytics.

University of Guelph (Guelph)

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

The University of Guelph, located in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, is an outstanding comprehensive public university. The Department of Geography at the University of Guelph has degree programs in the MSc, MA and PhD pathways, with the MSc and PhD having a geomatics track. the MSc is a 2-year degree requiring participation in research and submission of a thesis, and the PhD is a 4-year degree requiring passing a qualifying exam and submission of a PhD thesis. In principle, a master’s degree with an A- or higher average in the master’s degree is required for the PhD, but very outstanding undergraduates will be considered. The Department has the opportunity to pursue a PhD directly after graduating with a Master’s degree.

The University of Guelph also has departments of Environmental Engineering, Science and Urban Planning, and offers PhD, MSc, MES, MEng, MASc, MPlan, MSc(Planning) degrees, with the Coursework and/or Major Research Project option for MEng and MES, and the MPlan. The all-course option is available and the MSc(Planning) option is available as an optional course + a major research paper instead of the Thesis option.

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Professors:

  • John Lindsay: GIS, digital terrain, LiDAR, GIS software development, hydrology;
  • Aaron Berg: remote sensing, hydrology;
  • Ben DeVries: GIS, remote sensing, wetland, flood;
  • Eric Nost: visualization, web mapping, political geography.

University of Toronto (UToronto)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The University of Toronto is located in Toronto, Canada’s largest city. It’s the largest public university in Canada. It has three campuses, namely St. George’s, Mississauga, and Scarborough, with St. George’s as the main campus located in downtown Toronto.

The Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto is one of the largest and oldest geography departments in Canada. It has GIS-related programs and instructors at all three campuses, and offers master’s and doctoral degrees. Research directions at UToronto include computer mapping, spatial statistics, metric geographic information, remote sensing, and geographic modeling. The three campuses of the University of Toronto also offer graduate degrees in earth sciences and geology.

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Professors:

St. George’s Campus:

  • Christian Abizaid: Economic Geography Environment & Climate Rural Social & Political Geography
  • Danny Harvey: Environment & Climate
  • Deborah Cowen: Policy & Planning Social & Political Geography Urban
  • Emily Gilbert: Culture & History Social & Political Geography
  • Harald Bathelt: Economic Geography Policy & Planning Urban
  • Jason Hackworth: Policy & Planning Urban
  • Jing Ming Chen: GIS, remote sensing, hydrological modeling, biogeochemistry;
  • Joseph Desloges: Environment & Climate Physical Geography
  • Karen Chapple: Economic Geography GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling Policy & Planning Urban
  • Katharine Rankin: Culture & History Economic Geography Policy & Planning Rural Social & Political Geography Urban
  • Matti Siemiatycki: Urban
  • Michael Widener: agent-based modeling, spatial optimization, transportation, health geography, web mapping.
  • Sarah Finkelstein: Environment & Climate Physical Geography
  • Tim Ross: Policy & Planning Urban
  • Lindsey Smith: Health geography, GIS, Epidemiology, Built environments, Transport geography, Food access;
  • Jane Liu: Environment & Climate GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling, Physical Geography;
  • Damian Maddalena: Environment & Climate GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling, Physical Geography, Rural;

Mississauga Campus:

Scarborough Campus:

  • Carl Mitchell: Physical Geography
  • Christopher Higgins: Economic Geography GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling Policy & Planning Urban
  • Mark Hunter: Culture & History Social & Political Geography Urban
  • Marney Isaac: Environment & Climate Physical Geography Social & Political Geography
  • Michael Ekers: Economic Geography Environment & Climate Social & Political Geography
  • Nicole Klenk: Environment & Climate Policy & Planning Rural Social & Political Geography Urban
  • Steven Farber: spatial analysis, transportation.
  • Zachary Hyde: Culture & History Economic Geography Rural Urban

Brock University (Brock)

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Established in 1964, Brock University is a public university located south of St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Brock University is near the shores of Lake Ontario and just ten minutes from Niagara Falls, a tourist destination on the U.S.-Canada border.

Brock University has a Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, whose programs are best known for tourism geography, which includes the study of tourism through GIS, and virtual online tourism technology. Graduate students have an MA program, with a two-year program requiring a thesis to be submitted and defended, and a one-and-a-half-year program with classes and a comprehensive final project report. Brock also has a Department of Earth Sciences, known for its research in glacial and Great Lakes geology, and offers an MSc graduate degree.

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University of Waterloo (UWaterloo)

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The University of Waterloo is located in Waterloo, Ontario, about 100 km southwest of downtown Toronto. It is located next to the Wilfrid Laurier University, another public university. The University of Waterloo is a public university with strong science and engineering disciplines, and also hosts the third largest graduate school of geography in Canada which is operated jointly with Wilfrid Laurier University.

The University of Waterloo’s GIS-related majors are mainly in the Department of Geography and Environment. This department has strong research interests in human geography, physical geography, cartography, geographic information, climate change, remote sensing, and aviation. GIS-related master’s programs include MA/MSc/PhD in Geography. The department offers a 2+2 joint training program for undergraduate students. In addition, the University of Waterloo’s School of Planning, Department of Engineering, and Department of Geosciences also offer GIS geography-related majors and mentors.

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Professors:

  • Richard Kelly: remote sensing, snow hydrology, snow climatology, geospatial modelling of snow, citizen science;
  • Derek T. Robinson: modeling and spatial analysis, land-use and land-cover change, land-management and the carbon cycle, land grabs, land policy, agent-based modelling, GIS;
  • Jonathan Li: mobile laser scanning, HD mapping, point cloud processing, machine learning, environmental monitoring, autonomous driving, geospatial intelligence;
  • Peter Johnson: agent-based models, GIS, GeoWeb, social media;
  • Peter Deadman: land use change, agent based models, wetland vegetation models, climate change impacts on water resources, enterprise GIS, geodatabase design;
  • Su-Yin Tan: RS, GIS, spatial statistics and data analysis, vegetation and climatology, public health and crime mapping, medical geography, environmental monitoring, GIS education;
  • Jane Law: health and crime GIS, spatial demography, spatial statistics, bayesian spatial analysis, hierarchical spatial modeling, spatial epidemiology, geomatics, land information systems;
  • Robert D. Feick: smart city, spatial data quality, volunteered geographic information (VGI), spatial data mining, spatial multi-criteria analysis;

York University (York)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

York University, located in North York, Toronto, Ontario, is the third largest public university in Canada, with faculties such as the Schulich School of Business, Osgoode Hall Law School, and the Lassonde School of Engineering. York has three campuses, including the main campus in Keele, the Glendon campus, and the Markham Centre campus, which is currently under construction.

The Department of Geography at York has a wide range of geographic research areas, including technical and applied topics such as geoinformatics. Specifically, the Department of Geography Graduate School has two categories: the Master’s program (MSc/MA) and the PhD program (PhD). The MSc program is a two-year program that requires a thesis or a first-authorship publication in an academic journal. The PhD program is 4 to 5 years long and in principle requires a master’s degree in geography from a reputable university with a B+ overall performance in the master’s program to be selected for the PhD program, but students who have a master’s degree in another field with outstanding results may also have the opportunity to be selected. Students in the PhD program are required to take a qualifying exam in their second year, which is based on three of the major research areas of the Department of Geography, and which examines the depth and breadth of knowledge accumulated by the students. Students in the final PhD program are required to submit and defend their PhD thesis before graduation.

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Professors:

  • Qiuming Cheng: GIS development, spatial analysis, modeling, remote sensing, quantitative geology, mineral resource;
  • Baoxin Hu: remote sensing of vegetation, photogrammetry, canopy modeling;
  • Ranu Basu: GIS for social sciences, social justice;
  • Tarmo Remmel: GIS algorithm, remote sensing, spatial analysis, forest, land cover.

University of Victoria (UVic)

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

The University of Victoria is located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, about 90 kilometers south of Vancouver on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, with the University on the northeastern edge of the city. The University of Victoria is the second oldest university in this province after UBC and offers a wide range of program options for students.

Geomatics is one of the major components of the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. This department hosts Space Science Research Lab, The SURREAL Lab, Spectral and Remote Sensing Lab, and ICE, all of which are labs related to GIS. There are also a number of subject groups related to physical geography, climate, and oceanography. The University of Victoria also offers postgraduate degrees in Earth and Ocean Sciences and Environmental Studies, as well as MA, MSc and PhD degrees.

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University of Saskatchewan (USask)

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

The University of Saskatchewan is located in the province of Saskatchewan and is the largest public university in the province. The University of Saskatchewan is located in one of Canada’s midwestern "prairie provinces" and the University’s geography-related research themes have many local features related to prairie culture and landscapes.

The Department of Geography and Planning has three graduate degree programs, namely MA, MSc and PhD. Major research areas include hydrology, biogeography, environment and natural resources, Canadian First Nations, northern regional planning, and cultural geography. The department’s programs are subdivided into three categories: human and locational geography, physical and environmental geography, and geographic technologies which includes the GIS. USask also offers geography, geology and GIS related subjects in the Department of Geological Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering.

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Professors:

  • Jay Famiglietti: remote sensing, hydrology;
  • Xulin Guo: remote sensing, ecology, physical geography, GIS;
  • Ehab Diabt: GIS, transportation, land use, spatial big data;
  • Avi Akkerman: spatial modeling, transportation, urban development.
  • Scott Bell: Health geography, Geographic Information Science, Human spatial cognition, Navigation and wayfinding, Cartography;

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada

Units: School of Natural Resources and Built Environment

Saskatchewan Polytechnic offers a one-year certificate program offered full time at Saskatchewan Polytechnic Prince Albert Campus.

Professors:

  • Ryan Galbraith: GIS, Python, ArcGIS Online, Remote Sensing
  • Teal Fisher: GPS, Project Management, GIS

Western University (UWO)

London, Ontario, Canada

Western University is a prestigious public university located in London, Ontario, Canada, and was previously known as the University of Western Ontario. The Department of Geography and Environment at this university has four major areas of study, including Geographic Information Science, Urban Studies, Environmental Development and Health, and Physical Geography. The GIS-related program includes topics in spatial modeling and visualization, cartography, database structures, pattern recognition, and applied GIS. It grants degrees of MSc, MA and PhD.

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Professors:

  • Michael Buzzelli: GIS, public health, society-space relationships, GeoWeb;
  • Isaac Luginaah: health geography, GIS;
  • Irena Creed: remote sensing, GIS, ecology, watershed, hydrology, biology;
  • Jinfei Wang: remote sensing;
  • Jed Long: GPS, movement, space-time models, spatial ecology, open source software;
  • Jason Gilliland: GIS, urban studies;
  • Jinhyung Lee: GIScience, spatial data science, transport geography, mobility/accessibility analytics, urban studies;
  • Jacek Malczewski: spatial statistics, spatial decision support, GIS, quantitative methods;
  • Agnieszka Leszczynski: GIS, digital geography digital platfroms in cities.

Simon Fraser University (SFU)

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Simon Fraser University is located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The main campus is built on Burnaby Mountain at an elevation of 365 metres, about 15 kilometers east of Vancouver. Simon Fraser University also has campuses in Surrey and Vancouver.

The SFU Department of Geography is one of the top departments in Canada, and the physical geography track (especially the study of climate change) is well known globally. Subjects and labs in the geographic information track include the Spatial Analysis and Modelling Lab (SAM), the Spatial Interface Research Lab, and the Spatial Health Group. In addition, Simon Fraser University also has graduate programs and postgraduate degrees in Earth Sciences, Environmental Management and Urban Studies.

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University of Alberta (Alberta)

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

The University of Alberta, located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, is a public university with a strong research record and a reputation for excellence in petroleum sciences, geology and earth sciences.

GIS-related programs at the University of Alberta are located in the Departments of Computer Science, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. In the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences there are Petroleum Geosciences and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences programs, where Petroleum Geosciences is only offered as an MSc degree. The Center for Intelligent Transportation established in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has faculty in transportation GIS and remote sensing. In addition the School of Urban and Regional Planning has a graduate program in Urban and Regional Planning and offers PhD and MSc graduate degrees.

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Professors:

  • Joerg Sander: spatial data mining, spatio-temoral indexing and querying, knowledge discovery in database;
  • Theresa Garvin: social geography, aging, urban planning, seniors, human geography;
  • Karim El-Basyouny: lidar remote sensing, intelligent transportation systems;
  • Tae J. Kwon: geostatistics in transportation, geomatics (RS/GIS), spatiotemporal analysis of road traffic and safety;
  • Amy Kim: transportation systems analysis, transportation economics, air transportation, public transportation.
  • Emily Grisé%20and%20public%20transport): transport & land use planning, pedestrian & bicycle planning, travel behaviour;

University of Manitoba (Manitoba)

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

The University of Manitoba is located in Winnipeg, the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, which is located in the Canadian hinterland and is full of distinctive culture and natural sceneries. The University of Manitoba is the largest public university in the province and the oldest in the western provinces of Canada. Today, the University of Manitoba has three campuses: Bannatyne, Fort Garry (main) and William Norrie Centre.

The University of Manitoba’s Department of Environment and Geography is known for its remote sensing and Arctic research. The department has many faculty members who use remote sensing, spatial statistics and numerical simulation to study the marine, environmental, ecological, and glacial aspects of the Arctic, and is also equipped with world-leading research equipment. Graduate degrees offered by the department include MA, MSc, MEnv and PhD. Within the graduate degrees, MA and PhD are usually awarded to students in human geography, MSc, MEnv and PhD are awarded to students in environmental science, and the remaining students (physical geography, ecogeography, remote sensing, GIS, etc.) usually receive an MSc degree.

The University of Manitoba also has a Department of Earth Sciences, which offers graduate subjects in the direction of geological sciences and offers graduate degrees such as MSc and PhD.

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Professors:

  • David G. Barber: remote sensing, sea ice, earth system science, Arctic;
  • Lisa Loseto: geobiology, spatial analysis and modeling, Arctic ecosystem;
  • Jens Ehn: remote sensing, modeling, oceanography, sea ice physics;
  • John Hanesiak: remote sensing, numerical methods, Arctic environment, climate;
  • Dustin Isleifson: remote sensing, numerical models, Arctic Ocean;
  • Stephane McLachlan: spatial analysis, ecology, environmental restoration, risk analysis;
  • Ronald Stewart: remote sensing, modeling, climatology, Rocky Mountains, Arctic;
  • David Walker: quantitative methods, terrestrial ecology, applied GIS, geostatistics

McMaster University (McMaster)

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

McMaster University is a public university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. McMaster University is in the northwest of the city of Hamilton, approximately 60 kilometers southwest of downtown Toronto. McMaster University is the alma mater of the famous geographer Michael Frank Goodchild. Spatial analysis is one of the main research directions of McMaster University’s School of Earth, Environment and Society (EES, formerly the School of Geography and Earth Sciences, renamed in June 2020), with scientific research and applications ranging from transportation, cities, environment, vegetation change, public health, etc.

The School of Earth, Environment & Society has a deep collaboration with Esri Canada. The Esri Centre of Excellence was founded in 2014, which focuses on how spatial information technology and ArcGIS products can be applied in new forms to teaching and research tasks in various disciplines. The graduate programs of the School are divided into three degrees: MA (Master of Arts), MSc (Master of Science) and PhD (Doctorate), where the MSc is awarded only in geomorphology, geochemistry and hydrogeology, and the MA will be awarded in spatial analysis. In general, the length of MA program is 2 years and PhD is 4 to 5 years, and you can declare PhD program directly with a bachelor’s degree.

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Professors:

  • Alemu Gonsamo: remote sensing, carbon cycle modeling, climate;
  • Antonio Paez: spatial analysis, geostatistics, spatial data science, transportation;
  • Darren Scott: GIS, transportation, spatial data science, big data, GPS technology;
  • Niko Yiannakoulias: GIS, spatial analysis, agent-based modeling, environmental informatics.

McGill University (McGill)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

McGill University, located in Montreal, the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec, is the oldest and oldest public university in Canada, and is known as one of the top three universities in Canada, along with the University of Toronto and UBC. Montreal is a French-speaking Canadian city, and McGill is an English-speaking university in that part of the country.

The Department of Geography at McGill University offers three graduate degrees: MA, MSc and PhD, of which the MSc program requires four core courses in your field and one geography research methods course in the first year, and a master’s project in the remainder of the first year and the second year. The MA option offers the opportunity to form a custom interdisciplinary program with the Departments of Economics, Sociology, Anthropology and History, and Roger Tomlinson, the father of GIS, is an alumnus of the department. The Platial Analysis Lab focuses on spatial and behavior geography；the Roger Tomlinson Lab for GIScience focuses on geospatial big data and GeoAI。

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Professors:

  • Raja Sengupta：GIS, spatial analysis, spatial decision, agent-based modeling, watershed management;
  • Margaret Kalacska: spatial analysis, machine learning, remote sensing;
  • Grant McKenzie: GIS, spatial analysis, geospatial data science, spatial behavior;
  • Kevin Manaugh: urban GIS, urban environment, social justice, transportation system;
  • Renee Sieber: participatory GIS, use of GIS in the environmental movement.

Queen's University (QU)

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Queen’s University is located in Kingston, Ontario. It was founded in 1841 and has a rich academic history. Queen’s University is a top-ranked, comprehensive public university with high quality research in many academic areas. It has a main campus and a west campus.

Queen’s University offers a postgraduate program in Geography/GIS with PhD, MSc and MA degrees in the Department of Geography and Planning, and a postgraduate program in Planning Studies with M.PL. degree. Queen’s University also offers PhD, MES, MSc and MASc postgraduate degrees in Geography, Environment, or GIS-related disciplines in the School of Environmental Studies and the Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering respectively.

Queen’s University and the Royal Military College of Kingston jointly established The GeoEngineering Centre in 2001 in Kingston to facilitate collaborative projects between faculty and staff. Members of the Centre are drawn from three different engineering departments at the two universities and are dedicated to innovation and advancement in geotechnical engineering, geohydrology, geochemistry, geomechanics and geosynthetics engineering. Through the development of collaborative research projects, with the involvement of partners such as and government, the Center provides excellent opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in multiple disciplines and fields.

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Professors:

  • Dongming Chen: GIS, remote sensing, spatial data analysis and modeling, change detection, machine learning methods;
  • George Bevan: Photogrammetry, Remotely Piloted Autonomous Systems, Cartography, Mobile GIS, Surveying, Historic Aerial and Satellite Imagery, Critical Heritage Studies, and Energy Geography

Dalhousie University (DU)

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Dalhousie University is a public research university with a rich history of over 200 years and has trained many of the world’s academic talent. Dalhousie has four campuses: the main Studley Campus in Halifax, the Carleton Campus in Halifax, the Sexton Campus in Halifax, and the Agricultural Campus in (Truro Township), with geography/GIS-related programs primarily located on the main campus and the Sexton Campus.

Dalhousie offers a variety of degree options in Earth and Environmental Sciences to meet the needs of students, with each program offering a hands-on, integrated approach to learning and the opportunity to work on projects of real-world significance. Dalhousie University offers a graduate program in environmental engineering and awards the MEng and MASc degrees. In addition, Dalhousie University offers the MPlan and MPS degrees in Planning in the School of Planning.

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Toronto Metropolitan Universtiy（TMU）

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Formerly known as the Ryerson University (RU), the Toronto Metropolitan Universtiy（TMU）was promoted to university status in 1993 when it began awarding master’s and doctoral degrees. Located in the heart of Toronto, Canada’s largest city, near the University of Toronto’s St. George’s campus, TMU is a typical urban campus where students can connect with leaders in culture, business, health care or government and have access to a wide range of employment opportunities.

TMU offers the Master of Spatial Analysis degree program in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. The Master of Spatial Analysis program is one of Ryerson’s two founding graduate programs. In 1993, after TMU was granted full university status by the Province of Ontario, it started planning a joint Master of Spatial Analysis program with the University of Toronto and became the sole host of this degree program since 2008. In addition, TMU offers graduate programs in Environmental Applied Science, Management, and Civil Engineering, with graduate degrees in PhD, MASc and MEng.

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Professors:

  • Anne Spice: Indigenous studies, settler colonialism, environmental justice, climate change, grassroots activism, Indigenous sovereignty, resource extraction and infrastructure, food studies, queer Indigenous feminism, decolonizing methodologies
  • Christopher Wellen: Mathematical Modelling, Hydrology, Water Quality, Agriculture, Urban Areas, Bayesian Statistics.
  • Claire Oswald: Geospatial analysis of watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry, pollutant fate and transport, water quality, landscape disturbance, urban ecosystems.
  • Claus Rinner: Geographic visualization, spatial decision support systems, participatory GIS, Web mapping, location-based services, geodata infrastructures, health and urban applications of GIS.
  • David Atkinson: Arctic biophysical systems, remote sensing, carbon flux, GIS and environmental analysis.
  • Eric Vaz: Spatial Analysis, Geographic Information Science, Complex Systems, Neogeography, Urban and Regional Geography, Spatial Decision Support Systems, Economic Geography, Business GIS, Information Management
  • Lu Wang: GIS and consumption analysis, GIS and health, spatial accessibility modeling and visualization, geostatistics, immigration and settlement, retail internationalization.
  • Richard Shaker: Environmental management; landscape dynamics & global change; spatial ecology; sustainability science; spatial analysis & quantitative methods
  • Tor Oiamo: Exposure assessment; environmental modelling; health risk assessment; GIS and spatial statistics; health and medical geography
  • Wayne Forsythe: Urban Change Detection, Geospatial Analysis of Sediment Contamination, Remote Sensing, GIS.

Concordia University (Concordia)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Concordia University is a comprehensive public university located in Montreal, the capital of the Quebec, Canada. Montreal is a French-speaking city, and Concordia University is the second university in the region to have English as its primary language of instruction. Concordia University was officially established on August 24, 1974, as a merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University. Concordia’s name comes from the Montreal motto "Concordia salus" which means "well-being through harmony".

Concordia University’s Department of Geography, Planning and Environment offers graduate programs in geography, urban and environmental studies and offers PhD and MSc graduate degrees with research interests in human geography, GIS, urban planning, environmental science, government policy and social justice advocacy. Montreal and its environs provide a rich venue for fieldwork and analysis, and in addition, the department offers a professional master’s program in environmental assessment graduate studies and offers the MEnv graduate degree. Concordia University also offers graduate programs related to environmental engineering in the Department of Engineering with PhD and MEng graduate degrees.

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Professors:

  • Sébastien Caquard: Cartography, GIS, Mapping narratives, Geovisualization, Geoweb, Geomedia, Oral History;
  • Pascale Biron: Hydro-geomorphology and river dynamics, River management in agricultural watersheds, Geographical Information Systems, Morphodynamic numerical modelling, Stream restoration for fish habitat;

University of Ottawa (UO)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Located in the heart of Canada’s capital city of Ottawa, neighboring many Canadian federal government agencies and institutions, the University of Ottawa’s advancements in the social sciences, health, engineering, sciences and humanities make it a unique place to learn, grow and excel. The University of Ottawa is the largest bilingual (English and French) university in the world.

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Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN)

St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

The Memorial University of Newfoundland is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Professors:

  • Max Liboiron: Globalization, economy & resources, sustainable communities & regions, health & well-being
  • Roza Tchoukaleyska: Public space planning, cultures of consumption, social sustainability

Carleton University

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Established during the World War 2, the Carleton University is a public research university in the capital city of Canada. Currently, this university has more than 65 academic units.

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Laval University

Université Laval

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Unit: Faculty of Forestry, Geography, and Geomatics

The Laval University has Master in Geomatic Sciences, Masters in Geomatics Applications and Geomatic Science PhD programs. The instructional language of this university is French, and good understanding of English is also required for graduate degree programs.

University of Northern British Columbia

Prince George, BC, Canada Department: Department of Geography

The University of Northern British Columbia is a small, research-intensive public university in British Columbia, Canada. The main campus is located in Prince George, with additional campuses located in Prince Rupert, Terrace, Quesnel, and Fort St. John. Graduate students at UNBC can choose from a set of interdisciplinary graduate degrees in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (NRES) and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Professors:

  • Roger Wheate: Cartography; GIS; remote sensing; map design and use; mapping from satellite image data;

University of Lethbridge

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Department: Department of Geography & Environment

The University of Lethbridge is located in southern Alberta, and has an enrollment of over 7,500 undergraduate students and about 550 graduate students. The Department of Geography & Environment has a current enrollment of approximately 30 graduate students, 20 of which are studying at the master’s level.

Professors:

  • Chris Hopkinson: Natural resources assessment and environmental modeling through the integration of GIS and terrestrial, airborne and satellite lidar remote sensing;
  • Stefan W Kienzle: Modeling impacts of environmental change on watershed hydrology, Creation of a digital Hydro-climatological Atlas of Alberta; GIS Applications in Wildlife Habitat and Behaviour;
  • Derek Peddle: Remote Sensing and GIS; Spatial Analysis and Computational Methods;
  • Wei Xu: China, urban and regional development, labor market dynamics, land use change, water resource management, research methods and GIS;

University of Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Department: Department of Geography & Environmental Studies

The University of Regina is well-reputed for having a focus on experiential learning[10]  and offers internships, professional placements and practicums in addition to cooperative education placements. Hoever, graduate program at the Department of Geography has been suspended until further notice. The Department is not currently offering a regular graduate program.

Professors:

  • Julia Siemer: Analysis and mapping of food accessibility, Population cartography, Thematic cartography, Visualization in geographic information systems;

Brandon University

Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Department: Department of Geography and Environment

Brandon University offers a graduate degree in Interdisciplinary Master of Science in Environmental and Life Sciences (MELS) program. The department of Geography and Environment is one of the ‘core’ departments, along with Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science and Geology. The department hosts the Centre for Geomatics, which is a dedicated computer lab with facilities for geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing and cartography. In addition, The John Langton Tyman Geography Reading Room houses a collection of atlases and topographic maps of Manitoba and Canada, as well as maps from around the world.

Professors:

  • Dion J. Wiseman: Application of GIS and remote sensing technologies for paleoenvironmental landscape reconstruction and geoarchaeological investigations;

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Department: Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Wilfrid Laurier University is a public university in Ontario, Canada, with campuses in Waterloo, Brantford and Milton. The joint program offers the following degree programs:

  • Master of Arts (MA) — Thesis stream or Research Paper stream; full-time or part-time
  • Master of Environmental Studies (MES) — Thesis stream or Research Paper stream; full-time or part-time
  • Master of Science (MSc) — Thesis stream, normally full-time only

The field of specialization includes Environmental and Resource Management, Environmental Science, Geomatics, and Human Geography.

Professors:

  • Sean Doherty: Health geography, physical activity, local food, parks, GPS tracking;
  • Steven A. Roberts: GIS, land use planning, spatial data models and data structures; combinatorial optimization; genetic algorithms; landscape ecology; and parallel and shared memory computing;

Laval University

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Department: Department of Geography

Université Laval is one of the world’s top 20 French-language universities. The department of Geography is under Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics. It offers both Master and Ph.D. degree for students: Master’s degree in geographical sciences with thesis; Master’s degree in Geographical Sciences-Applied Geography; Professional master’s degree in environmental biogeosciences; Master’s Microprogram in Climate Change (Distance) and Doctorate in Geographical Sciences.

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University of Montreal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Department: Department of Geography

The Université de Montréal is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university’s main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Mount Royal near the Outremont Summit, in the borough of Outremont. The Department of Geography offers Master’s in Geography; Specialized Graduate Diploma in Geography Applied to the Environment (in French); Short Graduate Program in Geomatics and Spatial Analysis (in French); and PhD in Geography. The Master’s in Geography program has 2 streams. First, Thesis option is designed for students aiming for careers in research or post-secondary teaching. Includes 36 credits for research and writing the dissertation. Second, internship or supervised project option is designed for students aiming for careers as professional geographers, this includes a practical training internship or a supervised project worth 15 credits.

Professors:

  • Liliana Perez: Agent-based modelling, Complex Systems, Cellular Automata, AI, GIScience;
  • François Girard: Forest, biogeography, GIS, Modelling and statistics, Plant ecology, Dendro-ecology, Dendro-climatology, Spatial analysis;

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Department: Department of Geography

The Université du Québec à Montréal, also known as UQAM, is a French-language public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the University of Quebec system. The Department of Geography offers MA and Msc in Geography and Specialized Graduate Diplomas (DESS). One of the stream of Msc in Geography is Professional Profile in Land Use Planning and Geographic Information Systems,a two year full-time program or four-year part time program. DESS in geographic information systems trains highly qualified professionals in geomatics: GIS, Earth observation image processing, digital cartography, geospatial databases and interactive web maps, GPS, analysis space and geomatics applications in various fields, including land surveillance.

Université de Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Department: Department of Applied Geomatics

The University of Sherbrooke is a French-language public research university in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, with a second campus in Longueuil, a suburb on the South Shore of Montreal. It is one of two universities in the Estrie region of Quebec, and the only French-language university for the region. The Department of Applied Geomatics offers Master’s degree in applied geomatics and remote sensing in both research type and course-based type, including the study of geomatics, computer-assisted mapping, web-based geographic information systems (GIS), modeling and spatial analysis.

Professors:

  • Samuel Foucher: Geospatial data science, Data cubes, Deep learning applied to graphs, SAR imagery processing, Radar Polarimetry, Geomatics Standards;
  • Mickaël Germain: GIS and Web Mapping, Geospatial databases, Machine learning and deep learning applied to geomatics, Mathematics applied to geomatics;