| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
The PhD program in Geography at the University of Manitoba offers students the opportunity to work with world-class researchers on problems and opportunities stemming from a changing environment. The program's interdisciplinary approach spans the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, with research areas including atmospheric science, biogeography, culture, environmental chemistry, glaciology, geomatics, global politics, resources, and sea ice. Students complete a minimum of 12 credit hours of coursework, attend department seminars, present original research at conferences, and complete a candidacy exam and dissertation.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The PhD program in Geography at the University of Manitoba offers students the opportunity to work with world-class researchers on problems and opportunities stemming from a changing environment. Research within the program flows from the interdisciplinary approach of the department that spans the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Outline:
Content:
- Atmospheric science and surface-atmosphere coupling
- Biogeography and terrestrial ecology
- Culture, identity and space
- Environmental chemistry and toxicology
- Glaciology and paleoclimate
- Geomatics and remote sensing
- Global politics, justice and sustainability
- Resources environment and society
- Sea ice and ocean science
Structure:
- Minimum 12 credit hour course requirement
- Attendance and presentation of original research at two department seminars
- Attendance and presentation at academic and/or professional conferences or seminars as approved by supervisor
- Candidacy exam
- Dissertation
Course Schedule:
- GEOG 7200: Environment, Resources, and Population
- GEOG 7360: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Issues in the Environment
- GEOG 7380: Advanced Ecotoxicology: Understanding Stress Ecology
- GEOG 7400: Field Topics in Arctic Systems
- GEOG 7420: Synoptic Meteorology and Weather Analysis
- GEOG 7440: Climate Change
- GEOG 7580: Gender and the Human Environment
- GEOG 7780: Storms-Mesoscale
- GEOG 7940: Sea Ice in Arctic Marine System
- GEOG 7960: Oceanography: Biological II High Trophic Levels
Individual Modules:
- Atmospheric science and surface-atmosphere coupling: Surface climates, future changes in climate extremes including severe weather, mesoscale meteorology, biogeophysics of surface heat and mass exchange, atmospheric dynamics, thermodynamics and severe weather.
- Biogeography and terrestrial ecology: Socio-ecology of risk, restoration ecology of prairie, riparian forest and urban habitat, population dynamics and dispersal of invasive species.
- Culture, identity and space: The relationship between identity, culture and the landscape, especially within experience-driven landscapes, like those associated with recreation and tourism.
- Environmental chemistry and toxicology: The chemical processes, and transport of contaminants across environmental interfaces, ecotoxicology; ecological risk assessment and water quality.
- Glaciology and paleoclimate: Glacier and ice sheet dynamics, ice-ocean interaction, iceberg calving and evolution, paleoclimate through ice cores
- Geomatics and remote sensing: Closely integrated with the other five themes, this involves the development of techniques for the gathering and analysis of information.
- Global politics, justice and sustainability: The link between economic, socio-cultural, ecological and political systems, with a strong emphasis on social justice and sustainability.
- Resources environment and society: Critical analysis of the production and use of resources within varying scales.
- Sea ice and ocean science: Sea ice geophysics, polar marine systems, trophic structure, energy and contaminant flows.
Assessment:
- Coursework
- Candidacy exam
- Dissertation
