Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics
Understand our world!
Our programs provide you with a holistic and multi-faceted understanding of our world, and the issues our environment, people and planet face today. You’ll come out of our programs with the knowledge and hands-on skills that will make you highly employable.
We ensure you have the most useful learning experience through classes that provided computer-based geographical analysis skills and fieldwork experience in addition to conventional lectures. Learn to use technologies such as cartography and geomatics to solve geographical questions, and gain unforgettable field experience in Ottawa's backyard, Canada’s north and around the globe.
We also provide several options to enhance your learning experience such as the CO-OP program, where you get four paid internships and come out of your degree with real work experience, making you much more employable and giving you a big head start on your career.
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Events and Phipps-Langlois Seminars
ICCCASU 2025
Humanizing Urbanization: Housing, Livelihoods, and Sustainable Cities in a Changing World"You are invited to the 6th ICCCASU Conference. Taking place …
Annual Research Symposium of the Geography Graduate Students Association (GGSA).
We are excited to invite you to the upcoming Phipps Langlois GGSA Research Symposium taking place APRIL 3rd 2025 IN SMD 125 at 10AM to 1PM.This event …
Infrastructure Development and Community Food Security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region: Impacts of the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway.
Inuit food systems are culturally and geographically distinct, and experience challenges frominterconnected socio-political and ecological factors. Th…
Visualizing Climate Change: Knowledge Centers for Indigenous Communities in Canada.
All are welcome to attend this presentation of the Phipps-Langlois Seminars offered by the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics. Come, l…
Ecosystem archaeology: soil as a paleoecological archive.
Soil is the most long-lived component of terrestrial ecosystems, preserving traces of various disturbances for millennia. Examples of disturbances tha…
L'adaptation urbaine face aux stress combinés : cas de l'habitat lacustre de Ganvié au Bénin.
This research focuses on the study of urban adaptation in a lake environment and a specific community undergoing combined stress (demographic, climati…
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Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics
Simard Hall, room 047
60 University
Ottawa ON Canada K1N 6N5
Map
Tel.: 613-562-5725
[email protected]
Office Hours
Monday to Friday
From 8:00 a.m. to 12 p.m.
From 1 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
(June to August: closed at 3:30 p.m.)
Academic Office
Undergraduate studies
Simard Hall, room 128
How to reach us
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Graduate studies
Simard Hall, 4th floor, room 416
613 562-5800 ext. 5439
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