Faculty

Julia Siemer
Acting Department Head; Associate Professor; Coordinator, BGISc program
PhD (Potsdam)
Office: CL 329
E-mail: Julia.Siemer@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4405
Research interests
- Thematic cartography
- visualization in geographic information systems
- atlas cartography

Louis Awanyo
Professor (Luther College)
PhD (Queen's)
Office: Luther College 224
E-mail: Louis.Awanyo@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5042
Website: https://www.luthercollege.edu/university/academics/faculty-profiles/louis-awanyo
Research interests
- Development geography
- Africa
- political ecology
- agrobiodiversity and agrodiversity
- geopolitics
- geography of housing
- geography of tourism
- ecotourism

Mark Cote
Instructor III
MSc (Regina)
Office: CL 325.3
E-mail: Mark.Cote@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4879
Current classes
Spring/Summer 2022 - GES 100
Research interests
- Atmospheric science (meteorology and climatology)
- solar radiation
- environmental science

Emily Eaton
Associate Professor
PhD (University of Toronto)
Office: CL 340.2
E-mail: Emily.Eaton@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4034
Pronoun(s): She/her
Website: http://www.saskoil.org/
Current classes
Spring/Summer 2022 - GES 120
Research interests
- Fossil fuels
- just energy transitions
- natural resource economies
- political ecology and economy

Ulrike Hardenbicker
Associate Professor; Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program (On Sabattical)
PhD (Bonn)
Office: CL 325.1
E-mail: Ulrike.Hardenbicker@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4679
Research interests
- Badland erosion
- slope stability
- geomorphic hazards
- land degradation

Samantha Kerr
Assistant Professor
PhD (University of Regina)
Office: CL 325.2
E-mail: Samantha.Kerr@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4242
Pronoun(s): she/her
Research interests
- Paleoclimatology
- paleo-proxies
- hydroclimatic variability
- environmental modelling
- geographic information systems

Vanessa Mathews
Associate Professor
PhD (University of Toronto)
Office: CL 339
E-mail: Vanessa.Mathews@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5329
Research interests
- Craft beer
- building reuse
- heritage
- urban space
- urban planning
- gentrification
- embodied practice

Joseph Piwowar
Professor (On leave)
PhD (Waterloo)
Office: CL 411
E-mail: Joe.Piwowar@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-5273
Research interests
- Remote sensing
- geographic information systems
- climate change impacts
- northern mixed-grass prairie
- Arctic sea ice

David Sauchyn
Professor; Director, Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative
PhD (Waterloo)
Office: Second floor - 2 Research Drive, PARC (Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative)
E-mail: David.Sauchyn@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-337-2299
Research interests
- Hydroclimate of the past millennium
- response of watersheds to climate variability and change
- translation of climate change science for adaption decision making.
Staff

Mari-Louise Terblanche
Administrative Assistant
Office: CL 340
E-mail: ges.dept@uregina.ca
Phone: 306-585-4222