Recent publications

Bold – UVic Geography faculty member
Bold Italic – UVic Geography current or former graduate student

• Bates, B., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Wu, S., Arnell, N., Bakker, K., Burkett, V., Döll, P., Gwary, D., Heij, B., Jimenez, B., Kaser, G., Kitoh, A., Kovats, S., Kumar, P., Magadza, C., Martino, D., Mata, L., Medany, M., Oki, T., Osman, B., Prowse, T., Pulwarty, R., Räisänen, J., Renwick, J., Tubiello, F., Wood, R., and Zhao, Z-C. (2008). Climate Change and Water. Technical paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC Secretariat, Geneva, 210 pp.
• Bauer, B.O., Davidson-Arnott, R.G.D., Hesp, P.A., Namikas, S.L., Ollerhead, J., and Walker, I.J. (2009). Aeolian sediment transport conditions on a beach: Surface moisture, wind fetch, and mean transport rates. Geomorphology, 105(1-2): 106-116.
• Beltaos, S., and Prowse, T.D. (2009). River ice hydrology in a shrinking cryosphere. Hydrological Processes, 23(1): 122-144.
• Berger, M., and Jelinski, D.E. (2008). Spatial patterns of maternal investment in Strongylocentrotus franciscanus along a marine-terrestrial gradient. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 364: 107-10.
• Berland, A., Nelson, T.A., Stenhouse, G., Graham, K., and Cranston, J. (2008). The impact of landscape disturbance on grizzly bear habitat use in the Foothills Model Forest, Alberta, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 226: 1875-1883.
• Birks, S.J., and Gibson, J.J. (2009). Isotope hydrology research in Canada, 2003-2007. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 34(2): 163-176.
• Buranapratheprat, A., Niemann, K.O., and Matsumura, S. (2009). MERIS imageries to investigate surface chlorophyll in the upper Gulf of Thailand. Coastal Marine Science, 33(1): 22-28.
• Canessa, R. (2008). Seascape geovisualization for marine planning. Geomatica, 62(4): 375-392.
• Cloutier-Fisher, D., and Harvey, J. (2009). Home beyond the house: experiences of place in an evolving retirement community. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 29(2): 246-255.
• Cloutier-Fisher, D., and Kobayashi, K. (2009). Intersections of gender and geography among socially isolated older adults: Findings from the 2000-01 Canadian Community Health Survey. Gender, Place and Culture, 16(2): April, 181-199.
• Cooper, L.W., McClelland, J.W., Holmes, R.M., Raymond, P.A., Gibson, J.J., Guay, C.K., and Peterson, B.J. (2008). Flow-weighted values of runoff tracers (d18O, and concentrations of DOC, Ba, Alkalinity) from the six largest Arctic rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L18606, doi:10.1029/2008GL035007.
• Davidson-Arnott, R.G.D., Bauer, B.O., Walker, I.J., Hesp, P.A., Ollerhead, J., and Delgado-Fernandez, I. (2009). Instantaneous and mean aeolian sediment transport rate on beaches: An intercomparison of measurements from two sensor types. Journal of Coastal Research, SI56: 297-301.
• Dearden, P., and Mitchell, B. (2009). Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian perspective. Toronto: Oxford University Press. 3rd edition 624pp.
• Duncanson, L.I., Niemann, K.O., and Wulder, M.A. (in press). Estimating forest canopy height and terrain relief from GLAS waveform metrics. Remote Sensing of Environment.
• Eamer, J.B., and Walker, I.J. (in press). Quantifying sand storage capacity of large woody debris on beaches using LIDAR. Geomorphology.
• Flaherty, M., Samal, K., Pradhan, D., and Ray, S. (2009). Coastal Aquaculture in India: Poverty, Environment and Rural Livelihood. New Delhi: Concept Publishing.
• Furgal, C., and Prowse, T. (2008). Northern Canada. In D.S. Lemmen, F.J. Warren, J. Lacroix and E. Bush (Eds.), From Impacts to Adpatation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007. (Contributing Authors: T.R. Christensen, D.L. Forbes, F.E. Nelson, M. Nuttall, J.D. Reist, G. A. Rose, J. Vandenberghe, F.J. Wrona). (lead/contributing authors listed alphabetically).
• Gibson, J.J., Fekete, B., and Bowen, G. (in press). Stable isotopes in large scale hydrological applications. In J.B. West, G.J. Bowen, T.E. Dawson, and K.P. Tu (Eds.), Isoscapes: Understanding Movement, Pattern, and Process on Earth Through Isotope Mapping (Chapter 18). New York: Springer.
• Gibson, J.J., Birks, S.J., and Edwards, T.W.D. (2008). Global prediction of d_A and d²H-d¹⁸O evaporation slopes for lakes and soil water accounting for seasonality. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB2031, doi:10.1029/2007GB002997.
• Gibson, J.J., Sadek, M.A., Stone, D.J.M., Hughes, C., Hankin, S., Cendon, D.I., and Hollins, S.E. (2008). Evaporative isotopic enrichment as a constraint on reach water balance along a dryland river. Isotopes in Environment and Health Studies, 44: 83-98, DOI: 10.1080/10256010801887489.
• Goring, S., Pellatt, M.G., Lacourse, T., Walker, I.R., and Mathewes, R.W. (2008). New methodology for reconstructing climate and vegetation from modern pollen assemblages: An example from British Columbia. Journal of Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02021.x.
• Gutberlet, J. (2008). Recycling Citizenship, Recovering Resources: Urban Poverty Reduction in Latin America. Ashgate, Aldershot, 163 pp.
• Gutberlet, J. (2008). Empowering collective recycling initiatives: Video documentation and action research with a recycling co-op in Brazil. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 52: 659-670.
• Gutberlet, J., and Baeder, A. (2008). Informal recycling and occupational health in Santo André, Brazil. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 18(1): 1-15.
• Gutberlet, J., and Hunter, A. (2008). Social and environmental exclusion at the edge of São Paulo, Brazil. Urban Design International, 13: 3-20.
• Haynes, T.B., Robinson, C.K.L., and Dearden, P. (2008). Modelling nearshore intertidal habitat use of young-of-the-year Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) in Barkley Sound, British Columbia, Canada. The Environmental Biology of Fishes, 83: 473-484.
• Jackson, S.I., and Prowse, T.D. (2009). Spatial variation of snowmelt and sublimation in a high-elevation semi-desert basin of western Canada. Hydrological Processes, 23: 2611-2627.
• Johnson, L.A., and Dearden, P. (2009). Fire, seasonal evergreen forests, conservation and mainland Southeast Asia. In M.A. Cochrane (Ed.), Tropical Fire Ecology: Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics (pp. 289-306). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Praxis.
• Joyce, A., and Canessa, R. (in press). Spatial and temporal changes in access rights to shellfish resources in British Columbia. Coastal Management, 37(6).
• Kobayashi, K., Cloutier-Fisher, D., and Roth, M. (2009). Making meaningful connections: A profile of social isolation and health among older adults in small town and small city, British Columbia. Journal of Aging and Health, 21(2): 374-397.
• Komick, N.M., Costa, M.P.F., and Gower, J. (2009). Bio-optical algorithm evaluation for MODIS for western Canada coastal waters: An exploratory approach using in situ reflectance. Remote Sensing of the Environment, 113(4): 794-804.
• Lacourse, T. (2009). Environmental change controls postglacial forest dynamics through interspecific differences in life-history traits. Ecology, 90: 2149-2160.
• Lonergan, S. et al. (2009). Managing for Change: The Present and Future State of the Iraqi Marshlands. Monograph (32 pp). Ottawa: Canadian International Development Agency.
• Mesquita, P.S., Wrona, F.J., Prowse, T.D. (2008). Effects of permafrost degradation on sediment chemistry and benthic macrophyte and invertebrate communities of upland tundra lakes. Proc. 9th Internat. Conf. on Permafrost.
• Mews, M., Zimmer, M., and Jelinski, D.E. (2008). Species-specific decomposition rates of beach-cast wrack in Barkley Sound, British Columbia, Canada. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 328: 155-160.
• Nathoo, T., and Ostry, A. (2009). The One Best Way? Breastfeeding History, Politics, and Policy in Canada, 1850-2007. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier Press.
• Nelson, T.A., and Boots, B. (2008). Detecting spatially explicit hot spots in landscape-scale ecology. Ecography, 31(5), 556-566.
• Nelson, T.A., Duffus, D., Robertson, C., and Feyrer, L.J. (2008). Spatial-temporal patterns in intra-annual gray whale foraging: Characterizing interactions between predators and prey. Marine Mammal Science, 24(2): 356-370.
• Niemann, K.O. (2009). Evaluation of Emerging Remote Sensing Technologies for the Assessment of Forest Resources. Report prepared for BC Forest Sciences Programme, BC Ministry of Forest and Range, and Canfor Inc. 97 pages.
• Niemann, K.O., Frazer, G., Loos, R., and Visintini, F. (2009). LiDAR-guided analysis of airborne hyperspectral data. Whispers - 2009, Grenoble, France (cd- proceedings).
• Ostry, A. (in press). An exploration of the gap in health status between urban and rural Canadians. In A. Kulig and A. Williams (Eds.), Rural Health: A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Ostry, A. (2009). Globalization and the marginalization of unskilled labor: Potential impacts on health in developed nations. International Journal of Health Services, 39(1): 45-45.
• Ostry, A. (2009). The foundations of national public hospital insurance in Canada. Invited article for a special issue of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 26(2): 21-42.
• Ostry, A., and Morrison, K. (2008). Developing and utilizing a database for mapping the temporal and spatial variation in the availability of "local foods" in British Columbia. Environment (Special Issue on Food and Environment), 36(1): 21-33.
• Pradhan, D., and Flaherty, M. (2008). National initiatives, local effects: Trade liberalisation and shrimp aquaculture in India. Society and Natural Resources, 21(1): 63-76.
• Prowse, T.D., Furgal, C., Melling, H., and Smith, S.L. (2009). Implications of climate change for northern Canada: The physical environment. Ambio, 38(5): 266-271.
• Prowse, T.D., Furgal, C., Wrona, F.J., and Reist, J.D. (2009). Implications of climate change for northern Canada: freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Ambio, 38(5): 282-289.
• Quinn, G., Niemann, K.O., and Goodenough, D. (2009). Estimating foliar biochemistry from reflectance and the detection of Phellinus sulphurascens induced stress. Whispers - 2009, Grenoble, France (cd- proceedings).
• Robertson, C., Nelson, T.A., Jelinski, D.E., Wulder, M.A., and Boots, B. (2009). Spatial-temporal analysis of species' range expansion: The case of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae. Journal of Biogeography, 36: 1446-1458.
• Robertson, C., Wulder, M.A., Nelson, T.A., and White, J.C. (2008). Risk rating for mountain pine beetle infestation of lodgepole pine forests over large areas with ordinal regression modelling. Forest Ecology and Management, 256: 900-912.
• Rose-Redwood, R. (2008). 'Sixth Avenue is now a memory': Regimes of spatial inscription and the performative limits of the official city-text. Political Geography, 27(8): 875-894.
• Rose-Redwood, R., Alderman, D., and Azaryahu, M. (Eds.) (2008). Special issue on collective memory and the politics of urban space. GeoJournal, 73(3), 161-253.
• Rose-Redwood, R. (2008). From number to name: Symbolic capital, places of memory, and the politics of street renaming in New York City. Social & Cultural Geography, 9(4): 432-452.
• Rose-Redwood, R. (2008). Indexing the great ledger of the community: Urban house numbering, city directories, and the production of spatial legibility. Journal of Historical Geography, 34(2): 286-310.
• Rose-Redwood, R. (2008). Genealogies of the grid: Revisiting Stanislawski's search for the origin of the grid-pattern town. Geographical Review 98(1): 42-58.
• Serra-Sogas, N., O'Hara, P., Canessa, R., Keller, C.P., and Pelot, R. (2008). Visualization of spatial patterns and temporal trends for aerial surveillance of illegal oil discharges in western Canadian marine waters. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 56(5): 825-833.
• Setton, E.L., Keller, P., Cloutier-Fisher, D., and Hystad, P. (2010). Gender-based differences in estimates of commuters' exposure to traffic-related air pollution – a simulation study. Professional Geographer, Spring.
• Setton, E.M., Keller, C.P., Cloutier-Fisher, D., and Hystad, P.W. (2008). Spatial variations in estimated chronic exposure to traffic-related air pollution in working populations - A simulation. International Journal of Health Geographics, 7: 39 (18 Jul 2008) (doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-7-39).
• Silva, T.S.F., Costa, M.P., and Melack, J.M. (2010). Assessment of two biomass estimation methods for aquatic vegetation growing on the Amazon floodplain. Aquatic Botany, 92(3): 161-167.
• Silva, T.S.F., Costa, M.P., and Melack, J.M. (2009). Annual net primary production of macrophytes in the eastern Amazon Floodplain. Wetlands, 29(2): 747-758.
• Silva, T.S.F., Costa, M.P., Melack, J.M., Novo, E.M.L.M. (2008). Remote sensing of aquatic vegetation: theory and applications. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 140: 131-145.
• Szuster, B., Chalermwat, K., Flaherty, M., and Intacharoen, P. (2008). Periurban oyster farming in the Upper Gulf of Thailand. Aquaculture Economics and Management, 12(4): 268-288.
• Theberge, M., Dearden, P., and Yasué, M. (in press). Using underwater cameras to assess the effects of snorkeler or SCUBA diver presence on coral reef fish abundance, family richness and species composition. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
• Thompson, M.S., Kokelj, M.S., Prowse, T.D., and Wrona, F.J. (2008). The Impact of Sediments Derived from Thawing Permafrost on the Colour, Organic Matter and Ionic Concentrations of Tundra Lake Water. Proc. 9^th Internat. Conf. on Permafrost.
• Tremblay, C., Gutberlet, J., and Peredo, A.M. (in press). United we can: Resource recovery, place and social enterprise. Resources, Conservation & Recycling.
• Walker, I.J. (in press). Changing views in Canadian geomorphology: Are we seeing the landscape for the processes? The Canadian Geographer.
• Walker, I.J., Hesp, P.A., Davidson-Arnott, R.G.D., Bauer, B.O., Namikas, S.L., and Ollerhead, J. (2009). Responses of three-dimensional flow to variations in the angle of incident wind and profile form of dunes: Greenwich Dunes, PEI, Canada. Geomorphology, 105(1-2): 127-138.
• Walker, I.J., Davidson-Arnott, R.G.D., Hesp, P.A., Bauer, B.O., and Ollerhead, J. (2009). Mean flow and turbulence responses in airflow over foredunes: New insights from recent research. Journal of Coastal Research, SI56: 366-370.
• Wohlfarth, B.W., Veres, D.S., Ampel, L., Lacourse, T., Blaauw, M., Preusser, F., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Kéravis, D., Lallier-Vergès, E., Björck, S., Davies, S., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Risberg, J., Hormes, A., Kasper, H.U., Possnert, G., Reille, M., Thouveny, N., and Zander, A. (2008). Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in western Europe, 40-16 ka. Geology, 36: 407-410.
• Wrona, F.J., Culp, J., and Prowse, T. (in press). Basin Management Approaches Used in a High-Latitude Northern Catchment: The Mackenzie River Basin. In The Handbook of Basin Management. Blackwell Scientific Press, London.
• Yasue, M., and Dearden, P. (2009). Methods to measure and mitigate the impacts of tourism development on tropical beach-breeding shorebirds: The Malaysian plover in Thailand. Tourism in Marine Environments, 5(4): 287-299.

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