Department of Geography

More than Talking Heads?!? How do administrative tribunals hear from the public? A report prepared for the Consumers’ Association of Canada – Manitoba Branch

Fitzpatrick, Patricia; Alabi, Babatunde (2021-04-30)

Consumers and the general public want a say in the decisions which affect them. However, access to meaningful engagement in regulatory decisions is uneven across jurisdictions, as well as across types of tribunals. Scholarship ...

A new staples industry? Complexity, governance and Canada's diamond mines

Fitzpatrick, Patricia J. (Oxford University Press, 2007)

The discovery of indicator minerals in the Slave geological province began a staking and development rush that, in a little over a decade, saw Canada becoming one of the world’s largest producers of diamonds. An examination ...

Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy

Leonhardt, Reata; Noble, Bram; Poelzer, Greg; Fitzpatrick, Patricia; Belcher, Ken; Holdmann, Gwen (Elsevier, 2021-10-28)

The adoption and encouragement of community energy, that is, the incentive to develop renewable energy projects with community participation and ownership, is a key ingredient of energy transition. Government policies and ...

Empowering Churchill: Exploring energy security in northern Manitoba

Kvern, Michael; Fitzpatrick, Patricia; Fishback, LeeAnn (Arctic Institute of North America, 2022-06-11)

To those living in Churchill, Manitoba, having power means much more than being able to turn on the lights. Using Churchill as a case study, we examine how local context can improve the suitability of energy security ...

Access to Environmental Justice: A Manitoba Toolkit for Improving Public Participation; Final Project Report, February 2021

Fast, Heather; Griffin-Rill, Max; Fitzpatrick, Patricia (Manitoba Eco-network, The University of Winnipeg, and Public Interest Law Centre, 2021-02)

This final report details the implementation of the Manitoba Law Foundation funded project: Access to Environmental Justice: A Manitoba Toolkit for Improving Public Participation. The project materialized as a 6-part public ...

Linking dominant rainfall-runoff event hydrologic response dynamics with nitrate and chloride load estimates of three boreal Shield catchments

Ross, C. A.; Casson, N. J.; Tenuwara, M. (American Geophysical Union, 2021-08-21)

Understanding hydrological dynamics in boreal Shield catchments is critical for projecting changes in stream runoff and chemistry in a region that is sensitive to climate change. Previous work has mostly focused on a limited ...

Hydrological and catchment controls on event-scale dissolved organic carbon dynamics in boreal headwater streams

Ducharme, Adrienne A.; Casson, Nora J.; Higgins, Scott N.; Friesen-Hughes, Karl (Wiley, 2021-06-23)

Hydrological events transport large proportions of annual or seasonal dissolved organic carbon (DOC) loads from catchments to streams. The timing, magnitude and intensity of these events are very sensitive to changes in ...

Reenvisioning an Energy Strategy for Manitoba: Planning for 2030 and Beyond

Robb, Kate; Fitzpatrick, Patricia (University of Winnipeg, 2020)

On March 10, 2020 the Re-envisioning an Energy Strategy for Manitoba: Planning for 2030 and Beyond workshop was held at The University of Winnipeg. The purpose of the event was to initiate a discussion amongst Manitobans ...

Manitoba. Public Utilities Board. Efficiency Manitoba 2020/23 Efficiency Plan Submission; Testimony of Dr. Patricia Fitzpatrick for Consumers' Association of Canada (Manitoba) and Winnipeg Harvest ("the Consumers Coalition"), December 9, 2019.

Fitzpatrick, Patricia (Manitoba Public Utilities Board, 2019)

Building the System: Follow-up, monitoring & adaptive management

Fitzpatrick, Patricia; Williams, Byron (University of Winnipeg, 2020-04-08)

Does impact assessment (IA) end when the license has been granted? While societal resources tend to focus on rigorous project approvals, what happens to the project, to the public and to the environment once approval is ...

Automated LULC Map Production using Deep Neural Networks

Henry, Christopher J.; Storie, Christopher; Palaniappan, Muthu; Alhassan, Victor; Swamy, Mallikarjun; Aleshinloye, Damilola; Curtis, Andrew; Kima, Daeyoun (Taylor & Francis, 2019-01-17)

This article presents an approach to automating the creation of land-use/land-cover classification (LULC) maps from satellite images using deep neural networks that were developed to perform semantic segmentation of natural ...

A Deep Learning Framework: Land-Use/Land-Cover Mapping and Analysis using Multispectral Satellite Imagery

Alhassan, Victor; Henry, Christopher; Ramanna, Sheela; Storie, Christopher (Springer, 2019-07-17)

In this article, we present an approach to land-use and land-cover (LULC) mapping from multispectral satellite images using deep learning methods. The terms satellite image classification and map production, although used ...

Intra-urban analysis of commercial locations: A GIS-based approach

Storie, Christopher D. (2013)

The urban landscape is an interspersed mixing of residences, shops, theatres, parks, natural areas, and a multitude of other uses. From the early days of the central markets, to the planned downtown, to the heavily planned ...

Hydrological and seasonal controls of phosphorus in Northern Great Plains agricultural streams

Casson, Nora J.; Wilson, Henry F.; Higgins, Stephanie (Alliance of Crop, Soil., and Environmental Science Societies, 2019)

Controls on nutrient transport in cold, low relief agricultural regions vary dramatically among seasons. The spring snowmelt is often the dominant runoff and nutrient loading event of the year. However, climate change may ...

Isotopic reconstruction of the weaning process in the archaeological population of Canímar Abajo, Cuba: A Bayesian probabilities mixing models approach

Chinique de Armas, Yadira; Roksandic, Mirjana; Nikitović, Dejana; Rodríguez Suárez, Roberto; Smith, David; Kanik, Nadine; García Jordá, Dailys; Buhay, William M. (Public Library of Science, 2017-05-01)

The general lack of well-preserved juvenile skeletal remains from Caribbean archaeological sites has, in the past, prevented evaluations of juvenile dietary changes. Canímar Abajo (Cuba), with a large number of well-preserved ...

The role of wetland coverage within the near-stream zone in predicting of seasonal stream export chemistry from forested headwater catchments

Casson, Nora J.; Eimers, M. Catherine; Watmough, Shaun A.; Richardson, Murray C. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2019-02-19)

Stream chemistry is often used to infer catchment‐scale biogeochemical processes. However, biogeochemical cycling in the near‐stream zone or hydrologically‐connected areas may exert a stronger influence on stream chemistry ...