First Paper Award

The Department of Geography 'First Paper Award' recognizes a major accomplishment in a graduate student’s research career, the publication of a sole or first-authored paper. This award will be given to current students at the time they publish their first sole or first lead authored paper based on research completed as a graduate student at UTM in the Department of Geography. Students who previously published a first-authored paper prior to beginning their graduate work at UTM will still be eligible for the award. Students will receive recognition from the department and a $100 award. The award will also be publicized on the department’s website and social media.
 
Students or the faculty with whom they’ve worked should provide the Associate Chair-Research with the information for their first paper upon successful acceptance of that paper for publication. The goal of the award is to recognize the achievements of our graduate students in accomplishing this important milestone in their research careers.

Award winners - 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023. 2024

 

DateNameSupervisorTitle
November 3, 2024Kerstyn LutzM. Adams

Examining the impacts of school bus travel on students' academic performance in two major cities

DOI: 10.1111/cag.12957

October 21, 2024Alex MartinT. Conway

Using the Gini Index to quantify urban green inequality: A systematic review and recommended reporting standards

Landscape and Urban Planning 254, DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105231

April 15, 2024Hwang LeeY. He

Investigating crop performance on urban green roofs using hyperspectral data

Ecological Informatics, DOI:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102599

April 3, 2024Steven PhamA. Walks

Places left behind? Declining inner suburbs in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area, 1980-2015

Cities 146: DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104726

April 8, 2023Amanda NortonM. Adams

Are at-risk sociodemographic attributes stable across COVID-19 transmission waves?

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, DOI:10.1016/j.sste.2023.100586

February 27, 2023Scarlet RakowskaM. Adams

Examining the effects of green space accessibility on school performance for 3421 elementary schools

Landscape and Urban Planning 234:104731, DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104731

January 24, 2023Haifa Al ArasiR. BuliungExploring the tactical mobilities and everyday activity of immigrant adolescents in a Canadian suburban city, Children's Geographies, DOI: 10.1080/14733285.2023.2166816
July 14, 2022Hanlin ZhouJ. Wang,
K. Wilson		Investigating the association between the socioeconomic environment of the service area and fast food visitation: A context-based crystal growth approach. Health & Place. 76:102855
May 12, 2022Forrest HiseyA. OliveSupporting native grasslands in Canada: Lessons learned and future management of the Prairie Pastures Conservation Area (PPCA) in Saskatchewan. The Canadian Geographer. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12768
Feb. 3, 2022Andrew KaufmanA. WalksCanadian homeless mobilities: Tracing the inter‐regional movements of At Home/Chez Soi participants. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 65(3), 292-305. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cag.12658
February 2, 2022Leah MarajhA. Daniere,
Y. He		"Temperature Variation and Climate Resilience Action within a Changing Landscape" Remote Sensing 14, no. 3: 701.
August 27, 2021Shervin Ghaem-MaghamiV. KuuireImmigrants Serving in Local Government: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Factors Affecting Candidacy and Election. Urban Affairs Review.
June 14, 2021Irenus KonkorV. KuuireExamining the Relationship Between Occupational Physical Activity and Hypertension Status: Evidence from the Ghana WHO Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health, Annals of Work Exposures and Health
April 8, 2021Jae PageL. Besco, 
T. Conway		Dispossession through collision: low-Earth orbit and planetary sustainability
January 19, 2021Jordan AharoniR. BuliungUniversity and College Travel for Students with Mobility Impairment(s) in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Canada. Findings
January 19, 2021Alexis L. RobinsonL. BrownThe Influence of Snow and Ice Albedo towards Improved Lake Ice Simulations. Hydrology 8(1), 11
September 14, 2020Alicia DauginisL. BrownSea ice and snow phenology in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from 1997 – 2018. Arctic Science
May 13, 2020Gerard OtinianoT. PorterA late-Miocene to late-Pleistocene reconstruction of precipitation isotopes and climate from hydrated volcanic glass shards and biomarkers in central Alaska and Yukon. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
September 18, 2019Beibei ZhangA. WalksSocial Policies, Financial Markets and the Multi-scalar Governance of Affordable Housing in Toronto
September 11, 2019Mitchell BonneyY. HeAttributing drivers to spatio-temporal changes in tree density across a suburbanizing landscape since 1944
August 15, 2019Spencer ElfordM. AdamsExposure to ultrafine particulate air pollution in the school commute: Examining low-dose route optimization with terrain-enforced dosage modelling
April 2, 2019Karl ChastkoM. AdamsAssessing the accuracy of long-term air pollution estimates produced with temporally adjusted short-term observations from unstructured sampling
March 6, 2019Lea RavensbergenR. BuliungBiking to Ride: Investigating the Challenges and Barriers of Integrating Cycling with Regional Rail Transit
March 6, 2019Tim RossR. BuliungA systematic review of disability’s treatment in the active school travel and children’s independent mobility literature
February 5, 2019Janina KowalskiT. ConwayBranching out: The inclusion of urban food trees in Canadian urban forest management plans
January 16, 2019Phuong DaoY. HeMaximizing the quantitative utility of airborne hyperspectral imagery for studying plant physiology: an optimal sensor exposure setting procedure and empirical line method for atmospheric correction