A Demographic Survey of Canadian Academic Geoscience

With Scott Jess, we conducted a survey of demographics in Canadian Academic Geoscience in 2022 in order to fill a critical data gap. Results from the survey highlight major disparities in the representation of gender, race, indigeneity, disability, and LGBTQ+ identity between research students (e.g., MSc and PhD students) and salaried researchers (e.g., Postdoctoral Scholars and Faculty/Staff). Compared to statistics from Canadian academia, geosciences has lower gender, racial, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ representation for salaried researchers. Finally, against Canadian census data, it is clear that Indigenous and disability representation is low across the board (with the exception of Indigenous MSc students).

See more and download the report here

 

Guides

Morphometric Analysis: A step-by-step guide

This guide was authored by the graduate students (and me) from my 2013 Tectonic Geomorphology course (ESS2222). It outlines basic procedures for putting together a basemap, defining watersheds, extracting swath profiles and various morphometric parameters (area, relief, basin elongation, hypsometry, volume/are ratio, Vf ratio, mountain front sinuosity and range asymmetry). Hopefully you find it useful!