Programs

Graduate Program in Spatial Analysis

The faculty members who supervise and teach in the Master of Spatial Analysis cover a wide range of expertise in geography and related disciplines, as well as applications of geographic information systems (GIS) in business, retail, real-estate, economics, conservation, environment, resource management, planning, policy, public health, crime analysis, and immigration and settlement, to name but a few fields. The following “tag cloud” (thanks to TagCrowd beta) summarizes some of our expertise.

Faculty members are from the program's academic home, the Department of Geography , and from affiliated departments across campus. Feel free to contact individual professors from the following list through the Ryerson directory  or ask the MSA program director to make an initial contact.

Program Faculty Members (Department of Geography)

David Atkinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography                                                                     PhD Queen's University
Arctic biophysical systems, remote sensing, carbon flux, GIS and environmental analysis.

Douglas Banting, Professor, Department of Geography
PhD University of Western Ontario
Geographic analysis in the workplace; environmental applications of GIS; GIS and runoff modelling; greenroofs.

Michal Bardecki, Professor, Department of Geography
PhD York University
Environmental assessment and decision-making, economic valuation, cumulative impact management, media and the environment, geography of Las Vegas.

Harald Bauder, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
PhD Wilfred Laurier University
Social, cultural and economic geography; urban geography; geographic practice; critical geographies.

Beth Carlson, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography
PhD University of Calgary
Population health and GIS, public participatory GIS, perceptions of safety of place.

Brian Ceh, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geography
PhD University of Western Ontario
Business and commercial geography, urban-economic studies, GIS, geo-quantitative analyses, retail and marketing geography, regional science and economic development.

Philip Coppack, Professor, Department of Geography
PhD University of Waterloo
GIS applications in geodemographic and recreation analysis, facilities location, business; Internet GIS applications; Economic and behavioral analysis of non-priced amenity environments and their role in recreation; Environmental perception and the creation of vernacular landscapes; Structure of the rural-urban fringe.

Frank Duerden, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography
MA University of Manitoba
Land and resource management, regional development, northern Canada, circumpolar issues, land claims.

Wayne Forsythe, Professor, Department of Geography
PhD University of Salzburg, Austria
Urban Change Detection, Geospatial Analysis of Sediment Contamination, Remote Sensing, GIS.

Sutama Ghosh, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
PhD York University
Urban social geography, immigration and settlement geography, transnationalism, 'race' and racism.

Tony Hernandez, Professor, Department of Geography, and Director, Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity
PhD Manchester Metropolitan University, England
Retail location, business GIS, site research, location strategy, geodemographics.

Peter Kedron, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
PhD University at Buffalo
Economic Geography, Evolutionary Economic Geography, Urban and Regional Analysis, International Business: Foreign Direct Investment, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Statistics, Environmental Justice

Anthony Lea, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Geography
PhD University of Toronto
Geodemography, socioeconomic and demographic correlates with behaviour, advanced site evaluation models, spatial interaction models, location-allocation models, spatial decision support tools and systems, shopping behaviour.

Andrew A. Millward, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
PhD University of Waterloo
GIS and remote sensing applications in disturbance ecology and urban forestry.

Claus Rinner, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
PhD University of Bonn, Germany
Geographic visualization, spatial decision support systems, participatory GIS, Web mapping, location-based services, geodata infrastructures, health and urban applications of GIS.

Stephen Swales, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
MA University of Calgary
Business and marketing geography, GIS, community vulnerability and adaptability to climate change.

Eric Vaz, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
PhD New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Spatial Analysis, Geographic Information Science, Complex Systems, Neogeography, Urban and Regional Geography, Spatial Decision Support Systems, Economic Geography, Business GIS, Information Management

Lu Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
PhD York University
GIS and consumption analysis, GIS and health, spatial accessibility modeling and visualization, geostatistics, immigration and settlement, retail internationalization.

Shuguang Wang, Professor and MSA Program Director, Department of Geography
PhD University of Alberta
Geography of urban retailing, GIS applications in the study of commercial activity, Ethnic economy, Economic geography of China.

Maurice Yeates, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity
PhD Northwestern University, FRSC
Spatial modeling, Business geomatics.

Program Faculty Members (Other Departments)

Sandeep K. Agrawal, Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning
PhD University of Illinois
Urban planning, GIS, ethnic enclave, immigrant settlement and integration.

Marcos Escobar, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
PhD University of Toronto
Financial mathematics, stochastic processes, dependence structures, time-spatial modelling, biostatistics.

Sebastian Ferrando, Professor, Department of Mathematics
PhD, University of Toronto
Signal processing, image processing, applied probability and stochastic processes; ergodic theory; financial mathematics.

Murtaza Haider, Associate Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management
PhD University of Toronto
Applied spatial econometrics, transportation demand forecasting, housing market analysis, and logistics management.

Ken Jones, Professor and Dean, Ted Rogers School of Management
PhD York University
Retail location, spatial strategy, Canadian retail economy, retail structural analysis.

Songnian Li, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
PhD University of New Brunswick
Collaborative GIS and geographic visualization; spatial decision support systems (SDSS); Web-based and wireless mapping and GIS; spatiotemporal GIS.

Pamela Robinson, Associate Professor, School of Urban and Regional Planning
PhD University of Toronto
Urban sustainability, environmental design, environmental planning, urban governance, public engagement and progressive pedagogy.

Sara K. Thompson, Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
PhD University of Toronto
Spatial distribution and social ecology of violent crime; urban violence; social inequality