Dr. Ranbir Singh Khanna Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Environment
Garrett T. Morgan
Garrett T Morgan MSc, MScPl, AICP, LEED GA, WELL AP is PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto co-supervised by Dr. Blake Poland & Dr. John Robinson. His dissertation research explores issues of procedural, recognitional, and distributive justice in the equity-informed, municipal climate action efforts of Toronto, Glasgow, New Orleans, and Amsterdam. Mr. Morgan is also a licensed urban planner and policy consultant with professional experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors in rural, suburban, and urban environments in Canada and the United States.
ESRI Canada Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship in Science and Technology
Created through a program of the Province of Ontario and an endowment established by ESRI Canada and the University of Toronto, this award is presented to an outstanding graduate student who is studying geography and has obtained first-class standing.
Elysia Fuller-Thomson
Elysia seeks to understand how pollutants and contaminants move through urban environments as well as which population groups they most affect. She studies the local variation of both transport-related and industry-related air pollutants in Hamilton, ON. In collaboration with the City of Hamilton and Environment Hamilton, she works to use field sampling, laboratory analysis, and spatial modelling in order to gather ward-level and subpopulation-specific observations to better understand which regions and socioeconomic categories are most impacted by local air pollution exposure.
Neptis Foundation Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Planning
Created through a program of the province of Ontario and an endowment established by the Neptis Foundation and the University of Toronto, these awards are presented to outstanding graduate students who are studying geography and planning and have obtained first-class standing.
Lauren Ead
Ms. Ead is a second-year MSc at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where she is exploring the presence of microplastics in household indoor air with the Adams Lab. Respirable microplastics, specifically those <1µm, warrant particular concern in the human health context, as particles of this size can deposit deep into the lungs and circulate systemically. Nevertheless, current methods cannot reliably capture, size segregate, or detect microplastics of this size. Ms. Ead's work aims to identify a methodological avenue to characterize respirable microplastics and their consequent exposure risks to further our understanding of microplastics as an atmospheric contaminant.
Travis Van Wyck
William G. Dean Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
Established by Dr. William G. Dean, the scholarship is awarded to a graduate student studying physical geography.
Marcus Forbes-Green
Marcus is a Master's student in physical geography, studying the soils and carbon storage potential of Ontario's northern peatlands. He is especially interested in carbon accumulation on the southwestern coast of James Bay, where these peatlands are expanding as the land rises out of the sea. His work seeks to compare current shorelines to ancient coasts buried under now-inland peatlands, using proxies such as preserved pollen to reconstruct past environments. Aside from his peatland science work, he is also interested in classical antiquity and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean.
Donald F. Putnam & George Tatham Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Created through a program of the province of Ontario and an endowment established in honour of two of the Department’s first three faculty members, Donald Putnam and George Tatham.
Victoria Nimmo
Edward Sorbara & BILD Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Created through a program of the province of Ontario and the endowment established by a donation by Mr. Edward Sorbara and the University of Toronto, this award is presented to an outstanding graduate student who is studying planning and has obtained first-class standing.
Celia Wandio
J.M. Tomczak Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Created through a program of the province of Ontario and an endowment established by J. Michael Tomczak and the University of Toronto, this award is presented to an outstanding graduate student who is studying human geography and has achieved first-class standing.
Mehrdad Shirinbakhsh Masouleh
Michael Ralph Walsh Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Created through a program of the Province of Ontario and an endowment established in memory of Michael Ralph Walsh, this award is presented to an outstanding graduate student who has obtained first-class standing.
Antony Riley
Urban Strategies Ontario Graduate Scholarship
Created through a program of the province of Ontario and an endowment established by Urban Strategies and the University of Toronto, this award is presented to an outstanding graduate student who is studying geography or planning and has obtained first-class standing.