Staff

Ms. Pauline Nesbitt - Administrative Assistant

Tel: (514) 398-4114
Location: Burnside Hall, Room 704

I am responsible for scheduling all the undergraduate courses for the department including 500 level combined graduate/undergraduate courses. I also assist students with general inquires and verify that students have met their program requirements for graduation.

Tel: (514) 398-4951
Location: Burnside Hall, Room 705

Ms. Elisa David - Graduate Co-ordinator

Tel: (514) 398-4111
Location: Burnside Hall, Room 705

Ms. Nancy Secondo - Research Accounts Administrator, FST

Email

Tel: (514) 398-4626
Location: Burnside Hall, Room 705 (Geography)

Franca Mancuso - Accounts Administrator

Tel: (514) 398-8892
Location: Burnside Hall, Room 705

Ms. Paula Kestelman - Senior Technician

Responsibilities: Lab and field course safety. Maintenance, preparation, purchasing and insuring of field equipment used in courses and at some field sites. Coordinating of renovations to classrooms, labs and offices.

Tel: (514) 398-4310
Location: Burnside Hall, Room 613

Ms. Ruilan Shi - Chief Technician (GIS)

I provide help on: GIS questions, GIS courses, ESRI campus site licenses, WebCT, general software usage, GIS Research Lab, computer lab and after-hour access to the facility.

Tel: (514) 398-7438
Location: Burnside Hall, Room 509

Moshe (Mike) Dalva - Research Technician

My work involves supervision of the soils/biogeochemistry lab; instructing students on the use of various analyzers; Installation and troubleshooting of lab and field equipment measuring carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide; monitoring and collection of field data through various loggers.

Location: Burnside Hall, Room 610
Tel: (514) 398-4957

Joseph Vacirca - Network Technician

I take care of the computer hardware and software needs for staff, professors and students in the geography department.

Email

Location: Burnside Hall, Room 705
Tel: (514) 398-4879

Michael Havas - Systems Administrator

I provide backend support for servers in Geography and oversee the network operations of the Geography computers.

Location: Burnside Hall, Room 705

Tel: (514) 398-3761