Michelle Chaput
Education Program Coordinator
Royal Canadian Geographical Society
I am a scientifically-trained researcher and author with post-secondary teaching experience. I am currently working on enhancing the geography curriculum in primary and secondary schools across Canada and on furthering my research related to past human land use in the Americas.
During my Bachelor's degree I studied botany and evolutionary history, and worked in the DNA lab at the Canadian Museum of Nature. My Master's research was based on Arctic lake ecology and the use of biological indicators to study past climate change. I fast-tracked from the Master's into a Ph.D. and completed a thesis describing human-environment relationships across North America during the last 10,000 years based on archaeological data. As a part-time professor, I developed a 3rd-year undergraduate course on biogeography and a second 3rd-year course on the Anthropocene, as well as several short courses for high school students.
I am also keen on balancing academics with social life and extracurricular activities. I have sat on numerous student and faculty committees, been a member of a variety of sports teams, I have acted as a student councillor and departmental ambassador, and I have built collaborative research networks with members of the scientific community from all parts of the world.
I have been fortunate enough to travel to the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Africa, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, as well as many parts of Canada, to present my research and promote the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database - a global database of archaeological data that I help design and maintain. I love to meet new people and collaborate on projects!
During my Bachelor's degree I studied botany and evolutionary history, and worked in the DNA lab at the Canadian Museum of Nature. My Master's research was based on Arctic lake ecology and the use of biological indicators to study past climate change. I fast-tracked from the Master's into a Ph.D. and completed a thesis describing human-environment relationships across North America during the last 10,000 years based on archaeological data. As a part-time professor, I developed a 3rd-year undergraduate course on biogeography and a second 3rd-year course on the Anthropocene, as well as several short courses for high school students.
I am also keen on balancing academics with social life and extracurricular activities. I have sat on numerous student and faculty committees, been a member of a variety of sports teams, I have acted as a student councillor and departmental ambassador, and I have built collaborative research networks with members of the scientific community from all parts of the world.
I have been fortunate enough to travel to the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Africa, the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, as well as many parts of Canada, to present my research and promote the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database - a global database of archaeological data that I help design and maintain. I love to meet new people and collaborate on projects!