Professor Emeritus, Geography and Tourism Studies
PhD and MA Geography (University of Western Ontario)
Honours BA Geography (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Email: tshaw@brocku.ca
Thesis titles:
- Ph.D. The Influence of Institutional and Structural Constraints on Agricultural Innovation Adoption
- M.A. An Agroclimate Procedure for Rice Cultivation on the Coastal Plain of Guyana
- B.A. Rainfall Variability and Its Effects on Rice Cultivation in Guyana
- Detection and prediction of road surface icing conditions
- Microclimate analysis for specialty crops
- Thermal and moisture behaviour of stud wall vs structural insulated panel
- Wind machine for freeze protection
- Wind resource assessment for wind power
- Wine terroir and sub-appellations
- Applied climatology and meteorology
- Viticulture, vineyard site selection and freeze protection methods for specialty crops
- Climate change and building climatology
Major Work in Progress
- Sub-Appellations of the Niagara Peninsula Wine Region:An Annotated Atlas
- Climate change impacts and adaptation in Canada’s wine regions
- Feasibility Study of Three agricultural crops for commercial production in Halton County (Funded by Industrial Assistance Research Program (IRAP) (December/2018 to November/2019)
- Geog. 1F91 Introductory Physical Geography
- Geog. 2P04 Introductory Meteorology
- Geog. 3P13 Applied Climatology
- Geog. 4P12 Advanced Climatology
- Geog. 3P12 Climate and Grapewine Production
- Geog. 5P30 Sustainability and the Environment
- Geog. 5P60 Vulnerability, Human Communities and the Environment
