Drs. Avery Everhart and Kate Hale receive 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Awards
Congratulations to Assistant Professors Avery Everhart and Kate Hale who received the 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award. This annual award supports faculty to focus solely on research while providing teaching and administrative relief for a semester. Medical geographer Dr. Everhart (she/her) will be devoting her time to her current book project Beyond Binary […]
Too Hot to Think Small: The Case for a Right to Cool in British Columbia
Geography professors Geraldine Pratt, Mohammed Rafi Arefin and Kinesiology faculty Liv Yoon launch their Right to Cool report, a call for bold, systemic action on extreme heat in British Columbia.
Research Profile: Rachel Stern – housing justice in the climate emergency
PhD candidate and Public Scholar Rachel Stern has been focused on the intersection of housing insecurity, heat vulnerability and aging for some time. Read more about her timely work.
Siobhán Wittig McPhee named an AMS UBC Open Education Resource Champion
Dr. Siobhán Wittig McPhee (she/her) has been named a 2025 AMS UBC OER Champion for her outstanding commitment to advancing affordable access through developing and utilizing OERs core to her innovative teaching practice.
Professor Jessica Dempsey receives 2025 Dean of Arts Mentorship Award
This award recognizes faculty members with an outstanding commitment to promoting the academic and personal growth of junior colleagues, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, and who foster a community of integrity, inclusion and respect.
Bridging Research to Action: Exploring the Intersection of Climate Migration and Health
UBC Health assembled researchers, practitioners, and community members together to explore how research supports action within the health sector. The Climate Solutions Research Collective and Faculty of Applied Science came together to highlight how our changing climate impacts migration and health outcomes for migrants, featuring a talk by Geography’s Assistant Professor Dr. Jemima Baada.
Research Profile: Gillian Der – Emotional landscapes and a culturally informed geography of wildfire
A second year UBC Human Geography Masters student, Gillian Der draws on her Chinese Canadian heritage to explore concepts of grieving in the face the climate crisis and asks what a culturally informed geography of wildfire might look like.
Raju Ahmed Receives 2024 Sandy Lapsky Award
We are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2024 Sandy Lapsky Award is hydro-geomorphology Masters student Raju Ahmed.
Join us this summer for adventures with GEOS 309 Field Camp 2025
Join us this summer for a hands-on adventure in the beautiful Okanagan Valley for GEOS 309 Field Camp! This immersive experience, hosted at the state-of-the-art Teck Geological Field Station, provides the opportunity to build field and technical geographical science skills in a range of landscapes, from stream beds to grassland savannah.
Dr. Tianjia Liu appointed as Assistant Professor in Atmospheric Sciences
Please join us in welcoming incoming Assistant Professor Tianjia (Tina) Liu to the UBC Department of Geography. Beginning her research program with us in January 2025, Dr. Liu joins us from the University of California, Irvine, where she held a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship position. Dr. Liu […]