Congratulations to Jonathan Luedee!
Congratulations to Jonathan Luedee, who, as the recipient of the 2014 James Bourque Northern Doctoral Scholarship from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, has been invited to present a lecture to the RCGS annual general meeting in Ottawa in November on his dissertation research, “The Way of the Caribou” which analyzes the human and environmental history […]
Adjunct Prof Tom Koch on Ebola
Submitted by Adjunct Professor Tom Koch Growing international concern over Ebola has forced me to focus increasingly on the epidemic as it struggles toward pandemic status. My work in medical cartography, a kind of visual history of public health and the conditions that promote disease, has been focused, in recent months, just here. In August, […]
Adjunct Updates: Richard Mackie
On 27 September, Adjunct Professor Richard Mackie gave the 5th annual Haig-Brown Memorial Lecture at the Museum at Campbell River. His lecture was also published as a chapbook entitled “The Local Muse: Roderick Haig-Brown and Vancouver Island,” by the Campbell River Community Arts Council. The following day, World Rivers Day, Mackie also spoke at the […]
2014-2015 Student Services Manager, Alex Pysklywec!
The department is excited to announce that Alex Pysklywec will be joining the Student Services Team as Manager as Suzanne Lawrence is on maternity leave. Alex is a UBC Geography alumnus himself, having completed his BA and MA programs here. We wish him the best of luck with his new role in the department!
GEOB 472: Cartography & Game of Thrones
By Franklin Po, 4th year Environment & Sustainability Major Geography can work with a variety of disciplines. Elements of cartography and GIS analysis can be used alongside History, Criminology, Anthropology, Health Sciences, and Education. With my final cartography project I wanted to push the boundaries a bit by trying to add Creative Writing to […]
Geography Breaking New Ground with Student Services Team
This past June, the Department of Geography reorganized its undergraduate and graduate student services into one team-based service which will provide both undergraduate and graduate students with more comprehensive and effective service. With the departure of the previous undergraduate advisor in June 2014, the department combined its graduate and undergraduate student services under the leadership of former […]
The Flexible Learning Project in Geography
By Heather Dorries Heather Dorries completed her PhD at the University of Toronto and joined UBC as a Teaching and Learning Fellow in the Flexible Learning Project in Geography in December 2013 In fall 2013, Dr. Loch Brown, lecturer in the Department of Geography, was awarded a grant from UBC’s Flexible Learning Initiative. The UBC […]
The New Biogeomorphology Experimental Laboratory
The new Biogeomorphology Experimental Laboratory in Ponderosa Commons officially opened on January 23rd 2014, the outcome of four CFI grants amounting to approximately $3 million. The laboratory resides in the basement of Ponderosa Commons West, as a part of a university-wide effort to create, as Dean of Arts, Gage Averill elucidated at the grand opening, […]
The Impact of the March 2011 Earthquake in Northeast Japan Today
Over the summer, Professor David Edgington conducted research on the impact of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant accident on local communities in Northeast Japan. Tell me about your research trip to Fukushima. I spent some of June this year talking with local politicians, mayors, councillors, local officials, journalists, academics and concerned […]
2013-2014 Building Renovations
During the summer of 2013, UBC initiated a large renovations project to address the long standing drainage issues affecting the Geography Building, to perform seismic upgrades in the crawlspace to improve the seismic integrity of the building, to make building envelope repairs and to paint the exterior of the building. This project will be completed […]