After 42 years we bid a bittersweet farewell to Sandy Lapsky, Geography Administrator
How do you encapsulate a 42-year long career at a single workplace? One word sums it up for the department of Geography’s long-time head Administrator Sandy Lapsky – love.
Suman Bhattacharyya receives 2023 Sandy Lapsky Award
We are pleased to announce that PhD candidate Suman Bhattacharyya is the recipient of the 2023 Sandy Lapsky Award. Established in 2022, this award honours outstanding international graduate students in UBC’s Geography department.
Two students awarded inaugural Climate Studies IBPOC Student Support Fund
We are pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the inaugural Climate Studies IBPOC Student Support Fund, undergraduate students Sebastian Patton and Zhenyi Tsai. Launched in 2023 jointly by UBC’s Departments of Geography and Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (EOAS), this fund aims to support Indigenous, Black, and other racialized students studying climate change and […]
Shaping tomorrow’s cities: SCARP and Geography introduce an innovative Major in Urban Studies
For the first time in human history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities. And over the next century, the world’s net population growth will take place in urban regions and nearly every aspect of economic, social, political, technological and environmental change is now urbanized.
Dr. Marwan Hassan named 2023 AGU Fellow
Dr. Marwan Hassan, esteemed geomorphologist and faculty member, has been named a Union Fellow by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). A long-standing faculty member and former Director, Dr. Hassan (he/him) has been with the Department of Geography since 2003. A specialist in the routing of water and sediment and their associated channel characteristics, Dr. Hassan’s […]
Climate Emergency – GEOG 202
We are in a climate emergency. Imagining and enacting a just and sustainable future requires an understanding of what makes up the emergency, the challenge it presents and the set of strategies that already exist to address it. This course takes a critical approach to examining the state of scientific knowledge about the climate emergency and the policy challenges and pathways it presents.
Dr. Karen Bakker Memorial Fund
In honour of Karen’s passion for geography and the environment, and her commitment to community engagement, her family, friends and colleagues have created the Dr. Karen Bakker Memorial Fund. Your gift will pay tribute to Karen’s life and career by supporting graduate students in the Department of Geography at UBC.
Pacific Voices with Simon Donner
Simon Donner has launched a new 10-episode podcast called Pacific Voices, based on interviews Simon conducted during field work on his sabbatical. The idea behind the storytelling is to provide the general public with Pacific Islands perspectives on climate change — each episode is a chat with a friend and/or youth leader in Kiribati or […]
Remembering Dr. Karen Bakker
It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of our exceptional colleague and friend, Karen Bakker, on August 14 2023.
Our colloquium series is back for 2023, both online and in-person!
Geography Colloquium starts next Tuesday, September 19th.