Announcements

New initiative to track greenhouse gas levels

Assistant professor Sara Knox is leading on a global project to better understand methane emissions.

Mordor, Gandalf… is it left or right?

Geography students get to the bottom of whether Frodo’s journey across Middle-Earth with the One Ring took the most efficient route.

SOS: What you can do to reduce climate change

A new book from PhD candidate Seth Wynes offers a short introduction to what we as individuals can do about climate change.

Emerging Media Lab: Grand Opening on March 26th

EML is an experimental space where faculty, students, and staff from all disciplines collaborate with industry and community. Its mission is to evolve learning by creating tools and techniques using emerging media including Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality.

Geraldine Pratt awarded UBC’s 2018 Jacob Biely Research Prize

The Jacob Biely Faculty Research Prize, established in 1969, is regarded as UBC’s premier award for research across all disciplines.

Minelle Mahtani recipient of AAG Awards

Mahtani’s work on mixed race identities; the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, and gender; and the production of identity and knowledge have laid the foundations for other geographers’ work and teaching.

Colloquium with Jim Glassman

Please join us on February 26 12:30 – 1:45 pm in GEOG room 229 for a colloquium with Jim Glassman. Jim is Professor of Geography at The University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the geopolitical economy of development in East and Southeast Asia. For more info. please click here.