Meet alumna Courtney Smaha!
Courtney is the Project Director for the Atl’ka7tsem/Howe Sound Marine Stewardship Initiative.
Meet alumnus and medical geographer Kevin Hu!
Kevin graduated from UBC Geography with a masters and now works for the BC CDC.
Alumnus John Thistle’s Scholarly Publishing Recognized
His first book, Resettling the Range: Animals, Ecologies, and Human Communities in Early British Columbia, has received multiple awards.
Message from the Head
The Department of Geography at UBC has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the most productive and influential departments in the field, worldwide, with a reach extending far into the environmental, physical, and social sciences. Having served as Head for the past 3 years I can attest to the excellent work being done in […]
UBC Geography Alumna Wins Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award
Governing Transboundary Waters: Canada, the United States and Indigenous Communities (Routledge), a book written by UBC Geography alumna (PhD ’09), Dr. Emma Norman won the Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award for best book in Political Geography through the American Association of Geographers. This is the second time that the award has been given to a member […]
PWIAS Roundtable: “Geopolitical Economies of Development and Democratization in East Asia”
This past May 27-29, some 38 scholars from UBC and around the world participated in the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) International Research Roundtable entitled “Geopolitical Economies of Development and Democratization in East Asia,” for which Jamie Peck and I served as co-investigators. The roundtable grew in part out of ongoing collaboration […]
Alumnus Joseph Shea in Nepal
Michele Koppes and I were in Nepal for a glaciology conference in March where we caught up with UBC Geography alumnus Joseph Shea (PhD ’10), a glacial hydrologist with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), based out of Kathmandu. Then in April, the earthquakes struck. Naturally ICIMOD’s focus has shifted to supporting local […]
UBC Alumni Award: Gordon McBean
Congratulations to Gordon McBean, Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Ontario, for receiving the UBC Alumni Award of Distinction! He was Professor and Chair of the Atmospheric Science Program in the UBC Department of Geography from 1988-1992 and had previously completed his BSc (’64) in Physics and PhD (’70) in Oceanography and Physics at […]
GeoGarden’s First Year
In 2011, a group of students put together a proposal to fill the Geography Building’s courtyard with a community garden. In their proposal, they expressed their desire to “transform underutilized space within the Geography Building courtyard into a place of food, community and education for the undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff who use the […]
David Edgington: Along the Sanriku Coast
This July, Professor David Edgington continued his research into the recovery of northeast Japan following the 2011 `triple disaster’ of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant accident. He discusses his recent field research along the Sanriku coast of the Tohoku region. Tell me about your research trip to Northeast Japan; where did you go and […]