Craig A. Jones Wins 2016 Guggenheim Dissertation Award
Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Craig A. Jones, for winning The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship this year. Craig’s dissertation is on The war lawyers: US, Israel and the spaces of targeting.
Craig A. Jones Wins 2016 Western Regional 3MT Competition
Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Craig A. Jones, for winning the Western Regional 3 Minute Thesis Competition this year! Craig presented “The War Lawyers” on April 29th at UBC Okanagan campus. Craig will now move onto the National 3 Minute Thesis Competition where he will compete against 11 other finalists.
Human Geography 101 Workshop
On the 22nd of April, physical and human geography grads came together to undertake a unique experiment in the form of a ’Human Geography 101’ workshop. The workshop, organized by the newly minted Geographic Identity Committee, was conceived as a way to foster intellectual and social exchange between physical and human geography grads, a need […]
Collaborative Graduate Seminar: “Researching Cities”
This past term, graduate students from UBC and UCLA were involved in an experimental seminar, “Researching cities,” coordinated by Jamie Peck and by Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard at UCLA. The UBC and UCLA seminar groups connected each week by way of a video conference link, usually for around two hours, ably facilitated at the […]
Craig A. Jones, Winner of UBC’s Three Minute Thesis 2016 Competition
Congratulations to PhD student Craig A. Jones for winning UBC’s Three Minute Thesis competition this year! His presentation, The War Lawyers, won First Place and People’s Choice out of 100 participating graduate students’ presentations. Craig will now advance to the Western regional competition at UBC-Okanagan at the end of April. Watch his presentation here.
Meet Laura Hempel, Visiting PhD Student
Laura is a visiting student from Oregon State University, where she is working on her PhD in Geology. She has been working with Dr. Marwan Hassan in the Geo-Fluvial lab for several months. My fluvial journey I study how rivers work, aka fluvial geomorphology. I wish I had a cute and inspirational story about how […]
What does it mean to be a Geographer?
In January 2016, PhD Students, Leonora King and Marc Tadaki hosted the first ever graduate student “workshop to discuss human and physical geographical identity”. An interesting and unique initiative, I read the blog post that accompanied the workshop invitation which highlighted the difficult question of what it means to be a geographer, especially in a […]
Yangdidi: Stories of Super Typhoon Maysak
On March 31 2015, the remote Ulithi Atoll in Yap, Micronesia was devastated by a category 5 super typhoon, which slammed the islands with 265 km/hour winds. I visited just a few months later while working with One People One Reef, and it was immediately obvious in conversations with community members that they were eager […]
The Future of Physical Geography – Discussions at Kananaskis
From the 10th to the 12th of November three UBC geographers ventured to Kananaskis, AB, to join Yvonne Martin (U Calgary) to discuss the meaning, value, and future of physical geography. Earlier this year, Yvonne Martin, Olav Slaymaker, and I (Marc Tadaki) co-organized special sessions at the Canadian Association of Geographers annual meeting held in […]
Arctic Dreaming – A field season on Ellesmere Island
By Katriina O’Kane, MSc Student Standing on the sea ice, Danielle, Esther, and Cassandra are taking pictures of the Twin Otter airplane that just dropped us here. The plane is already in the distance now, getting ready to take off from the flat frozen ocean. Beside the women is a pile of boxes – various […]