2014 Outstanding TA Award Winners!
Congratulations to MA student Sarah Przedpelska and PhD student Alison Cassidy for winning the 2014 Outstanding TA Awards! This award recognizes the significant contribution that teaching assistants make to our undergraduate education, as they play a large role in shaping the overall quality of undergraduates’ learning experiences. Each year the department awards teaching prizes to two teaching […]
Geography in Nunavut: Seven weeks in the field
By PhD Student, Noémie Boulanger-LaPointe Pristine landscapes, untamed wildlife, and heroic explorers are too often the images used to represent the Canadian Arctic. Last summer, I completed my seventh field season in the Arctic and was struck more than ever by the importance of human-environment interactions, pollution, and intensive land use. Vast landscapes and wildlife […]
Aerial Bold with Joseph Lee
UBC Geography MSc student Joey Lee and his colleague Benedikt Groß have just launched a Kickstarter project called “Aerial Bold”. The two man army plans to build the first global map and typeface of the earth by traversing the satellite imagery of the entire planet and developing a set of image processing algorithms to find […]
2014 PLN Orientation
The Professional Leadership Network is UBC Geography’s graduate student mentorship program, which pairs up second year Master’s students with professionals in their specified area of interest. The initiative is in its third year of running and funded by a TLEF grant through the purpose of enhancing education through industry connections so students get a better sense of what they can […]
Alberta Floods & Its Topographic Changes
Submitted by PhD Candidate, Aaron Tamminga Between June 19th and 23rd 2013, southwestern Alberta experienced widespread flooding as a result of intense rainfall on a lingering snowpack in the Rocky Mountains. Over 100,000 people were displaced as rivers eroded and overtopped their banks, causing an estimated $1.7 billion in damages throughout the region. In spite […]
2014 Whistler Trip
Submitted by MA Student, Colin Sutherland, GGA Social Committee Every autumn new graduate students and post-docs join our department, and the annual Whistler trip is one of a few events that invite current and new members of the UBC Geography community to chat, laugh and learn more about each other. This year’s trip took place only […]
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 […]
September PhD Oral Examinations
At the Graduate Student Centre (6371 Crescent Road) unless noted otherwise. Kean Fan Lim “State Rescaling, Experimental Reforms and Institutional Continuity: The Shifting Spatial Logics of Socio-Economic Regulation in Post-1949 China” Friday, September 5, 2014 4:00 PM – Room 203 Howard Macdonald Stewart “Five Easy Pieces on the Strait of Georgia – Reflections on the […]
Caroline Grego wins CSN-RÉC Prize
Congratulations to MA student Caroline Grego for winning the MA-level Major Research Paper Prize from CSN-RÉC (Réseau d’études canadiennes)! The winning paper is titled, “Imagining a Community-Oriented ‘National Park Nature: Conflict, Management, and Conservation in the Proposed South Okanagan-Lower Similkameen National Park Reserve.” According to the congratulatory message from the CSN-RÉC, “The adjudicating committee members agreed that Grego’s thesis represents […]
Lawrence Bird at WEST 2014
Congratulations to MSc student Lawrence Bird for having been awarded the poster prize for his poster on ‘Thermal regime of a large proglacial lake fed by a calving glacier’ at WEST (Water and Environment Student Talks) 2014! The winning poster documented the thermal regime of a large proglacial lake formed by the retreat of Bridge […]