Simon Gauthier-Fauteux, Fieldwork in Vanderhoof
“How the unexpected made my field season unforgettable” I was privileged to spend my field season this summer up north in a small town called Vanderhoof. Vanderhoof is located on the banks of the Nechako River, about 100 kilometers west of Prince George or almost 900 kilometers north of Vancouver. My purpose for being there […]
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 […]
Welcome New Geography Graduate Students
Emily Acheson Program: PhD Supervisor: Brian Klinkenberg Hometown: Mississauga, ON “I grew up in Mississauga, Ontario and moved to Vancouver to pursue my PhD in Geography with Dr. Brian Klinkenberg. I’ve always enjoyed learning about animal ecology, but became particularly fascinated with parasites during my undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto. I completed my […]
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 […]
New Visiting Scholar, Joel Wainwright
Dr. Joel Wainwright, Associate Professor of Geography at Ohio State University, is joining the UBC Department of Geography as a Visiting Professor for the 2015-2016 academic year. Dr. Wainwright was previously an Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Trevor Barnes in 2004-2005. Students may be familiar with his work on Gramsci, political […]
TSAS Summer Academy
The Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society delivered its second Summer Academy in July, 2015. The goal of this one-week intensive program is to help graduate students and government officials gain a basic understanding of the issue of national security and its relationship with Canada’s rapidly changing society. Close to 50 people […]
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 […]
New Undergraduate Handbook
Incoming and existing Geography majors will get a handbook about their Geography community this coming Fall. I sit down with Jialin Yang, former VP-Academic of the GSA, to talk about this project. How did this idea of an undergraduate handbook come out? The initial idea came out of the feedback from the Undergraduate Geography Surveys. […]