The Human Geography Methods Committee with Emily Hawes
What is the Human Geography Methods Committee? The Geography Graduate Students’ Association (GGA) formed the Human Geography Methods Committee several years ago (this is my second year on the Human Methods Committee, alongside Emily Rosenman, Elanna Nolan, and Paige Patchin) to promote knowledge exchange regarding the diverse research methods and methodologies employed by human […]
Ross Mackay, Celebration of Life and Career Event
On January 27th 2015, the Department of Geography and St. John’s College hosted an event in celebration of Professor Emeritus John Ross Mackay’s life and career. The intimate gathering was held at the Fairmont Social Lounge in St. John’s College where approximately 50 of Ross Mackay’s colleagues and friends came together in remembrance. After […]
Congratulations Derek Gregory!
King’s College London will confer an Honorary Fellowship on Derek Gregory at a ceremony to be held in the Barbican in July. The Honorary Fellowship “recognises the exceptional distinction achieved on the part of the holder through their public and professional life”.
Olav Slaymaker Appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada
Congratulations to Olav Slaymaker, who has been appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada “for advancing the field of geology, notably through his research on landform evolution.”
Trail Six Call for Submissions!
Trail Six, the Geography Students’ Association’s peer-reviewed undergraduate journal of geography, is calling for submissions! Email your submission to trailsix@ubcgsa.ca. Authors of successful submissions will be notified in mid-January. Deadline is Thursday, January 8th at 11:00 pm! Criteria: One submission per person (excluding group submissions) Please do not re-submit submissions from prior years Maximum 4000 words but will […]
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 […]
Welcome Visiting Scholars!
Boris Michel, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Hometown: Erlangen / Berlin, Germany Purpose of visit: I hope to find the time to write a good part of a book and can discuss my research with people at this extremely interesting department. Research: I am currently working on a project on the history of geography. I am interested […]
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 […]
Professor Emeritus John Ross Mackay (1915-2014)
Professor Emeritus John Ross Mackay, OC, FRSC, passed away on October 28, 2014. Ross first came to the Department of Geology and Geography at UBC in 1949, and continued to teach following his retirement from the Department of Geography in 1980. Remembered with fondness and respect by his colleagues, Ross was widely recognized as the […]