Interview with E&S Student, Musician, & Filmmaker, Luke Wallace
First of all, congratulations on your recent album release (Kitimat LP)! How did you get into making music and recording albums in the first place? I began playing trumpet and piano at a young age and was very into jazz and blues trumpet during my teen years. When I turned 15 I picked up a […]
Interview with Trail Six Editor-in-Chief, Jialin Yang
What is Trail Six? How did the idea of an undergraduate journal for geography begin? Trail Six is UBC’s Undergraduate Journal of Geography. The idea naturally came out of the absence of a geography undergraduate journal at UBC. The Journal of International Affairs and the Journal of Political Science have been around for quite a […]
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 […]
GeoGarden Now Open!
The GeoGarden opening on Thursday, September 4th, was a great success! Thank you to everyone who came out. We served local corn barbequed to perfection and topped with gourmet salts from Granville Island. As people chowed down, cob in hand and reuniting with peers, I think we were all reminded of the GeoGarden’s ability to […]
Incoming GSA Executives
Emily Rennalls, VP Sustainability Year: 3 Major: Environment and Sustainability “Although I’m a transplant from Ontario, it appears that BC has me locked in with its divine combination of ocean and mountains. I am both a tea and pizza fanatic. Grab a cup and a slice, curl up, put on a good film and you […]
New Zealand & The Cook Islands: “Landscapes and People” with Jialin and Andrea
[Photos submitted by Andrea Eisma, Jialin Yang] Welcome back to Vancouver! How did the climate and weather in New Zealand and the Cook Islands compare to Vancouver? Jialin: Everyone told me that New Zealand and Vancouver had very similar weather but that is not true! The presence of the Southern Alps makes for very different […]