🌏 #FieldworkFriday Our new faculty member Alex Bevington recently spent a beautiful autumn day doing fieldwork maintaining the hydrometric stations at Hungary Creek & Crooked River. Awesome start to this new position in our dynamic department! #GEESInTheField #rivers #northernBC #geography

📣 We are excited to share that Alexandre Bevington joined our department as a new faculty member in October 2025. Alex’s research focuses on how remote sensing and geospatial technology can help us understand watershed dynamics in Northern British Columbia. Exciting! www.unbc.ca/people/bevin...

This Friday

GEOG 411/611 Glacial Geology #FieldworkPhotos Dr. Adam Hawkins: spent Sunday touring geohazards related to glacial sediments around Quesnel area. Students used a drone to investigate the Quesnel Big Slide & hoodoos and discussed valley-blocking landslide hazards at Pinnacles Provincial Park.

I spoke with Matt Preprost about the water issues facing NE B.C. as #climatechange intersects with municipal and industrial #water use. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social

NRESi Colloquium-Friday 31st October-- Tista Ghosh Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm Location: Room 8-166 and Online More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

Bravo @bmenounos.bsky.social & @alexbevington.bsky.social in #StateoftheMountains 2025 report on the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation

Congratulations, Rulan! And MSc supervisor Dr. @josephshea.bsky.social We love this @moshlab.bsky.social tradition 🌟

Heads up @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social and @unbc.bsky.social students! I'll be holding a field school information session next Wednesday at 4:30 pm in Room 10-4588.

NEWS: Our colleague Dr. Theresa Adesanya + ESM’s Drs. Lisa Wood & Michael Preston received $320,664 for a project investigating the intersection of food security, forestry and mining reclamation in Canada’s North in the face of climate change.  Congratulations! UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories

NEWS: Our colleague Associate Professor Dr. Joseph Shea was awarded $94,174 to fund a network of snow monitoring observatories that will be installed in the headwaters of the Fraser, Columbia and Peace River basins. Congratulations! UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...

🏔️It’s #FieldworkFriday!!! Drs. Roger Wheate & Brian Menounos, along with several NRES grad students & alum attended the Annual Meeting of the Northwest Glaciologists (NWG) Oct 16-19, 2025 in Kananaskis country, AB 1/2 #FieldworkFriday #FieldworkPhotos #Roadtrip #GEESInTheField #academicconference

Central Interior BC seeing some chinook action as a major atmospheric river hits the coast

Great UNBC GEES Club orienteering event at Moore’s Meadow last weekend & they stuck it out in the rain! 🧭 🗺️ #getoutside #northernBC #orienteering #studentclub #UNBC

🌎 More #FieldworkFriday #FieldworkPhotos with Dr. Adam Hawkins 🏔️ This week, our GEOG 411/611 Glacial Geology class braved rainy conditions in search of sediments associated with the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet and formation of Glacial Lake Fraser. 1/2 #glaciers #physicalgeography

Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to be here. Join us for updates on: 🔋 energy sources and distribution 🌲 forests and forestry ⛏️ minerals and mining 🛰️ earth sciences 🔌 energy efficiency 🔬 science and data

It’s #FieldworkFriday with photos from Dr. Joseph Shea! Snaps from a late summer trip into Eagle Valley, to collect drone/RPAS imagery with UNBC Geography Honours student Madison Seely & assisted by bear whisperer James Laing! 1/2 #fieldwork #rpas #remotesensing #alpine #glacial #geomorphology

You might see me on CBC's The National tonight (!), talking about the storm that trapped hundreds of trekkers on the north/east side of Everest and its connections to #climatechange. Here is a collection of satellite loops from 01 - 05 October showing the development and progression of the storm.

🌎 It’s #FieldworkFriday! Earlier this week, GEOG 310 HYDROLOGY students visited the Salmon River Water Survey of Canada station with Dr. Faran Ali as part of their fieldwork on stream discharge measurement. 1/ #fieldworkphotos #fieldworkfriday #UNBC #Hydrology Photos: @faranali.bsky.social

TODAY - The NRESi Colloquium Series continues with our own Dr. Siraj ul Islam! Join us in Rm 8-166 at 3:30pm to learn more about Dr. Islam’s research. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. If you cannot join in person, clickhere to join the Webcast: www.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

💦 Last Saturday’s QRRC Open House went very well! Our colleague Dr. Phil Owens shares that 50+ people attended, with about 30 of those being community members including Xatsull First Nation and Williams Lake Indian Band members. #QRRC #rivers #salmon #hydrology #researchmatters #UNBCInTheField

✅ NEW Publication - Congratulations to MSc NRES graduate Stephanie Chan who worked with Dr. Tristan Pearce during her graduate studies doi.org/10.1002/ece3... Congratulations Stephanie on this achievement!

FRIDAY - The NRESi Colloquium Series picks up again this Friday with geographer Dr. Neil Nunn Join us in Rm 8-166 on Friday at 3:30pm to learn more about Dr. Nunn’s research. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. Click here to join the Webcast: www.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

Join us in welcoming our next speaker, Dr. Crystal Fraser, on October 3rd. Her talk is titled "By Strength, We Are Still Here: Truth, Reconciliation, and the Path Forward" You can join via teams webinar. ID: 211 526 552 481 9 Passcode: ZS7FB3Hu

Missed #FieldworkFriday - here’s a catch up post from the recent field work of BSc Geography student Siobhan Striegler Klassen (supervisor Dr. Adam Hawkins) For Siobhan’s BSc Geography Honours thesis, she is exploring the connection of the Tŝilhqot’in people with Tŝilhqox (the Chilcotin River).

✅ MA NRES graduate Jessica Froese is in Brandon, Manitoba this week to present her recently completed Master’s research at the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference. RURAL YOUTH MIGRATION PLANNING: THE COMPLEX STORY IN TUMBLER RIDGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth

ℹ️ NEW publication co-authored by our colleague Dr. Faran Ali, GEES Senior Lab Instructor, and Engineering colleagues (led by Dr. Guowei Li, Valedictorian, May 2025) Local scour around submerged spur dikes under ice-covered conditions: experimental and numerical investigation doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

🔥NEW PUBLICATION co-authored by MA NRES Geography grad James Whitehead for The Conversation (supervisor: Dr. Tristan Pearce) #GEESInTheNews #UNBCInTheField #wildfires #community #communityresilience #firefighting #NorthernBC theconversation.com/working-with...

➡️ GEES’s Senior Research Scientist Dr. Raquel Portes & ESM’s Dr. Diogo Spinola are exploring how fire transforms forest soils in northern BC. #GEESInTheNews #UNBCInTheField #wildfires #soils #physicalgeography www.coastreporter.net/bc-news/bc-s...

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to our awesome colleague Dr. Tristan Pearce on his recent promotion to Full Professor of Geography! Many of us enjoyed celebrating this major academic achievement with Tristan during today’s event organised by the UNBC Office of the Provost.

NEW publication, co-authors include GEES Instructor Laura Ryser (Murphy), Dr. Greg Halseth & GEES Adjunct Professor Dr. Sean Markey doi.org/10.1080/1557... #Canada #communitydevelopment #RuralCanada

NEW publication co-authored by Alexandre Bevington & Dr. Brian Menounos Bevington, A.R., Menounos, B., and Ednie, M. 2025. Satellite telemetry of surface ablation observations to inform spatial melt modelling, Place Glacier, British Columbia, Canada, EGUsphere [preprint], doi.org/10.5194/egus...

🇦🇹 Mackenzie Ostberg (GEES Research Associate) is in Innsbruck, Austria this week to present her recently completed Master’s research at the International Mountain Conference. #IMC Presentation Title: Community Vulnerability to Mountain Snowpack Change Supervisor: Dr. Tristan Pearce imc2025.info

📣 The Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP) call for funding applications for undergraduate & graduate students To apply, please go to: nstp-pfsn.smapply.io     Deadline Tuesday November 10th, 2025    Dr. Stephen Déry, Chair, UNBC NSTP Committee (Email: [email protected]).

FRIDAY - @unbc-nresi.bsky.social Colloquium with Dr. Jasmine Janes: Date: Friday, September 19, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm Location: Room 8-166 and Online Link to the colloquium webcast: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

📣 FRIDAY - The UNBC NRESi Colloquium Series kicks off this Friday with Dr. Tristan Pearce! Join us in Rm 8-166 on Friday at 3:30pm to learn more about Dr. Pearce’s research. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. Click here to join the Webcast: www.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

We are pleased to welcome recent GEES MNRES graduate Halena Scanlon as a Research Associate. Halena is working on the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada funded project, “Inuvialuit Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida)” & other Arctic-related projects.

We are pleased to welcome Mackenzie Ostberg, a recent GEES MA graduate, to the department as a Research Associate with Dr. Tristan Pearce. Mackenzie is working on the SSHRC-funded project “Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network” (IPON). More info here: www.envchange.com/members

It’s September 3, we are 10+ days into record breaking temperatures with zero precipitation, and would probably hit the forecast record high of 31C except we are smothered in #wildfire smoke. #climatechange

The Tsilhqot'in Nation put out a press release this week warning that chinook salmon are still at risk from the 2024 Tsilhqox landslide.

(Forgot the information posters. Le sigh…)

Two fourth-year courses I'm excited to teach this fall @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social: Mountains and Advanced Geospatial Analysis! Both are cross-listed so graduate students can take them as well to meet their degree requirements! 🏔️⛰️🛰️🛰️ #geospatial #mountains #highered

Convincing the undergraduate research assistant that fieldwork is FUN 🦟🦟🦟

Happy publication day! @moshlab.bsky.social PhD candidate SARa Darychuk led this detailed study on snow melt timing from surface and spaceborne SAR! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It’s rare to see Yexyexéscen (Mount Robson) without any clouds. Rarer still to see it like this from the north side while scouting a location for a new snow observatory! ❄️🥼

Celebrated the talk (and my coincident birthday) with Ethiopian food and a pint at my namesake bar in Saskatoon.

Huge congratulations to all of the graduates yesterday at UNBC’s 2025 convocation. Always a great day, and an important occasion to celebrate.

🎉UNBC Convocation 2025🎉 Congratulations to all. What a fantastic day! We recognized two students in particular: Kaylee Barnes is our Top Graduating student in Environmental Science and Nicole Boyd is our Top Graduating student in Geography Well done, everyone ✅

Welcome!

I am honoured (and slightly nervous, TBH) to be giving the plenary opening lecture at this year's @cgu-ugc.bsky.social / @cmos-scmo.bsky.social joint symposium in Saskatoon! At 09:00 Monday I'll be talking about the importance of #EDI in 2025 and sharing insights from the Hidden Figures project.