Applications for the 2025/26 IBPOC Student Support Fund has been extended to October 17th! This award supports students from Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities of colour studying climate change at UBC. Learn more & apply: rb.gy/8qdg0a

Geography Colloquium for Term 1 starts next Tuesday, October 14th. See the schedule here: geog.ubc.ca/news/geograp...

Jamie Peck to speak at UBC Dialogues series "Challenges, changes, and research: Insights from UBC’s University Killam Professors" alumni.ubc.ca/event/challe...

Jennifer Williams, Nina Hewitt and Courtney Collins showcasing Alpine Horizons alpinehorizons.ca at the Beaty BRC opening short-url.org/1brdJ

Applications for the 2025/26 IBPOC Student Support Fund are now open! Created in partnership with @UBCeoas, this award supports students from Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities of colour studying climate change at UBC. Learn more & apply: rb.gy/8qdg0a

Geography Professor Michele Koppes and several graduate students from the Critical Physical Geography research collective call for diversity of scientific thought and reflexive approaches in a new Ecosphere article. Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/geoscie...

The Atmospheric Apparitions mini-symposium on Sept 18-19 2025 is free and open to the public. We encourage you to visit the departmental Atmospheric Apparitions: Particle Pollutants – Dust, Ash, Smog and Smoke! exhibition July 21-Sept 26, 2025 Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/events/event...

UBC Geography and the UBC Liu Lobby Gallery welcome you to an interdisciplinary art exhibition titled ATMOSPHERIC APPARITIONS: Particle Pollutants – Dust, Ash, Smog and Smoke, currently on view until September 26, 2025. Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/atmosph...

UBC Geography Professors Simon Donner, Kate Hale, McKenzie Kuhn and Marysa Laguë recognized for excellence with 2025 NSERC Discovery Grants. Learn more: www.arts.ubc.ca/news/ubc-art...

Congratulations Assistant Profs Avery Everhart (@averyeverhart.bsky.social) & Kate Hale, recipients of the 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award! 👏Their exceptional research spans transgender healthcare access and snow hydrology. Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/drs-ave...

New @harvard.edu research, along w/ Dr. @tinaliu.bsky.social, launches an online platform to help identify areas in need of controlled burns or other #wildfire management strategies, to increase safety and reduce smoke exposure. 🔥 More: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06... @soa-mazing.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to launch the Right to Cool White Paper – a bold, rights-based vision for equitable climate resilience in BC. Rooted in lived experience and policy analysis, it calls for systemic action to protect those most impacted by rising heat. Read the full paper here! tinyurl.com/2fer2bad

PhD candidate and Public Scholar Rachel Stern’s research focuses on the intersection of housing insecurity, heat vulnerability, and aging. Her latest community-engaged project explores seniors’ lived experiences of heat in their homes. Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/researc...

📢 Applications are now open for the 2025–26 Graduate Certificate in Migration Studies! Enhance your UBC degree with a specialization in migration and mobilities studies. 🗓️ Application deadline: June 23, 2025 Learn more & apply: migration.ubc.ca/graduate-stu...

Join us in congratulating Dr. Siobhán Wittig McPhee, 2025 AMS UBC Open Education Resource (OER) Champion🏆, for her outstanding commitment to advancing affordable access to education by making OERs core to her innovative teaching practice. 👏 Read more: geog.ubc.ca/news/siobhan...

Professor Merje Kuus delves into the nuances of the storytelling of the BC wine industry and suggests we flip the narrative, asking what wine itself sells, rather than how best to sell wine. 🍷📷 What Does Wine Sell? gismondionwine.com/blog/what-do...

Geography Professor @naomiaklein.bsky.social weighs in on the current state of affairs in the US and beyond. @ccj-ubc.bsky.social

UBC Geography Professor @naomiaklein.bsky.social speaks with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now about about Trump, Musk, Far Right & "End Times Fascism" @ccj-ubc.bsky.social

Join us for our final Geography Colloquium April 22nd with Dr. Shenjing He, Professor & Director of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong.🏙️ When: April 22nd, 12:30pm Where: Geog 229 & Zoom Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event... @ubcscarp.bsky.social @ubcappliedscience.bsky.social

Join us on May 1-2 at the Liu Institute for Global Issues (UBC Vancouver) for the CMS Research Conference 2025: Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes. 📣 Full program now available! Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...

Join us April 8th for our next Geography Colloquium with human geographer and critical migration scholar Dr. David Durand-Delacre for his talk “Human Mobilities in a Changing Climate”. When: April 8th, 12:30pm Where: Geog 229 & Zoom Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event...

Congratulations to hydro-geomorphology Masters student Raju Ahmed - recipient of the 2024 Sandy Lapsky Award! 🥳 Raju's work focuses on historical patterns of extreme hydrological events to enhance flood risk management policies and strategies. 🏔️💦 Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/raju-ah...

March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, an intentional opportunity to celebrate and recognize the valuable contributions of trans community members – and reflect on how we can all contribute to trans inclusion. Learn more about UBC events and resources here: events.ubc.ca/tdov/

Our new paper with @ubcgeography.bsky.social in Agric. For. Meteorol. investigates climatic sensitivity of evapotranspiration in an ombrotrophic bog on Canada's West Coast. The bog's water balance will be most sensitive to future increases in summer vapour pressure deficit. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Join us in congratulating Assistant Professor @naomibschwartz.bsky.social for receiving a 2024 UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship for her work on savanna vegetation Southeast Asia! 🥳 And congrats to all other Faculty Research Award recipients. 👏 Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/dr-naom...

This year we extend our heartfelt congratulations to three exceptions Teaching Assistants, recipients of the UBC Geography 2024 TA Award: David Puhl, Erika Siao and Rachel Stern! 👏 Learn more about their invaluable contributions to our department: geog.ubc.ca/news/congrat...

Join us March 11th for our next Geog Colloquium with political geographer Dr. Merje Kuus for her talk “Planning a Wine Region: Place and Beauty in Okanagan Valley”. When: March 11th, 12:30-2:00pm Where: Geog room 229 (in person) Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event... @landfood.ubc.ca

New research from our faculty Kate Hale (@katehale.bsky.social) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Wouter Berghuijs shows how climate change affects river flows in snowy regions across the Northern Hemisphere. Learn more in the Nature publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dr. Michael Fabris explores Indigenous geographies and how reconciliation discourses in academia influence their ascendancy in institutionalized geographic study. More in @elgarpublishing.bsky.social's “How to Foster Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Geography”: bit.ly/Michael_Fabr...

A new publication from Dr. Michael Fabris in @journals.sagepub.com discusses Blackfoot oral histories of Treaty 7. Learn more: Blackfoot legal traditions, treaty-making, and non-territorial forms of settler jurisdiction? Niitsitapi oral histories of Treaty 7 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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