Happy International Day of the Tropics! 🌴 More info here 👇

Scope out this op-ed co-authored by Prof Renée Sieber (Geography) and Emmanuelle Vaast (Desautels) exploring how AI raises profound moral questions for humanity 👇 theconversation.com/artificial-i...

Cheers to Prof. Sarah Turner’s new co-authored article about craft beer 🍻! Open access 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out the new paper co-authored by Prof. Grant McKenzie in Digital Geography and Society. Open access! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A piece co-authored by Prof Sarah Turner and her Hanoi-based research assistant Ms Hanh Ngo “’Can She Handle It?’ Women Delivery Drivers and the Gendered Politics of Hanoi’s Streets” in Urban Planning. Open Access! www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

A PhD in Geography can get you all sorts of gigs! 😉 Geographer / rock star becomes the chief scientist of Québec

Congratulations to Dr. Knox on receiving the Canadian Geophysical Union's Early Career Scientist Award! This competitive honour recognizes outstanding research contributions by an early career CGU member. We are proud to celebrate this well-deserved recognition. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

A shout out to Prof. Raja Sengupta for the recent co-authored paper! doi.org/10.5194/ispr... Open access!

Congrats to Prof Brian Robinson for being a co-author on this new piece!

Congrats to Prof Oliver Coomes for being a co-author on this new piece! doi.org/10.1002/jid.... doi.org/10.1002/jid....

Congrats to Prof Mette Bendixen for being a co-author on this new piece in Science! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

💫Shout out to Prof Mallik Mahmud who is among the first cohort of early-career ocean researchers funded by MEOPAR's Early Career Researcher Award! Learn more about Prof Mahmud's research program by visiting his research team's website, the McGill Polar Remote Sensing Group: mcgill.ca/arcticresearch/

Join us on Monday, April 13th for the final #geospectives of the academic year. Steve Farber (University of Toronto, Scarborough) will present on "Transport Poverty, Suppressed Participation, and Sufficiency in Canada."

Next week on Thursday March 26, Prof Margaret Kalacska is giving a public lecture at the Canadian Museum of Aviation (one of 3 speakers). The event will be streamed on Zoom.  More details available here: ingenium.ca/aviation/en/...

Join us on Monday, March 23 for our next #geospectives, featuring our own Prof. Yann le Polain de Waroux. His talk is titled "Competing land-use regimes and social-ecological transformation in the Gran Chaco." www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

Congrats to Prof. Kevin Manaugh on publishing a new paper! Open access 👉

Congrats to Mélie Monnerat, a PhD candidate in our department, for her first author piece with Prof Sarah Turner: “Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congrats to Mélie Monnerat, a PhD candidate in our department, for her first author piece with Prof Sarah Turner: “Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our next #GeoSpectives speaker is Hélène Madénian from the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société at INRS, who will be visiting on Monday, Mar 16, at 10 AM in Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

Want to learn more about where the world is headed and what it means for the field of International Development? The Institute for the Study of International Development is hosting its annual lecture on Thursday March 12, featuring a stellar set of speakers! www.mcgill.ca/isid/events/...

Last week, nine members of the Geography Department (students and faculty) attended the 9th Conference on Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada (SKI2026) in Banff, Alberta. The conference brings together researchers of geographic information science (and systems)... buff.ly/jGNbpty

Next week's #geospectives talk will be given by Liliana Perez (Université de Montréal). It is titled "How immigrants reshape cities: Simulating urban diversity with geospatial agent-based modeling." Monday, Feb 16 | 10-11am | Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

Check out this newspaper article on recent PhD student Dr Melody Lynch's research on urban gardening in Malaysia! www.sarawaktribune.com/urban-agricu...

Premier événement francophone du Département de géographie à McGill!vFirst francophone event of the McGill Geography Department! forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Are you a McGill student of Black heritage interested in research? The Geography Undergraduate Research Award (2026) supports 13 weeks of paid summer research with a Geography professor ($6,000). ⏰ Deadline: February 13, 2026. Learn more & apply through the Department of Geography.

Check out a new article by Prof Sarah Turner and her colleague Hanh Ngo about childhoods during the subsidy era period in Hanoi, Vietnam. Published in Children, Youth and Environments. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56064 (that’s Hanh on the cover page of the journal as a child).

Check out this Science report on sea ice conditions in the Canadian Arctic in which Prof Mallik Mahmud was interviewed and one of his recent articles is cited. www.science.org/content/arti...

Huge congratulations to McGill grad Nicolas Thomas (Geography/Urban Studies) on being elected to Brossard City Council, bringing fresh energy, planning expertise, and community-first leadership to local government. Read more about his journey and achievement here: reporter.mcgill.ca/a-new-genera...

McGill Geography graduate students travelled under the mountain today to meet their counterparts at Université de Montréal's Geography Department. #MTLGeography

Two geographers from our department, Prof. Bernhard Lehner and Prof. Graham MacDonald, were recently named among the 24 most cited McGill researchers for 2025. This recognition reflects the global reach and influence of their scholarship. www.mcgill.ca/research/art...

McGill’s B.A. & Sc. program recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and brought people together to highlight two decades of interdisciplinary scholarship. One of our SSS students took part as a guest panelist. Read the news story here: buff.ly/cP8BTLR

Last night, our colleagues in Geography celebrated the department’s 80th anniversary! Over 100 students, faculty members, staff, and alumni gathered for an evening of wine, cheese, and conversation. Read our story about the department's history ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/wFT

Awesome to see such a big turn out for our 80th celebrations as a Dept! 💚💙💚💙💚💙

The final #geospectives of 2025 will feature two Geography faculty members: Prof. Sarah Moser and Prof. Graham Macdonald. Both will discuss their ongoing research. December 1 at 10:00am in Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

A reminder that GIS Day is happening today at the GIC (fifth floor of Burnside Hall).

The Department of Geography is celebrating its 80th Anniversary November 26th in the GIC (5th Floor Burnside Hall) 🌎🌍🌏🎉 We’re celebrating with wine, cheese, and wonderful company, and we’d love for you to join us! RSVP by November 21st: mcgill.ca/x/irR

Join us for GIS Day at McGill on Wednesday, November 19th! This year's theme is "Geoprivacy & Geosecurity." See the full program attached. @mcgill.ca

Next week's #Geospectives features Prof. Pascale Biron from Concordia University speaking about integrating hydrogeomorphology into river restoration practices. See you on Monday, November 10th at 10am in Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

Congrats to Prof Ben Forest for his co-authored piece just out in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers on the symbolic politics of the EU flag. It’s full open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Prof. Renee Sieber recently contributed an opinion piece on governmental strategies in AI, to Le Devoir. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Rejoignez-nous le samedi 25 octobre, de 10 h à 16 h, pour la Journée portes ouvertes de McGill. Rencontrez des professeurs, des conseillers pédagogiques et des étudiants et obtenez des réponses à toutes vos questions! 👉 www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re... Nous avons hâte de vous accueillir! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏

Join us on Saturday, October 25th from 10am to 4pm for McGill’s Open House! Meet professors, advisors and students, tour our campus in downtown Montreal, and get your questions answered! 👉 Register today: www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re... We look forward to welcoming you! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏

Our #Geospectives talk on Monday (Oct 27) features Tom Kemeny, professor at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. He will present on "The Price of Place: Community Wealth and Cognitive Decline among Older Adults." Details through the link. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

Happy to have had a chance to host Federico Cugurullo from Trinity College Dublin in the Department of Geography at McGill University for a talk on 'New AI Cities: The Case of Neom' @mcgillgeography.bsky.social #newcities www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

Prof. le Polain was interviewed about his research on the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America for this short article in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...

Our next #Geospectives seminar will take place on Monday, September 29th at 10:00 a.m. in BH 426. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Scott Davidson (UQAM), who will present his research on peatland phenology and community science.

Congratulations to postdoc Bernard Soubry, PhD student Kerstin Schreiber, and Prof. Graham MacDonald on their publication "Is food on the climate policy table? Assessing food systems themes in Canadian municipal climate plans." rdcu.be/eqMFK

Congrats to our Geography Undergraduate Research Award (GURA) recipient, Kingson Campbell for his successful summer research on Arctic snow and sea ice under the supervision of Dr. Mallik Mahmud!

We are kicking off our #Geospectives speaker series this year with presentations from Professors Sengupta and Mahmud on Monday, September 8th from 10a-11am in Burnside Hall 426.

Congrats to Daniel Romm, José Arturo Jasso Chávez, Lexi Kinman, Pegah Salsabilian, Grant McKenzie and Kevin Manaugh on the press they've been getting for their recent article discussing Montreal's bike lanes.