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.

Dept. of Geography social media is taking a wee break for August. Have a fab one and see you all in September! 🌍🫶🌏

Congratulations to Prof. Yann le Polain de Waroux on his recent publication in World Development entitled "'Dream brokers' and the moral economy of frontier investments." doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

🥳🥳🥳Shout out to our very own Prof Sebastien Breau for being promoted to Full Professor. 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations on a well deserved promotion!

Check out this column by Profs. Mette Bendixen and Lars Iversen titled "How our student journal club built on sand developed strong foundations." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Hannah Brais as well as Prof. Mylène Riva for their recent publication in Health & Social Care in the Community entitled "Adapting Homelessness Interventions for People Who Use Drugs or Alcohol in Montreal, Quebec: Service User Perspectives." doi.org/10.1155/2024...

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Duo Zhang and Prof. Raja Sengupta on their recent publication in Int. Journal of Geo-Information : "Quantitative and Spatially Explicit Clustering of Urban Grocery Shoppers in Montreal: Integrating Loyalty Data with Synthetic Population." doi.org/10.3390/ijgi...

Congratulations to Dept. of Geography post-doc Heloisa Ehalt Macedo and Prof Bernhard Lehner and their colleagues for this new piece out in PNAS Nexus - the study is the first to estimate the scale of global river contamination from human antibiotics use. www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

Our department's Prof. Renee Sieber was interviewed on CBC Montreal about the rollout of Google's Gemini AI for kids under age 13. Check it out! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Congratulations to PhD student Jose Arturo Jasso Chavez as well as Prof. Kevin Manaugh for their recent article "Access to green and gray urban nature amenities: exploring equity in Montreal's built environment," published in Transportation Planning and Technology. doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Congratulations to Profs. Sara Knox and Nigel Roulet on their recent open-access publication. entitled "Rewetting Boreal Peatlands: Restoring Carbon Function?", published in Global Change Biology. doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Congratulations to Prof. Mette Bendixen on her recent post in Nature Climate Change, entitled "New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century." doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Congratulations to PhD Patrick Osei Darko and Prof. Margaret Kalacska on their recent publication "Application of Machine Learning for Aboveground Biomass Modeling in Tropical and Temperate Forests from Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery" in the journal Forests. doi.org/10.3390/f160...

Congratulations to student Daniel Zayonc as well as professors Brian Robinson and Oliver Coomes on their recent publication "Use of community characteristics to predict hunting and game harvests in western Amazonian forests" in Conservation Biology. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Congratulations to students Brendan Cottrell and Oliver Lucanus, as well as Prof. Margaret Kalacska on their publication in Frontiers in Marine Science! doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

Congratulations to Prof. Mette Bendixen on her recent publication in One Earth, entitled "Nation-wide mapping shows linkages between sand mining activities, human land use, and hydrology in Rwanda" doi.org/10.1016/j.on...

Fantastic Honours students poster session earlier this week! Awesome projects and a great crowd turnout. Fab job everyone and all the best for the final thesis write ups!💛❤️💥❤️💛

Honours students' research poster session is TODAY! - Wednesday, April 2 from 3-5 p.m. (15-17h) in Burnside 308. Come along anytime during this period to see their terrific work, get inspired for your own research (or final exams), and support your fellow students. Also, there will be snacks!

Congratulations to Geography Professor Grant McKenzie who was recently presented with the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Association of Geographer's Spatial Analysis and Modelling Specialty Group.

All students and faculty in the department (and their plus ones) are welcome to join us from 5:30-7:30pm this Friday, March 28th at the GIC for our 2024-2025 Fieldwork Photography Exhibit! We hope to see you there! 😄

Congratulations to Prof. Yann le Polain de Waroux on his recent publication "‘Who defends us?' Criollo livestock herders amidst commodity frontier expansion in the Paraguayan Chaco" in The Journal of Peasant Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0306...

A well deserved round of applause for Prof Mette Bendixen being awarded the McGill Arts Undergraduate Society Teaching ‘Most Outstanding Professor’ Award!

Congrats to Prof Kevin Manaugh and colleagues for this initiative and their platform CurbCut that provides amazing data for free on a range of urban concerns and issues! reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-curbc...

Congratulations to PhD student Fajle Rabbi Ashik and Prof. Kevin Manaugh on their recent piece entitled "Street network connectivity leads to denser urban form in Canadian cities" published in Cities. doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...

Congratulations to students Daniel Romm and Clara Féré as well as Prof. Grant McKenzie on their recent publication "Gender differences in urban recreational running: A data-driven approach" in Journal of Transport Geography. doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Congratulations to student Nakiya Noorbhai and Prof. Mette Bendixen on their recent publication in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems! Check it out below. doi.org/10.1002/aqc....

Congratulations to students Nakiya Noorbhai and Joy Zhou as well as Prof. Mette Bendixen on their recent publication "Continental mapping of African sand mining highlights limited benefits for local infrastructure and socio-economic development" in One Earth. doi.org/10.1016/j.on...

Congratulations to former MA student Michelle Kee as well as Prof. Sarah Turner on their recent piece "The Changing Geographies of Childhood in Southeast Asia: Narrative Maps from Three Generations in Hanoi and Yogyakarta" published in Asian Studies Review. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....