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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...
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A German newspaper for Bolivian blondes
For Mennonites from Bolivia to Belize, Die Mennonitische Post is often the only connection to the outside world
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/10/01/a-german-newspaper-for-bolivian-blondes
19 days ago
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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.
28 days ago
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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."
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about 1 month ago
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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!
about 2 months ago
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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.
about 2 months ago
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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.
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about 2 months ago
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Dept. of Geography social media is taking a wee break for August. Have a fab one and see you all in September! 🌍🫶🌏
2 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
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🥳🥳🥳Shout out to our very own Prof Sebastien Breau for being promoted to Full Professor. 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations on a well deserved promotion!
4 months ago
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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...
4 months ago
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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...
5 months ago
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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...
5 months ago
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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.
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Antibiotics from human use are contaminating rivers worldwide, study shows
Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a McGill University-led study warns. Publish...
https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/antibiotics-human-use-are-contaminating-rivers-worldwide-study-shows-365280
5 months ago
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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/...
5 months ago
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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...
5 months ago
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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....
6 months ago
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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...
6 months ago
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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...
6 months ago
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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...
6 months ago
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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...
6 months ago
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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...
6 months ago
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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!💛❤️💥❤️💛
7 months ago
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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!
7 months ago
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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.
7 months ago
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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! 😄
7 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
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A well deserved round of applause for Prof Mette Bendixen being awarded the McGill Arts Undergraduate Society Teaching ‘Most Outstanding Professor’ Award!
7 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
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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...
7 months ago
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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....
7 months ago
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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...
8 months ago
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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....
8 months ago
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Prof Renee Sieber was interviewed last week on CBC TV about the ethics around AI and which municipal governments are doing the best on this front in Canada; her clip starts about 19 minutes in. It’s an interesting insight!
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
8 months ago
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Hello geographers! Wishing all of our students a very happy, restful, and productive reading week! We hope everyone can get some rest, catch up on anything that may have slipped through the cracks, and come back recharged and ready for the rest of the semester. You've got this!👊🌎
8 months ago
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Congratulations to Post-Doctoral Fellow Alicia Cavanaugh and Prof. Brian Robinson on their recent publication in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Read it here! 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian-sidewalk dynamics
Principles of dense, mixed-use environments and pedestrianisation are influential in urban planning practice worldwide. A key outcome espoused by thes…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924271625000437?via%3Dihub
8 months ago
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Our next
#Geospectives
speaker is Nick Revington (INRS) presenting on "Studentscapes, student bubbles, and studentification: What do student geographies of housing tell us about urban space?" Join us Friday, February 28 from 12:00-13:00 in Burnside Hall 426.
8 months ago
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Congratulations to former MSc Student Lancelot Rodrigue and Prof. Kevin Manaugh on their recent publication in Journal of Transport Geography.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Towards a better understanding of changes in cost per riders for bus routes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Montréal, Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the finance of transit agencies by reducing farebox revenues. Combined changes in ridership and service op…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669232500033X?via%3Dihub=
8 months ago
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This Friday (Feb 21), we are hosting Laura Tozer (University of Toronto) for a Geospectives talk. As usual, the talk will be held in Burnside Hall 426 at 12pm. Please see the attached image for more details. We look forward to seeing you there!
8 months ago
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Congratulations to Professor Emerita Sherry Olson on her recent publication "Time Is Money: The Challenges of Immigrant Enterprise in Mid-Nineteenth Century Montreal" in Urban History Review.
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8 months ago
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Congratulations to Prof. Mylène Riva and colleagues for their recent publication "Reframing Indigenous housing policy in northern Canada" in International Journal of Housing Policy.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reframing Indigenous housing policy in northern Canada
This review offers a critical discussion of the contemporary housing policy framework in northern Canada. The severity of housing need among Indigenous households in northern Canada has led to a ‘c...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19491247.2024.2435093?fbclid=IwY2xjawIYSSFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHcrQt-HKHlxS7BnAs8dDWWwxqkFs1xrHutUOK1-5wqRlp1hN4Ngu9TImlw_aem_K1Vvi6bASSFYrFMJsD9IlA
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Congrats to Prof Sarah Turner and collaborators on their recent piece "From open fields to inside worlds: three generations of childhood in Yogyakarta, Indonesia" in Australian Geographers
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From open fields to inside worlds: three generations of childhood in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Australian Geographer: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/00049182.2024.2443236?needAccess=true
9 months ago
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CONGRATS TO OUR GÉOLYMPIADES TEAM! McGill's team of four students finished an astounding second place at the Géolympiades, an annual provincial geography competition, hosted this year by l’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC). Next year's competition will be hosted by Université de Montréal!
9 months ago
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Congrats to PhD Candidate Priyadharshini Sakthivel "Spatial bias in placement of citizen and conventional weather stations and their impact on urban climate research: A case study of the Urban Heat Island effect in Canada" in Urban Climate
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Spatial bias in placement of citizen and conventional weather stations and their impact on urban climate research: A case study of the Urban Heat Island effect in Canada
Citizen Weather Stations (CWS) are a source of Crowdsourced Geographic Information for urban climate research, which can provide extensive datasets in…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212095524004772?fbclid=IwY2xjawIPIT1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTsUtBodxj5hR8k9fT6UAW2qi0V0n-PYO-YoVTNpUHstgazUZmg32FHhqw_aem_hlnz1Ii4IWzRFlqlSOHZ2A
9 months ago
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Congrats to former MA Favour Daka and Prof Sarah Moser on their recent article "Ex nihilo urbanization in Nigeria: Colonial legacies, privatization, and foreign actors" in Journal of Urban Affairs
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Ex nihilo urbanization in Nigeria: Colonial legacies, privatization, and foreign actors
Over the past 2 decades, Nigeria has become a hotspot for the creation of new cities, with a dozen currently underway. While new cities in Nigeria are promoted by their developers as necessary for ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2024.2445837?fbclid=IwY2xjawII0fhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHb9a0b0eMy-UDcJgZ01roAU5nb6D9GTWScsWbdwE2IqWRAtJD79M6RJHTQ_aem_GHCjCl6Dfo7Jn1OydqDxOw
9 months ago
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Congrats to Geography students Jenny Park, Haley Yorston, Jackie Lee, Lauren Traboulsee, Arthur Rebillard, and Prof Mette Bendixen and others for their collaborative project of creating a new data set for Canadian arctic and subarctic coastal deltas, published in ‘Scientific Data!
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‘DeltaCAN - A new data set of Canadian Arctic and subarctic coastal deltas’
Scientific Data - ‘DeltaCAN - A new data set of Canadian Arctic and subarctic coastal deltas’
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04458-2.epdf?sharing_token=n76RGsFn-UHQNqK3cCpPxdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MOvuQa5FNqjxRjwzeJqoZdZJvvVGMW2gekyx4M94uTrDFN2XC9pm98zWxMEwkQ8psZHVwmnZaW7f3mexq1k2T-4sZpoQ2bM8lljTORBl-BihQlEvnmKOTzeVqiSoMw_SQ%3D
9 months ago
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Check out a fun, brief visual piece in ‘Focus on Geography’ by former MA student Peter Garber and Prof Sarah Turner about upland ethnic minorities in Vietnam trying their hand at fish farming. Lots of maps too 😊
www.focusongeography.org/publications...
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Ripples of Change: Fish Farming Among Ethnic Minority Farmers in Upland Vietnam
FOCUS on Geography: Ripples of Change: Fish Farming Among Ethnic Minority Farmers in Upland Vietnam
https://www.focusongeography.org/publications/photoessays/vietnam/index.html
9 months ago
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Congrats to Post-doc Jérôme Laviolette, Prof Kevin Manaugh, and colleagues on their recent article "What type of person is at different stages of change for cycling? A case study of Montreal" in Travel Behaviour and Society
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What type of person is at different stages of change for cycling? A case study of Montreal
Promoting cycling for daily transport has significant health, equity, and environmental benefits. To understand what factors influence individuals’ cy…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X24002321
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Prof Mette Bendixen spoke with Nature Careers on becoming a mother while during her PhD. This is the outcome of that conversation, which features other parents too. Check it out!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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PhD parents: the pros and cons of having a child during your doctorate
Early-career researchers describe how they juggled workloads, emotions and finances after having children.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00058-7
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Congratulations to Profs Oliver Coomes, former PhD student (now Prof at University of Toronto) Christian Abizaid, and colleague on their recent publication "Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species" in Ambio
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Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species - Ambio
The promise of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) for conservation policy depends on how pervasively ILK is held among local people. In the Peruvian Amazon, we conducted a landscape-scale concordanc...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13280-024-02100-w
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