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.

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...