Nick Blomley
Professor & Department Chair


Greetings! Welcome to the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University.

Geography’s enduring strength relates to its nature as an interdisciplinary discipline. Geography may be defined as: how place (and space) shapes physical and social processes, and their interactions, as they work themselves out in differentiating and integrating the earth’s surface. Geography as a discipline has no monopoly on this perspective but concerns for how and why places around the globe are different and how and why places are integrated (across space) around the globe are at the heart of modern geographical practices.

We are one of the strongest departments in North America. Our research and teaching cover physical and human geography, and Geographic Information Science.  Our faculty research and teach in, among topics, economic development, medical tourism, augmented reality, mountain tourism, sustainable development, the politics of property, cellular automata, environmental economic geography, consumption, limnology, resource depletion, health informatics, port cities, political economy, soil-plant relationships, political ecology, fluvial geomorphology, policy transfer, climate change, and paleoglaciology. Our many students are enrolled in BA, BSc, MA, MSc and Phd programs. Please explore our website, and learn more about us.

Aerial footage of SFU’s Burnaby Mountain Campus:

YouTube video clips about Geography….

“Geography Matters”

What is Geography?