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- Scientists dig deep and find a way to accurately predict snowmelt after droughts
- Cracking the Case of Missing Snowmelt After Drought
- 2023 Esri Canada GIS Scholarship for SFU
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Daniel Murphy
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Kyle Kusack
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Matthew Taylor
- Anke Baker Wins Staff Achievement Award
- Spring 2023 Virtual Geospeaker Event with Ginger Gosnell-Myers
- CAG Paper Presentation Award - Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven!
- Informing & Engaging Urban Youth on Public Hearings: GEOG 363 Final Showcase
- Research Talk: Modeling Urban Wetland Complexities
- Highlight Paper: Quantifying land carbon cycle feedbacks under negative CO2 emissions
- Bright Addae winner of the 2023 SFU ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Jonny Cripps
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Diandra Oliver
- 2023 Geospeaker Presentation with Dr. Pauline McGuirk
- Congratulations to Our Graduates - October 2023
- Evaluating the impact of educational goals at SFU
- The Belongings of Precariously Housed People - A Report
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Takuma Mihara
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Adrienne Arbor
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Claire Shapton
- 2023 Distinguished Speaker Presentation with Dr. Deb Cowen
- Cheers to Paul Degrace and his well-earned retirement!
- 2024 Archives
- Professor Nicholas Blomley Honored with the Community-Engaged Research Achievement Award
- Graduate Students Claire Shapton and Marina Chavez Honored with the Community-Engaged Graduate Scholar Award
- Applications now open: 2024 ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship for SFU
- Associate Professor Rosemary Collard achieves 13th place on SFU Altmetric List
- The PEAK feature: GSU hosts inaugural RANGE conference
- Gabrielle Wong wins First Prize in 2023 Student Learning Commons Writing Contest
- Gabrielle Wong receives Warren Gill Memorial Award
- Professor Nick Blomley receives Warren Gill Memorial Award for Community Impact
- Geography Student Union recipient of the FENV 2024 Changemaker Awards
- Senior Lecturer Tara Holland reveals the secret sauce of great teaching
- Senior Lecturer Tara Holland Receives SFU 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Bright Addae
- GIS undergraduate students participate in the Canada-wide 2024 AppChallenge competition
- Senior Lecturer Andrew Perkins Receives SFU 2024 Dean's Award of Excellence in Teaching
- Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven, Canada's 2024 ESRI Young Scholar
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Robert Ehlert
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Stephan Nieweler
- Eugene McCann writes on "livable cities" in The Tyee
- Tiana Andjelic wins the 2024 SFU ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Marina Chavez
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Mia Fitzpatrick
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Lan Qing Zhao
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Tyler Cole
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Benjamin Lartey
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- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to John Sykes
- Farewell to Robert "Bob" Horsfall, Associate Professor
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to André Araújo
- SFU Geography welcomes ethnobotanist, Leigh Joseph, as professor of Indigenous geographies
- Physical Geography September: What is Physical Geography?
- Alysha Van Duynhoven communicates award-winning research at international GIS conference
- How Dr. Tracy Brennand’s visionary leadership shaped the Department of Geography - a heartfelt thank-you
- Dr. Tracy Brennand honoured with the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Award
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SFU Geography Statement: Black Lives Matter
The Department of Geography at SFU stands in solidarity with all who are engaged in the long fight for justice and equity for Black people and against anti-Black police violence, racism and white supremacy. The police killing of George Floyd and countless other Black people worldwide remind us that anti-Blackness is a particular form of racism that needs to be named and confronted. The recent death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Toronto reminds us that Canada is not immune to anti-Black racism. We commit to educating ourselves about the long history of systemic racism in Coast Salish territories, Canada and beyond (links below).
The forms that racism takes against Black people, Indigenous people, Asian people and other people of colour are different, but these racisms are all part of white supremacy and the settler-colonial project. From its origins, the discipline of geography directly advanced these structures, and our discipline’s whiteness has been durable, despite longstanding efforts by racialized scholars and their allies. SFU Geography has its own histories and cultures of whiteness that we are learning from in order to enact norms and practices welcoming to all. We commit to stand against all forms of racism and to strive to dismantle white supremacy and colonial practices in our department, across the SFU campus and in our lives outside the university. We urge anyone affiliated with SFU Geography and who has sufficient means, to donate money to support anti-racism organizing efforts here in unceded Coast Salish territories and elsewhere (links below).
We commit to:
- Undergo anti-racism training in our department
- Support Black-owned businesses through departmental activities and purchases
- Review and modify any aspects of our departmental culture or physical surroundings that suggest ongoing legacies of white supremacy
- Advocate for targeted university funding for BIPOC students at SFU
- Consider how we can address racism, white supremacy, and/or colonialism in our courses.
- Further diversify our faculty, with a particular focus on racial diversity
- Create and communicate clear pathways to support racialized students experiencing racism, including harassment or bias, on or off campus
Organizations to support
Black Lives Matter Vancouver: https://www.gofundme.com/f/blmvan
Hogan’s Alley Society, Vancouver: https://www.hogansalleysociety.org/
Black in BC Community Support Fund for COVID-19: https://ca.gofundme.com/f/covid19-black-community-support-vancouver
Black Lives Matter Toronto: https://blacklivesmatter.ca/donate/
Student groups supporting Black students at SFU
SFU SOCA - Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry: https://www.sfusoca.ca/about.html
SFU Somali Students Association: https://www.sfusoca.ca/sfu-somali-students-association.html
SFU Nigerian Students Association: https://www.sfusoca.ca/sfu-nigerian-students-association.html
Resources for reading and listening
Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives
The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/536075/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole/9780385686341
The Secret Life of Canada podcast, hosted by Leah-Simone Bowen and Falen Johnson: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/secretlifeofcanada
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal, by Afua Cooper: https://ugapress.org/book/9780820329406/the-hanging-of-angelique/
North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes, by Harvey Amani Whitfield: https://www.ubcpress.ca/north-to-bondage
White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism, by Robyn Diangelo: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566247/white-fragility-by-robin-diangelo/
How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X Kendi: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564299/how-to-be-an-antiracist-by-ibram-x-kendi/
The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities, by Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter LI, Howard Ramos and Malinda Smith: https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-equity-myth