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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
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- 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
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- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Claire Shapton
- 2023 Distinguished Speaker Presentation with Dr. Deb Cowen
- Cheers to Paul Degrace and his well-earned retirement!
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- 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
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From the Dean’s Office
Geography is a field that captures our imaginations and furthers understandings of the connections between people, places, regions, and various types of landscapes. It allows us to engage other spaces and times, to get our hands dirty in the field, and to conceptualize the scalar and spatial dimensions that comprise a broad range of phenomena including natural processes, socio-political formations, and the organized patterns of soil, water, atmospheric and societal states.
So often, when I meet someone who expresses knowledge, curiosity and wonder in the way they narrate their experiences with nature, culture, or society, I learn that this person has an educational background in Geography. I love the way geographers can apprehend the world around them at multiple scales and how this heightens their ability to describe different kinds of change and associated natural and social forces, and structures, that underpin them. In many ways, geographical knowledge is akin to practical wisdom.
It is my pleasure to work with the Department of Geography to support and expand their teaching and research impact, as well as celebrate the intelligence and creativity of their faculty, staff and students. This was a big year for Geography welcoming Dr. Leanne Roderick as a permanent faculty member last September and Dr. Sharon Luk as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Geographies of Racialization in April. They also completed a three-day External Review, created a new Minor in Climate Change and Society, which will launch this Fall, and continues to develop a new Major and Minor in Urban Change. Geography also continues to actively develop its own Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion commitments, as well as recently holding an in-person retreat to examine the department’s values and envision future directions.
The number of faculty research awards, and student awards is truly remarkable. Dr. Paul Kingsbury (Associate Dean, Undergraduate) and I are also delighted to see SFU’s approval of a new course, GEOG 304 “Geography of Wine” and see Geography make good progress on updating the Business and Geography Joint Major.
The next academic year, then, promises to be another big one for this stellar department!