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- 2023 Archives
- 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
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Graduate Field Work Diaries
I was recently accepted for a post-doctoral position with the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity (CGSHE), an independent research centre at Providence Health Care whose mandate is to advance gender and sexual health equity for marginalized populations by informing policy and practice with the best available science. CGSHE is comprised of a diverse team of researchers from SFU and UBC, clinicians, and policy and community-based partners with diverse expertise in the areas of im/migrant health, HIV/STIs and clinical and community-based im/migrant support. My post-doc research is set to start this summer (2020) and will assess the experiences and perceptions of im/migrant women on access to HIV & STI services. The study will elucidate im/migration-related structural barriers and facilitators to inequities in navigating and accessing these services.
- Germaine Tuyisenge, PhD Candidate, Health Geography
In early 2019, Dr. Hedley and I completed a research project with the Vancouver Aquarium and Ocean Wise, studying and designing new 3D data capture workflows for monitoring glass sponge ecosystem health in Howe Sound, BC. Our comprehensive development and testing program, in both a dry-lab and wet-lab environment (also supported by a partnership with DFO), provided a rigorous assessment of Structure-from-Motion workflow performance prior to conducting a series of field surveys off the west coast of Bowen Island, BC. The outcomes of this research - a new piece of seafloor monitoring gear called "HEXYZ-1", new SfM survey protocols, and new 3D spatial data science - that will support future efforts quantifying structural changes to glass sponges over time.
- Ian Lochhead, PhD Candidate, Spatial Interface Research Lab
I don’t really have a photograph of myself “in the field” partly because my field sites are archives. Combing through papers and reports is a solitary and visually unremarkable scene. During my MA research, I visited the Territorial Archives in Yellowknife to trace the polar bear conservation efforts of wildlife managers. In Churchill Manitoba, I read through the history of the town’s Polar Bear Alert Program, which has evolved from a volunteer-run Halloween night patrol to a sophisticated Provincially-coordinated surveillance system over the past several decades. In my doctoral work at SFU, I will be returning to the archives to explore the histories of wildlife translocation across Canada. (Photo from the Redpath Museum in Montreal).
- Liam Kennedy-Slaney, PhD Student, Human Geography
PhD candidate Tingan Li from the River Dynamics Lab surveys Alexandra Canyon of the Fraser River in the rain, February 2020.