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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
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- 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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Graduate Studies Update
This year our department will undergo an external review and so the timing is right to reflect on what our grads and our program have achieved in the past seven years. Since 2013, our graduate program has remained relatively stable in size at an average of 51 students per year, where 54% of those were PhD students. Our current cohort of 59 students, has almost 40% of students originating from countries around the world; from USA (7), China (3), UK (2), France, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Iran, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burundi and Colombia. In the past seven years we have graduated 87 students with 55 Masters and 32 PhDs. Particularly impressive is the number of publications, awards and activities that our grad students have accomplished. We do not have an exact database but thus far our graduate students have been co-authors on at least 240 peer-reviewed journal publications. They were active presenters and award winners at local, national and international conferences ranging from the CAG, AAG and AGU meetings to many other important and related sub-disciplinary symposia, conferences and workshops. The number of awards is also noteworthy, ranging from local SFU awards to the prestigious Tri-Council ones such as SSHRC CGSD (5) and CGSM (10), NSERC CGSD (4) and CGSM (3), and CIHR CGSD (2) and CGSM (2). Several grad students have obtained other external awards including conference travel grants and best conference paper or presentation awards. Just to name a few, these include: 2013 and 2016 CAG Starkey-Robinson Award in recognition of high-quality graduate research that furthers understanding of the geography-archive of Canada, NSF 2015 GeoComputation conference travel award, 2016 Garfield Weston Award, 2018 ISPRS Foundation (TIF) Travel Grant, Best Paper ACM SIGSpatial 2018 Conference, 2019-20 AAG William L. Garrison Award for best dissertation in computational geography-archive. Many of our past graduate students transition into remarkable careers for which thirteen past PhDs are tenure-track or teaching faculty at universities in Canada and around the world. These achievements collectively speak to the success of our graduate program, an excellent mentorship model focused on academic research and publishing, and of course exceptional grad students.
Suzana Dragićević
Chair, Graduate Studies Committee