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- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Negin Shooraj
- SFU Geography Alumni Sean Orr wins Vancouver council seat in byelection
- Rosemary Collard awarded 2024 SFU Excellence in Teaching Award
- SFU Students Designed and Developed a GeoApp as a Living Wage Calculator
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- SFU Geography Wins Big at 2025 CAG Annual Conference
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- In Memory of Leonard "Len" Evenden, Professor Emeritus
- Gabrielle Wong awarded 2025 Gordon M. Shrum Medal
- Dr. Bright Addae awarded 2025 Graduate Dean's Convocation Medal
- Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven for Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
- Wildfires to waterways: SFU Geography grad takes action to protect the environment
- Making a difference on and off-campus: student leader and changemaker, Gabrielle Wong, awarded SFU convocation medal
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- Kira Sokolovskaia wins the 2025 SFU ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- Mapping a path to City Hall: SFU alumnus shares journey to becoming Mayor of New Westminster
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven
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- Rethinking the World Map: Dr. Shiv Balram featured on CBC
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- SFU Geographers at the 2025 International Cartographic Conference in Vancouver
- When academic curiosity meets environmental purpose: new global environmental systems grad builds interdisciplinary foundation at SFU
- Alysha Van Duynhoven wins the 2025 SFU ECCE in GIS Student Associate Achievement Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to David Swanlund
- Congratulations to Our 2025 Warren Gill Award Recipients!
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- Terri Evans: Researching homelessness in suburban communities
- Mapping change for people and the planet
- GIS Month: What is Geographic Information Science (GIS)?
- SFU GIS undergraduate develops real-time earthquake monitoring and hospital alert system
- Physical Geography student returns to SFU, dives into marine ecology, soils and GIS to map a new path forward
- SFU study searches Strava to reveal secrets to happier runs
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- SFU study searches Strava to reveal secrets to happier runs
- GIScience Students Become SFU’s First Team at National Geomatics Competition
- 2026 ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship for SFU
- Physical Geography student returns to SFU, dives into marine ecology, soils and GIS to map a new path forward
- SFU GIS undergraduate develops real-time earthquake monitoring and hospital alert system
- GIS Month: What is Geographic Information Science (GIS)?
- Mapping change for people and the planet
- GIS Team Crowned Champions of 2026 National Geomatics Competition
- Second-year MSc Student, Erin Fairley, has made it to the SFU 3MT Finals!
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Brandon Drucker
- In Memory of Ivor Winton
- SFU Students Create GeoApp to Reveal Transit Deserts and Oases Across Metro Vancouver
- Andrew Perkins receives 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award
- Krista Macaulay Receives Prestigious Trudeau Fellowship
- Human Geography Student Guneet Kaur Receives SFU Centre for Dialogue Award for Undergraduate Research
- Researching Cows & Capitalism Leads to Trudeau Scholarship for SFU PhD Student
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Geography Graduate Association
About Us
The Geography Graduate Association is a student led organization active in creating a vibrant social and academic community for all of our members. We organize a variety of events throughout the year including, professional development workshops, faculty panels, and game nights, among others.
Christine Leclerc (GGA president) - leclerc@sfu.ca
Executive Members
- President: Christine Leclerc (leclerc@sfu.ca)
- Vice-President: Krista Macaulay (krista_macaulay@sfu.ca)
- Secretary: Lucy Burns (lucy_burns@sfu.ca)
- Alternate Secretary: Krista Macaulay (krista_macaulay@sfu.ca)
- Treasurer: Scott Peters (scott_peters@sfu.ca)
- Social Committee Chair: Open
- Communications & Events Committee Rep: Open
- GSS Councillor: Rachel Chimuka (rachel_chimuka@sfu.ca)
- GSS Councillor Alternate: Geoffrey Harper (geoffrey_harper@sfu.ca)
- TSSU Steward: Liam Kennedy-Slaney (liam_kennedy-slaney@sfu.ca)
- Graduate Studies Committee Rep: Terri Evans (terri_evans@sfu.ca)
- Strategic Planning Committee Rep: Nick Gottlieb (nick_gottlieb@sfu.ca)
- Departmental Meeting Reps: Tsatia Adzich (tadzich@sfu.ca) and Naomi Keenan (nrk4@sfu.ca)
- EDI Committee Rep: Irina Lipnitskaya (ila23@sfu.ca)
Upcoming Elections
The GGA holds elections during the September caucus meeting for all positions except the Communication and Events Committee which runs May-April.
Powers and Duties of Elected GGA Officers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16hOTMQJDJ-Y19aoBYiS-EjJSYdQ6QnEA/view?usp=sharing
Check your SFU email for information on upcoming GGA events and meetings.
Links
- The Graduate Student Society (GSS) : http://sfugradsociety.ca/
- The Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) : http://www.tssu.ca/