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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
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2019 Archives
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January 18, 2019
Occasionally, one of Shivanand Balram’s students nods off in class. Balram doesn’t call them...
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January 15, 2019
Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright (Ohio State University) were interviewed by the New Yorker...
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January 24, 2019
Eugene McCann’s Geog 261 'Encountering the City' class recently welcomed Vancouver activist and...
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January 25, 2019
Eugene McCann’s Geog 362W course on Urban Built Environments recently enjoyed a guest lecture from...
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January 24, 2019
Congratulations to Taylor who recently received the Best Paper Award during the International...
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February 27, 2019
The deadline for application submission is extended to March 8th, 2019.
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February 07, 2019
During the Fall 2018 term, 53 students of the GEOG251 Quantitative Geography course taught by Dr....
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February 26, 2019
View the course outline here
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Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the Fall 2019 GEOG451/651 course on Spatial...
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March 15, 2019
The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, visited SFU today to announce the...
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March 05, 2019
Professor Kirsten Zickfeld is an internationally recognized climate scientist who is...
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March 05, 2019
A new co-edited book by Shivanand Balram has now been published. "GIScience Teaching and...
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In 2017, Dr. Nicholas Blomley was elected to the Social Sciences Division of the Academy of Social...
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March 25, 2019
Geography students Alysha van Duynhoven (graduate student) and Chris Yee (undergraduate student)...
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Course indigenization represents one approach to spark student interest and engagement that can...
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April 26, 2019
The winner of the 2019 SFU Esri Canada Center of Excellence (ECCE) in GIS Scholarship is Cameron...
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April 26, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Kimberley Geeves for the successful...
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April 10, 2019
Eleven students from the GEOG 351 (Multimedia Cartography) course participated in the 2019 Esri...
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May 23, 2019
A teaching pedagogy based on carefully balanced formative and summative student assessments can...
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May 03, 2019
A graduate degree from SFU Geography can open up a world of employment opportunities. The...
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May 09, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize that Geoff Mann was awarded 2019 FENV Dean’s...
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May 09, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize that Suzana Dragicevic was awarded 2019 FENV...
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June 11, 2019
The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that Ruslan Rydvanskiy, Geography student...
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June 11, 2019
The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that Anthony Lee, Geography student, has...
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June 11, 2020
The Department of Geography is pleased to announce that Russell Copley, Geography student, has...
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June 11, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize and, more importantly, congratulate the...
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June 10, 2019
Congratulations to Jin Zhang!!! Jin was awarded 3rd place in the student...
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June 03, 2019
Dr. Nicholas Blomley has received an Award of Excellence from the Association of Law, Property and...
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June 10, 2019
Dr. Shiv Balram has received the 2019 Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Teaching Excellence...
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June 26, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Margaret Valerio for the successful...
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June 14, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Mehdi Aminipouri for the successful defence of...
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June 19, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Taylor Anderson for the successful defence...
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July 08, 2019
Alex Smith was awarded the Esri Canada Center of Excellence (ECCE) Student Associate Achievement...
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July 03, 2019
Kirsten Zickfeld, a professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, is...
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July 23, 2019
The community-based research project led by Eugene McCann and Chris Miewald that focused on food as...
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July 03, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Cora Cao for the successful defence of her Msc...
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July 05, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Shuoge Shen for the successful defence of his...
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July 03, 2019
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August 07, 2019
Geoff Mann has been awarded CAIT's 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize for his book: Geoff Mann...
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August 30, 2019
Jeannine Johnstone has been named the August, 2019 ESRI GIS Ambassador! The ERSI GIS Ambassador...
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August 28, 2019
On August 21st, Lecturer Andrew Perkins and SFU Geography tech staff made use of the recently...
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August 14, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Alysha van Duynhoven for the successful...
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August 22, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Liam Fox for the successful defence of his...
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August 02, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Maria Wallstam for the successful defence of...
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August 08, 2019
We are pleased to report that Valorie Crooks’ Tier 2 CRC in Health Service Geographies has been...
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September 23, 2019
As part of the Department’s commitment to reconciliation and Indigenization, undergraduates,...
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September 11, 2019
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September 23, 2019
Millions of students around the world have joined the #FridaysForFuture school strikes in a...
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September 24, 2019
A new podcast series produced by the Centre for Educational Excellence offers first-person accounts...
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September 24, 2020
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Jin Zhang for the successful defence of her Msc...
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October 17, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize and, more importantly, congratulate the...
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October 09, 2019
Eugene McCann’s Geog 442 course, A World of Cities, recently enjoyed a guest lecture from...
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October 09, 2019
Eugene McCann’s Geog 442 course, A World of Cities, recently enjoyed a visit from three City of...
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October 15, 2019
The Department of Geography was well-represented at the General Strike for Climate...
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October 15, 2019
Geography Minor, Julie Han, has been awarded a Canadian Association of Geographers – Feminist...
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October 31, 2019
If you missed the recent Travelogues event, you can catch the video recording of it here!
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October 22, 2019
The 2019 Esri Canada Vancouver User Conference on October 22nd provided a unique professional and...
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October 09, 2019
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October 28, 2019
Congratulations to Ana Mendez, who has received this year’s Warren Gill Memorial...
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November 04, 2019
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November 27, 2019
A new podcast series produced by the Centre for Educational Excellence offers first-person accounts...
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November 27, 2019
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November 13, 2019
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Science (GIScience) have come a long way since the...
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December 11, 2019
Four SFU geography-archive undergraduate students, Karyn Nelson, Izzy Wang, Maggy Corrado and...
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December 04, 2019
Professor Nick Blomley, member of the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University, was...
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December 10, 2019
This pilot project uses a repertoire of spatial interface technologies in order to implement an...
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December 19, 2019
The Department of Geography would like to recognize Anika Vassell for the successful defence...