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Geography
 May 17, 2012: The UNBC, University of Pretoria, and Rhodes U. Crew at Ganora in South Africa
Spring Courses 2012
Geog 101: Human Geography, May 7-June 15
Geog 203: Geography of Canada, May 7-June 15
UNBC Geography in Guatemala -
May & June 2012
The Guatemala crew including:
UNBC Geography in South Africa,
April & May 2012
Drs. Kevin Hall, Greg Halseth & Neil Hanlon are leading a Geography field school to South Africa. Here, on a train from Johannesburg to Capetown, April 29, 2012.
Adjunct Professor Fredy Peccerelli
Top Human Rights Award recipient, May 2012
 Fredy Peccerelli, winner of the 2012 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights
Activism, addresses the audience at the Museum of the City of New York,
May 13, 2012. Photo Len Tsou See: http://www.albavolunteer.org
UNBC Named one of Canada’s Greenest Employers
Professor Kevin Hall -
Fellow of the Society of South African Geographers
The
Geography Program sends warm congratulations to our own Dr. Kevin Hall
who, in June 2012, will be made a Fellow of the Society of South African
Geographers (SSAG). Since 1970 there have been but 24 Fellows,
and this award will be only the second to a non South African.
In the written notification, Cecil Seethal, the SSAG President, wrote that
the award was for "inter alia, the indelible mark you have made on
Geography in South Africa through globally respected research and a
legacy of students who are now leaders in the discipline in the
country....and for your prolific and sustained publication record."
WDCAG 2012
New
Adjunct Faculty Member José Pablo Baraybar
In
mid-Februry 2012, José Pablo sends this photo from Bungoma, Kenya where the
EPAF is starting a new project in the area and in partnership with Western
Kenya Human Rights Watch to assist in recording gross Human Rights violations
in the area of Mount Elgon.
Dr. Brian Menounos on CBC
Glacier time-lapse images reveal 'epochal change,'
13 January 2012
Dr. Greg Halseth helps Kitimat, BC Prepare for Smelter Expansion
Geography
professor Dr. Greg Halseth working wtih Kitimat to prepare for one of
the largest industrial expansions in the history of northern B.C. See: UNBC News Release, 5 December 2011
Play Video
NRES Geography PhD candidate Matt Beedle takes you on a tour of Castle Creek Glacier where he & supervisor Dr. Brian Menounos are conducting a comprehensive study of the current state and
future fate of glaciers in BC and Alberta. For UNBC students and
researchers, the world is the classroom.
Convocation 2011
Aimee Smith & Dr. Neil Hanlon. Aimee received the Top Geography Student Award for the Class of 2011. Photo: Z. Meletis
Geography Field Schools 2012
Plan to join one of our fascinating geographical field schools. Look for information sessions in Fall 2011 and/or contact the following people:
WDCAG 2011
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Grad Student News
WDCAG Award Winners
Congratulations to
Jessica Blewett (MA NRES
candidate, supervisor: Dr. N. Hanlon) for best Master's oral presentation
&
Alex Koiter (PhD NRES candidate, supervisor: Dr. Ellen Petticrew) for best PhD poster
Congratulations
to Christina Tennant
Congratulations to Christina Tennant & her supervisor Dr. Brian Menounos on the successful defence of her MSc thesis in Natural Resources & Environmental Studies (Geography):
"Nine
Decades of Glacier Change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains"
New Publications
Skinner, M., N. Hanlon, and G. Halseth. 2012. Health- and social-care issues in aging resource communities In Health in Rural Canada, eds. J. C. Kulig and A. M. Williams, 462-480. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
New book publications
Congratulations to Geography Senior Lab Instructor Chris Jackson and affiliated geographer Dr. Peter Jackson for the publication of their new textbook (co-authored with C. Donald Ahrens) Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment.
Christine Creyke
2010 Jane Glassco Arctic Fellow
Christine
Creyke defended her MA NRES-Geography thesis (Co-supervisors: Drs. Greg
Halseth and Gail Fondahl) in April 2011 & is now based in her
mother's home community of Old Crow, Yukon, working as a "Jane Glassco
Arctic Fellow" on research titled "Natural Resource Policy
Recommendations for the Vuntut Gwitchin Government."
NRES
(Geography) graduate student JP Laplante (Supervisor: Catherine Nolin)
and Stephen St. Laurent directed and produced this film Amazay: A Film
About Water to highlight the battle against the Kemess North development
in northern BC during 2007-2009.
The full
film is now available through YouTube.
What is Geography all about?
Geography provides a framework for comprehending the world we live
in. Every one of us is born with an inherent curiosity about the world
around us: geographers channel that intellectual curiosity into a
systematic and disciplined method of study. As a modern physical and
social science, geography plays a crucial role in addressing local,
national and global concerns such as acid rain, hazardous waste, housing
for low income people, and world population growth.
Geographers work in a wide array of fields including cartography and
computer mapping, remote sensing and climatology, urban and regional
planning, housing and community development, retail site analysis and
market research, environmental analysis and resource conservation,
geophysics and natural science research. Given this breadth there are
significant employment opportunities with government, in teaching, in
business, or in private sector consulting. The reason for this wide
range of opportunities, and for the demand for trained geographers in
the workplace, is the perspectives and range of skills the geography
graduate has to offer.
Geography is the study of objects, ideas, or processes in place, or
space, in the same sense that history is the study of events across
time. This spatial perspective helps the geographer to make sense of
available information to explain specific phenomena - whether that
involves rock weathering in Antarctica or homeless populations in the
inner-city. As such, geography is an integrative field of study - it can
draw upon a wide range of work from other disciplines in order to
understand the outcomes of processes or actions in particular places.
The constantly changing physical and human landscapes demand continuing
interpretations of the world from a spatial point of view, a challenge
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Once again this year, the UNBC Geography Program sent a group of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty to the 
