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Convocation 2010
Going to Guatemala
Geography professor Catherine Nolin (far right) is leading her fourth Field School Delegation to Guatemala from May 9th - 27th, 2010 ( follow this link for regular dispatches from the participants). Dr. Nolin & Grahame Russell of Rights Action, along with 4 undergrad and 5 grad students, will be visiting regions affected by historical & contemporary violence and mining in that country. Additionally, they will meet with UNBC adjunct professor Fredy Peccerelli and the FAFG team conducting exhumations of mass graves in urban and rural Guatemala.
AAG Conference News
Faculty News
We are excited to announce the faculty appointment of Dr. Zoe Meletis (above) as an Assistant Professor in the Geography Program. Dr. Meletis will be joining us in the Winter 2010 semester and will teach GEOG303 / ORTM433 Recreational Geography (Tourism, Recreation, & Geography) and ENVS309 Women and Environmental Studies. Dr. Meletis's new office is located in the New Lab Building, Rm. 8-244.
Graduate Student
Summer Fieldwork Updates
Photo Source: Nathan Einbinder, Rio Negro, Guatemala
Click HERE to read about the work of Matt Beedle, Claudette Bois, Nate Einbinder, Courtney LeBourdais, Joe LeBourdais, Lorraine Naziel, & Cristian Silva -- work that takes them from northwestern & northeastern BC to Guatemala and further south to Chile.
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 geographers are well prepared to meet.
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News Digest of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG)
Updated Weekly
Congratulations!
Nathan Einbinder successfully defended his MA NRES (Geography) thesis titled:
"Dams,
Displacement, and Perceptions of Development:
A Case Study from Río Negro,
Guatemala" Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Congratulations also to Nate's supervisor Dr. Catherine Nolin
Graduate Student Awards!
Congratulations also to Christine Creyke (above) (NRES Geography, Co-supervisors: Drs. Gail Fondahl & Greg Halseth) &
Congratulations!
Chelan Zirul -
MA NRES (Geography '10)
on the successful defence of
her thesis:
The
Changing Governance of Rural Regional Development:
A Case Study of the
Cariboo-Chilcotin Beetle Action Coalition
Date: Monday, July 5, 2010
Congratulations also to Chelan's supervisor Dr. Greg Halseth
In the News
7 July 2010
Excerpt: Dr. Halseth writes: "The success of rural and small-town B.C. was, is and will be important
for the success of metropolitan economies and the province as a whole."
Congratulations
 Congratulations to Eric Kopetski (MSc NRES Geography student, supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth) on his award for the Best Graduate Student Paper at the WDCAG conference in March 2010.
Alumni News
ERIC GALLANT (BA Geography '07) successfully defended his Major Research Project for his Master in Environmental Studies (specialization in Urban Planning) at York University in January 2010. With this major achievement behind him, Eric arrived on March 1, 2010 in Dakar, Senegal to take up a
6-month CIDA funded internship with the
Internation Centre for Sustainable Cities and the Institute Africain de Gestion Urbaine.
Click HERE for more information on our Alumni.
In The News
Experts explore future of Columbia basin glaciers, Revelstoke Times Review, 8 February 2010
Excerpt : "Speaking at the event, Brian Menounos, from University of Northern British Columbia, commented on the potential political ramifications of this research. Part of this involves striking a balance between the electricity and water needs of the people in the Columbia Basin, southern British Columbia, and exports to the United States."
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