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
 
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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:
Faculty News
UNBC at the Union of BC Municipalities
Dr. Greg Halseth along with forest
industry leader Ike Barber, a long-time supporter of UNBC & UNBC
Chancellor John MacDonald will present information and data they have
collected related to the
evolving forest economy in British Columbia. See: UNBC News Release, 26 September 2011
Congratulations to Dr. Ellen Petticrew who received $27,933 from the Fraser Salmon & Watershed Program for her project "Marine-derived nutrient sampling using a continuous flow centrifuge."
Congratulations to Dr. Neil Hanlon and his co-investigators who were awarded $672,000 over four years (2011-2015) by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for their research project: "Partnering for Change: Understanding the Contribution of Social Entrepreneurship to Primary Health Care Transformation."
WDCAG 2011
Graduate Student
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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NRESi Colloquium
Affiliated Geographer
Dr. Margot Parkes
is this week's
EcoHealth, OneHealth, Global Health: Why
diversity, emergence and resilience are key to responding to wicked problems
3:30 - 4:30 in Rm. 7-152
Friday, 3 February 2012
Winter 2012
Geography Courses
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.
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Once again this year, the UNBC Geography Program sent a group of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty to the 
