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Dr. David Ley, Professor Emeritus of Geography, one of this year’s recipients of the UBC Emeritus College Award for Excellence in Innovative and Creative Endeavours.
Q&A with Dr. Ley:
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2026 Emeritus College award recipients:
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Join us Tues, April 7th. We'll be hearing from Kimberly Bain, an Assistant Professor in the Dept of English Language and Literature here at UBC. Prof. Bain will be presenting a talk titled "Sensing Ground".
12:30 in geog 229, cookies and tea from 12:15
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Join us Tues, March 31 at 12:30pm in Geog 229. We'll be hearing from SFU's Jessica Pilarczyk on "Constraining Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards Along the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Insights from Northern Cascadia".
Cookies & tea at 12:15. Zoom available.
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Please join us Tues. March 24th for the next Geography Department colloquium: Miles Kenney-Lazar on "Socializing Land: Intersections of Plantations, Dispossession and Resistance in Laos". The talk starts at 12:30 in GEOG 229, with cookies & tea at 12:15!
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Please join us Tuesday March 17th for the next Geography Department colloquium: Amy East on "Understanding Physical Landscape Effects of Climate Change: How Much Do We Know, and What Are We Doing About It?". 12:30 in GEOG 229 cookies and tea at 12:15!
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Please join us Tuesday March 10th for the next Geography Department colloquium event: Wes Attewell on "The Lifelines of Empire: Logistical Life in the Decolonizing Pacific". The talk starts at 12:30 in GEOG 229, with cookies and tea at 12:15!
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Join us this summer for a hands-on adventure in the beautiful Okanagan Valley for GEOS 309 Field Camp! This 3-credit field course runs for 11 days from May 22 to June 1, 2026.
GEOS 309 Field Camp details here:
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UBC Department of Geography extends its enthusiastic congratulations to three exceptional Teaching Assistants receiving the 2024 TA Award: Mia Fajeau, Graham King, and Jaxon Slaney.
Learn more about the award winners: geog.ubc.ca/news/congratulat…
Join us on Tuesday, March 3rd, for the next Geography Department colloquium. We'll be hearing from Michele Koppes and Holly Chubb from UBC Geography. "Community Co-Developed Geohazards Research and Management".
12:30 in GEOG 229.
Details here:
geog.ubc.ca/events/event/geo…
WDCAG 2026 Conference Submission Deadline February 18th!
Graduate and Undergraduate Research Presentations Welcome!
For further information please visit the WDCAG206 conference website (blogs.ubc.ca/wdcag26a/)
Have you thought about transforming climate research into meaningful action? Adding a certificate alongside your major? Gaining hands-on, community-engaged learning through a capstone project? Consider the UBC Certificate in Climate Studies & Action
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Congratulations to the 2025 Climate Studies IBPOC Student Support Fund Recipients!
Learn more about the recipients: undergraduate students Sumaiyah Choudry, Aliya Hirji, Akifuzzaman Labib and Bimo Wibowo: geog.ubc.ca/news/congratulat…
Join us Tuesday Feb 10th for our next Geography Colloquium with Dan Hiebert Professor Emeritus, UBC Geography.
Immigration Levels Planning in Canada: Balancing Complex Demographic Trade-offs
Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event/geo…
Conference Registration is now open!
Please join us for the 67th annual meeting of the WDCAG on traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), UBC, Vancouver, March 5-7th!
Info: blogs.ubc.ca/wdcag26a/
Please join us for the 67th annual meeting of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (WDCAG) on traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), UBC, Vancouver, March 5-7th!
Info: blogs.ubc.ca/wdcag26a/
Join us Tues Jan 27th for our next Geography Colloquium with Mike Turley, Postdoc, UBC Geography.
Living with Rivers in a Changing Climate: Lessons Learned from One of the Most Studied, and Visited, Watersheds in BC.
Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event/geo…
Join us Tues Jan 20th for our next Geography Colloquium with Marc Tadaki (Lincoln U, NZ) and Jane Kitson (scientist, NZ) as they discuss their latest research on Environmental Justice & the Indigenous Governance of Introduced Species.
Event info: https://shorturl.at/JkgOB
We have a great line up for T2 colloquium series. Please have a look and mark your calendars accordingly. shorturl.at/t5XSI
We are very pleased to announce our first colloquium on 20 Jan featuring our own Marc Tadaki and the Fish Futures Collective. shorturl.at/RM4L7
Researchers at UBC, SFU and the UVic are working with Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and BC Parks to better understand and steward some of B.C.’s most iconic and beloved landscapes: the alpine ecosystems of the SW Coast Mountains.
Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/ubc-researc…
Join us Tues. Nov. 18 for our next Geog Colloquium with Avery Everhart (Geography) and Jasbir Puar (Social Justice Institute) where they will discuss their latest research on the centrality of gender and sexuality to the operations of fascism.
Event info: kntn.ly/7acd4c85
