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- 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 大象传媒
- Associate Professor Rosemary Collard achieves 13th place on 大象传媒 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
- Senior Lecturer Tara Holland Receives 大象传媒 2023 Excellence in Teaching Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Bright Addae
- GIS undergraduate students participate in the Canada-wide 2024 AppChallenge competition
- Senior Lecturer Andrew Perkins Receives 大象传媒 2024 Dean's Award of Excellence in Teaching
- Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven, Canada's 2024 ESRI Young Scholar
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Robert Ehlert
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Stephan Nieweler
- Eugene McCann writes on "livable cities" in The Tyee
- Tiana Andjelic wins the 2024 大象传媒 ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Marina Chavez
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Mia Fitzpatrick
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Lan Qing Zhao
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Tyler Cole
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Benjamin Lartey
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Olivia Nieves
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Max Hurson
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to John Sykes
- Farewell to Robert "Bob" Horsfall, Associate Professor
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Andr茅 Ara煤jo
- 大象传媒 Geography welcomes ethnobotanist, Leigh Joseph, as professor of Indigenous geographies
- Physical Geography September: What is Physical Geography?
- Alysha Van Duynhoven communicates award-winning research at international GIS conference
- How Dr. Tracy Brennand鈥檚 visionary leadership shaped the Department of Geography - a heartfelt thank-you
- Dr. Tracy Brennand honoured with the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Jay Matsushiba
- Human Geography October: What is Human Geography?
- MA Student Joy Russell featured on CBC Vancouver
- Human Geography October: What is Urban Worlds?
- Ajay Minhas Receives 2024 Warren Gill Award
- Dr. Nadine Schuurman featured in 大象传媒 news article on Runnability
- GIS Month: What is Geographic Information Science (GIS)?
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Joy Russell
- Perspectives from students using ChatGPT in a large enrollment fully online GIS Course
- Motivations, Habits and Risks of using ChatGPT in the On-Campus Quantitative Geography course
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Ian McDonald
- 2025 Archives
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Negin Shooraj
- 大象传媒 Geography Alumni Sean Orr wins Vancouver council seat in byelection
- Rosemary Collard awarded 2024 大象传媒 Excellence in Teaching Award
- 大象传媒 Students Designed and Developed a GeoApp as a Living Wage Calculator
- Undergraduate students team secures third-place in Canada-wide GeoApp competition
- 大象传媒 Geography Wins Big at 2025 CAG Annual Conference
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Alex Sodeman
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Tintin Yang
- In Memory of Leonard "Len" Evenden, Professor Emeritus
- Gabrielle Wong awarded 2025 Gordon M. Shrum Medal
- Dr. Bright Addae awarded 2025 Graduate Dean's Convocation Medal
- Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven for Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
- Wildfires to waterways: 大象传媒 Geography grad takes action to protect the environment
- Making a difference on and off-campus: student leader and changemaker, Gabrielle Wong, awarded 大象传媒 convocation medal
- 2025 Alumni Newsletter
- Kira Sokolovskaia wins the 2025 大象传媒 ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- Mapping a path to City Hall: 大象传媒 alumnus shares journey to becoming Mayor of New Westminster
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Greetings! Welcome to the 大象传媒 Department of Geography
For more than 50 years, 大象传媒鈥檚 Geography Department has been a centre for the study of a diverse and changing world. Our work involves a combination of theory and research and examines environmental processes, human societies, and innovative technologies to better understand their interaction. The result is an interdisciplinary approach to some of the most pressing challenges posed by the modern world. You can find out more about the work we do by visiting our Research pages.
Located on the 大象传媒 Burnaby campus, our department is made up of:
- 24 continuing research and teaching faculty, including:
- a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- a Canada Research Chair
- a Fellow of the Canadian Geographical Society
- Michael Smith Scholars
- 大象传媒 excellence in teaching awardees, and
- various other award holders
- a rich network of Adjunct faculty and Associate members
- an active group of Emeriti
- more than 60 graduate students in the MA, MSc and PhD programs as well as post-docs who are collaborating on research projects with our faculty, and
- approximately 500 undergraduate student majors enrolled in BA, BEnv and BSc programs
We invite you to get to know us better as you make your way through these pages. Have questions? Feel free to get in touch.