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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 1h

🌎 It’s #FieldworkFriday!

Faran & all of us in GEES send a huge thanks to the Water Survey of Canada team for hosting and sharing their expertise with our students. 4/4

#fieldworkphotos #fieldworkfriday #UNBC #Hydrology

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 1h

🌎 It’s #FieldworkFriday!

Experiential learning like this connects classroom concepts to real-world practice, helping prepare students for future careers in hydrology, geography, and environmental sciences. 3/

#Geography #SalmonRiver #physicalgeography

Photos shared by Dr. Faran Ali

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 1h

🌎 It’s #FieldworkFriday!

Faran Ali shares that “students observed a working hydrometric station, learned about field equipment, and even had the chance to try shallow-water measurements themselves.” 2/

#Fieldwork #ExperientialLearning #WaterSurveyOfCanada

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 1h

🌎 It’s #FieldworkFriday!

Earlier this week, GEOG 310 HYDROLOGY students visited the Salmon River Water Survey of Canada station with Dr. Faran Ali as part of their fieldwork on stream discharge measurement. 1/

#fieldworkphotos #fieldworkfriday #UNBC #Hydrology

Photos: @faranali.bsky.social

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 13h

TODAY - The NRESi Colloquium Series continues with our own Dr. Siraj ul Islam!

Join us in Rm 8-166 at 3:30pm to learn more about Dr. Islam’s research.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.

If you cannot join in person, clickhere to join the Webcast:
www.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 1d

💦 Last Saturday’s QRRC Open House went very well! Our colleague Dr. Phil Owens shares that 50+ people attended, with about 30 of those being community members including Xatsull First Nation and Williams Lake Indian Band members.

#QRRC #rivers #salmon #hydrology #researchmatters #UNBCInTheField

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 7d

✅ NEW Publication - Congratulations to MSc NRES graduate Stephanie Chan who worked with Dr. Tristan Pearce during her graduate studies

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Congratulations Stephanie on this achievement!

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 11d

FRIDAY - The NRESi Colloquium Series picks up again this Friday with geographer Dr. Neil Nunn

Join us in Rm 8-166 on Friday at 3:30pm to learn more about Dr. Nunn’s research.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Click here to join the Webcast:
www.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

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UNBC Global Friday Speaker Series @unbcglobalfriday.bsky.social · 11d

Join us in welcoming our next speaker, Dr. Crystal Fraser, on October 3rd.
Her talk is titled "By Strength, We Are Still Here: Truth, Reconciliation, and the Path Forward"
You can join via teams webinar.
ID: 211 526 552 481 9
Passcode: ZS7FB3Hu

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 11d

Missed #FieldworkFriday - here’s a catch up post from the recent field work of BSc Geography student Siobhan Striegler Klassen (supervisor Dr. Adam Hawkins)

For Siobhan’s BSc Geography Honours thesis, she is exploring the connection of the Tŝilhqot’in people with Tŝilhqox (the Chilcotin River).

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 14d

✅ MA NRES graduate Jessica Froese is in Brandon, Manitoba this week to present her recently completed Master’s research at the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference.

RURAL YOUTH MIGRATION PLANNING: THE COMPLEX STORY IN TUMBLER RIDGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 15d

ℹ️ NEW publication co-authored by our colleague Dr. Faran Ali, GEES Senior Lab Instructor, and Engineering colleagues (led by Dr. Guowei Li, Valedictorian, May 2025)

Local scour around submerged spur dikes under ice-covered conditions: experimental and numerical investigation
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 16d

🔥NEW PUBLICATION co-authored by MA NRES Geography grad James Whitehead for The Conversation (supervisor: Dr. Tristan Pearce)

#GEESInTheNews #UNBCInTheField #wildfires #community #communityresilience #firefighting #NorthernBC

theconversation.com/working-with...

Working with local communities is a vital part of wildfire response

The challenge is not firefighting capacity nor convincing people to help; it is coordinating efforts to prioritize safety and efficiency.

theconversation.com

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 16d

➡️ GEES’s Senior Research Scientist Dr. Raquel Portes & ESM’s Dr. Diogo Spinola are exploring how fire transforms forest soils in northern BC.

#GEESInTheNews #UNBCInTheField #wildfires #soils #physicalgeography

www.coastreporter.net/bc-news/bc-s...

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 17d

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to our awesome colleague Dr. Tristan Pearce on his recent promotion to Full Professor of Geography!

Many of us enjoyed celebrating this major academic achievement with Tristan during today’s event organised by the UNBC Office of the Provost.

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 21d

NEW publication, co-authors include GEES Instructor Laura Ryser (Murphy), Dr. Greg Halseth & GEES Adjunct Professor Dr. Sean Markey

doi.org/10.1080/1557...

#Canada #communitydevelopment #RuralCanada

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 22d

NEW publication co-authored by Alexandre Bevington & Dr. Brian Menounos

Bevington, A.R., Menounos, B., and Ednie, M. 2025. Satellite telemetry of surface ablation observations to inform spatial melt modelling, Place Glacier, British Columbia, Canada, EGUsphere [preprint], doi.org/10.5194/egus...

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 23d

🇦🇹 Mackenzie Ostberg (GEES Research Associate) is in Innsbruck, Austria this week to present her recently completed Master’s research at the International Mountain Conference. #IMC

Presentation Title: Community Vulnerability to Mountain Snowpack Change

Supervisor: Dr. Tristan Pearce

imc2025.info

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 24d

📣 The Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP) call for funding applications for undergraduate & graduate students

To apply, please go to: nstp-pfsn.smapply.io

Deadline Tuesday November 10th, 2025

Dr. Stephen Déry, Chair, UNBC NSTP Committee (Email: [email protected]).

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 25d

FRIDAY - @unbc-nresi.bsky.social Colloquium with Dr. Jasmine Janes:

Date: Friday, September 19, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online

Link to the colloquium webcast: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · 29d

📣 FRIDAY - The UNBC NRESi Colloquium Series kicks off this Friday with Dr. Tristan Pearce!

Join us in Rm 8-166 on Friday at 3:30pm to learn more about Dr. Pearce’s research.

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Click here to join the Webcast:
www.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · Sep 9

We are pleased to welcome recent GEES MNRES graduate Halena Scanlon as a Research Associate.

Halena is working on the Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada funded project, “Inuvialuit Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida)” & other Arctic-related projects.

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UNBC’s Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are pleased to welcome Mackenzie Ostberg, a recent GEES MA graduate, to the department as a Research Associate with Dr. Tristan Pearce.

Mackenzie is working on the SSHRC-funded project “Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network” (IPON).

More info here: www.envchange.com/members

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Joseph Shea 🇨🇦 @josephshea.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s September 3, we are 10+ days into record breaking temperatures with zero precipitation, and would probably hit the forecast record high of 31C except we are smothered in #wildfire smoke. #climatechange

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · Aug 21

The Tsilhqot'in Nation put out a press release this week warning that chinook salmon are still at risk from the 2024 Tsilhqox landslide.

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