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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · 18h

This upcoming Tuesday, we are very fortunate to be hosting Rosalba Velasco, the Chief Counselor of the CRIC (consejo regional indígena del Cauca) in Colombia. This event is co-sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Landscapes cluster

Talk abstract and speaker bio: geog.ubc.ca/events/event...

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · 1d

Applications for the 2025/26 IBPOC Student Support Fund has been extended to October 17th!

This award supports students from Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities of colour studying climate change at UBC.

Learn more & apply: rb.gy/8qdg0a

UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · 1d

Geography Colloquium for Term 1 starts next Tuesday, October 14th. See the schedule here:

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · 7d

Jamie Peck to speak at UBC Dialogues series "Challenges, changes, and research: Insights from UBC’s University Killam Professors"

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Challenges, changes, and research: Insights from UBC’s University Killam Professors - alumni UBC

Meet UBC’s three newest University Killam Professors as they explore the local and worldwide impact of their innovative research in biological, socio-political, and legal systems.

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · 12d

Jennifer Williams, Nina Hewitt and Courtney Collins showcasing Alpine Horizons alpinehorizons.ca at the Beaty BRC opening short-url.org/1brdJ

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · 22d

Applications for the 2025/26 IBPOC Student Support Fund are now open! Created in partnership with @UBCeoas, this award supports students from Indigenous, Black, and other racialized communities of colour studying climate change at UBC.

Learn more & apply: rb.gy/8qdg0a

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Aug 18

Geography Professor Michele Koppes and several graduate students from the Critical Physical Geography research collective call for diversity of scientific thought and reflexive approaches in a new Ecosphere article.

Learn more:

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Atmospheric Apparitions mini-symposium on Sept 18-19 2025 is free and open to the public. We encourage you to visit the departmental Atmospheric Apparitions: Particle Pollutants – Dust, Ash, Smog and Smoke! exhibition July 21-Sept 26, 2025

Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/events/event...

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Jul 29

UBC Geography and the UBC Liu Lobby Gallery welcome you to an interdisciplinary art exhibition titled ATMOSPHERIC APPARITIONS: Particle Pollutants – Dust, Ash, Smog and Smoke, currently on view until September 26, 2025.

Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/atmosph...

UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Jul 17

UBC Geography Professors Simon Donner, Kate Hale, McKenzie Kuhn and Marysa Laguë recognized for excellence with 2025 NSERC Discovery Grants.

Learn more: www.arts.ubc.ca/news/ubc-art...

UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Jul 4

Congratulations Assistant Profs Avery Everhart (@averyeverhart.bsky.social) & Kate Hale, recipients of the 2024/25 Dean of Arts Faculty Research Award! 👏Their exceptional research spans transgender healthcare access and snow hydrology.

Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/drs-ave...

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Jul 2

New @harvard.edu research, along w/ Dr. @tinaliu.bsky.social, launches an online platform to help identify areas in need of controlled burns or other #wildfire management strategies, to increase safety and reduce smoke exposure. 🔥

More: seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/06...

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Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke

New app estimates health impacts of breathing smoke from wildfires

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Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social · Jun 24

We’re thrilled to launch the Right to Cool White Paper – a bold, rights-based vision for equitable climate resilience in BC. Rooted in lived experience and policy analysis, it calls for systemic action to protect those most impacted by rising heat.

Read the full paper here! tinyurl.com/2fer2bad

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Jun 13

PhD candidate and Public Scholar Rachel Stern’s research focuses on the intersection of housing insecurity, heat vulnerability, and aging. Her latest community-engaged project explores seniors’ lived experiences of heat in their homes.

Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/researc...

Research Profile: Rachel Stern - housing justice in the climate emergency

PhD candidate and Public Scholar Rachel Stern has been focused on the intersection of housing insecurity, heat vulnerability and aging for some time. Read more about her timely work.

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UBC Centre for Migration Studies @migration.ubc.ca · May 23

📢 Applications are now open for the 2025–26 Graduate Certificate in Migration Studies!

Enhance your UBC degree with a specialization in migration and mobilities studies.
🗓️ Application deadline: June 23, 2025

Learn more & apply: migration.ubc.ca/graduate-stu...

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · May 26

Join us in congratulating Dr. Siobhán Wittig McPhee, 2025 AMS UBC Open Education Resource (OER) Champion🏆, for her outstanding commitment to advancing affordable access to education by making OERs core to her innovative teaching practice. 👏

Read more: geog.ubc.ca/news/siobhan...

Siobhán Wittig McPhee named an AMS UBC Open Education Resource Champion

Dr. Siobhán Wittig McPhee (she/her) has been named a 2025 AMS UBC OER Champion for her outstanding commitment to advancing affordable access through developing and utilizing OERs core to her innovativ...

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · May 22

Professor Merje Kuus delves into the nuances of the storytelling of the BC wine industry and suggests we flip the narrative, asking what wine itself sells, rather than how best to sell wine. 🍷📷

What Does Wine Sell?
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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · May 12

Geography Professor @naomiaklein.bsky.social weighs in on the current state of affairs in the US and beyond.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · May 7

"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this."

Interview ⤵️

Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'

The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · May 8

UBC Geography Professor @naomiaklein.bsky.social speaks with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now about about Trump, Musk, Far Right & "End Times Fascism"

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · May 5

Journalist and author @naomiaklein.bsky.social says that because Trump has not met campaign promises to lower prices and boost the economy, he has leaned into the more “sadistic” aspects of his agenda.

UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Apr 16

Join us for our final Geography Colloquium April 22nd with Dr. Shenjing He, Professor & Director of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong.🏙️

When: April 22nd, 12:30pm
Where: Geog 229 & Zoom
Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event...

@ubcscarp.bsky.social @ubcappliedscience.bsky.social

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UBC Centre for Migration Studies @migration.ubc.ca · Apr 11

Join us on May 1-2 at the Liu Institute for Global Issues (UBC Vancouver) for the CMS Research Conference 2025: Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes.

📣 Full program now available!

Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...

CMS Research Conference 2025: Migration, Mobilities, and Changing Political Landscapes - Centre for Migration Studies

Join CMS for Research Conference 2025 on May 1-2 at xʷθəθiqətəm, Liu Institute, to explore migration, mobilities, and changing political landscapes.

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Apr 3

Join us April 8th for our next Geography Colloquium with human geographer and critical migration scholar Dr. David Durand-Delacre for his talk “Human Mobilities in a Changing Climate”.

When: April 8th, 12:30pm
Where: Geog 229 & Zoom
Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event...

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Apr 1

Congratulations to hydro-geomorphology Masters student Raju Ahmed - recipient of the 2024 Sandy Lapsky Award! 🥳

Raju's work focuses on historical patterns of extreme hydrological events to enhance flood risk management policies and strategies. 🏔️💦

Learn more: geog.ubc.ca/news/raju-ah...

UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Mar 31

March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility, an intentional opportunity to celebrate and recognize the valuable contributions of trans community members – and reflect on how we can all contribute to trans inclusion.

Learn more about UBC events and resources here: events.ubc.ca/tdov/

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Andreas Christen @envmet.bsky.social · Mar 26

Our new paper with @ubcgeography.bsky.social in Agric. For. Meteorol. investigates climatic sensitivity of evapotranspiration in an ombrotrophic bog on Canada's West Coast. The bog's water balance will be most sensitive to future increases in summer vapour pressure deficit. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

This study quantified surface energy balance and evapotranspiration in a Sphagnum-dominated ombrotrophic bog located near their southern limit in western North America on the Coast of British Columbia. We use ecohydrologicical and eddy-covariance measurements on a flux tower to assess the bog’s sensitivity to future climatic conditions, particularly to increasing severity and duration of drought conditions.

Daily evapotranspiration from the bog 2014 - 2022 adjusted for lack of energy balance closure from all years versus equilibrium evapotranspiration Eeq. and color coded by month of year. The dashed line indicates the 1:1-line.

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