Prince George, BC
Joined July 2016
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NEW High Impact Research Publication
Our @UNBC_GEES colleague Dr. @brianmenounos & colleagues around the world published their research on global #glacier loss in the journal Nature: 'Community estimate of global glacier mass changes from 2000 to 2023'
unbc.ca/our-stories/story/un…
Helping to advance understanding of global glacier loss.
@UNBCgeography_ensc Professor Dr. @brianmenounos collaborated with colleagues from around the world to produce the clearest picture yet of Earth’s shrinking glaciers.
Learn more: unbc.ca/our-stories/story/un…
#ThisIsUNBC
ALT Person standing in front of Garibaldi Lake and surrounding mountains in British Columbia.
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Join us WEDNESDAY at 5:30 for our Annual @UNBC_GEES Meet & Greet - all welcome including undergrads in our programs, grad students supervised by GEES faculty members, GEES Club members & anyone interested to learn more about us & opportunities within our programs!
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✅ Mark your calendars for another GEES event!
FRIDAY, 31 January 2025
10:30am-11:30am Room 5-175
Join UNBC Geography alum Shane Doddridge for an Info Session about research, internship & career opportunities with the Tŝilhqot’in National Government (TNG) in central BC.
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Join us for the Friday @UNBC_NRESi Colloquium: The 2024 Chilcotin Landslide: A Case Study
Date: Friday, January 31, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 7-238 and Online
More information available at: unbc.ca/nres-institute/collo…
Everyone is welcome & encouraged to attend!
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THURSDAY! Our @UNBC_GEES Annual Career Night includes four @UNBCAlumni highlighting a range of career pathways!
Highlighting career pathways!
Listen to a panel discussion featuring
@UNBCAlumni and professionals from government, industry and the private sector during @UNBC_GEES annual career night on Jan. 30 at 5:45 p.m. in the Bentley Centre.
#ThisIsUNBC
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✴️ THURSDAY - UNBC’s Northern Days Events
Join us as we welcome back Dr. Gail Fondahl, @UNBC_GEES Professor Emerita, at 12pm PT - in-person only Rm 7-152
@UNBC_NRESi presents Dr. Graham McDowell - founder and leader of the Canadian Mountain Assessment & Director @Y2Y_Initiative
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📺 VIEW @UNBC_GEES Professor Dr. Stephen Déry speaks with @ckpgnews about his new appointment as Rio Tinto Research Chair in Climate Change and Water Security.
“More Nechako Watershed research coming” | CKPG Today
➡️ ckpgtoday.ca/2025/01/17/more…
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✅ NEWS! @UNBC_GEES Professor Dr. Stephen Déry has been named Rio Tinto Research Chair in Climate Change and Water Security, renewing an initial Industrial Research Chair jointly supported by Rio Tinto and the @NSERC_CRSNG. Exciting times!
An expanded partnership with @Rio Tinto will advance vital research into the impacts of climate change on water security and freshwater fishes in the Nechako Watershed.
The $1.75 million will support two Research Chairs.
Read more: unbc.ca/our-stories/story/un…
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🇬🇹GUATEMALA 2025 Field School - we are extending the application deadline to January 10th and encourage senior undergraduate & graduate students at UNBC and universities in Canada & the USA to consider applying
Please share!
More info & application form: unbc.ca/geography/guatemala-…
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🌟TOP RESEARCHER Dr. Phil Owens!🌟
We are proud of Phil’s accomplishments and his many collaborations as the Forest Renewal British Columbia (FRBC) Endowed Research Chair in Landscape Ecology.
Congratulations on this recognition from all of us in @UNBC_GEES!
@QRRC_UNBC @unbcfe
Research Chair in Landscape Ecology @UNBC_GEES Dr. Phil Owens is contributing to the global understanding of how watersheds function and respond to disturbances like climate change, wildfires and industrial disasters associated with mining.
Read more: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
ALT Person wearing brown fleece, yellow and grey jacket and blue hat poses outdoors with trees and mountain ridge in background.
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🌎Our BSc & BA GEOGRAPHY courses next semester feature great instructors & dynamic topics:
#geomorphology #communitydevelopment #internationaldevelopment #geospatialanalysis #anthropocene #CBR #Arctic #Canada #naturalhazards #socialgeography #cartography #GIS #earthcriticalzone
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🌏☑️Planning your Winter 2025 semester? We welcome students from a wide range of programs to join our courses #snow #ice #research #GIS #climate #disturbedenvironments #weather #dataanalysis #environmentalchange #naturalhazards #development #Arctic #geomorphology #community
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🌎Our Winter 2025 semester Environmental Science courses feature great instructors including Professors Theresa Adesanya, Peter Jackson, Stephen Déry, Siraj ul Islam, Engineering’s Natalie Linklater & Visiting Researcher Professor Aderonke Oyeyiola!
courses to graduate
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WATCH: @UNBC_GEES Professor Dr. Stephen Déry spoke at the Nechako Watershed Roundtable hosted by Kim Menounos of @FraserBasin:
‘And Dr. Dery says to continue to ignore climate change could cost the watershed badly.’
ckpgtoday.ca/2024/11/29/nech…
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Our department is hiring!
This is an Assistant/Associate Professor tenure-track position in Environmental Remote Sensing & Geospatial Technologies. Applications due by January 15, 2025.
#AcademicTwitter
We are hiring for a @UNBC_GEES Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure-Track) in Environmental Remote Sensing & Geospatial Technologies!
Applications due Jan 15, 2024:
unbc.ca/career-opportunities…
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The cover image on the latest issue of the Journal of Latin American Geography @JLatAmGeog comes from our @UNBC_GEES Chair Catherine Nolin taken in Antigua, Guatemala (2023, May).
May 2025 Field School Info: unbc.ca/geography/guatemala-…
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We are hiring for a @UNBC_GEES Assistant/Associate Professor (Tenure-Track) in Environmental Remote Sensing & Geospatial Technologies!
Applications due Jan 15, 2024:
unbc.ca/career-opportunities…
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MAY 2025 Physical Geography Field School at @QRRC_UNBC
Join Drs. @khfaranali & Ellen Petticrew in April/early May 2025 for this course open to undergrad & graduate students focused on techniques in ecohydrology & aquatic processes.
✅ unbc.ca/geography/field-scho…
#UNBCInTheField
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Celebrating #GEOWeek2024
Today, we share a 2-min video created by @UNBC Communications about our @UNBC_GEES + @RightsAction Field School to Guatemala in May 2023.
Students Cyan LeMoal, August Reed & Will Hanlon share their reflections
➡️ Mini-Movie: youtu.be/Z6dOMHx7NFw
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🔥NEW multi-party research project funded by the BC Salmon Restoration and Innovation Fund (BC-SRIF) includes @UNBC_GEES Professor Phil Owens & GEES Postdoctoral Fellow @KristenKieta in monitoring & assessing the hydrological, geomorphological & ecological responses to wildfires.
Wildfires leave lasting impacts on watersheds and salmon habitats. A $4M initiative, led by Skeetchestn Indian Band blends traditional knowledge with science to restore the Deadman River after the Sparks Lake wildfire.
Read more: unbc.ca/our-stories/story/re…
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