📣 SAVE THE DATE
We are pleased to announce a public presentation in January 22nd by Dr. Greg Halseth on the completion of his Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies.

Join us for this significant presentation & reception to follow.

🌎 Our BSc & BA GEOGRAPHY courses in the Winter 2026 semester feature great instructors and dynamic topics including:

#remotesensing #communitydevelopment #internationaldevelopmentreconsidered #geospatialanalysis #naturalhazards #socialgeography #cartography #GIS
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🎄Happy Holidays from all of us in the #UNBC Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences! 🎄

GEES End-of-Fall 2025 Semester Lunch at the Thirsty Moose Pub - unfortunately missing several faculty members who left before the photo was taken!

15 December 2025

📣 Join us April 27-29, 2026 for a conference exploring the geology & geomorphology around the Prince George region.

Registration opens in January & is open to all:
- field trips
- presentations from researchers & knowledge holders
- keynote talk given by emeritus professor John Clague from SFU.

Roger Wheate’s Retirement Celebration in UNBC’s Robert Frederick Gallery

Thanks go to so many people who made this a special event for the legend Dr. Roger Wheate!

A day to remember.

Let’s celebrate Roger Wheate! Join us for a celebration of Dr. Wheate’s upcoming retirement on Monday, December 8th from 3-5pm in the Robert Frederick Gallery.

All are welcome.

The Thirsty Moose is opening from 5-7pm for those who would like to carry on after this departmental event.

Final presentations from students in GEOG 450/650 (and an independent study) are happening next Tuesday (Dec 02) at 12:30 in the GIS lab at UNBC. We are opening this up to everyone, so come on out and see the possibilities of #geospatial analysis with #python! @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social

🌎 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

Photos shared by @faranali.bsky.social

🌎 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

Photos shared by @faranali.bsky.social

🌎 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

🎉UNBC Convocation 2025🎉

Congratulations to all. What a fantastic day!

We recognized two students in particular:

Kaylee Barnes is our Top Graduating student in Environmental Science

and

Nicole Boyd is our Top Graduating student in Geography

Well done, everyone ✅

GUATEMALA 2025 They are off!

The UNBC Geography + Rights Action Field School is off to Guatemala today. Starting today, Dr. Catherine Nolin + participants will be posting Dispatches from the Road, so please join along.

Follow at: m.facebook.com/UNBCGuateFie...

🏆 Congrats to Dr. Ellen Petticrew & Dr. Phil Owens who received the CUFA-BC Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award this week which honors their lifelong contributions to environmental conservation and management.

For more details: cufa.bc.ca/awards/

We are seeking a new Administrative Assistant in our Department, starting in May 2025.

Come work with us!

www.unbc.ca/career-oppor...

✅ NRESi Colloquium this Friday - 4 April 2025 at 3:30pm PT with Senior Research Scientist Dr. Raquel Portes

“Tracing soil erosion processes in forest environments using plutonium isotopes”
  
Room 7-238 and Online
 
LINK to our colloquium webcasts:
www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...

#UNBC GEOG 101 Planet Earth
Spring 2025 semester is just around the corner Geography Instructor & researcher Laura Murphy is offering an ONLINE version.

This course always fills up fast.

Register early to secure a spot in this course useful in many UNBC degree programs #planetearth #geography

📺 INTERVIEW: Dr. Stephen Déry on @ckpgnews.bsky.social

“We do need to get more snowfall to catch up to about average conditions. The snow we’ve experienced the last few days will definitely help, but it’s not going to make up for that very big deficit we still have in our mountain snow packs."

March 01 BC snow update:
🟦 snowpacks across the province are 23% below normal for this time of year
🟦 >50% below normal in the southern Coast Mountains
🟦 slightly above normal in the NE, but everywhere else is below
🟦 recent melt reaching higher elevs

New ❄️ webmap: qgiscloud.com/jmshea/BC-Sn...

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