McGill Department of Geography
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A reminder that GIS Day is happening today at the GIC (fifth floor of Burnside Hall).
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A reminder that GIS Day is happening today at the GIC (fifth floor of Burnside Hall).
The Department of Geography is celebrating its 80th Anniversary November 26th in the GIC (5th Floor Burnside Hall) 🌎🌍🌏🎉 We’re celebrating with wine, cheese, and wonderful company, and we’d love for you to join us! RSVP by November 21st: mcgill.ca/x/irR
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Department of Geography is celebrating its 80th Anniversary November 26th in the GIC (5th Floor Burnside Hall) 🌎🌍🌏🎉 We’re celebrating with wine, cheese, and wonderful company, and we’d love for you to join us! RSVP by November 21st: mcgill.ca/x/irR
Join us for GIS Day at McGill on Wednesday, November 19th! This year's theme is "Geoprivacy & Geosecurity." See the full program attached. @mcgill.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Join us for GIS Day at McGill on Wednesday, November 19th! This year's theme is "Geoprivacy & Geosecurity." See the full program attached. @mcgill.ca
Rejoignez-nous le samedi 25 octobre, de 10 h à 16 h, pour la Journée portes ouvertes de McGill. Rencontrez des professeurs, des conseillers pédagogiques et des étudiants et obtenez des réponses à toutes vos questions!
👉 www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re...
Nous avons hâte de vous accueillir! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
👉 www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re...
Nous avons hâte de vous accueillir! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
October 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Rejoignez-nous le samedi 25 octobre, de 10 h à 16 h, pour la Journée portes ouvertes de McGill. Rencontrez des professeurs, des conseillers pédagogiques et des étudiants et obtenez des réponses à toutes vos questions!
👉 www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re...
Nous avons hâte de vous accueillir! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
👉 www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re...
Nous avons hâte de vous accueillir! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
Join us on Saturday, October 25th from 10am to 4pm for McGill’s Open House! Meet professors, advisors and students, tour our campus in downtown Montreal, and get your questions answered!
👉 Register today: www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re...
We look forward to welcoming you! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
👉 Register today: www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re...
We look forward to welcoming you! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
October 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Join us on Saturday, October 25th from 10am to 4pm for McGill’s Open House! Meet professors, advisors and students, tour our campus in downtown Montreal, and get your questions answered!
👉 Register today: www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re...
We look forward to welcoming you! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
👉 Register today: www.mcgill.ca/openhouse/re...
We look forward to welcoming you! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏
Our next #Geospectives seminar will take place on Monday, September 29th at 10:00 a.m. in BH 426. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Scott Davidson (UQAM), who will present his research on peatland phenology and community science.
September 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Our next #Geospectives seminar will take place on Monday, September 29th at 10:00 a.m. in BH 426. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Scott Davidson (UQAM), who will present his research on peatland phenology and community science.
Congratulations to postdoc Bernard Soubry, PhD student Kerstin Schreiber, and Prof. Graham MacDonald on their publication "Is food on the climate policy table? Assessing food systems themes in Canadian municipal climate plans."
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September 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Congratulations to postdoc Bernard Soubry, PhD student Kerstin Schreiber, and Prof. Graham MacDonald on their publication "Is food on the climate policy table? Assessing food systems themes in Canadian municipal climate plans."
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Congrats to our Geography Undergraduate Research Award (GURA) recipient, Kingson Campbell for his successful summer research on Arctic snow and sea ice under the supervision of Dr. Mallik Mahmud!
September 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Congrats to our Geography Undergraduate Research Award (GURA) recipient, Kingson Campbell for his successful summer research on Arctic snow and sea ice under the supervision of Dr. Mallik Mahmud!
We are kicking off our #Geospectives speaker series this year with presentations from Professors Sengupta and Mahmud on Monday, September 8th from 10a-11am in Burnside Hall 426.
August 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
We are kicking off our #Geospectives speaker series this year with presentations from Professors Sengupta and Mahmud on Monday, September 8th from 10a-11am in Burnside Hall 426.
Dept. of Geography social media is taking a wee break for August. Have a fab one and see you all in September! 🌍🫶🌏
August 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Dept. of Geography social media is taking a wee break for August. Have a fab one and see you all in September! 🌍🫶🌏
Congratulations to Prof. Yann le Polain de Waroux on his recent publication in World Development entitled "'Dream brokers' and the moral economy of frontier investments."
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July 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Congratulations to Prof. Yann le Polain de Waroux on his recent publication in World Development entitled "'Dream brokers' and the moral economy of frontier investments."
doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...
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🥳🥳🥳Shout out to our very own Prof Sebastien Breau for being promoted to Full Professor. 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations on a well deserved promotion!
June 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🥳🥳🥳Shout out to our very own Prof Sebastien Breau for being promoted to Full Professor. 🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations on a well deserved promotion!
Check out this column by Profs. Mette Bendixen and Lars Iversen titled "How our student journal club built on sand developed strong foundations."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
June 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Check out this column by Profs. Mette Bendixen and Lars Iversen titled "How our student journal club built on sand developed strong foundations."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Hannah Brais as well as Prof. Mylène Riva for their recent publication in Health & Social Care in the Community entitled "Adapting Homelessness Interventions for People Who Use Drugs or Alcohol in Montreal, Quebec: Service User Perspectives."
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May 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Hannah Brais as well as Prof. Mylène Riva for their recent publication in Health & Social Care in the Community entitled "Adapting Homelessness Interventions for People Who Use Drugs or Alcohol in Montreal, Quebec: Service User Perspectives."
doi.org/10.1155/2024...
doi.org/10.1155/2024...
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Duo Zhang and Prof. Raja Sengupta on their recent publication in Int. Journal of Geo-Information : "Quantitative and Spatially Explicit Clustering of Urban Grocery Shoppers in Montreal: Integrating Loyalty Data with Synthetic Population."
doi.org/10.3390/ijgi...
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May 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Duo Zhang and Prof. Raja Sengupta on their recent publication in Int. Journal of Geo-Information : "Quantitative and Spatially Explicit Clustering of Urban Grocery Shoppers in Montreal: Integrating Loyalty Data with Synthetic Population."
doi.org/10.3390/ijgi...
doi.org/10.3390/ijgi...
Our department's Prof. Renee Sieber was interviewed on CBC Montreal about the rollout of Google's Gemini AI for kids under age 13. Check it out!
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May 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Our department's Prof. Renee Sieber was interviewed on CBC Montreal about the rollout of Google's Gemini AI for kids under age 13. Check it out!
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Congratulations to PhD student Jose Arturo Jasso Chavez as well as Prof. Kevin Manaugh for their recent article "Access to green and gray urban nature amenities: exploring equity in Montreal's built environment," published in Transportation Planning and Technology.
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May 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Congratulations to PhD student Jose Arturo Jasso Chavez as well as Prof. Kevin Manaugh for their recent article "Access to green and gray urban nature amenities: exploring equity in Montreal's built environment," published in Transportation Planning and Technology.
doi.org/10.1080/0308...
doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Congratulations to Profs. Sara Knox and Nigel Roulet on their recent open-access publication. entitled "Rewetting Boreal Peatlands: Restoring Carbon Function?", published in Global Change Biology.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Congratulations to Profs. Sara Knox and Nigel Roulet on their recent open-access publication. entitled "Rewetting Boreal Peatlands: Restoring Carbon Function?", published in Global Change Biology.
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Congratulations to Prof. Mette Bendixen on her recent post in Nature Climate Change, entitled "New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century."
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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April 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Congratulations to Prof. Mette Bendixen on her recent post in Nature Climate Change, entitled "New coasts emerging from the retreat of Northern Hemisphere marine-terminating glaciers in the twenty-first century."
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Congratulations to PhD Patrick Osei Darko and Prof. Margaret Kalacska on their recent publication "Application of Machine Learning for Aboveground Biomass Modeling in Tropical and Temperate Forests from Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery" in the journal Forests.
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April 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Congratulations to PhD Patrick Osei Darko and Prof. Margaret Kalacska on their recent publication "Application of Machine Learning for Aboveground Biomass Modeling in Tropical and Temperate Forests from Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery" in the journal Forests.
doi.org/10.3390/f160...
doi.org/10.3390/f160...
Congratulations to student Daniel Zayonc as well as professors Brian Robinson and Oliver Coomes on their recent publication "Use of community characteristics to predict hunting and game harvests in western Amazonian forests" in Conservation Biology.
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April 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congratulations to student Daniel Zayonc as well as professors Brian Robinson and Oliver Coomes on their recent publication "Use of community characteristics to predict hunting and game harvests in western Amazonian forests" in Conservation Biology.
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Congratulations to students Brendan Cottrell and Oliver Lucanus, as well as Prof. Margaret Kalacska on their publication in Frontiers in Marine Science!
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April 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Congratulations to students Brendan Cottrell and Oliver Lucanus, as well as Prof. Margaret Kalacska on their publication in Frontiers in Marine Science!
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Congratulations to Prof. Mette Bendixen on her recent publication in One Earth, entitled "Nation-wide mapping shows linkages between sand mining activities, human land use, and hydrology in Rwanda"
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April 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Congratulations to Prof. Mette Bendixen on her recent publication in One Earth, entitled "Nation-wide mapping shows linkages between sand mining activities, human land use, and hydrology in Rwanda"
doi.org/10.1016/j.on...
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Fantastic Honours students poster session earlier this week! Awesome projects and a great crowd turnout. Fab job everyone and all the best for the final thesis write ups!💛❤️💥❤️💛
April 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Fantastic Honours students poster session earlier this week! Awesome projects and a great crowd turnout. Fab job everyone and all the best for the final thesis write ups!💛❤️💥❤️💛
Honours students' research poster session is TODAY! - Wednesday, April 2 from 3-5 p.m. (15-17h) in Burnside 308.
Come along anytime during this period to see their terrific work, get inspired for your own research (or final exams), and support your fellow students.
Also, there will be snacks!
Come along anytime during this period to see their terrific work, get inspired for your own research (or final exams), and support your fellow students.
Also, there will be snacks!
April 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Honours students' research poster session is TODAY! - Wednesday, April 2 from 3-5 p.m. (15-17h) in Burnside 308.
Come along anytime during this period to see their terrific work, get inspired for your own research (or final exams), and support your fellow students.
Also, there will be snacks!
Come along anytime during this period to see their terrific work, get inspired for your own research (or final exams), and support your fellow students.
Also, there will be snacks!