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Vibrant community of human & physical geographers + environmental scientists (GEES) at the University of Northern British Columbia. Posts by GEES Professor Catherine Nolin
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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
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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
NRESi Colloquium - This Friday with Dr. Marieka Sax & Tara Marsden/Naxginkw
NRESi Friday Colloquium Series
First Nations Cultural Wellbeing and Recovery on the Land: Pilot methodologies to monitor cultural wellbeing and recovery in land management and planning
Date: Friday, November 28th, 2025 –
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
First Nations Cultural Wellbeing and Recovery on the Land: Pilot methodologies to monitor cultural wellbeing and recovery in land management and planning
Date: Friday, November 28th, 2025 –
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
NRESi Colloquium - This Friday with Dr. Marieka Sax & Tara Marsden/Naxginkw
🎤 LISTEN to Dr. Greg Halseth in conversation with UNBC History’s Dr. Max Hamon for a new episode of the “Middle North” podcast about an oral history “Sawmills and Small Communities in the Upper Fraser Valley” project.
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#GEOGWeek2025
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#GEOGWeek2025
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🎤 LISTEN to Dr. Greg Halseth in conversation with UNBC History’s Dr. Max Hamon for a new episode of the “Middle North” podcast about an oral history “Sawmills and Small Communities in the Upper Fraser Valley” project.
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#GEOGWeek2025
🔗 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...
#GEOGWeek2025
📻 LISTEN to Professor Brian Menounos talk about the UNESCO 2025 Year of Glacier Preservation & his many years of research at Kokanee Glacier in Nelson, BC.
Listen to the full interview:
www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
#GEOGWeek2025 #GeographyAwarenessWeek2025 #glaciers
Listen to the full interview:
www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
#GEOGWeek2025 #GeographyAwarenessWeek2025 #glaciers
November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
📻 LISTEN to Professor Brian Menounos talk about the UNESCO 2025 Year of Glacier Preservation & his many years of research at Kokanee Glacier in Nelson, BC.
Listen to the full interview:
www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
#GEOGWeek2025 #GeographyAwarenessWeek2025 #glaciers
Listen to the full interview:
www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
#GEOGWeek2025 #GeographyAwarenessWeek2025 #glaciers
📣 SPRING & SUMMER Geography courses!
Though Spring courses are not yet open for registration, we want to alert you to our Spring 2026 planning.
More info found here:
⛰️https://jmshea.opened.ca/2026-fieldschool/
and here:
www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
Though Spring courses are not yet open for registration, we want to alert you to our Spring 2026 planning.
More info found here:
⛰️https://jmshea.opened.ca/2026-fieldschool/
and here:
www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
📣 SPRING & SUMMER Geography courses!
Though Spring courses are not yet open for registration, we want to alert you to our Spring 2026 planning.
More info found here:
⛰️https://jmshea.opened.ca/2026-fieldschool/
and here:
www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
Though Spring courses are not yet open for registration, we want to alert you to our Spring 2026 planning.
More info found here:
⛰️https://jmshea.opened.ca/2026-fieldschool/
and here:
www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
We are kicking off #GEOWeek2025 with a big congratulations to two UNBC GEES faculty members who were recently recognized by the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers for awards.
Congratulations to Dr. Roger Wheate and Dr. Zoë Meletis!!!
#GeographyAwarenessWeek2025
Congratulations to Dr. Roger Wheate and Dr. Zoë Meletis!!!
#GeographyAwarenessWeek2025
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We are kicking off #GEOWeek2025 with a big congratulations to two UNBC GEES faculty members who were recently recognized by the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers for awards.
Congratulations to Dr. Roger Wheate and Dr. Zoë Meletis!!!
#GeographyAwarenessWeek2025
Congratulations to Dr. Roger Wheate and Dr. Zoë Meletis!!!
#GeographyAwarenessWeek2025
🌏 #FieldworkFriday
Our new faculty member Alex Bevington recently spent a beautiful autumn day doing fieldwork maintaining the hydrometric stations at Hungary Creek & Crooked River.
Awesome start to this new position in our dynamic department!
#GEESInTheField #rivers #northernBC #geography
Our new faculty member Alex Bevington recently spent a beautiful autumn day doing fieldwork maintaining the hydrometric stations at Hungary Creek & Crooked River.
Awesome start to this new position in our dynamic department!
#GEESInTheField #rivers #northernBC #geography
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
🌏 #FieldworkFriday
Our new faculty member Alex Bevington recently spent a beautiful autumn day doing fieldwork maintaining the hydrometric stations at Hungary Creek & Crooked River.
Awesome start to this new position in our dynamic department!
#GEESInTheField #rivers #northernBC #geography
Our new faculty member Alex Bevington recently spent a beautiful autumn day doing fieldwork maintaining the hydrometric stations at Hungary Creek & Crooked River.
Awesome start to this new position in our dynamic department!
#GEESInTheField #rivers #northernBC #geography
📣 We are excited to share that Alexandre Bevington joined our department as a new faculty member in October 2025.
Alex’s research focuses on how remote sensing and geospatial technology can help us understand watershed dynamics in Northern British Columbia.
Exciting!
www.unbc.ca/people/bevin...
Alex’s research focuses on how remote sensing and geospatial technology can help us understand watershed dynamics in Northern British Columbia.
Exciting!
www.unbc.ca/people/bevin...
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
📣 We are excited to share that Alexandre Bevington joined our department as a new faculty member in October 2025.
Alex’s research focuses on how remote sensing and geospatial technology can help us understand watershed dynamics in Northern British Columbia.
Exciting!
www.unbc.ca/people/bevin...
Alex’s research focuses on how remote sensing and geospatial technology can help us understand watershed dynamics in Northern British Columbia.
Exciting!
www.unbc.ca/people/bevin...
This Friday
Major Construction in Fisheries Habitat: Water Management, Fish Salvage and Fisheries Mitigation (LNG Canada Project Case Study)
Date: Friday, November 7th, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
More info at colloquium webcasts: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
Date: Friday, November 7th, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
More info at colloquium webcasts: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This Friday
GEOG 411/611 Glacial Geology #FieldworkPhotos
Dr. Adam Hawkins: spent Sunday touring geohazards related to glacial sediments around Quesnel area.
Students used a drone to investigate the Quesnel Big Slide & hoodoos and discussed valley-blocking landslide hazards at Pinnacles Provincial Park.
Dr. Adam Hawkins: spent Sunday touring geohazards related to glacial sediments around Quesnel area.
Students used a drone to investigate the Quesnel Big Slide & hoodoos and discussed valley-blocking landslide hazards at Pinnacles Provincial Park.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
GEOG 411/611 Glacial Geology #FieldworkPhotos
Dr. Adam Hawkins: spent Sunday touring geohazards related to glacial sediments around Quesnel area.
Students used a drone to investigate the Quesnel Big Slide & hoodoos and discussed valley-blocking landslide hazards at Pinnacles Provincial Park.
Dr. Adam Hawkins: spent Sunday touring geohazards related to glacial sediments around Quesnel area.
Students used a drone to investigate the Quesnel Big Slide & hoodoos and discussed valley-blocking landslide hazards at Pinnacles Provincial Park.
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I spoke with Matt Preprost about the water issues facing NE B.C. as #climatechange intersects with municipal and industrial #water use.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
As water dries up in northeast B.C., some want industry paying more to pump the precious resource | CBC News
Environmental groups are calling on the B.C. government to raise industrial water rates as drought deepens and demand for freshwater rises in some areas of the province.
www.cbc.ca
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I spoke with Matt Preprost about the water issues facing NE B.C. as #climatechange intersects with municipal and industrial #water use.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
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NRESi Colloquium-Friday 31st October-- Tista Ghosh
Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
NRESi Colloquium-Friday 31st October-- Tista Ghosh
Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025 – 3:30pm-4:30pm
Location: Room 8-166 and Online
More info at: www2.unbc.ca/nres-institu...
Bravo @bmenounos.bsky.social & @alexbevington.bsky.social in #StateoftheMountains 2025 report on the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation
Received #StateoftheMountains report on the 2025 Int'l Year of Glaciers' Preservation, feat. prev published pieces by @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social Menounos & Bevington, @natural-resources.canada.ca Demuth, @sfuscience.bsky.social @volcancanuck.bsky.social, @msanseve.bsky.social, & me 🧪⚒️❄️
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Bravo @bmenounos.bsky.social & @alexbevington.bsky.social in #StateoftheMountains 2025 report on the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation
Congratulations, Rulan! And MSc supervisor Dr. @josephshea.bsky.social
We love this @moshlab.bsky.social tradition 🌟
We love this @moshlab.bsky.social tradition 🌟
Congratulations to former @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social and @moshlab.bsky.social graduate Rulan Xiao on his recent publication in Hydrological Processes! As per moshlab.org tradition, here is Rulan with his first authored paper mug.
#fuelmoisture #remotesensing #wildfire
doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
#fuelmoisture #remotesensing #wildfire
doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
October 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Congratulations, Rulan! And MSc supervisor Dr. @josephshea.bsky.social
We love this @moshlab.bsky.social tradition 🌟
We love this @moshlab.bsky.social tradition 🌟
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Heads up @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social and @unbc.bsky.social students! I'll be holding a field school information session next Wednesday at 4:30 pm in Room 10-4588.
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Heads up @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social and @unbc.bsky.social students! I'll be holding a field school information session next Wednesday at 4:30 pm in Room 10-4588.
NEWS: Our colleague Dr. Theresa Adesanya + ESM’s Drs. Lisa Wood & Michael Preston received $320,664 for a project investigating the intersection of food security, forestry and mining reclamation in Canada’s North in the face of climate change.
Congratulations!
UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories
Congratulations!
UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
NEWS: Our colleague Dr. Theresa Adesanya + ESM’s Drs. Lisa Wood & Michael Preston received $320,664 for a project investigating the intersection of food security, forestry and mining reclamation in Canada’s North in the face of climate change.
Congratulations!
UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories
Congratulations!
UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories
NEWS: Our colleague Associate Professor Dr. Joseph Shea was awarded $94,174 to fund a network of snow monitoring observatories that will be installed in the headwaters of the Fraser, Columbia and Peace River basins.
Congratulations!
UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
Congratulations!
UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
October 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
NEWS: Our colleague Associate Professor Dr. Joseph Shea was awarded $94,174 to fund a network of snow monitoring observatories that will be installed in the headwaters of the Fraser, Columbia and Peace River basins.
Congratulations!
UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
Congratulations!
UNBC Story: www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
🏔️It’s #FieldworkFriday!!!
Drs. Roger Wheate & Brian Menounos, along with several NRES grad students & alum attended the Annual Meeting of the Northwest Glaciologists (NWG) Oct 16-19, 2025 in Kananaskis country, AB 1/2
#FieldworkFriday #FieldworkPhotos #Roadtrip #GEESInTheField #academicconference
Drs. Roger Wheate & Brian Menounos, along with several NRES grad students & alum attended the Annual Meeting of the Northwest Glaciologists (NWG) Oct 16-19, 2025 in Kananaskis country, AB 1/2
#FieldworkFriday #FieldworkPhotos #Roadtrip #GEESInTheField #academicconference
October 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
🏔️It’s #FieldworkFriday!!!
Drs. Roger Wheate & Brian Menounos, along with several NRES grad students & alum attended the Annual Meeting of the Northwest Glaciologists (NWG) Oct 16-19, 2025 in Kananaskis country, AB 1/2
#FieldworkFriday #FieldworkPhotos #Roadtrip #GEESInTheField #academicconference
Drs. Roger Wheate & Brian Menounos, along with several NRES grad students & alum attended the Annual Meeting of the Northwest Glaciologists (NWG) Oct 16-19, 2025 in Kananaskis country, AB 1/2
#FieldworkFriday #FieldworkPhotos #Roadtrip #GEESInTheField #academicconference
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Central Interior BC seeing some chinook action as a major atmospheric river hits the coast
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Central Interior BC seeing some chinook action as a major atmospheric river hits the coast
Great UNBC GEES Club orienteering event at Moore’s Meadow last weekend & they stuck it out in the rain! 🧭 🗺️
#getoutside #northernBC #orienteering #studentclub #UNBC
#getoutside #northernBC #orienteering #studentclub #UNBC
October 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Great UNBC GEES Club orienteering event at Moore’s Meadow last weekend & they stuck it out in the rain! 🧭 🗺️
#getoutside #northernBC #orienteering #studentclub #UNBC
#getoutside #northernBC #orienteering #studentclub #UNBC
🌎 More #FieldworkFriday #FieldworkPhotos with Dr. Adam Hawkins 🏔️
This week, our GEOG 411/611 Glacial Geology class braved rainy conditions in search of sediments associated with the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet and formation of Glacial Lake Fraser. 1/2
#glaciers #physicalgeography
This week, our GEOG 411/611 Glacial Geology class braved rainy conditions in search of sediments associated with the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet and formation of Glacial Lake Fraser. 1/2
#glaciers #physicalgeography
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🌎 More #FieldworkFriday #FieldworkPhotos with Dr. Adam Hawkins 🏔️
This week, our GEOG 411/611 Glacial Geology class braved rainy conditions in search of sediments associated with the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet and formation of Glacial Lake Fraser. 1/2
#glaciers #physicalgeography
This week, our GEOG 411/611 Glacial Geology class braved rainy conditions in search of sediments associated with the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet and formation of Glacial Lake Fraser. 1/2
#glaciers #physicalgeography
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Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to be here. Join us for updates on:
🔋 energy sources and distribution
🌲 forests and forestry
⛏️ minerals and mining
🛰️ earth sciences
🔌 energy efficiency
🔬 science and data
🔋 energy sources and distribution
🌲 forests and forestry
⛏️ minerals and mining
🛰️ earth sciences
🔌 energy efficiency
🔬 science and data
October 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to be here. Join us for updates on:
🔋 energy sources and distribution
🌲 forests and forestry
⛏️ minerals and mining
🛰️ earth sciences
🔌 energy efficiency
🔬 science and data
🔋 energy sources and distribution
🌲 forests and forestry
⛏️ minerals and mining
🛰️ earth sciences
🔌 energy efficiency
🔬 science and data
It’s #FieldworkFriday with photos from Dr. Joseph Shea!
Snaps from a late summer trip into Eagle Valley, to collect drone/RPAS imagery with UNBC Geography Honours student Madison Seely & assisted by bear whisperer James Laing! 1/2
#fieldwork #rpas #remotesensing #alpine #glacial #geomorphology
Snaps from a late summer trip into Eagle Valley, to collect drone/RPAS imagery with UNBC Geography Honours student Madison Seely & assisted by bear whisperer James Laing! 1/2
#fieldwork #rpas #remotesensing #alpine #glacial #geomorphology
October 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s #FieldworkFriday with photos from Dr. Joseph Shea!
Snaps from a late summer trip into Eagle Valley, to collect drone/RPAS imagery with UNBC Geography Honours student Madison Seely & assisted by bear whisperer James Laing! 1/2
#fieldwork #rpas #remotesensing #alpine #glacial #geomorphology
Snaps from a late summer trip into Eagle Valley, to collect drone/RPAS imagery with UNBC Geography Honours student Madison Seely & assisted by bear whisperer James Laing! 1/2
#fieldwork #rpas #remotesensing #alpine #glacial #geomorphology
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You might see me on CBC's The National tonight (!), talking about the storm that trapped hundreds of trekkers on the north/east side of Everest and its connections to #climatechange. Here is a collection of satellite loops from 01 - 05 October showing the development and progression of the storm.
October 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You might see me on CBC's The National tonight (!), talking about the storm that trapped hundreds of trekkers on the north/east side of Everest and its connections to #climatechange. Here is a collection of satellite loops from 01 - 05 October showing the development and progression of the storm.
🌎 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
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
October 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🌎 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
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