Announcements
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The Department's bulletin board, this page reports on recent and current events of interest to faculty, students and/or the general public, as well as announcing upcoming events and engagements detailed elsewhere on our site (e.g. upcoming lectures, conferences, field trips, study tours etc.). They are posted by date, with the most recent at the top of the page.
If you wish to have something posted on our page, contact any of:
Ken.Brealey@ufv.ca
Olav.Lian@ufv.ca
Nicole.Levinsky@ufv.ca |
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Winter 2010 field trips set posted 12/10/09
The Winter 2010 class field trip schedule is set. For details on field trips outside of class time for this semester, click here now.
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Convocation 2009 and the Geography graduating class posted 8/26/09
Some forty five Geography majors, minors and extended minors, including our first BSc major, walked the podium at UFV Convocation 2009 on June 14th. For some reason our camera person in the gymnasium was asleep at the switch, but we managed to get a few pictures on the lawn afterwards. For a few vignettes, click here!
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Grad class 2009 celebrates at Rendezvous! posted 8/26/09
Some two dozen Geography students of the 2009 graduating class joined with a half dozen faculty at the Rendezvous Restaurant in Abbotsford on June 12 to celebrate their rite of passage from UFV and on to whatever awaits them. The department also took the opportunity to hand out its annual Canadian Association of Geographers, American Association of Geographers and Doug Nicol Memorial Awards. For a shot of our three winners, click here. For a few more vignettes from that memorable evening, click here.
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Fall 2009 in-class field trip schedule announced posted 8/8/09
The department's in-class field trip line-up is taking shape. As usual the semester is promising something for everyone. For details, click here.
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New initiative to make Geography public posted 7/30/09
The Canadian Association of Geographers is initiating a new program designed to develop a who's who of geographical scholarship resulting from client- or consultant-driven activities that might not otherwise be published in normal academic journals. The idea is to create an Internet-based site on which geographers can identify themselves and the kinds of work they do, and to make the results of such research available to the public. For more information go to Applied Geography Showcase.
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Geography Awareness Week coming round again posted 7/30/09
This coming November the Department will be participating in Geography Awareness Week 2009. Sponsored by the Canadian Association of Geographers, the week is designed to make Canadians, students and otherwise, aware of the role Geography plays in their everyday lives. For general information on this week go to Geography Awareness Week 2009. For our contribution this year, watch for the announcement this page!
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Alanna Schuurmans wins 2009 UREA posted 7/30/09
The department is pleased to announce that Alanna Schuurmans is this year's departmental winner of the 2009 Undergraduate Student Research Excellence Award (UREA). Working with the guidance of instructor Dr. Jonathan Hughes, Alanna's research resulted in a poster Annual Growth of Shore Pine on the Chehalis River Fan, Southwest British Columbia in Response to Regional Drought, Freshet Flooding and Chum Salmon Abundance. Not content to rest on these laurels, Alanna also was just awared a TD Canada Trust Endowment Scholarship for Studies Related to the Environment.
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Geography cleans up at Student Research Day (again!) posted 4/24/09
Of four awards possible, Geography students took home three of them for their posters at Undergraduate Student Research Day Apr 2, 2009. The Luminescence Dating Lab in Experimental Design Award was won by Kevin VanderBoom for his poster 'Do Earthquake survivor trees record damages from coseismic shaking?' (supervisors Jonathan Hughes and Wayne Hamilton). The Dean of Arts Award went to Gabrielle Thomson for her poster 'Measuring lichen as biological indicators of air quality' (supervisor Garry Fehr). And the Dean of Research (first over all) Award went to Justine Cullen for her poster 'Reinterpretation of a significant lithostratigraphic unit resting on the last interglaciation, Muir Point formation, Southwestern British Columbia (supervisor Olav lian). Congratulations to all!
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BSc Honours now available! posted 1/15/09
The department is pleased to announce that you can now get an Honours Major in the BSc in Geography. This complements our Honours Major in the BA. For details, click here. You can also now get an Extended Studies Certificate in Sciience in Major, Honours Major and Minor flavours. For details on these options, click here.
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GUS hosts annual Hallowe'en Corn Maze get-together posted 10/31/08
On Oct 26th, the Geography Undergraduate Students hosted its second annual Hallowe'en Corn Maze social in Chilliwack. The weather was cool but clear, the hot dogs were tasty, and no one got lost (at least permanently). For a shot of the 'mazers', click here.
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Claire and Ian blessed with baby boy! posted 10/25/08
The department is thrilled to congrulate our own Claire Beaney, and her partner Ian, on the birth of their first child, Grant, July 22nd last. Click here for picture of proud mother and son.
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