McGill Department of Geography

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

Integrating hydrogeomorphology into river restoration practices: a winning approach (Pascale Biron, Concordia University) River systems are increasingly affected by agriculture and urbanization of riparian areas, leading to frequent human interventions such as bank stabilization or flood protection measures. There is a…

Next week's #Geospectives features Prof. Pascale Biron from Concordia University speaking about integrating hydrogeomorphology into river restoration practices. See you on Monday, November 10th at 10am in Burnside Hall 426. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol How and why did the European Union (EU) flag, once a banal marker of European integration and institutions in its member states, become such a politically charged symbol outside of the EU? We demon...

Congrats to Prof Ben Forest for his co-authored piece just out in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers on the symbolic politics of the EU flag. It’s full open access:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Le gouvernement canadien hallucine-t-il sa stratégie en matière d’IA? Chose certaine, il ne démontre pas de volonté de s’engager dans de véritables discussions démocratiques.

Prof. Renee Sieber recently contributed an opinion piece on governmental strategies in AI, to Le Devoir. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

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! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏

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! ✨🫶🌎🌍🌏

The Price of Place: Community Wealth and Cognitive Decline among Older Adults (Tom Kemeny, University of Toronto) Abstract: Using a novel database on the net worth and self-reported cognitive impairment of over 1.8 million geolocated adults aged 50 and over, this paper provides the first large-scale evidence dire...

Our #Geospectives talk on Monday (Oct 27) features Tom Kemeny, professor at the Munk School at the University of Toronto. He will present on "The Price of Place: Community Wealth and Cognitive Decline among Older Adults." Details through the link. www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

Happy to have had a chance to host Federico Cugurullo from Trinity College Dublin in the Department of Geography at McGill University for a talk on 'New AI Cities: The Case of Neom' @mcgillgeography.bsky.social #newcities

www.mcgill.ca/geography/ch...

A German newspaper for Bolivian blondes For Mennonites from Bolivia to Belize, Die Mennonitische Post is often the only connection to the outside world

Prof. le Polain was interviewed about his research on the expansion of Mennonite colonies in Latin America for this short article in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...

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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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.

Congrats to Daniel Romm, José Arturo Jasso Chávez, Lexi Kinman, Pegah Salsabilian, Grant McKenzie and Kevin Manaugh on the press they've been getting for their recent article discussing Montreal's bike lanes.

Colorful adirondack chairs on a white sandy beach facing tranquil waters with the words "summer vacation" in white cursive written across a blue sky

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."
doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

🥳🥳🥳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...

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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...

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...

Antibiotics from human use are contaminating rivers worldwide, study shows Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a McGill University-led study warns. Publish...

Congratulations to Dept. of Geography post-doc Heloisa Ehalt Macedo and Prof Bernhard Lehner and their colleagues for this new piece out in PNAS Nexus - the study is the first to estimate the scale of global river contamination from human antibiotics use.
www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

Image of McGill Geography Prof. Renee Sieber being interviewed on CBC Montreal.

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/...

Map of green space access throughout different neighbourhoods on the Island of Montreal.

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...

Logo for the journal Global Change Biology.

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.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Map of Arctic coastline as included in the article.

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...

Figure 1 of the paper referenced in the post.

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...

Figure 1 from article referenced in post.

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...

Congratulations to students Brendan Cottrell and Oliver Lucanus, as well as Prof. Margaret Kalacska on their publication in Frontiers in Marine Science!
doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

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...