Convincing the undergraduate research assistant that fieldwork is FUN 🦟🦟🦟
19.06.2025 02:07 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0@unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social
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Convincing the undergraduate research assistant that fieldwork is FUN 🦟🦟🦟
19.06.2025 02:07 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Happy publication day! @moshlab.bsky.social PhD candidate SARa Darychuk led this detailed study on snow melt timing from surface and spaceborne SAR!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Berg Glacier and Yexyexéscen (Mount Robson) behind Berg Lake
Joe and Madison selfie in front of Berg Lake
Berg Glacier and Yexyexéscen (Mount Robson) on a blue sky day
Emperor Falls, Mount Robson Provincial Park
It’s rare to see Yexyexéscen (Mount Robson) without any clouds. Rarer still to see it like this from the north side while scouting a location for a new snow observatory! ❄️🥼
10.06.2025 22:59 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1Celebrated the talk (and my coincident birthday) with Ethiopian food and a pint at my namesake bar in Saskatoon.
27.05.2025 03:43 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Standing with Nicole Boyde, the top graduating Geography student.
Joe taking a selfie with Mackenzie Ostberg and Tristan Pearce
Joe, Mackenzie, and Tristan
Honorary doctorate recipient Dr. Shirley Bond, with president Dr. Geoff Payne, and Chancellor Darlene McIntosh
Huge congratulations to all of the graduates yesterday at UNBC’s 2025 convocation. Always a great day, and an important occasion to celebrate.
01.06.2025 01:58 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🎉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 ✅
Welcome!
27.05.2025 00:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am honoured (and slightly nervous, TBH) to be giving the plenary opening lecture at this year's @cgu-ugc.bsky.social / @cmos-scmo.bsky.social joint symposium in Saskatoon! At 09:00 Monday I'll be talking about the importance of #EDI in 2025 and sharing insights from the Hidden Figures project.
22.05.2025 21:23 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0GUATEMALA 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...
Oh hey there. It’s Bandcamp Friday - a great chance to support independent musicians and the music they make.
Shameless self promotion:
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Past UNBC recipients of the CUFA-BC Distinguished Academic Awards joined the celebration. These three received the Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Award:
Dr. Brian Menounos, 2019
Dr. Catherine Nolin, 2023
Dr. Chris Opio, 2012
📸 Photo shared by Dr. Danie Erasmus, UNBCFA Vice President
🏆 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/
Today/Friday at 3:30pm in Rm. 7-238 and online
11.04.2025 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great photo of @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social Dr. @josephshea.bsky.social with Dr. David Suzuki at the First Nations Climate Summit in Vancouver earlier this week!
11.04.2025 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My colleagues at the Geological Survey of Canada are looking for a Research Scientist in Earthquake Seismology to work on improving the understanding of earthquakes in Canada. Can be located in Sidney or Vancouver BC.
Apply by April 25. Details below. Pls share !
tinyurl.com/yc4jh9xv
We had a wonderful conversation with Allan E.S. Lumba last year, and it has finally made its way to the @hiddenfigurescan.bsky.social podcast.
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We are seeking a new Administrative Assistant in our Department, starting in May 2025.
Come work with us!
www.unbc.ca/career-oppor...
BC Snowpack Update!
🟦 overall, 21% below normal for this time of year
🟦 only region with slightly above normal snowpack: NE BC
🟦 recent cooler weather has helped stave off the 'Big Melt' (aka spring)
🟦 warming in the forecast could lead to big snowpack changes by mid-April
✅ 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...
DID YOU KNOW? March 21 is World Glacier Day. I wrote a little something for our local paper, and posted it here on the @moshlab.bsky.social blog:
www.moshlab.org/blog/world-glacier-day-21-march-2025
🥼❄️🧪
📺 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."
#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
LISTEN to Ian Gregg’s interview with Dr. Brian Menounos for CFUR radio, 11 March 2025
📻https://www.frequencynews.ca/news/global-study-measuring-global-glacier-loss-reveals-significant-melt/
That’s @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social Assistant Professor Dr. Theresa Adesanya on the cover of the latest @unbc-nresi.bsky.social Newsletter!
11.03.2025 04:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Fieldwork Update from @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social Associate Professor Dr. @josephshea.bsky.social
11.03.2025 04:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to PhD candidate Sami Sofizada - Supervisor Dr. @josephshea.bsky.social - who was awarded the Best PhD poster award at the WDCAG conference at TRU in Kamloops, BC!
11.03.2025 04:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0UNBC Career Day - Tuesday, March 4th
04.03.2025 07:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 030 years at UNBC!
The UNBC community recently gathered for the President’s Staff Awards & Employee Recognition Event.
CONGRATS to Dr. Roger Wheate & Dr. Greg Halseth who were honoured as long-serving employees who have dedicated 30 years to UNBC 🌟
Read: www.unbc.ca/our-stories/...
#ThisIsUNBC
Next @nresi colloquium- Friday, March 7th at 3:30pm PT
03.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0March 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...