MUNL Geography

Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit The metapopulation hypothesis for species range limits posits that a range limit may be imposed by subtle variation in rates of either patch colonisation or extinction. Using a multi-year survey acro...

So excited that one of my MSc chapters is out now! We used a large-scale, multi-year survey to empirically test the metapopulation hypothesis for range limits: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... (1/9)

📢 MSc Position @munlgeog.bsky.social in #RemoteSensing #UAV #GIS

We're recruiting a motivated student for Winter 2025–26
💰 Funding: $22,500/year for 2 years
🛸 Research in 3D Digital Mapping, UAV & Geospatial Analysis
📩 Interested? Details here: mahyarmasoudi.wixsite.com/researchlab/...

In the foreground a rocky beach lapped by gentle waves. In the distance loom large, bare, snow-covered hills called the Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland

A rocky foreshore slopes down towards darker, sun-dappled bay waters. A rocky beach extends along the right side of the frame, a few houses just above the shoreline. Across the bay (frame left), dark, snow-capped hills loom. Between them the inlet extends to the horizon.

Not a bad place to spend a few days in the company of amazing @munlgeog.bsky.social grad students!

Join Carleton University’s Department of Geography & Environmental Studies at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers from May 20–23, 2025!
 
This is your chance to:
✅ Connect with geographers across Canada
✅ Share your research

Learn more: www.cag-acg.ca/cag-2025-home

🌍 Are you an Earth Science student interested in learning more about geomatics? Join us tomorrow 1–2 PM to explore the courses we're offering in @munlgeog.bsky.social, how they can support your PEGNL professional registration, and details about the new Certificate in Geomatics and the Environment.

YouTube video by Drmaxlib CLEAR Lab Tour

Join Taryn on a tour of CLEAR! Why are our lab coats pink (spoiler: it's for scientific)? What senses do we use to identify plastics (hint: more than our eyes!)? What kind of people work at CLEAR (awesome people, obv)!

@munlgeog.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #QueerScience

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Deadline’s been extended to March 7! @memorialu.bsky.social @munlgeog.bsky.social

Great presentation by @ypsherm.bsky.social on the barriers to finding work for international students.
@munlgeog.bsky.social

Join our wonderful department! "Our ideal candidate will be engaged in environmental change /coupled human-environment systems research. This hire is specific to applicants who are Black or a Person of Colour"
Deadline Jan 10

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Join our amazing department!

Reminder - due Friday!
The Department of Geography at Memorial University invites applications for a permanent, tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in Physical Geography.
The deadline for applications is January 10, 2025.
For the full job ad and how to apply, see tinyurl.com/5a2t3xrh

Poster announcing the talks as described in the post.

Today!! Join us for two amazing grad student research talks!
SN2025, 3-4pm

1. Chris Phelan, MA student: Examining the Circular Potential of Atlantic Canada’s Makerspaces.

2. Tyler Fountain, PhD candidate: Shaping Cold-Water Coral Communities in the Labrador Sea and Eastern Canadian Arctic

A photo of a laptop screen displaying a presentation titled “Assessing post-wildfire forest resilience in coastal, subarctic forests in Labrador”

Had so much fun today representing @munlgeog.bsky.social at the virtual ACAG conference! I discussed some preliminary results from a project with @carissabrown.bsky.social, where we’ve found unusual post-fire black spruce recruitment patterns at the south coast of Labrador 🌱

Photo of a PowerPoint slide titled “Climate change in NL and beyond” with a meme showing Johnny Cash that reads “How’s the weather in St. John’s? I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when”

Photo of a PowerPoint slide with four photos, each of tree seedlings growing in pots.

ACAG*’s 2024 conference has kicked off, and the first #NorthernEDGELab @munlgeog.bsky.social talk was from MSc candidate Pierrette James-Bourque. Great science, baby trees, and memes - what else could one ask for?

*Atlantic Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers

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Made a little starter pack for Geographers at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador! @munlgeog.bsky.social

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Wow, things are really picking up over here! Guess we’d better dust off our account and start to #ThinkOutside under this sunny BlueSky (okay, we are in Newfoundland in November, so outlook for actual blue sky is … uncertain). Stay tuned for some content from the last few months!

Wednesday! It’s our first ever #GeographyAwarenessWeek Open Labs day! Come visit our research labs and see what we are up to these days in the ol’Science Building. All are welcome!

Photo of a laptop screen showing a Zoom meeting. A PowerPoint slide reads: “Why Newfoundland?” A response to family, friends, and colleagues, by Dr. Richard Shearmur, McGill School of Urban Planning.

A great first day of the ACAG 2023 conference, hosted by us! What’s ACAG? It’s the Atlantic Division of the Canadian Assoc. of Geographers. We are a geographically dispersed Division, & have decided to keep meetings virtual (& free) to be as equitable and inclusive as we can. More to come tomorrow!

Dan Duda and other librarians show a child some ocean related maps at a large display from the Map Library.

Spotted at Memorial University’s #WhaleOfADay 👀 👀
Some favourites from the map library!

New research on newcomer transit experiences in Canadian mid-sized cities by ⁦Tolulope Akerele of MUNL Geography ft on CBC. “Akerele said the increased ridership is positive but the next step should be finding ways to make the experience better.” @munlgeog.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

New article out in @areajournal.bsky.social
builds on Freidberg's work on environmental 'footprinting' and technopolitical power to help explain how salmon farming corporations are engaging with global food governance. @munlgeog.bsky.social
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Interested in small & mid-sized cities? consider submitting an abstract to the special session we are proposing for the Urban Affairs Conference in NYC this spring. Please share.

Queering Science: A view from the bench Drs. Max Liboiron and Alex Bond will discuss theorizing and practicing queering science from two different but overlapping perspectives.

Join us for ‘Queering Science: A view from the bench’ where @thelabandfield.bsky.social & I discuss how we use a sense & ethic of Queering to guide our methods. London, UCL, Nov 29. Zing zing!

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Huge congrats to @maxliboiron.bsky.social & collabs on their SSHRC Partnership Grant! “…IndigeLab Network brings together 18 researchers…to innovate ways to bring gendered, Indigenous ways of knowing & doing into lab cultures & other research collectives”
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Students apprehensively walking into a bog.

Students enthusiastically loving their time in the big, surveying plants.

Close up of red Sphagnum moss and bright green plants. A big bog cranberry sits in the middle of the photo.

A small pitcher plant leaf within a bog plant community.

We love to #ThinkOutside at MUNL Geography! @carissabrown.bsky.social took #GEOG3140 Biogeography students out to a good ol’Newfoundland boreal bog to talk about adaptations and species-environment matching. Nothing makes those undergrad memories like a boot full of bog.