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Blue Box Seminar Presents
Lissandra Souto Cavalli
Postdoctoral Fellow, MUN
Ms. Cavalli will discuss occupational health and safety in aquaculture under Brazilian Perspective
and present some overview of risks and hazards, decent work, minorities and social organization of work, and some official and survey collected injury data.
When: Friday, October 21, 2022
Where: SN2025, 3 - 4 pm
Blue Box Seminar Presents
Jim Thorne
Environmental Science & Policy
University of California, Davis
Climate Change and Terrestial Conservation Planning
When: Thursday, October 13th, 2022
10:30 am by Zoom
Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/92506683149
Geography Blue Box Seminar presents
Keith Storey Department of Geography, MUN
Wish you were here: Confessions of a carto-deltiologist
When: Friday, October 7, 2022 3-4 pm
Where: SN2025
Blue Box Seminar Presents
Dr. Alistair Bath
MUN Geography
- Alistair Bath will speak on: Lessons learned to achieve conservation success: A_Bath_Blue Box Sept 23 2022
When: September 23, 2022 3-4 pm
Where: SN2025
Dr. Alistair Bath will take us all around the world where he has combined human dimensions research and applied conflict resolution and facilitation skills to achieve conservation successes. Whether working with lion killers to become lion guardians in Kenya, Israelis and Palestinian authorities working on urban biodiversity issues, wolves and brown bear management issues all across Europe, tigers in India, bison restoration in Alaska, Indigenous peoples and caribou issues in Canada's north, jaguars in Brazil, and most recently Andean cat conservation in the high Andes of Argentina, conservation successes occur when you understand that you are born with two ears and one mouth, so you should be listening at least twice as much as talking when working with local communities, key interest groups and government authorities. Listen to Alistair share stories of how listening and learning from people is the key to conservation success.
MUN Geography GIS Position Open
The Department of Geography at Memorial University invites applications for a permanent Assistant Professor position in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geospatial Analysis
For any questions, please contact Arn Keeling, the Department Head, at akeeling@mun.ca or Max Liboiron, the search committee chair, at mliboiron@mun.ca.
For detailed information, please click here Geography GIS Position
MUN Research Week and Geography Awareness Week
The Department of Geography marked the beginning of the Memorial University's research week — and the end of Geography Awareness Week — by showcasing its research efforts through a floor map of Newfoundland and Labrador with researchers stationed at different parts of the province.
The successful Giant Floor Map event saw about 125+ visitors to the map at The Rooms on Sunday, November 20th and CBC dropped by at the QEII library event on Monday, November 21st.
You can find coverage of the Monday event on the CBC Here and Now program. Click on the November 22 episode and go to the clip that starts at 47:50.
See the web site story here.
MUN Geography students presenting their research work at The Rooms.
Congrats to All Students Named to the 2021-2022 Dean's List!
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Congratulations to all students named to the 2021-2022 Dean's List, as well as the Program Book Prize winners, and receipients of the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence, and the HSS International Student Excellence Award.
Winter 2023 Courses
Geography Course Listing for the Winter 2023 Semester
Finding an elective has never been easier
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The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) has hundreds of courses that have zero or one prerequisite. To make it easy for our students to find electives of interest, we have launched a searchable listing of electives that you can browse by semester and subject.
In memoriam: Dr. Joyce C. Macpherson
The Department of Geography is remembering former colleague and Professor Emerita Dr. Joyce C. Macpherson. Dr. Macpherson studied physical geography at the University of London (BSc 1950, MSc 1956) and McGill University (PhD 1966) and was an active member of MUN Geography from 1966-1994. She made major contributions to knowledge of the postglacial climate and vegetation of Newfoundland and was named a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
As the obituary below notes, Dr. Macpherson was a leading palynologist and contributed important work to the study of the changing Newfoundland climate. Along with her husband and colleague, the cultural geographer Alan G. Macpherson, she established an annual graduate research award in the department to support student research and conference travel.