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Geography Faculty Talks: TBA

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:43:42 +0000

Deep geographical wealth disparities divide the United States (Tom Kemeny, University of Toronto)

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:41:05 +0000

Tom Kemeny, University of Toronto

Integrating hydrogeomorphology into river restoration practices: a winning approach (Pascale Biron, Concordia University)

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:42:30 +0000

Integrating hydrogeomorphology into river restoration practices: a winning approach (Pascale Biron, Concordia University)

Federico Cugurullo, Trinity College Dublin (Title TBA)

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:39:34 +0000

Federico Cugurullo, Trinity College Dublin

Exploring peatland phenology: tracking the colour of peatlands using community science (Scott Davidson, UQAM)

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:37:46 +0000

Exploring peatland phenology: tracking the colour of peatlands using community science

Geography Faculty Talks: Raja Sengupta & Mallik Mahmud

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:17:04 +0000

Urban Heat Island Variability in Montreal: understanding current and future trends using advanced Geospatial analysis

Professor Raja Sengupta

From Satellites to Sea Ice: GURA Student Investigates Arctic Patterns

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:45:03 +0000

Mr. Kingson Campbell just successfully completed his summer Geography Undergraduate Research Award (GURA) under the supervision of Dr. Mallik Mahmud. As part of the GURA, he focused on remote sensing of Arctic snow and sea ice: specifically analyzing satellite data across multiple years from a geographical perspective to identify patterns and correlations. Kingson’s research aimed to discern the optimal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) frequency for sea ice by investigating radar signatures derived from multi-frequency SAR imagery over the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic.

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grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:00:37 +0000

A new study by geography graduate students and professors reveals that micromobility infrastructure in Montréal - bike lanes, BIXI docks, etc.- accounts for just ~2% of street space, despite significantly higher demand in key boroughs such as Plateau‑Mont‑Royal and Rosemont–La Petite‑Patrie.

How our student journal club built on sand developed strong foundations

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:22:06 +0000

The department's SandClub is an informal, interdisciplinary journal club where students tackle the big issue of global sand scarcity. Since March 2022, SandClub has run 25 sessions with more than 60 students from five faculties—transforming classic paper discussions into real-world peer-review workshops that build research confidence and demystify academic publishing. For more information on SandClub check out the piece here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01606-x

Postdoc Heloisa Macedo and Prof. Bernhard Lehner Map Global Antibiotic Pollution

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:24:17 +0000

Former doctoral student and current postdoc Heloisa Ehalt Macedo, along with her supervisor Prof. Bernhard Lehner, has co-authored a major new study revealing how antibiotics from human use are polluting rivers across the globe. Published with an international team, their work maps contamination hotspots and highlights urgent risks to ecosystems and public health. Read more in the ��ñ�� Newsroom article.

Prof. McKenzie receives award at AAG annual meeting

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:30:04 +0000

Congratulations to Geography Professor Grant McKenzie who was recently presented with the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Association of Geographer's Spatial Analysis and Modelling Specialty Group.

[CANCELLED] Urban greening as a determinant of health and a strategy to tackle the triple planetary crisis (Pierre Paul Audate, Université de Montréal)

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:27:14 +0000

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

Graduate student presentations [Cancelled]

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:21:00 +0000

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

Leveraging remote sensing to understand tropical ecosystems in a changing world (Elsa Ordway, University of California, Los Angeles)

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:25:02 +0000

Abstract: The tropics are experiencing dramatic changes as a result of climate change and land-use change.

Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S placemaking in Canadian suburbs (Julie Podmore, John Abbott College (with Alison L. Bain))

grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:23:04 +0000

Abstract: Queerburbia is a neologism coined as a counterargument to queer metronormativities.