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Nov. 25, 2024
Megan O'Brien - 2024 ACAG winner of  'Lightning Talk'

2024 ACAG winner for best 'Lightning Talk': Megan O'Brien 

Megan O’Brien (MA Geography) won the award at the 2024 conference of the Atlantic Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers (ACAG) hosted by Mount Allison University. Her presentation was titled: “A New Old-Growth Potential Index for Nova Scotia.” Megan is in her first year of the MA Geography program and is supervised by Peter Bush.

May 16, 2024
CAG Undergraduate Award 2024

Olivia Kokkinen has been selected as the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Undergraduate Award winner from ¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ for 2024.

Apr. 26, 2024
Benoit Ouellette Memorial Prize in Cartography

Based on performance in GEOG 2386 Introduction to Mapping and GIS, Sophie Kent-Purcell has been selected as the winner of the prize for 2023-24, and Daniel Wilson has been selected as the runner-up.

May 19, 2023
2023 Environmental Studies Prize

Jacob Wisbey has been selected for the annual Environmental Studies Prize given by the School of the Environment.

Apr. 25, 2023
CAG Undergraduate Award 2023

Carmen Rojas-Fischer has been selected as the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) Undergraduate Award winner from ¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ for 2023.

Apr. 25, 2023
Benoit Ouellette Memorial Prize in Cartography

Based on performance in GEOG 2386 Introduction to Mapping and GIS, Alexis Brewer has been selected as the winner of the prize for 2022-23, and Grace Robertson has been selected as the runner-up.

Mar. 23, 2023
Announcement of Dr. Danika van Proosdij as University Research Professor

See the with details of this announcement.

Jan. 5, 2023
New book by Dr. Cristian Suteanu

Scale - Understanding the Environment

Available for downloading to members of the ¶¶ÒõÊÓƵ community through the library via this link:

 

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