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Geography Department celebrates 80th anniversary

McGill’s Department of Geography turns 80 this year!Ěý

This milestone marks the anniversary of George Kimble’s appointment as McGill’s first Professor of Geography and Department Chair on January 1, 1945. 

Kimble, who had previously been a meteorologist with the Royal Navy, was allocated two rooms in the Arts Building (rooms 30 and 38) by the Faculty of Arts and Science to lay the foundation for the new department. A few months later, F.K. Hare was appointed as McGill’s second Professor of Geography (eventually becoming Dean of Arts and Science in 1961). 

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Published on: 24 Jan 2025

Mapping the Benefits and Trade-offs from Natural Climate Solutions

A new study published today in Nature Sustainability uses advanced machine learning methods and large language models to assess the benefits and trade-offs of natural climate solutions (NCS). 

Led by The Nature Conservancy and co-led by Brian Robinson, Associate Professor of Geography at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, the researchers analyzed over 250,000 peer-reviewed publications to produce a global evidence map of NCS co-impacts. 

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Published on: 2 Dec 2024

Nigel Roulet awarded David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching

Congratulations to Professor Nigel Roulet, Department of Geography, for being awarded the 2024 David Thomson Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching!Ěý
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This award recognizes an outstanding faculty member who has been supervising graduate students for more than ten years. Roulet started as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography in 1994 and began his term as Graduate Program Director of the department the following year. 
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Published on: 19 Jun 2024

Connecting Students with Researchers through Soup

Although approaching professors to discuss research opportunities might seem daunting for undergraduate students, there’s an ingredient for success: soup!

Classified as: Faculty of Science
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Published on: 17 Mar 2023

Greenland’s Indigenous population favours extracting and exporting sand from melting ice sheet

A national survey of close to 1000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a Ď㽶ĘÓƵ-led research team has found that a surprisingly large majority – 3 out of 4 Greenlanders – support extracting and exporting sand left by the melting ice sheet. A significant proportion want Greenland’s leadership to assess the impact of sand extraction and exports on both the environment and economy. Furthermore, when it comes to who mines the sand, the majority prefer local involvement to foreign collaboration.

Classified as: Greenland, Indigenous population, export, extract, sand, ice sheet, Resources, Sustainability, economy, climate change, environment, gravel
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Published on: 18 Aug 2022

A new tool for understanding the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development

Sustainable agricultural practices require considerable investments, and smallholder famers may not realize gains for years. Without secure land tenure, they lack incentive to invest in long-term benefits. Instead, many opt to use the land as intensively as possible each year since they have no guarantee for the future. This is just one example of how land tenure security intersects with sustainable development, a relationship explored in-depth in a recent book co-edited by Brian Robinson, an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ.

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Published on: 18 Jul 2022

Meeting the climate crisis with resilience and collaborative action

McGill undergraduates have a unique opportunity to expand their climate science literacy and acquire tools for taking action to reduce the impacts of the unfolding climate crisis.

Registration is now open to students in every program for FSCI 198: Climate Crisis and Climate Actions, a new undergraduate course featuring a team of multi-disciplinary instructors who will present diverse perspectives on the scientific and social dimensions of climate change.

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Published on: 14 Jul 2022

McGill tackles systemic underrepresentation

Improving representation is one of the key goals behind McGill’s current drive to recruit a greater number of Black faculty members. The Faculty of Science is proud to be a part of this effort, with applications now open for tenure-track positions in the and the .

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Published on: 4 Nov 2021

Climate change artist-in-residence to curate bicentennial art show

, McGill’s Climate Change Artist-in-Residence, will curate the Faculty of Science’s Bicentennial Science/Art Exposition, billed as a “celebration of science in all its forms”.

The art show organizers are calling on all members of the McGill community to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2021.

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Published on: 30 Aug 2021

Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of a Holistic Indicator of Health for Older Inuit: Results of a Sequential Mixed-Methods Project

The IHSP's Mylène Riva co-authored the following article:

Baron M, Riva M, Fletcher C, et al.

Conceptualisation and Operationalisation of a Holistic Indicator of Health for Older Inuit: Results of a Sequential Mixed-Methods Project

Social Indicators Research (2021).

Published January 4th, 2021

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Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, Social Determinants of Health, Indigenous Heath
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Published on: 28 Jan 2021

Association Between Active Living Environments and Hospitalization for All-Causes and Cardiometabolic Disease

The IHSP's Mylène Riva co-authored the following article:

Mah MM, Sanmartin C, ¸éľ±±ą˛ąĚý˛Ń, Dasgupta K, Ross N.

Classified as: Institute for health and social policy, cardiometabolic disease, Social Determinants of Health
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Published on: 28 Jan 2021

Student art exhibition to highlight McGill Bicentennial

The Faculty of Science is celebrating McGill’s 200th anniversary with a student art exhibition on the theme of “Science!”. McGill students at all levels and all faculties are invited to submit works in any medium, expressing what science means to them.

Faculty of Science bicentennial committee member, Torsten Bernhard, says the aim of the exhibition is to celebrate science in all its forms.

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Published on: 12 Jan 2021

Blood mercury and plasma polychlorinated biphenyls concentrations in pregnant Inuit women from Nunavik: Temporal trends, 1992–2017

Thérèse Yéro Adamou, Mylène Riva, Gina Muckle, Elhadji Anassour Laouan Sidi, Mélanie Lemire, Pierre Ayotte

Blood mercury and plasma polychlorinated biphenyls concentrations in pregnant Inuit women from Nunavik: Temporal trends, 1992–2017

Sci Total Environ. 2020 Nov 15;743:140495.
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Classified as: Canadian Arctic, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, multilevel modeling, biomonitoring
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Published on: 10 Nov 2020

Widespread permafrost degradation seen in high Arctic terrain

Rapid changes in terrain are taking place in Canada’s high Arctic polar deserts due to increases in summer air temperatures.

Classified as: science and technology, NSERC, Quebec Research Foundation - Nature and technology, nature, technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Eben Hobson Fellowship and the Northern Scientific Training Program
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Published on: 22 May 2019

New Study in Nature: Just One-Third of the World’s Longest Rivers Remain Free-Flowing

Classified as: global assessment, free-flowing rivers, climate change, World Wildlife Fund (WWF), GĂĽnther Grill, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ, Bernhard Lehner, Heloisa Ehalt Macedo, Florence Tan, Department of Geography, food and sustainability
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Published on: 8 May 2019

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