Geography
Master of Arts
Department of Geography
The Department of Geography at UBC is widely acknowledged as one of the leading departments in the world in terms of its research accomplishments. The scholarly interests of faculty members and graduate students encompass a wide range of subject areas, philosophical approaches, methods of analysis, and geographical locations.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Bakker, Karen Jessica | Political economy, political ecology, environmental studies, development studies, and resource and environmental management |
| Barnes, Trevor | Vancouver |
| Bergmann, Luke | Geomatics, Globalization |
| Daigle, Michelle | |
| Dempsey, Jessica | wrestle with the theoretical and historical-geographical complexities of environmental politics as it shapes and is shaped by the entanglement of state, economy, science, and culture |
| Donner, Simon | Climate Changes and Impacts, Prediction and Climatic Modeling, Marine Environment, Climate change science, Climate policy, Science communication, Coastal Ecosystems |
| Eaton, Brett | Rivers and climate change, fish habitat, disturbances |
| Evenden, Matthew Dominic | Environmental history and water history, with a regional specialization in Canada, particularly Alberta and British Columbia |
| Glassman, James Francis | Development Geography, Third World Urbanization, Economic Geography, Political Economy, Political Geography, Southeast Asia, Pacific Rim |
| Gregory, Derek John | Political Geography War in the miiddle east, bombing |
| Hassan, Marwan | Geological and Geomorphological Processes, Fluvial Geomorphology, Sediment transport, Channel Stability, Landscape evolution, Surface hydrology |
| Henry, Gregory H | Biodiversity and Biocomplexity, Biogeography, Ecological and Ecophysiological Processes, Climate Changes and Impacts, Environment and Habitats, Plants, Genotype and Phenotype, tundra ecosystems, experimental climate change, plant-animal interactions, Arctic environments, vegetation change, plant traits |
| Hiebert, Daniel Joseph | immigration, diversity, national security |
| Hunt, Sarah | Indigenous and legal geographies; women, girls, and Two-Spirit people |
| Kim, Hun Kee | urban planning, transnational finance and expertise, and globalized forms of governance in an ascendant and resurgent Asia |
| Klinkenberg, Brian | Geomatics, Biogeography, Bioinformatics, Environmental Health, Geographic Information Science, Environmental Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Citizen Science Initiatives |
| Koppes, Michele | climate change, glaciers, natural hazards, landscape change, polar regions, ice-ocean interactions |
| Kuus, Merje | transnational regulatory practices in contemporary Europe, but the empirical focus undergirds a broader interest in knowledge and power, structure and agency, in bureaucratic and policy-making settings; political identity, subject-formation, and center-periphery relations, especially in contemporary Europe |
| Le Billon, Philippe | Geography, politics, africa, environmental, human geography, development, security |
| McKendry, Ian | Air pollution Climatology |
| Moore, Robert Daniel | Fresh Water, Ice and Snow, hydrology, hydroclimatology, stream temperature, fish habitat, forest hydrology, glacier hydrology, snow hydrology |
| Peck, Jamie | Socio-Economic Conditions, Economic geography |
| Pratt, Geraldine | Feminist Geographies |
| Sundberg, Juanita | Militarization and Everyday Life in the US-Mexico Borderlands, environmental dimensions of US's border security policies in the Mexican border |
| Williams, Jennifer | ecological and evolutionary processes that shape population dynamics and species interactions, particularly in a spatial context; process-based understanding of the conservation and management of threatened and invasive species; spread of populations through fragmented landscapes and life history evolution of reproductive strategies under changing climates. |
| Wyly, Elvin | Urban Spaces and Urbanity, Specialized Services (Housing, Transportation), gentrification, housing, the politics of data and quantitative methods, U.S. politics |
