Faculty and staff
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Department Chair
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BA Geography (University of Calgary), MA, PhD (Queen's University at Kingston, 2000)
- Professor, Geography
- Department Chair, Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Phone:250-960-5875Cell:250-961-5875Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-148Website:Supervises in: PhD NRES ; MA NRES Geography ; MA Interdisciplinary Studies
I am a social geographer with two broad areas of research interest that connect in many ways and often overlap: Guatemala/Violence/Development/Justice and Migration/Transnationalism/Refugee Studies. I am a Professor of Geography and Chair of the Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental...
Faculty
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PhD (Saskatchewan), MSc (IHE, Delft), BSc (UET, Lahore), PEng
- Assistant Professor
Phone:250-960-6355Email:Office Number:8-429Supervises in: MSc NRES ; MASc
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PhD, MA (Queen's University at Kingston, 1993), BA (University of British Columbia)
- Professor, Geography
- Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies
- Co-Director, UNBC Community Development Institute (on sabbatical)
Phone:250-960-5826Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-141Website:Supervises in: PhD NRES ; MA NRES Geography ; MNRES
Greg Halseth is a Professor in the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he is also the Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies, and the founder and Co-Director of the UNBC Community Development Institute. His research examines regional development... -
BAA (Ryerson University), MA, PhD (Queen's University at Kingston, 1998)
- Professor, Geography
Phone:250-960-5881Email:Office Number:Teaching Laboratory 8-136Website:Supervises in: MA NRES Geography ; MA Interdisciplinary Studies ; MSc Health Sciences ; PhD NRES
President of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), 2020-2022 -
BA (McGill University), MScPl (University of Toronto), PhD (Duke University, 2007)
- Associate Professor, Geography and Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Phone:250-960-5920Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-214Supervises in: MA NRES Geography ; MA NRES Environmental Studies
Zoë teaches ENVS 309 Gender and Environmental Studies. She is a member of the Geography Program. Zoë's work to date has focused on tourism and ecotourism development, local perceptions of environment and place, consumption (the politics of; the impacts of; alternative forms of), international... -
BA, MA (University of Colorado), PhD (University of British Columbia, 2002)
- Professor, Geography
- Canada Research Chair in Glacier Change (on sabbatical)
Phone:250-960-6266Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-331Website:Brian is a professor of the Geography Program at the University of Northern British Columbia and a Canada Research Chair in Glacier Change. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2003. -
PhD University of Guelph; MA University of Guelph; BA University of Northern British Columbia
- Associate Professor, Geography
- Canada Research Chair in Cumulative Impacts of Environmental Change
- Program Coordinator, Northern Studies
Phone:250-960-5766Email:Office Number:8-138Website:Supervises in: PhD NRES ; MA NRES Geography ; MSc NRES Geography ; MNRES
Tristan Pearce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he is also the Canada Research Chair in the Cumulative Impacts of Environmental Change. His research examines the cumulative impacts of... -
BSc (Queen's University in Kingston, Physical Geography), MSc (University of British Columbia, Physical Geography), PhD (McGill University, Biology, 1989)
- Professor, Geography
- Endowed Chair in Landscape Ecology
Phone:250-960-6645Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-137Website:Dr. Petticrew's research interests involve fluxes to and in aquatic systems, at a variety of scales. Fluxes of sediment, nutrient and contaminants have been investigated in recent research including 1) the influence of forest harvesting on sediment yields to British Columbian lakes, 2) the... -
PhD (University of British Columbia - 2010), MSc (University of Calgary - 2004), BSc (McMaster University - 2001)
- Associate Professor, Geography
Phone:250-960-6256Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-212Website:Supervises in: PhD NRES ; MSc NRES
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BSc Hons (University of St. Andrews), MA (Queen's University at Kingston), PhD (University of St. Andrews)
- Professor
- GIS Coordinator
- NRES Graduate Coordinator
Phone:250-960-5865Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-307Website:Dr. Wheate's interests cover the application of remote sensing and GIS across the spectrum of NRES (Natural Resource and Environmental Studies) research areas. His main focus lies in the integration of the geomatic sciences, cartographic output, feature extraction and terrain visualization; special...
Professors Emeriti
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PhD, MA (University of California - Berkeley), BA (Dartmouth College)
- Adjunct Professor
- Professor Emerita
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Adjunct Faculty
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BSc (Earth Science) Montana State University; MSc (Geography) University of Colorado, PhD (NRES-Geography, 2014)
- Adjunct Professor, Geography
- College Professor, Geography (Coast Mountain College)
Phone:250-615-3335Email:Website:Matt is an adjunct professor of geography at UNBC and a professor of geography at Coast Mountain College in Terrace, BC, where he teaches in the Environmental Geoscience program. He completed his Ph.D. from UNBC in 2014. -
PhD, Cultural Historical Geography (Queen's University at Kingston - 2007); MA, Interdisciplinary Studies - Geography and English (UNBC); BFA, Creative Writing (University of Victoria)
- Professor, Northern Medical Program
- Canada Research Chair in Humanities and Health Inequities
- Adjunct Professor, Geography
- Adjunct Professor, Health Sciences
Phone:250-640-6763Email:Office Number:Room 9-383, NHSCWebsite:An award winning researcher and creative writer whose work focuses broadly on marginalized peoples and geographies, Sarah de Leeuw grew up and has spent most of her life in Northern British Columbia, including Haida Gwaii and Terrace. She is the Research Director of the Health Arts Research Centre... -
BSc University of Northern British Columbia; MSc. Oregon State University; PhD University of BC
- Adjunct Professor, Geography
Email:Website:Research Hydrologist, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Leader of Coastal Hydrology & Climate Change Research Lab, and adjunct professor in Geography at Vancouver Island University. -
PhD, MA (University of California - Berkeley), BA (Dartmouth College)
- Adjunct Professor
- Professor Emerita
Email:Dr. Gail Fondahl is a recently retired Professor of Geography at UNBC and is now an Adjunct Professor of Geography. Her PhD is from the University of California-Berkeley. Professor Fondahl’s research focuses on the legal geographies of indigenous territorial rights in the Russian North, and the... -
PhD, MSc - Geography (SFU), BSc, Surveying (Makerere University)
- Adjunct Professor
Cell:604-809-3456Email: -
BA, Political Science (UBC); MES, Environmental Studies (York University); PhD, Economic Geography (Simon Fraser University); MCIP (Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners) and RPP (Registered Professional Planner)
- Adjunct Professor, Geography
Phone:778-782-4702Email:Professor and Graduate Program Chair in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. -
MSc (HEC and Oxford University), BA (University of British Columbia)
- Adjunct Professor, Geography
- Co-Director, Community Development Institute (CDI) at UNBC
Phone:250-960-9806Email:Office Number:10-1090 -
PhD, MS (University of Washington)
- Adjunct Professor
Phone:520-235-0792Email:Pete is a geoscientist with interests across Earth, environmental, and planetary science. His work includes geochemical, isotopic, and geochronologic approaches to understanding subsurface fluid-rock systems, thermochronology, tectonics, geomorphology, and petrology. He is a Fellow of the American... -
BSc (Hons.) Memorial University of Newfoundland, MSc & PhD Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, UNBC
- Adjunct Professor, Geography
Email:Team Lead, Research and Stewardship, Omineca Region at BC Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operation Experienced Hydrologist with a demonstrated history of working in the environmental services industry. Skilled in Watershed Management, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Awareness,... -
BA, Development and Latin American Studies (University of Guelph, 1983); LLB (University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law, 1988)
- Adjunct Professor, Geography
Email:Website:Mr. Russell has over 25 years of experience working on development, human rights, environmental justice and disaster relief issues in Latin America - mainly Central America and southern Mexico. Mr. Russell lived for over 10 years in various countries in Central America and in southern Mexico. Mr....
Senior Lab Instructors
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- Senior Lab Instructor (Geographic Information Systems)
Phone:250-960-5405Email:Office Number:TAL-2526 -
BSc (University of British Columbia), BEd (University of Western Ontario, 1995)
- Senior Lab Instructor
Phone:250-960-6438Email:Office Number:Teaching Lab 8-241Chris is responsible for instruction in second year Earth Science labs in the Geography, Forestry and Environmental Science programs at UNBC: GEOG 210 (Introduction to Earth Science), FSTY 205 (Forest Soils), and ENVS 201 (Atmospheric Science). -
BSc (University of Northern British Columbia)
- Senior Lab Instructor, Geography
Phone:250-960-6486Email:Office Number:8-215
Instructors
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PhD (UBC), MA (University of Tehran), BEngg (Sharif University of Technology)
- Instructor
Email:I am a social geographer. I studied the suburbanization of immigration. I am interested in studying urban and social geography with an emphasis on migration processes and their impacts on the urban and ethnic communities and neighbourhood structures of Canadian cities. I worked with Dr. Carlos... -
MNRES University of Northern British Columbia
- Instructor
Phone:250-960-5320Email:Office Number:4-433Laura is the Research Manager for Rural and Small Town Studies at UNBC. She has been engaged in national research teams for the New Rural Economy Project and the On the Move Project, where the BC team examined the impacts of long distance labour commuting on workers, workplace practices, their... -
PhD (Queen's University), MA (UNBC), BA Honours (University of Guelph)
- Part-time Instructor
Hello! It's nice to meet you! My name is Alex, and I am a human geographer by training and passion with a background in international development studies. I am a proud alumni of UNBC (MA, International Studies, 2011) and completed my doctorate at Queen's University (Geography, 2018). I was...
Postdoctoral Researchers
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PhD, BSc (University of Edinburgh)
- Postdoctoral Researcher with the Hakai Cryosphere Node
Email:Office Number:Hakai Cryosphere NodeRosie Bisset is a Postdoctoral Researcher within the Hakai Cryosphere Node working on quantifying the importance of coastal snow in freshwater flux in British Columbia, with Dr. Bill Floyd and Dr. Brian Menounos. -
PhD, MS - Engineering (Montana State University), BS - Engineering (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Cell:847-420-4601Email:Dr. Christopher Donahue is a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Dr. Brian Menounos and the Hakai Airborne Coastal Observatory. -
PhD in Humanities (Concordia University), MFA in Printmaking (University of Alberta), BFA (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellow
Email:Website:Darian Goldin Stahl is an interdisciplinary printmaker and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in health humanities under the supervision of Dr. Sarah de Leeuw. Darian's project, Embodied Books: Binding Together Illness, Art, and Learning, seeks to forge new sensory understandings of illness through the... -
PhD, MES (York University)
- Postdoctoral Fellow
Phone:403-800-4359 ext. 149Email:Dr. Devin Holterman leads a collaborative research project with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) and the University of Northern British Columbia that looks to develop an evidence-based social science research program for Y2Y. Devin's research interests include investigating...
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
- Dr. Jacob Bendle (PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London – 2018), 2020-2022 – Supervisor: Dr. Brian Menounos
- Dr. Anna Chesnokova (PhD in Civil Engineering, ETS), 2020-2022 – Supervisor: Dr. Joseph Shea
- Dr. Nadia Mamontova (PhD in Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford – 2020), 2021-2022 – Supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
- Dr. Scott Williamson (PhD in Ecology (University of Alberta, 2015), 2020-2022
- Dr. Marieka Sax (PhD, 2014 – Carleton University), September 2019 – September 2021 – supervisor: Dr. Catherine Nolin
- Dr. Vanessa Sloan Morgan (PhD, 2017 – Queen’s University), September 2017 – July 2021 – co-supervisors: Drs. Sarah de Leeuw and Margot Parkes
- Dr. Dawn Hoogeveen (PhD, 2016 – University of British Columbia), September 2018 - April 2021 – supervisor: Dr. Margot Parkes
- Dr. May Farrales (PhD, 2017 – University of British Columbia), January 2018 - July 2020 - supervisor: Dr. Sarah de Leeuw
- Dr. Michael Lait (PhD, 2017 - Carleton University), September 2017 - December 2018 - supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
- Dr. Levan Tielidze (PhD), October 2015-February 2016; March - September 2017 - supervisor: Dr. Roger Wheate
- Dr. Chris Buse (PhD, 2015 - University of Toronto), 2016-2017 - co-supervisors: Drs. Greg Halseth and Margot Parkes
- Dr. Chris Darvill (PhD, 2014 - Durham University), 2016-2017 - supervisor: Dr. Brian Menounos
- Dr. Alex Martin (PhD, 2012 - University of Northern British Columbia, Canada), 2012-2013 - supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
- Dr. Joe Shea (PhD, 2010 - University of British Columbia, Canada), 2010-2012 - supervisor: Dr. Brian Menounos
- Dr. Neil Williams (PhD, 2005 - University of Exeter, UK), 2007-2008 - supervisor: Dr. Ellen Petticrew
- Dr. Tobias Bolch (PhD, 2006 - University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany), 2007-2008 - co-supervisors: Drs. Brian Menounos and Roger Wheate
- Dr. Deborah Thien (PhD, 2005 - University of Edinburgh, Scotland), 2006 - supervisor: Dr. Greg Halseth
- Dr. Catherine Nolin (PhD, 2000 - Queen's University, Canada), 2001-2002 - supervisor: Dr. Gail Fondahl
