Geography Faculty News - 2011
UNBC at the Union of BC Municipalities
Dr. Greg Halseth along with forest industry leader Ike Barber, a long-time supporter of UNBC and UNBC Chancellor, John MacDonald will present information and data they have collected related to the evolving forest economy in British Columbia.
Congratulations to Dr. Ellen Petticrew who received $27,933 from the Fraser Salmon and Watershed Program for her project Marine-derived nutrient sampling using a continuous flow centrifuge.
Congratulations to Dr. Neil Hanlon and his co-investigators who were awarded $672,000 over four years (2011-2015) by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for their research project Partnering for Change: Understanding the Contribution of Social Entrepreneurship to Primary Health Care Transformation.
Dr. Greg Halseth Named Top-Level Canada Research Chair
The Geography program sends warm congratulations to Dr. Greg Halseth who has been named a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC). Dr. Halseth is a renowned expert in the field of rural and small-town studies and is UNBC’s first Tier 1 appointment.
Dr. Phil Owens and Dr. Ellen Petticrew attended the 12th International Symposium on the Interactions between Sediments and Water in Dartington, south-west England in June. They gave four oral and five poster presentations on work based in Prince George and at the QRRC. In addition, Phil organized and led one of the mid-conference field trips.
Dr. Roger Wheate attended the 25th International Cartographic Congress in Paris, 3 - 8 July 2011 as one of Canada’s two official delegates. He also presented on the Cartographic representation of glacier retreat in western Canada.
Dr. Catherine Nolin, along with several UNBC colleagues, participated in a UNBC-EPAF delegation in Peru in June 2011. The Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF) invited Dr. Nolin and the others to formalize a new partnership and start collaborative research on Peru's internal armed conflict and the search for Peru's disappeared.
In June, Dr. Brian Menounos travelled to Switzerland to give an invited talk at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).
Dr. Catherine Nolin was invited to present two talks in April at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL on Violent Development and Forced Migration in Guatemala. The Journal of International Human Rights at the Northwestern University Law School and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs hosted the talks which were co-sponsored by the left for Forced Migration Studies.