Videos from the field

A selection of short videos that graduate students have made that detail their geographic field research.

Mercury poisoning in the Peruvian Amazon. Jena Webb

Action in the Swedish permafrost. David Olefeldt

Geoweb and environmental challenges in Barbados. Britta Ricker

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Book News

Recent books published by department members:

Sherry Olson and Patricia Thornton 2011: Peopling the North American City Montreal, 1840-1900. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal.

Peter Brown (with Jeremy Schmidt) (eds) 2010: Water Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals

Sarah Turner and Dominique Caouette (eds) 2009: Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia. Routledge: London.

George Wenzel 2008: Sometimes Hunting Can Seem Like Business. CCI Press.

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Geography in the News

Recent media articles by or about our faculty and graduate students:

Tim Moore hits the top 3 H-index for Environmental Studies

Philip Osano. Impact of Climate Change on Maasai

Navin Ramankutty. Repatterning the world

Nigel Roulet. Understanding the metabolism of the Arctic landscape

Nancy Ross. Lifelong gap in health between rich and poor set by age twenty

Gail Chmura. Sliced mangrove, the tree that captures carbon, filters saltwater and stops storms

Bernhard Lehner. Building a better dam map

Wayne Pollard. Arctic coast eroding up to 8 metres a year: study

James Ford and Lea Berrang-Ford. Eye on the environment

Navin Ramakutty. McGill professor has grim food for thought

Navin Ramankutty. Feeding the world without destroying the planet

Gail Chmura. Everglades' 'tree islands' grew from ancient trash dumps

Gail Chmura and Peter Brown et al., on Climate Change as a Real and Present Danger

Margaret Kalacska on Discovery Channel, digging up mass graves at Park Safari

Breast cancer linked to traffic-related air pollution: Nancy Ross, Dan Crouse and others

Global land use -- Télé-Québec covers Navin Ramankutty's research program

McGill prof creates first accurate digital map of world’s rivers: Bernhard Lehner

We need a better understanding of the 'environmentalist's paradox': Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne et al

Low-income women at greater risk for diabetes than high-income women: Nancy Ross

McGill prof creates first accurate digital map of world’s rivers: Bernhard Lehner

International Polar Year Canada Time Capsule Project. A youth-led initiative, led by PhD candidate Julia Christensen, in our dept. Check out the project website.

Obituary for Prof. Benjamin Garnier

Arts Intern Awards Summer 2010: Geog x 3

National Geographic puts hydrographer on the map: Bernhard Lehner

Potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests: Jeanine Rhemtulla

Montreal and the Aerospace Industry: Sebastien Breau

McGill, Mars and Antartica: Wayne Pollard

Religion joins with science to address environment issues: Peter Brown

La pollution ne connaît pas de quartier: Dan Crouse

Doing Geography the Hmong way: Sarah Turner

Technological integration the best ally for Canada-U.S. border security, new study reveals: Margaret Kalacska

Climate change - unlike the financial meltdown - is a long-haul crisis: James Ford, Lea Berrang Ford & Tristan Pearce

Homeless in a Homeland: Julia Christensen. 2008 Trudeau Scholar

Research that casts a wide (inter)net: Renee Sieber

Better Maps, Better Science: Raja Sengupta

Environmental, radical "human-centric" map of world: Navin Ramankutty

NCE Young Innovator Award James Ford

Indian monsoons don't dampen spirits: Navin Ramankutty, Jeanine Rhemtulla and Raja Sengupta

A marriage of reports from Kampala and Igloolik: Lea Berrang Ford and James Ford

The charms and climate signals of Swedish permafrost: David Olefeldt