UVic’s Division of Continuing Studies is issuing micro credential certificates for UNICATA students who complete learning modules.

UVic geographer Jutta Gutberlet is helping communities of waste pickers in Brazil improve their working conditions, form co-operatives and advance social movements.

A very small creature is threatening the health of BC’s giant kelp forests: bryozoans. They’re tiny white coral-like crustaceans that attach themselves to kelp, reducing reproduction and overall health of kelp beds.

Equipped to survive the weather conditions and the long days exploring glaciers in the backcountry, backcountry, students in one geography field school learn about scientific research in physical geography.

Geography grad student Kate Herchak is reclaiming her Inuk ways of knowing, being and doing in the world through cross-cultural research with Maasai youth.

Take a deep dive into six student stories for UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science, inspiring others to make a difference in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

Rural and Indigenous communities are poised to play a central role in Canada’s low-carbon energy future, according to one of Canada’s top energy transition researchers. UVic geographer and civil engineer Christina Hoicka explains that as the impacts of climate change grow, a massive upscaling of renewable energies will be required.

Early insights by Kitasoo Xai'xais Nation about mountain goats motivated the community to explore how to protect the culturally vital species and led to research with UVic scientists and others.

A celebration of life will be held for Johannes Feddema on Thursday, Feb. 24 at the University Club in the Fireside Lounge.

New research shows the digging activities of sea otters disturbs eelgrass beds leading to greater genetic diversity through sexual (instead of asexual) reproduction.

Sophia Carodenuto (geography) is an expert in de-forestation issues associated with cocoa production. Her research shows that despite more efforts by companies to be sustainable, it is nearly impossible for most chocolate consumers to know the amount of tropical deforestation associated with their sweet luxury.

UVic students took to the streets and explored urban gardens as part of an experiential geography course, Food and the City.

Using historical charts, Indigenous ecological knowledge and satellite imagery, UVic geographer Maycira Costa is building a cohesive story to map the past, present and future of kelp resilience.

Persia Khan, who graduates this month with a BSc in geography, grew up surrounded by big mountain landscapes in Alberta. Her honours research project investigated how mammals use time in high disturbance landscapes in the Canadian Rockies. She also had the opportunity to be a research assistant with UVic’s Mountain Legacy Project.

PhD geography candidate Sharon Dias points out that communities across the globe have been heavily impacted by two interconnected crises: lack of adequate housing and COVID-19.

UVic geography students discovered that international collaboration to save the planet is actually quite difficult - especially in a virtual climate summit.