Western Division, Canadian Association of Newsletter Geographers Spring, 2000

President's Column 2) Masters: D.H. Lewis and D.J Smith, UVIC, Tree Ring Laboratory, for "Tree I'd like to take this opportunity to summarize Rings as a Proxy Mass Balance Record: An our recent annual meeting Example Using Three Glaciers in for those who were not able to attend, and Strathcona Provincial Park, to offer a commentary about the status of Island, BC"; our journal. 3) PhD: James A. LeClair, UVIC, for Conference 2000 "Children's Behaviour and the Urban Environment: Do Census Tracts Western Division's annual conference was Matter?". held in Abbotsford, from March 9th to 11th, 2000. U Vic was not able, however, to regain the The meeting was hosted by the coveted SOGS scavenger hunt trophy. It Geography Department of the University went to the UCFV students. College of the Fraser Valley, and congratulations are in order for its faculty The WDCAG Coffee Mug of and students for a job well done. John Distinction - a small token for the Belec, the conference organizer, and those significant contributions individuals have who organized and led field trips in made to the WDCAG over the years particular deserve recognition. Over 200 - were presented to Leah Skretkowicz of people attended the conference, including a Kwantlen University College, Jim number of faculty and students from Windsor of CNC, and Lewis Robinson, UCFV's "sister" institution in Bellingham, professor emeritus at the University of Washington (University of Western British Columbia. Len Evenden presented Washington). This is the sixth year in a row the award to Lew Robinson. Lew, a that the Annual Meetings have attracted founder of the Division and its annual more than 175 registrants. The conference meetings, was honoured with a featured 46 papers and 8 posters, including standing ovation. Len Evenden was the two special sessions on geographic featured speaker at the Friday education. banquet. He led a virtual field trip through southern Ontario and Michigan as he The University of Victoria cleaned-up in the retraced a trip taken by Wreford Watson student presentation awards . The winners many years before. were: 3) Undergraduate: C.Day, N.Elmieh, L. Next year's conference will be hosted by Huisman, C.Larsman, C.Wood, D. the University of Calgary, March 8 Smith, and C. Laroque, UVIC, Tree to 10, 2001. The organizing committee, led Ring Laboratory, for "Neoglaciation at by Clarence Woudsma, has Saskatchewan Glacier, Banff National already begin preparations. Their Park"; conference web site is

2 http://www.ucalgary.ca/GEOG/WDCAG/wel journal and that it will accept, and come.html. encourages, proposals for theme issues. Volume 7, for example, featured papers on Alberta. Other examples of possible theme issues might be Fluvial Processes in BC, Western Geography Trends in Geographic Education, Border Landscapes, or the Okanagan. Theme The Division's journal, Western Geography, issues provide members with a means for was recently published and publishing a set of related papers, and mailed to members and subscribing provide focussed teaching resources. The institutions. You will note that this editor also encourages students to submit issue is a combined volume (8 and 9), a papers. Submissions can be sent to: situation that reflects a recent and ongoing shortage of submissions. At present the Editor, Western Geography editor does not have any submissions in Department of Geography hand for the next volume. The editor and College of New Caledonia the executive are well aware of the need of 3330 - 22nd Avenue many of its members to publish in widely Prince George, BC circulated and subject specific journals, and V2N 1P8 thus of the challenges faced by general interest, and regional focussed journals Submission guidelines appear at the end of such as our own. each volume (and soon on the Division's web site: Several of our sister publications have gone under (Albertan Geographer) or http://office.geog.uvic.ca/dept/wcag/wcag.ht have amalgamated with other journals m). (Ontario Geography and East Lakes Geographer). We would like to encourage Western Geography, as noted, is circulated members, nevertheless, to consider to all members of the Canadian Association Western Geography as a outlet for their of Geographers who reside in BC and research. Alberta and the adjacent states and territories. People who do not want to Western Geography, as Len Evenden become a member of the CAG, but want to documents in the current volume, has a subscribe to Western Geography, can long lineage. It began in 1960 as an obtain a membership in the Western occasional series that published papers Division only. The current cost is $20 ($10 presented at the Division's conferences. for students). An application is available on The name was changed several times over our web site. Members also receive our the years and the geographical scope newsletters and can take advantage of changed to reflect the addition of Alberta lower registration fees for our annual into the Division. The present name was conference. adopted to 1991. The editorial policy of the journal was also broadened at this time. We also need to increase our circulation Western Geography's mandate is to among institutions in BC and Alberta. Many "publish original scholarly work on of the institutions at which our members geographical themes or topics that work, and who participate in and host our emphasize western Canada and meetings, do not subscribe. In fact, adjacent areas, or that are written by according to the Outlook subsription western geographers from this region". database, twice as many BC post- Members should also be aware that secondary libraries do not subscribe as do. Western Geography is a refereed Two of the non-subscribers, furthermore,

3 are university libraries. The situation is watching, economic benefits of wildlife appear s to be similar in Alberta, although festivals, and the environmental all of its major universities subscribe. The background of university students. institutions that do subscribe are: Alberta, Calgary, CNC, Lethbridge, Malaspina, Selkirk, SFU, UBC, UCC, and the Vancouver Public Library. If your institution We will post advertisements for a sessional is not listed, please follow-up: check to replacement (to teach courses in intro see if your library does not subscribe, and if geomorphology, intro climatology, parks it does not, ask the librarians to consider a and wilderness, and intro environmental subscription to Western Geography. science).

Not only will you get a great resource at a To learn more about our program, email: good price for researching and teaching about our region, you will also help our [email protected] or bottom line and increase the status of visit our website: our journal (and thus help address the submission situation). Institutional http://www.augustana.ab.ca/departments/g subscription enquiries can be directed to eography. the Editor at the address above.

Dr. Ross Nelson, University College of the Glen Hvenegaard, Ph.D. Cariboo email: [email protected]

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The geography department continues to Elizabeth Peerless has retired. Don contribute heavily to the Environmental McPhee has been hired as regular faculty Studies program which is growing. member. Proposals are in the works for a Environmental Science major. The Department of Geography is reviewing its program and redeveloping the Geography Web Pages. Hopefully, both Glen Hvenegaard attended LEAD projects will be completed by the fall. (Leadership for Environment and Development) Canada session in Ottawa in Earl Noah October. He will also attend a LEAD International session in Brazil in late March. He is looking forward to the field trip to the Atlantic rainforest and international Kwantlan University College contacts. Future sessions will be held in Ottawa and Russia. The department will be offering two new second year courses next year (00-01) as part of the two year Associate of Arts Glen will be on sabbatical during the next (Geography) Degree. academic year. He will continue research on the human dimensions of whale The two courses, Geog 2390 Geographic Information and Data Analysis, and

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Geog 2395 Cartographic Techniques, serve geography programmes, the department to fill a gap in our present has a dedicated computer curriculum regarding geographic lab with six computers with IDRISI and techniques. Our traditional first and ARC-Info software, scanners and printers. second year offerings remain intact and We hope to add one computer (and well subscribed. upgraded software) per year to make up a full complement of 10. The department is also planning a two-day retreat this spring to address the future Daniel Lee presented a paper at the recent direction of the department in terms of an WCAG meetings at UCFV and will be expansion of our present second year upgrading his skills in GIS in a part-time offerings as well as the progress of our programme next year while serving as our applied degree development. Lab Co-ordinator. David Jordan and Cherie Ens will both continue next year as sessional instructors. Carl Tracie has On the faculty watch,Rod Fowler was completed the bulk of research on elected as Vice President of the WDCAG Doukhobor village settlement in British at the recent UCFV meeting. Leah Columbia and has begun a rough draft in Skretkowicz will serve as member at the preparation of a book. large. Kwawu Agbemenu will return from an educational leave in September. Carl Tracie Leah Sketkowicz

Trinity Western University The Department of Geography is in a state of transition with the resignation of Dr. Lance Werner last summer. He left an 18- We have just completed the hiring of three year teaching career at TWU and is sorely new faculty members in the Department of missed. Fortunately we were able to cover Geography. Nadine Schuurman, who his departure plus Carl Tracie's sabbatical successfully completed her PhD at UBC in leave in the fall semester with qualified mid-April, will join us as an Assistant people in the area. Ron Geddert, Ph.D. (U. Professor on July 1. of Sask.), David Jordan, M.A. (U. of Victoria), Daniel Lee, M.A. (U. of Calgary), Nadine has been working at SFU since last and Cherie Ens, M.A. (S.F.U.) filled in September as a limited term admirably as sessional instructors. instructor in GIS and we are delighted to welcome her into a tenure-track position. Geography along with Biology and Also joining us in September will be Bill Chemistry are co-operating in a Quinton and Jennifer Hyndman. Bill is newly-introduced Environmental currently a Research Scientist with the Sciences/Environmental Studies National Water Research Institute, programme. Environment Canada in Saskatoon and will join us as an Assistant Professor in the Reflecting the increasing emphasis on GIS area of hydrology. Jennifer, who has a PhD skills for both the environmental studies and from UBC and is currently an Assistant

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Professor at Arizona State University, West Pittsburgh AAG meeting with Bev Campus in Phoenix is a specialist in Pitman, Nick Blomley, Shue Tuck Wong, political geography and gender. Her book Mark Roseland, Tom Poiker and Nadine entitled "Managing Displacement: Refugees Schuurman presenting papers. Graduate and the Politics of students, Adrienne Burk, Damian Collins Humanitarianism" has just been published and Tim Reiffenstein also presented by the University of Minnesota Press. papers. At a BC Studies Conference graduates students Sean Markey and Kelly Vodden participated in a panel presentation organized by John Pierce entitled In other faculty and staff news .....although "Promoting Community Economic Tom Poiker and Shue Tuck Wong have Development for Forest-based now officially retired we see both of them Communities in BC" . regularly as Tuck is still teaching some course for us and Tom is busy with his Since the last newsletter, Csaba Ékes distance education course in UniGIS. Bob (Radar Facies And Architecture Of Alluvial Brown officially retires this May and Fans And Related Sediments In High- although currently on leave is busy with his Energy Alpine Environments, British graduate students. Ted Hickin is Columbia), Brian White (Authoring The serving as the Chair of the Department of Tourism Landscape of Clayoquot Sound), Earth Sciences, in the Faculty of and Kevin Rees (Innovation In the Science and Mike Roberts is spending a Periphery: Networks Or Fragments In The study period in Regensburg, Germany. High Technology Industries Of Greater Roger Hayter is also in Germany for much Vancouver) have successfully completed of this summer at the University of Cologne the Ph.D.. and will be participating in a field course in the UK along with Dieter Soyez. Paul Theresa Ashford, Ian Linning, Solvej DeGrace, our cartographer and SIS lab Patschke, and Kelly Vodden have coordinator, has left to take up a position as completed their masters' degrees. coordinator of the Co-op program for Geography and Earth Sciences. He Other news .... Len Evenden arranged for replaces Matt Ferguson (SFU-MA), who the donation to the School pioneered the position, but has now moved Board of approximately fifteen class sets of to the university Industry Liaison Office. his edited book on Burnaby, originally compiled for the city centennial. It was Faculty and graduate students have accompanied by a new teacher's guide, participated in numerous conferences developed under the guidance of Professor including the Western Division CAG. At this Roland Case of the Faculty of Education meeting the following five SFU faculty members singly or jointly made Alison Gill presentations; Ben Bradshaw, Ian Hutchinson and John Clague, Margaret Schmidt and Len Evenden. Len Evenden gave the keynote address at the banquet on the topic of "Making Geography Personal". Presentations were also made University College of the Cariboo by graduate students Audric Beauchesne, Janet Boxwell, Laura Carlson, It has been a busy year for UCC Alistair MacDonald and Todd geographers. Robert MacKinnon returned Redding. Faculty and graduate students to UCC as Chair of the Department of were also well represented at the Social and Environmental Studies in

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August, 1999 after a nine month stay at the Project: Doing Geography Outside the University of Bonn's North America Studies Classroom"), Martin Whittles ("Making Program. the Circle Complete Once Again: Original Peoples, Permeable Boundaries, and Tom Waldichuk, Ross Nelson and Heather Globalisation in the Circumpolar North"), Nicol represented UCC at the CAG in Ken Favrholdt "The Impact of the Lethbridge in June,1999. Heather Nicol International Boundary on the Hudson's (currently at Okanagan University Bay Company and Indian Tribes along College) also organized a very successful the 49th Parallel from the Rockies to the international conference held at Simon Pacific between 1846 and 1871") Fraser University's downtown campus in and Bill Gilroy ("Xeriscape: The Reluctant August, 1999. The conference, entitled Emergence of a Residential Landscape in "Permeable Boundaries and Borders in a Kamloops". A special session entitled Globalising World" was jointly sponsored by "Geographic Education in the Schools: The International Boundaries Research Unit Recent Developments, Opportunities and at Durham University, the Arts Challenges" was organized by Ross Division at UCC, SFU and UBC, and Nelson, who is also serving as President of featured multidisciplinary presentations our association for another year and our and a fabulous Georgia Strait field trip (from representative on the Canadian Council the deck of the HMCS Vancouver). for Geographic Education.

Mount Rainier was the research destination Some of the results of Ross Nelson's of Jim and Mary Miller last research on socioeconomic determinants summer where they collected information of health in Kamloops have recently been and photographs for their Introduction to published in Western Geography, Geomorphology and Climatology courses. Vol. 8/9, (entitled "Low Birthweights: Spatial and Socioeconomic Pattrerns During the third weekend in September in Kamloops") while Gilles Viaud's research fifteen UCC students and four faculty has recently appeared in members participated in a weekend field Francophonies Minorities in Canada: L' état trip to Wells Gray Park. The trip was led by des lieux, edited by Joseph former UCC student Roland Neave, who Yvon Thériault (Moncton: Les Éditions has written a guide book on Wells Gray d'Acadies, 1999), chapter 4, entitled, "La Park and is owner of Wells Gray Tours Ltd. géographie du peuplement francophone de Mr. Neave and his family have recently l'Ouest". established a substantial scholarship fund at UCC which permits the distribution of Finally, the Social and Environmental seven scholarships per year for UCC Studies Department is very pleased to geography students. announce that Tom Waldichuk has been appointed to UCC's geography program Five faculty members and 16 members of on a full-time contract. the UCC Geography students' Club attended the W.D.C.A.G. meeting held at Robert MacKinnon, Ph.D. University College of the Fraser Valley recently. Papers were presented by Tom Waldickuk ("The Production of Japanese Culture as Mediated Through Changing Countryside Landscapes University of Lethbridge Near Tsukuba Science City"), Robert MacKinnon ("Biography of a Building The University of Lethbridge is growing rapidly and it is developing in exciting new

7 directions. In September the university’s over a 25 day odyssey in May. Ian Kuijt, enrollment exceeded 6,000 for the first who joined our department last summer, time, doubling in just ten years, growing will direct a field school at Slocan Lake in faster than either of its big sisters to the the interior of British Columbia. Dennis north, and soon to account for ten percent Sheppard’s years of dedicated service and of total full time university enrollments in the devoted teaching as our Academic province of Alberta. A new 400,000 square Assistant and GIS Laboratory Demonstrator foot academic building was completed and were recently rewarded when he was occupied over the Christmas holidays and awarded a Continuing Appointment in the day-by-day the $37 million Library- department. Information Centre is emerging from the coulees to provide the university with a new “front door” and foyer to the information age. In terms of research, René Barendregt will have another exceptionally busy summer Geography is in the vanguard of all with paleomagnetic surveys planned in this growth with a new “Concentration in exotic locales such as the Yukon, Brazil and Geographic Information Sciences.” This the midwestern U.S. In his capacity as program will complement existing Adjunct Professor in Geography at the participation in Urban and Regional Studies, University of Calgary, he is working with a Environmental Science and Agricultural number of graduate students as well. Sue Studies programs in addition to the Dakin will celebrate her successful PhD traditional B.A. and B.Sc. majors in Thesis defence with a summer of writing to Geography. We are in the final stages of repackage her research on landscape hiring three new faculty which will increase assessment for environmental our Professoriate to 13 members and management. Derek Peddle is back from a enable us to expand our offerings in GIS, very productive six month study leave as an Remote Sensing, Environmental Modelling International Fullbright Scholar doing and to integrate GIS into the curriculum. remote sensing work in conjunction with the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Students are having unparalleled success University of Maryland. Derek has planned on the buoyant Alberta job market. When many summer research activities in employers come calling we have to say, forestry, agriculture and mountain terrain “sorry, all of last year’s graduates are analysis. Walter Aufrecht is nearing the end professionally employed, give us a call next of a full year study leave and the spring.” That’s the U of L difference! completion of a major project on Near Eastern archeology. Ian Kuijt is developing a new research program dealing with the On the teaching front, Bob Rogerson is interface of human cultures and the waiting for the arrival of the first copies of environment and will be directing Forever Better: Continuous Quality excavations at a neolithic agricultural village Improvement in Higher Education which he site in Beidha in southwestern Jordan later coauthored with two Education faculty in the summer. Ian MacLachlan will be members. Tom Johnston and Ivan finishing the long awaited book on the cattle Townshend are experimenting with a new and beef processing industry and plans team teaching approach to the ever popular some new research initiatives with Ivan Canada course. Jim Byrne is looking Townshend looking at social and economic forward to yet another “south-west trip” that indicators in First Nations Communities. In sees his now legendary field course tracing addition, Ivan is completing a nationwide the Colorado River from Utah to California study on ethnic income and family

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segregation in Census Metropolitan Areas. we have embarked on a number of new Dan Johnson, one of our outstanding outreach programs. The details are Adjunct Faculty from Agriculture Canada’s presented below. Lethbridge Research Station, is employing GIS in his research on alternative methods for controlling large scale insect Lew Robinson was awarded a special mug infestations. Bob Rogerson is in the midst at the recent WDCAG conference in of some fascinating geomorphology Abbotsford. He was recognized for being research on the alignment of coulees in the 1st President of the WDCAG (1958) Southern Alberta. Tom Johnston will be and for all his years of service to the concluding three years of dedicated discipline. The announcement was greeted service as Chair of the Department with a with a standing ovation. Margaret North will well deserved six month study leave that be retiring this summer–her presence will will see him extending his interests on be missed by all, faculty, graduates, staff agricultural adaptation to climatic change and undergraduates. Both Margaret and and the adoption of water conserving Michael Bovis received an Excellence in strategies and technologies by irrigation Teaching Award, presented by our farmers. Tom will spend some of this Geography Students Association, at this research time at the Geography department year’s GeoGala. at Kansas State University in Manhattan. Jim Byrne will continue his research on At Geography undergraduate Gala held alpine snow hydrology and the microbial March 24, 2000, the following awards ecology of the Oldman River basin. In were presented: addition, Jim has become responsible for Science Content of a video series on Global Dr. Cole Harris, Geography Arts Professor Climatic Change which will be produced by of the Year Access, Alberta’s public education television network. Dr. Michael Bovis, Geography Science Professor of the Year We conclude on a sad note. Professor Emeritus Chester (Chip) Beaty, our Mrs. Margaret North, Award of Outstanding department’s first geomorphologist and Service and Achievement author of the classic The Landscapes of Southern Alberta, passed away in early Two of our staff–Catherine Griffiths and January. He will be missed. Karen Young–are being recognized by the undergraduate students at their annual GeoGala for service to the undergraduate community. Another staff member, Elaine Cho, our Graduate Secretary, has recently University of British Columbia been awarded the Graduate Student Service Award, presented annually by the Graduate Student Society of UBC–a well- This has been an extremely active year for deserved recognition of the care, time and the UBC Department of Geography. By effort that Elaine contributes to the well- July1, 2000, six new faculty members will being of graduate students (and many have been added while one will be retiring, others) in our Department. several members have received well- deserved recognition for their efforts, both within the Department and in the academic Three new faculty members have joined the community at large, and others have Department over the past year. As accepted new responsibilities. In addition, previously announced, Dan Moore (FRBC

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Chair in Forest Hydrology) and Juanita variety of journals. The two most recent Sundberg (a Latin American specialist) additions to this group of overworked were appointed July 1/99. On Jan. 1st, individuals are David Edgington, who is now 2000, Jim Dunn was appointed to the a co-editor for The Canadian Geographer, Department as an Assistant Professor, and Brian Klinkenberg, who recently jointly with the Centre for Health Services become editor for Cartographica. A and Policy Research at UBC. On Feb.1st, reminder to all that we are always on the Jim was awarded a B.C. Health Research lookout for quality articles! Brian Foundation Career Scholar Award. Jim Klinkenberg was also awarded an Earth adds to the department a concentration in Sciences Sector Merit Award by Natural health geography, and he will be Resources Canada, for his contributions to continuing his research on urban health the geomatics sector across Canada. inequalities and housing and health. There are four post-doctoral Fellows in the In addition, two new appointments have just Department this year: Harald Bauder been announced. In the Canadian (SSHRC PDF), Jim Glassman (Killam Historical Geographer search Matthew PDF), Scott Prudham (SSHRC PDF), and Evenden (son of Len!) has accepted our Paul Villard (NSERC PDF). At the Fall offer, and Sally Hermansen was the 1999 Congregation Ceremonies, MA successful candidate in the GIS Lecturer degrees were conferred to T. Bester, N. search. The Applied Physical Geography Genoway, D. Gibbons, E. Gilchrist, and search is still in progress. All three of these N.Walter; an MSc degree was conferred to new positions will officially start July 1/00. J. Torcolini; and a PhD degree conferred to T. Davis (who is now a faculty member at the University of Utah teaching GIS). Past members of the Department continue to receive recognition for their lifetime of achievements. Ross Mackay was awarded As part of the Department’s outreach the 1999 Chair's Award for Career program, several public lectures have been Achievement from the Science Council of held at the Richmond Nature Park, in BC for his work on permafrost in the Arctic. cooperation with the Richmond Nature Park The award was presented to Ross at the Society: Sept 22/99 Michael Church - BC Science & Technology Awards Dinner, "Natural History of the Fraser River Valley - held on Oct 18/99 in Vancouver. Ross Why does it flood, anyway?"; Oct 20/99 Mackay will also be awarded the degree of Margaret North - "Presettlement Vegetation Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from of the Fraser River Delta"; Nov 17/99 Ian the Faculty of Philosophy at the University McKendry - "The Air we Breathe"; Jan of Helsinki. The degree is the highest 19/00 Cole Harris - "Colonizing an Estuary"; honour given by the University of Helsinki. Feb 23/00 Dan Hiebert - "The Changing The conferment ceremony will take place in Face of Vancouver and Richmond"; Mar Helsinki on June 2/00. Walter Hardwick will 15/00 Jim Dunn - "Can Housing affect your receive an Honorary Doctorate from UBC at Health? - Yes, and in ways you probably the Spring 2000 Congregation Ceremonies. wouldn't guess"; Apr 19/00 Graeme Wynn - "A River, a Delta, A Place in Time".

Olav Slaymaker was appointed Director of the Liu Centre for the Study of Global A GIS Workshop was held on Saturday, Issues effective Jan 1/00, and continues his November 20th, co-sponsored by the travels around the world as President of the Department and the Canadian Council of International Association of Geomorphology Geographic Education. Demonstrations of promoting geomorphology. Several faculty various GIS programs took place during the members continue to work as editors for a workshop, organized in part by Margaret

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North. Geography 450 students organized http://www.eos.ubc.ca/courses/atsc201/ind and participated in a "CityVision" event that ex.html took place on the evening of Monday, November 15, 1999. The event, which included presentations on current urban Two meteorology conferences will be held issues in Vancouver by the students and a in Victoria this summer, both at the panel discussion with representatives from University of Victoria. The annual congress provincial and civic political parties, was of the Canadian Meteorological and well attended and received very favourable Oceanographic Society, will be held during coverage from the Vancouver Sun. 29 May - 1 June. For further information see the CMOS web page The undergraduates have, as always, http://www.cccma.bc.ec.gc.ca/cmos2000/ fostered many events contributing to the life During 2- 3 June, immediately following the of the Department. From the BBQ to kick CMOS congress, is the Western Canada off the school year, the numerous Geo-Pits Weather Workshop, a forum to bring throughout the year, a couple of early- together industry, government, and morning pancake flippings, the annual academic meteorologists on issues related Career Day and social, the Geo-Gala to operational weather forecasting in graduation event, through to the year-end western Canada. Information for this BBQ (Wed. April 5th), the undergraduates conference is at have added considerably to the life of the Department. A number of Geography http://spirit.geog.ubc.ca/events/WCWW00/ students have also visited their former high wcww00.html. schools in order to talk about Geography at UBC. They have also produced a "Geo- Brian Klinkenberg Brochure" describing the skills and abilities of geographers. This brochure is to be mailed out to public and private companies throughout the Lower Mainland. Another event associated with the undergraduates Univ. College of the Fraser Valley is the Alumni Walking Tour, hosted by either Alumni, Students or Professors. These well-attended events start off with an If the size of course waitlists was some educational walk with a specialist measure of potential growth, then commenting on the geography of the Geography at UCFV is poised! Still, with no surrounding area, and are followed by a additional faculty anticipated in the meal at a local restaurant. immediate future and a new building in Abbotsford that is now filled more or less to capacity, we continue to enjoy the benefits A new, greatly expanded edition of Roland of a popular program in modest ways. Stull's textbook "Meteorology for Scientists and Engineers", 2nd Edition, was published in January 2000 by Brooks/Cole Thomson Some of the enthusiasm which Learning (ISBN 0-534-37214-7, 502 pages, characterizes our students was evident paperback). Designed for 2nd year during the recent Western Division university students, it covers quantitative meetings at our place in Abbotford, where aspects of meteorology without using any one group volunteered to keep the traffic calculus or differential equations. For moving, another to organize and further information you can check out this monitor registration, and still another to web site: beat up on every other student group in the division and WIN THE SCAVENGER

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HUNT!!! The trophy sits in the middle of the Once again this year UNBC joined with computer lab at the moment, and plans are CNC for a magnificent field trip to attend the being made for the trek to Calgary in WD-CAG meetings in Abbotsford. March, 2001.

The presentation day began with retiring Geography is offering three courses in the Past-President of the association, Greg upcoming Spring Semester, our version of Halseth, chairing a session on Recreation an intersession in May and June. These and Conservation which featured a paper courses will likely fill, as they have in the by UNBC undergraduate students Shiloh past. Next year we are looking Durkee and Juergen Wry on "The West forward to offering a new introductory Coast Cruise Ship Industry: Is Prince course in GIS, to be taught by retiring Rupert Missing the Boat?" Department Head, John Belec. The Geography Deparment, together with Latin In the next session Greg was as presenter American Studies at UCFV, is off to Mexico of "An Historical Geography of the Upper in the first week of May, maintaining a study Fraser Sawmill Communities: Introduction tour tradition that started many years ago. to a Research Program" which was co- authored by Gail Fondahl (Geography), David Gibson was in Mexico at midterm Aileen Espiritu (History) and tracy break, and will lead the sizeable Summerville (Political Science). Gail was contingent of geography students on the assigned to field questions at a poster on tour. Cherie Enns is heading to Israel in the "Upper Fraser Historical Geography May and Doug Nicol to the Maritimes in Project" authored by the same four June. Sandy Vanderburgh will be back in researchers. southwestern Washington for ongoing research along the coast. The second paper in the session presented by grad student Lana Sullivan, We hope all members of the Western and co-authored by Greg, was on Division enjoyed their stays in the Central "Government Funding of Community Based Fraser Valley and that the conference Organizations: Mackenzie and Tumbler afforded some opportunities for meeting Ridge, B.C." Greg and Lana are also colleagues and taking in some excellent working on an "extra-community commuting papers and posters. We look forward to project" looking at workers who next year. live in Prince George and commute to The Department at UCFV is beginning to Mackenzie. This is funded by UNBC's inquire about a charter bus from Northern Land Use Institute. They are also Vancouver, via Hwy 1, to Calgary; and is part of a "Rural Community Social looking into the possibility of chartering a Cohesion" project funded by SSHRC under WestJet from Abbotsford to the prairie city one of their themes. The as well. More news as prices and times are project is a cross-Canada collaboration with available. the Canadian Rural Restructuring Foundation and is funded at $600,000 for Doug Nichol three years.

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B.C." Across the hall, Kevin Hall spoke on "New Insights Into Rock Weathering as Deduced from High-Frequency Rock Temperature Data: An Antarctic Study." Dr. Hall also chaired a section in session three of the day.

In Session IV, Reg Horne found himself in a lecture theatre explaining "What Do Students Do With Their Spare Time." Later, in the same room, Greg summed up the discussion at the annual general meeting with the immortal words, "It's not my fault."

W. Reg Horne