departmental Committees

Building, Equipment and Safety Committee

Responsibility for all labs, equipment, vehicle, halls and walls, general workplace safety issues

Chair: Sandy Lapsky; Vice-Chairs: P. Le Billon (building); Greg Henry (field safety); Greg Henry (equipment)
Staff: Eric Leinberger (wall displays), Bret Petersen (safety)
Graduate students: tba

Contact:  sandy.lapsky@geog.ubc.ca

Resources: for more information on safety as well as policies, please visit our Forms and Policies section.

Colloquium Committee

Co-Chairs: Jamie Peck, Andreas Christen
Staff: Jeanne Yang
Graduate students: tba

Contact:  jeanne.yang@geog.ubc.ca

Computing Committee

Chair: Dan Hiebert

Staff: José Aparicio, Vincent Kujala, Sandy Lapsky, Bret Petersen, Julie Ranada
Graduate students: tba

Contact:  jose.aparicio@geog.ubc.ca

Curriculum Committee

Liaise with Undergraduate and Graduate Committees, and handle all curriculum matters.

Co-Chairs: Brett Eaton, Michael More
Faculty: Loch Brown, Matthew Evenden, Elvin Wyly, Siobhan McPhee
Undergraduate student: tba (BA), tba (BSc)

Contact:  geography.advisor@ubc.ca

Equity and Diversity Committee

The Department of Geography is committed to providing a learning and working environment that encourages collegiality, support and respect—an environment where students, faculty, and staff promote the goal of equity.

Department of Geography's plans, policies and procedures on equity and diversity was formally adopted on September 6th, 2012.
Contact: kevin.gillard@geog.ubc.ca

Events Committee

Kevin Gillard and Tania Lam
Contact:  kevin.gillard@geog.ubc.ca

Graduate Committee

Responsibility for all facets of Graduate Programme, including admissions, fellowships, TA assignments, etc.

Chair:Jim Glassman
Faculty: Simon Donner, Dan Hiebert, David Ley, Derek Gregory, Jennifer Williams
Graduate students: tba
Committee advisor & recorder: Suzanne Lawrence (staff)
Contact: gradprogram@geog.ubc.ca

Peer Review Committee:

Elvin Wyly (Chair), Karen Bakker, Dan Moore

Post-Doctoral Committee:

Faculty: Dan Moore, David Ley, Graeme Wynn (includes Killam PDF)
Staff: Catherine Aldana

Research and Awards Committee:

Preparation of nominations and files for faculty awards within and beyond UBC.

Chair: Graeme Wynn
Faculty: Greg Henry, Karen Bakker
Staff: Jeanne Yang

Undergraduate Affairs Committee

Co-Chairs: David Edgington, Michael More
Faculty: Loch Brown, Jennifer Williams
Contact:  geography.advisor@ubc.ca>

Individual Responsibilities:

• Careers Night, Co-op, Imagine Day, Majors Night - David Edgington
• Outreach(Articulation, CSL, K12) - Simon Donner
• SEEDS Liaison - Simon Donner

Sustainability Delegate

Brett Eaton - brett.eaton@geog.ubc.ca