Our Vision
Memorial Geography will be at the forefront of building connections with our dynamic societies and environments, and become the beating heart of collaborative and cooperative knowledge within and beyond the university.
Come study the world with us! The Department of Geography celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2020-21 and remains the only comprehensive geography program in Atlantic Canada, offering BA, BSc., Honours, MA, MSc., and PhD programs. At Memorial, Geography aims to teach students how to investigate environmental and human systems using interdisciplinary, field-informed concepts and approaches. Our Faculty teach students theories, methods and analytical techniques applicable to a wide range of questions and broad spectrum of occupations and to foster a spirit of inquiry about geography. Our research encompasses local, national, and international interests, including climate change, Arctic communities, coastal governance, electronic waste, immigration, marine habitat mapping, microplastics pollution, resource development, and urban development. Visit our Research and Faculty pages to learn more, and read our most recent Research Report.
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The Department of Geography at Memorial University invites applications for a permanent, tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in Physical Geography.
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The Department of Geography invites applications for a permanent, tenure-track, Assistant Professor position. The position will commence on July 1, 2025 on St. John’s Campus.
Full application details: Assistant Professor - Physical Geography (Dept of Geography)
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Blue Box Seminar Series
Department of Geography Presents
Dr. Maximilian Viatori
“La Otra Cordillera’: Conservation and Extraction in a Peruvian Marine Protected Area”
How is an emergent nexus of ocean conservation and extraction creating new ocean frontiers in zones previously considered politically and geographically “marginal”? And, how is this process generating new social and multispecies inequalities and inscribing them in ocean space and volume? I explore these questions by analyzing the scientific and regulatory debates surrounding the recent creation of Peru’s first large-scale, open ocean marine protected area, the Reserva Nacional Dorsal de Nasca (RNDN). I argue that the RNDN’s three dimensional model of ocean governance fostered a particular way of seeing the ocean that supported a new legal regime for inscribing a conservation-extraction nexus in the eastern Pacific Ocean’s volume. As such, the RNDN provides an interesting example for examining how the ocean and its volume are being reconceptualized to ensure the ongoing production of value in the face of political, economic, and climatic challenges.
When: Friday, November 8, 2024, 3 - 4 pm
Where: SN 2025