GEOGRAPHY @ NUS
FASS Geography explores Environmental and Social Sciences, as well as the Arts and Humanities, and charts the interconnections between them as they apply to:-
* Climate Sciences * Ageing Populations
* Geoscience * Migration
* Mangroves * Tourism
* Sustainability * Urban Studies
NUS GEOGRAPHY NOW
Congratulations to Dr Shaun Teo for being awarded Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY2023-24, and Drs. Muhammad Nawaz and Carl Grundy-Warr for Faculty Innovation Teaching Award AY2023-24.
Mr Angshuman Choudhury (Joint NUS-KCL PhD Year 1 student) won the top prize for designing a NUS Sustainability Week banner. The competition was organised by the NUS University Campus Infrastructure during the sustainability week.
Dr. Nawaz's insights on "Sinkholes in Singapore: Can We Really Avoid Them?" were featured on Channel News Asia's Talking Point on September 23, 2024. His contribution sheds light on the potential for sinkhole occurrences in Singapore.
Singapore ESRI Young Scholar Award
Mr Noah Zhang, MSc in Applied GIS candidate from the Department of Geography, has won the Singapore ESRI Young Scholar Award for his project titled: A guidance for using GIS to teach Geography: What does spatial thinking look like in a classroom? This nation-wide competition, run annually by ESRI , celebrates excellence in geospatial study, …
Climate Change Increases Fluvial Sediment in the High Mountains of Asia
Professor Lu Xixi and Dr Dongfeng Li from the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences led an international team of researchers to conduct a new analysis of observations of headwater rivers in the area. The study revealed that fluvial sediment loads have been increasing substantially, even much faster than river water discharge. This is due to the recent warmer and wetter climate, and has important implications for water quality, hydropower development and maintenance, and for the riverine carbon cycle.
NUS Geographer Brenda Yeoh Awarded ‘Nobel Prize for Geography’ (Vautrin-Lud Prize)
The award sees Prof Yeoh joining the who’s who in the geography pantheon which includes David Harvey, Marxist economic geographer and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Prof Doreen Massey – a British social scientist and geographer renowned for her work on space, place and power.
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