PC in Applied GIS Field course in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya as part of GE4220: Field Investigation in Physical Geography (Feb 2023). The course focused on landscapes, wildlife and human-environment interactions around Lake Baringo and Mount Kenya. Geography alumni connect with each other all the time! The Geography Class of 1990 has been meeting each other twice annually since commencing in September 1990, and they have also attended every anniversary bash organised by the Department of Geography. Friends for life, certainly! Field Studies (GE3230A) in Southeast Asia is an experiential learning course conducted in the Special Term, May-June. The banner images are from the 20th Field Studies held in northern Thailand in 2023. For interest in this course, contact: Carl Grundy-Warr (geocerg@nus.edu.sg). 2025 Geography Career DayPro Cert Applied GISCCS ProgrammeGIS Certificate2023-Kenya FSClass of 90FS-SEA

 

 

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Congratulations to graduate student Ms Nikita Choudhary  for winning the Graduate Students' Teaching Award, for teaching undertaken in Semester 1, 2024-2025!

The annual Geography Graduate Research Workshop will take place on Friday 25 April in the Earth Lab (AS2-02-03). This annual event that is entirely organised and hosted by the Department's first year graduate research students. The theme is "World in Transition". The programme is available here.

The Strait Times' feature to mark World Wetlands Day featured research led by Associate Professor Massimo Lupascu.

Congratulations to Associate Professor Wang Yi-Chen, who has been appointed Vice-Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the term 1 January 2025 to 1 December 2027.

January 6, 2022

Winners of AY2020-21 Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards Unveiled

The NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is proud to announce the 37 winners of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for their work in AY2020‐21, 16 of which have also been nominated for the Annual Teaching Excellence Award(ATEA) and Annual Digital Education Award (ADEA).

January 3, 2022

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, …

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October 29, 2021

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.

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