🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Blending #Buddhism ethics and technology. Junxi Qian & Han Zhang HKU Geography in collaboration with Singapore Management University show how “scientific Buddhism” caters for #spiritual needs of local high-tech industry professionals in Haidian district in Beijing. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out this article in The Hollywood Reporter featuring an interview with Patrick Adler from HKU Geography hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

A warm welcome to Junshi Xu who has just joined HKU Geography as an Assistant Professor in Transport Geography. Junshi is the leader of PEACE (People-oriented, Equitable, Accessible, Community-focused, and Environmental) urban mobility research group linkedin.com/in/junshi-xu-b…

A warm welcome to Laibao Liu who has just joined HKU Geography. Laibao's research interests are land and climate systems, land-atmosphere interaction, land carbon cycle, and renewable energy geog.hku.hk/lb-liu

Welcome to Liqing Peng who has just joined HKU Geography. Liqing leads the Accounting and Policy for Land Use Sustainability (APLUS) research group, aiming to achieve food sustainability and mitigate the climate impacts of land use geog.hku.hk/lq-peng

A simple but effective approach for monitoring soil moisture dynamics, published by Liqing Peng Justin Sheffield - incorporate vegetation structure 🌲 like surface roughness, LAI, and canopy height - include surface albedo 🌄 - assessment across 10+ methods, climate, and biomes

#CFP The 1st International Workshop on Remote Sensing Intelligent Mapping (RSIM) will be held on 11.29-12.01 at The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong HKU Geography We cordially invite global experts, scholars, and students to actively participate. geog-event.hku.hk/rsim

Latest paper by Liqing Peng from HKU Geography "An enhanced Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) drought-monitoring method integrating land surface characteristics" in EarthSystemDynamics doi.org/10.5194/esd-15…

This is a brilliant and engaging paper - read it!

🏙️#Mangroves may indirectly benefit from coastal #urbanization in some areas due to more favourable local climatic conditions for growth Read more at 👉 nature.com/articles/s4324… Steven HS Zhang Zhenci Xu HKURS HKU Geography

NEW: Me, Rafael Azeredo & Ben Iaquinto trace the evolution of the Working Holiday Maker backpacker visa that has become an essential labour cohort for rural AU. Out now in Rural Studies — sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to join the Editorial Board for one of the #AAG journals -- GeoHumanities! Ready to make more contributions to the intersections of geography and humanity disciplines tandfonline.com/journals/rgeo2…

I wrote about what second-wave positive psychology can teach us about tourism resilience - negative emotions can enable resilience as readily as positive ones doi.org/10.1080/136835…

Look forward to delivering a keynote speech tomorrow at the "Place Effects on Health Symposium" at the University of Hong Kong.

🌍 New paper published in Progress in Human Geography 🌍 'Social & cultural geographies of economic innovation: Proliferation of meanings, articulation with user cultures, & dialectical power relations' by Zuyi Lyu and Junxi Qian journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03… Junxi Qian HKU Geography

New story map from my friends and colleagues rini astuti and Keith Barney: ‘It’s Like Texas’: Variations on Informal (PETI) Gold Mining in Katingan Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. See here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d8863c…

How can we encourage students to choose a career in geography? Join us on 26 March for a careers-focused TeachMeet. Book your free place below. If you've got ideas to share, put yourself forward as a speaker. Click here 👇 ow.ly/GxZO50UFlf1

Latest urban geography research coming out of HKU Geography offering a critical reassessment of the role of the state in gentrification processes. By @Bgerlofs & Kylie Poon

Daily population fluctuations in cities are not random. HKU Geography Bo Huang, Xingye Tan and Peng Gong uncover universal spatiotemporal scaling laws governing daily population flows in cities. Read the full paper in Nature Communications doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

A great new paper by Ben A. Gerlofs an Xuechao Zheng from HKU Geography in Antipode "Humour as a Pedagogical Tool: Evidence and Implications for Critical Geography" doi.org/10.1111/anti.7…