Prof. Bo Huang, a recipient of the Senior Research Fellow award, has made significant contributions to spatial analytics and sustainable urban development, and has demonstrated exceptional expertise and leadership in his field. Prof. Huang's research interests span spatial statistics, land use change modelling, satellite image fusion, environmental monitoring, and sustainable land use planning. Notably, his development of the Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regressio

Dr Lishan RAN has been awarded the prestigious Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) 2021-22 of The University of Hong Kong. https://www.rss.hku.hk/honours-awards/internal-awards/oyra-winners

05OCT2022 Professor Zhenci Xu (Associate Professor, Department of Geography): The HKU-100 Scholars Fund is acknowledged in published research associated with his group (Ecological Indicators, May 2024), indicating affiliation with the HKU100 programme. He received the HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA) 2023–2024 for his development of the Blue Carbon Development Index (BCDI), published in Nature Communications (HKU Geography announcement, December 2024).

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) has just announced this year's Medals and Awards that "recognize extraordinarily achievement in geographical research, fieldwork, teaching, policy and public engagement." It is with great pleasure that we announce the good news about the great success and accomplishments of our Dr. Junxi Qian has been conferred with the prestigious Gill Memorial Award for his "exceptional early career research with a r