8 of our esteemed department faculty members, including Professor Wendy Y Chen, Professor Peng Gong, Professor Bo Huang, Professor...

Impacts of climate change, population growth, and power sector decarbonization on urban building energy use Operational building energy...

On 21 October 2023, Prof. Elvis Au led students from GEOG2160 “Sustainable Waste Management and Circular Economy in Hong Kong” to visit a...

Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measures Vegetation is a crucial part of terrestrial ecosystems and an important...

HKU GEOGRAPHY: Monthly Research Talks ¿Quién es Gentrificación (Who is Gentrification)? Urban Change, Conceptual Chimerae, and the...

Establishing sustainability assessment framework for global blue carbon ecosystems Mangroves, seagrass beds, and salt marshes, called Blue Carbon Ecosystems, which have become nature-based solutions to climate change due to their high carbon capture and burial efficiency. However, the long-term spatiotemporal sustainability of blue carbon has not been widely and comprehensively assessed. Assistant Prof. Zhenci Xu from the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kon

On 16 October 2023, Prof. Ho Kin-chung led students from GEOG1021 “Geographic Issues of Polar Regions” to visit the Jockey Club Museum of...

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series on Remote Sensing Optimize forest managements to mitigate carbon sink saturation and promote timber...

地理卓越學術講座系列 Geography Distinguished Seminars Series Estimating riverine and lake CO2 emissions: How certain are we? Date: 06 October 2023...

05OCT2023 Professor Yuyu Zhou (Professor, Department of Geography) joined HKU in June 2023 (from Iowa State University) (LinkedIn), and research acknowledging the “HKU-100 Scholars Fund” has been published with his group, indicating he is an HKU100 recruit (Ecological Indicators, May 2024 — acknowledging “University of Hong Kong HKU-100 Scholars Fund”). He was elected a 2023 AAAS Fellow shortly after joining HKU and is named in both the 2024 and 2025 Clarivate HCR lists.

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

OCT2023 Mr. Zijing Shen's paper entitled "Framing Urban Living Labs as a Multi-dimensional Knowledge Model: Experiences from Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town Wetland Park", advised by Dr Qian Junxi, has been selected as the Winner of Best Doctoral Student Paper Award of the Urban China Research Network Conference 2023

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar Series on Remote Sensing Decreasing rainfall frequency contributes to earlier leaf onset in northern ecosystems...

ICCN Distinguished Seminar Clean Energy Transition In California Date: 28 September 2023 (Thursday) Time: 19:00-20:00 (HKT) Venue: KK...

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China Development Studies Elite Seminar Series Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global...

HKU GEOGRAPHY: Monthly Research Talks Looking back: the dynamic COVID-19 pattern and neighborhood characteristics in California Date: 15...

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07 AUG 2023 Dr Benjamin Iaquinto was recently interviewed by a Senior Reporter for Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly about ‘Special...