Each year, the Dean of Environment’s Scholarship for Excellence is awarded to up to five incoming undergraduate Environment students. Recipients are selected based on academic excellence, demonstrated leadership, and their commitment to the environment. Meet the Fall 2020 winners.
A group of researchers, led by Water Institute member and professor in Waterloo’s Department of Geography and Environmental Management Helen Jarvie, examined nutrient cycling in a lowland wetland‐pond system in southern England over a 20‐year period. The team discovered that even a relatively pristine wetland can become a source of highly bioavailable phosphorus, nitrogen, and silicon during low‐flow periods of high ecological sensitivity.
In a recent post on their Editor's Vox platform, Advancing Waerth and Space Sciences shared details of work the late Faculty of Environment researcher was pursuing before her plane was shot down shortly after taking off for Canada from Iran. An excerpt...
Sustainability and Financial Management, Three-year Definite Term Lecturer
According to Natalia Moudrak Director of the Intact Centre and Bailey Church apartner of Accounting Advisory Services at KPMG LLP,Our country's natural assets offer a hidden wealth that should be reflected in government financial statements, especially in the face of rising costs of extreme-weather disasters and rising debt levels caused by the pandemic.
Dawn Cassandra Parker, Professor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo; Director, Urban Growth and Change Research
The Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) at the University of Waterloo, in partnership with the Games Institute and a multi-disciplinary team of students, staff and faculty from across campus, developed Illuminate. The collaborators designed Illuminate to help players understand the science, the risks, and (most importantly) the solutions to climate change.
The University of Waterloo invites applications from a dynamic planning practitioner and educator for a three-year definite-term appointment as a lecturer in the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, with the possibility of renewal as a Continuing Lecturer.
We seek an energetic and dynamic scholar with demonstrated potential for leading academic programing and research related to
As a way to remember Foroutan and further her important work, and through the support of hundreds of donors from across the world, the faculty established the Marzieh (Mari) Foroutan Memorial Graduate Scholarship. It’s mission: to support international PhD students who wish to study at the Faculty of Environment and walk in Marzieh’s big footsteps.