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The University of Waterloo, through the Waterloo Climate Institute, is an official observer to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and participates in the annual Conference of the Parties (COP). This year, COP27 will take place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from November 6 to 18, 2022, and Waterloo will send a delegation of top student leaders and faculty researchers.

Congratulations to Helen Jarvie and Merrin Macrae from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management for receiving a prestigious award! Their paper, entitled Biogeochemical and climate drivers of wetland phosphorus and nitrogen release: Implications for nutrient legacies and eutrophication risk, has been recognized as the 2022 Journal of Environmental Quality outstanding paper award winner.

Read more about the award on the Water Institute's website.

Ashley Ann Salvador, City Councilor & Founder of YEGarden Suites of City of Edmonton & YEGarden Suites (MA '21, Planning) is the second youngest woman ever elected to Edmonton City Council. 

Canadians think they know a lot about snow. It is practically a national pastime to discuss winter weather. But a PhD student in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management (GEM) at the University of Waterloo is taking the Canadian obsession with weather to a whole new level. Fraser King is studying the ways machine learning can be applied to predicting patterns of precipitation, and especially annual snowfall and snowmelt in the context of climate change.

Andrea Kirkwood (BES '94, ERS) is the first and currently only woman promoted to full professor in the Faculty of Science at Ontario Tech University. She shares her academic journey that brought her to this point. 

Socially vulnerable groups are at greater risk from climate-change-caused flooding because of systemic disadvantages, according to a new study. The study also reveals that neighbourhood-level racial or ethnic, economic, social, and demographic factors play a significant explanatory role in the distribution of flood risk across Canadian neighbourhoods.

As the Ontario housing market enters a potentially volatile phase, new research from the University of Waterloo shows how tax policy has proven ineffective in controlling prices.

Relying on stormwater management (SWM) ponds to restore the depleting wetlands is not sustainable and lacks the critical ecosystem services vital for biodiversity, a new study found.

Many socio-demographic groups, such as those with disabilities and minority ethnic communities, are underrepresented among visitors to Protected Areas due to institutional barriers, a new study found.

Lynda Trudeau (MEB '20, Environment and Business) shares her journey in public serivce and community engagement as well as her current projects.