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Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3)
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
+1 519 888 4567
ic3@uwaterloo.ca
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Areas of Research:
Climate change impacts on health; climate health and resilience; children’s environmental health; Indigenous health; environmental justice; cumulative impacts of resource extraction on health, water & food systems; stakeholder engagement and knowledge co-production, power & trust; ecohealth & health-centred co-governance.
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Weather and society, weather hazards, climate change impacts and adaptations, weather-transport interactions
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Management and governance of aquatic systems (coastal-marine and freshwater), human dimensions of environmental change, social-ecological systems, resilience
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Contaminant fate and transport; watershed biogeochemistry and land use change; environmental and ecosystem hydrology; ecosystem (including wetland) restoration; human impacts on the environment; water resource sustainability
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Mathematical biology; ecology and epidemiology; sustainability science; dynamical Systems; behavioural models
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Medieval history, social history, criminal history, gender history, environmental history
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Adapting to the health impacts of climate change, climate smart health systems, climate change impacts on health, climate change and health risk communications, and climate change and health vulnerability assessment
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International trade; economics of innovation; multinational corporations; boundaries of the firm; institutions; green patents; carbon pricing systems (tax, cap and trade)
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Security, resilience, policing, urban governance, mega-event security, emergencies & disasters, public safety, organized crime
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The influence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), trauma, and socioeconomic status on human development; the development, evaluation, and implementation of evidence-based interventions for children and whole families who are struggling with mental health and developmental challenges, particularly in settings of trauma and adversity; migrant and refugee mental health.
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Sustainability transitions, climate change governance, mitigation and adaptation in cities, sustainability entrepreneurship within small businesses, participatory scenario development
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Syndemics of infectious diseases, infectious disease epidemiology, chronic disease epidemiology, spatial epidemiology, global health, Big data analytics, public health, public health informatics
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Political economy, comparative politics, Canadian public policy, oil and gas, fracking
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Plant-microbe interactions, symbiotic nitrogen fixation, functional metagenomics, bacterial genome engineering, synthetic biology, bioplastics and bioproducts, circular bioeconomy
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Community sustainable development strategies; corporate social and environmental responsibility; campus environmental management; collaborative strategic management; cross-sector partnerships; youth-led social entrepreneurship
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Computer vision, digital image processing, pattern recognition, remote sensing systems, sports analytics, sea ice monitoring, artificial intelligence, machine learning, satellite imagery, signal processing
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The role of procedural obligations in governance structures addressing transboundary and global commons environmental issues, the intersection of international and domestic environmental policy, climate and geoengineering governance and environmental impact assessment
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Environmental security, climate change, geopolitics, global security, political economy
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Large-scale scientific computing, multilevel numerical linear algebra methods, numerical methods for PDEs, novel platforms for scientific computing including GPUs and clouds, computational fluid dynamics
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Land use change, agent based models, wetland vegetation models, climate change impacts on water resources, enterprise GIS, geodatabase design
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The state, variability, and change in the cryosphere, including the role in the climate system
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Life cycle assessment, agriculture and ecosystems, bioenergy and bioeconomy, greenhouse gases, renewable energy systems
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Environmental and resource management in developing countries, hazard mitigation and disaster risk reduction, climate change/hazards connections, institutional capacity building
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Social and ecological determinants of global health and development, migration and health, community food security, healthcare and social service access, and climate change and health
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Glacial hydrology, ice dynamics, subglacial hydrology modelling, surging glaciers, Antarctic ice shelf stability, geophysical analyses of subglacial systems, in situ data collection from Yukon glaciers
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Values, motives, and intentions of private land stewardship and its role in biodiversity conservation; socio-economic dynamics as drivers of cascading ecological effects across trophic levels in coupled human-natural systems, climate change effects on the winter ecology of temperate and boreal forests; nature and applications of scientific and non-scientific knowledge in natural resource management and planning; composition, structure and dynamics of forests and grasslands with special interest in disturbance dynamics, succession, alternate stable states, and cross-scale spatial pattern; behaviour and population dynamics of large herbivores in forests and grasslands
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Arctic hydro-climatology, lake/cryosphere-atmosphere interactions, remote sensing, and numerical modeling
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Environment and health, the global environment, urban social geography, and philosophy and method in the social sciences
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Water treatment, wildfire, water quality, pathogens, climate change, filtration, land disturbance, environmental & water resources, water and land management, nanoparticle removal during drinking water and wastewater treatment, quantitative microbial risk assessment, water prootection, smart infrastructure
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Amphibious architecture, sustainable flood mitigation, climate change adaptation, flood-resilient housing for indigenous populations and vulnerable low-income communities, historic structures and traditional cultures, community resilience and resilience metrics, wind effects on buildings, hurricane damage prevention, adaptive flood risk reduction, disaster management and relief
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Identifying the additive value of sustainable development on an industry-specific basis, establishing a practical, meaningful and cost-effective climate change adaptation program for Canada
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Climate modelling, dynamics and change, extratropical teleconnections and seasonal-to-decadal climate variability, land-ocean-atmosphere interaction, snow albedo feedback
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Tourism and Indigenous Peoples, tourism ethics and responsibility, northern landscapes, and outdoor experiential education.
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Aquatic ecology, paleolimnology and multivariate statistics to assess effects of multiple stressors (nutrients, acidification, climate change, river regulation, species invasions) on lakes, wetlands and reservoirs
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Public administration, public policy, local government, federalism and multilevel governance, emergency management, climate change adaptation
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Anthropology of science, technology and digital media; Environmental anthropology; Ethnography, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; Responsible research and innovation
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Complex threats to global security; causes of violent conflict; climate change, energy science, and public policy; sources of societal innovation; modelling of ideological change
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Human-environment interactions, social inequities and health, global health governance, maternal and child health
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The Geoweb, open data, mobile technology, public participation GIS, community-based geomatics, geospatial technology in planning and government
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The roles of shame, self-criticism, and self-compassion in the development, maintenance, and remission of psychopathology, especially eating disorders; Interventions and therapist behaviours that can reduce shame and self-criticism, and increase self-compassion; Fears of self-compassion and outward compassion, and how best to target these barriers in people with eating disorders; The social contexts that facilitate versus undermine self-compassion, compassion for others, healthy body image, and intuitive eating.
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Remote sensing, snow hydrology, snow climatology, geospatial modelling of snow, citizen science
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Community climate change adaptation, urban design and place making, international development and comparative planning, participatory planning, historic preservation and cultural resource management, museum studies
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Nutrition, food policy, the environmental sustainability of current eating patterns, food environments, and food access among marginalized populations
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Nanomaterials for alternative energy and catalysis, CO2 electroreduction, electroorganic CO2 fixation, technoeconomic and environmental assessment for emerging CO2 conversion technologies
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Nonlinear waves, internal gravity waves and surface water waves, hydrodynamic instabilities and mixing, physical oceanography and limnology, coupling of hydrodynamic and bio-geochemical processes in lakes, computational fluid dynamics
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Rethinking the conservation of biodiversity in the context of global change; social dimensions of biodiversity conservation; metaphor, environmental science and society
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Climate-cryosphere interactions using Passive Microwave imagery and numerical climate models, and data management, discovery and archiving for Polar Environmental Science.
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Production of bio-energy (electricity, H2, and CH4) and bio-chemicals from biomass including microbial electrochemical cells; Wastewater treatment including nutrient recovery from organic waste and wastewater; Thermodynamic/kinetic analyses of microbial metabolisms in engineered and natural systems; Anaerobic membrane bioreactors including integration of anaerobic digestion with membrane separation; Anaerobic oxidation of methane, especially as part of the global carbon cycle.
About:
Zsolt is the Chairperson for The Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy (IEECP). His areas of research include science-based, transformational climate policy, sustainability thresholds, ESG standards and rating-tools with a particular focus on low-emissions, and resilient infrastructure.
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Complex multi-phase flows and transport phenomena, large scale geological disposal of CO2 for climate change mitigation (numerical simulations, risk assessments, economics)
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Multispectral and SAR remote sensing, laser scanning (or LiDAR), object-based image analysis, 3D urban modeling and spatial analysis, terrain analysis in hydrogeography, geomatics solutions to disaster management
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Biogeochemistry, hydrology, wetland science, agricultural water quality, agricultural tile drainage, nutrients
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Human dimensions of environmental change, with particular attention to the relationship between environment and human migration; rural adaptation to climatic variability and change; fostering citizen participation in environmental science
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Science communication (especially online), environmental communication (especially related to disaster or risk society), risk communication (especially related to nuclear energy generation), and citizen science.
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Coastal governance, landscape architecture, land use planning, coastal climate change impacts, climate change adaptation
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Plant functional ecology; phenotypic variation and integration.
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Transportation, road safety, construction, weather-related injury risk, social and economic valuation of meteorological products and services
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Climate change and cities, gendered effects of urban services provision, resilience theory and its application in urban planning
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Energy systems, technological change, climate policy, solar and carbon geoengineering technologies, energy transitions
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Population-level surveillance using IoT data, mHealth and wearable technology design, ubiquitous sensors for smart homes, usage data and health data analytics, precision medicine, and technology for aging.
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Impacts of climate change on water resources and wetlands in Canada, climate change scenario development, and "effective" communication of climate change information
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Freshwater and marine algae, phylogeny, taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, invasive species, bloom forming algae, evolution
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Virus ecology, comparative genomics of aquatic viruses, host-virus infection dynamics, microalgal biology and physiology, biological oceanography, effects of environmental change on aquatic viruses, algal-virus interactions and co-evolution, costs and mechanisms of virus resistance in microalgae, development of new host-virus model systems
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Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration and ecosystem nitrogen dynamics; impact of climate change on plant and soil ecosystems; permaculture, biochar, biomass plantations; restoration of marginal lands; stable isotope techniques, modeling
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Renewable energy policy, sustainability; residential retrofits and carbon migration; green economy and local economic development
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Ecohydrology, hydrometeorology, climatology, micrometeorology, climate change, biogeochemistry, greenhouse gases, reclamation, landuse change, forest hydrology
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Geophysical fluid dynamics, stochastic differential equations, biological fluid dynamics, computational mathematics
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Peatland/wetland hydrology; peatland construction and restoration; water and solute flux dynamics; hydrometric, geochemical and remote sensing techniques
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Radiating systems; theoretical and computational electromagnetics; electromagnetic compatibility; interference and electronic packaging; biomedical applications of electromagnetics, photonics; material measurements; antennas; microwaves & photonics; medical imaging; scanning; energy harvesting/bio-energy; renewable energy; sensors and devices; wireless communications/networking
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Land-use and land-cover change, land-management and the carbon cycle, land grabs, land policy, agent-based modelling and geographical information systems
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Managing energy use effectively and sustainably, Ontario residential energy consumption, renewable electricity in Canada and the U.S., solar energy
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International trade, environmental and natural resource economics, international development, political economy
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Tourism, environment and sustainability; understanding the decision-making process and behavioural response of tourists to environmental change; assessing climate change risks and opportunities for tourism operators and destinations; developing solutions to build a more environmentally sustainable tourism sector
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Air pollution, greenhouse gases, and trade; air quality impacts and benefits under energy and climate policy; health impacts of air pollution under future climate; environmental inequality; pollution and policy impacts by income group; integrated economic, health impact, and air quality modeling
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Watershed biogeochemistry, the impact of nutrients and climate change on aquatic ecosystems
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Cross-disciplinary knowledge integration and the design of scenarios for the human dimensions of large-scale environmental change; long-term decision-making such as forecasting and discontinuities; the influence of occupational, interpersonal, and cultural conflicts on climate change attitudes
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Retrieval of sea ice quantities from remote sensing data to improve our knowledge of the state of sea ice in the Arctic; investigation of information content of observational data and data fusion/data assimilation methods. Novel data-driven approaches (eg. convolutional neural networks) to extract sea ice information from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery are very promising, in particular as the volume of available SAR data is increasing.
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Climate change and tourism/recreation, sustainable tourism, climate change impacts and adaptation, climate change and protected areas management
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Agro-food systems sustainability (organic and ecological food production and alternative food networks; urban food systems/urban food security and producer-consumer connections; sustainable diets; small producer participation in food supply chains; local food systems /local food economies; property rights, land policy, and inequalities; rural development, livelihoods, governance, and agrarian transition; campus food systems), environment-development interfaces, sustainable communities, sustainability transitions
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Urban and regional planning, strategic planning, policy and program evaluation, local economic development, public administration
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Biochemical and biomedical engineering, emerging catalytic materials for CO2 activation, nano-structure catalysts for thermo-catalytic conversion of CO2, reactor design for CO2 conversion into renewable natural gas and methanol, system design for production of renewable synthetic fuels from biogas, emerging catalytic nano-materials, heterogeneous catalysis, Green Reaction Engineering, reactor design, renewable synthetic fuels
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Socio-metabolic research on small islands for improved policy on resource security: What are the aggregate material flow, stock, circularity, and vulnerability dynamics of each island? Where are material stocks (infrastructure) located, and what societal services do they deliver? What are possible strategies to increase resource security and social wellbeing that achieves a high quality of life at a low environmental cost? How can material resources most effectively be used to limit losses and to recover services in the aftermath of climate-change induced disasters?
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Community-based health and social projects related to food, nutrition, food security, and the broader context of food systems and environments.
Retired from academia; professionally active as Founding Principal of S&A Research, an atmospheric science consulting practice.
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Stratified fluid dynamics in lakes and the coastal oceans, the climate dynamics, wave dynamics in porous media
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Land use change and its impact on surface water quality in natural and built environments
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The interactions between ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry and soil properties in wetland ecosystems; peatland greenhouse gas fluxes in both natural and disturbed ecosystem; peatland methane dynamics including both fluxes and subsurface storage.
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Political ecology of natural resources governance and management, with a particular focus on water in Africa
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Main areas of research are in environmental communication, energy justice, critical theory, and cultural studies
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Green energy, bioenergy, air pollution control, air cleaning, indoor air quality, sustainable buildings, aerosol, nanosafety, alternative fuels, energy harvesting/bio-energy, power systems, nanotechnology, renewable energy, nano-instrumentation, value-added recovery, hydrothermal conversion, hydrogen production, biomass and waste management, nanoaerosol filtration, nanoaerosol measurement, nanoaerosol generation and characterization, post-combustion air cleaning, acidic gas absorption, diesel engine emission abatement, mass, transfer between gas-liquid system, chemical reaction kinetics
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Innovative strategies designed to reduce the economic impacts of extreme weather and climate change within the financial sector
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Hydrologic model calibration, hydrology, water resources planning and management, environmental & water resources, environmental simulation model development, environmental decision-making, parallel computing, multi-objective optimization, soft computing
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Ecological legacies associated with people occupying sites for millennia; biodiversity as a critical component for understanding how ecosystem function; biogeography.
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Remote sensing (satellite imagery) and field data to observe variability in glaciers and glacier motion; the application of SAR remote sensing datasets to observe ocean processes (currents, sea ice) and monitor human activities (detection of oil spills); data management and long-term data preservation; historical climate data rescue projects.
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Turbulence in rotating stratified fluids, vortices in stratified fluids, mesoscale atmospheric dynamics, tropical convection
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Adaptation to climate change, community-based vulnerability assessment
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Environmental and sustainable finance with a focus on sustainable credit risk management, socially responsible investment, social banking and the link between sustainability and financial performance of enterprises
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Environmental philosophy, the ethics of climate change, political philosophy
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Economic and sustainability research, natural capital accounting, wellbeing research, indicator development, ecosystem goods and services valuation, and strategy and policy development for sustainability transitions
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Climate change in Canada's north, present and past hydrology of the Mackenzie Basin Deltas, paleo-environmental research, environmental impacts on the hydrology of lakes
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Climate change policy, emissions forecasting, impacts of climate change adaptations on freight, regulatory policy, urban freight planning, freight and land use (accessibility), transportation demand management and deregulation of transportation provision
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Advanced Manufacturing; Materials Interfaces; Energy Materials; Solar Fuels; Batteries; In situ Multimodal Characterizations; Artificial Intelligence; Connectivity and Internet of Things; Electronic and Photonic Materials; Responsive Materials; Sensing; Healthcarel; Nanotechnology
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Monitoring and mapping of Arctic sea ice and marine oil spills; machine learning, statistical and computational methods for big remote sensing data interpretation; hyperspectral imaging; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging; environmental remote sensing
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Structural health monitoring; computer vision; machine learning; nondestructive testing; big data
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Sustainable materials management, life-cycle assessment (LCA) and enterprise carbon management
Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3)
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
+1 519 888 4567
ic3@uwaterloo.ca
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Indigenous Initiatives Office.