Current students

The summer school, open to students and professionals, offers daily, one-hour online sessions, from June 5 to June 23, 2023, showcasing leading-edge thinking and understanding from a wide array of University of Waterloo professors focusing on the intersection between climate, water, and energy.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Dynamics of the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre

Join Dr. Mary-Louise Timmermans, Damon Wells Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University, for a presentation about how the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre is a dominant feature of the Arctic system, a prominent indicator of climate change, and possibly a control factor for high-latitude climate.

At the fall 2022 Climate Change Hackathon, seven interdisciplinary student teams presented solutions to climate change problem spaces at the final pitch competition. The teams were mentored by Waterloo Climate Institute members Dr. Juan Moreno-Cruz, Dr. Marta Berbés-Blázquez, and Dr. Joyce Kim, including the winning team H2GRO who secured the top prize of $5,000!

Friday, December 9, 2022 11:30 am - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Student networking lunch

Join Climate Students, the Waterloo Climate Institute's student-led group, for lunch and an opportunity to meet your peers who work on, or study, climate change across Waterloo's six faculties. This is a chance to step outside of your academic/research focus to foster interdisciplinary connections. 

The Assembly of First Nations Second National Climate Gathering, Preserving our Earth, Land and Water for Future Generations, took place from September 27 to 29, 2022 in Fredericton, New Brunswick on the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik, Mi’kmaq and Peskotomuhkati peoples. It was an opportunity to bring together First Nations experts, leadership, youth, women, Knowledge Keepers and other professionals from across Turtle Island to work on climate change. Katherine Allaby, a Master of Environmental Studies in Geography student, supervised by Waterloo Climate Institute member, Brent Doberstein, attended the Climate Gathering and shared her key takeaways with the institute.