Keith Delaney PhD (he/him)

Keith Delaney's philosophy of teaching involves engaging, inspiring, and facilitating lifelong learning for all Earth and Environmental students by (1) showing passion for the Earth and Environmental Sciences as well as the importance of Geospatial Analysis, (2) establishing a positive, fun, and productive classroom or lab environment, and (3) opening students’ minds to think critically about various types and forms of geologic data and to communicate effectively to their peers and community about the amazing natural world around them. Dr. Delaney is a leader in the quantification and geospatial analysis of natural hazards, specialising in landslide and geohazard research, using a combination of computer simulation, modelling, remote sensing, and geographical information systems.

• Geospatial Data

• Geohazards

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Remote Sensing

• Geomorphological Modelling

• Climate Change Impacts

• 2016, PostDoc, Detection of rock slope displacement in glacial environments by interferometry: measurement of a high-mountain geotechnical response in climate change in NW North America (British Columbia, Yukon, and Alaska). Funded by: Canadian Space Agency

• 2015, PostDoc, Characterisation of urban battlespace: implications for combat, building damage, and civilian casualties in hybrid wars. Funded by: Department of National Defense

• 2014, PostDoc, Canadians at risk – tsunami hazard and risk assessment on Canada’s Pacific coast using geospatial modeling and high-resolution RADARSAT-2 data. Funded by: Canadian Space Agency

• 2014, Doctorate, Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada

• 2006, Masters, Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

• 2003, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Geography, University of Guelph, Canada

• 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo

• 2023 Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo

• 2022 Excellence in Science Teaching Award, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo

• 2021 Jane Lang Teaching Excellence Award, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo

• 2020 Outstanding Performance Award, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo

• 2015 W.B. Pearson Medal, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo

• 2012 Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo

• 2023-present Earth and Environmental Sciences FAUW Representative

• 2018-present Leader of first-year Orientation Field Trip to the Elora Gorge

• 2018-2021 Teaching Fellow for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department

• 2023-present EES FAUW Representative

• 2021-2025 Financial Director for the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences

• 2018-2021 EES Teaching Fellow

• Editor for Springer Journal Landslides

• Organiser and Lead for Annual September Elora Gorge Orientation Field Trip for Incoming EES Students

• CIVE 153 - Earth Engineering
  • Taught in 2025
• EARTH 121L - Introductory Earth Sciences Laboratory
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• EARTH 122 - Introductory Environmental Sciences
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• EARTH 122L - Introductory Environmental Sciences Laboratory
  • Taught in 2021, 2022, 2023
• EARTH 123 - Introductory Hydrology
  • Taught in 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
• EARTH 438 - Engineering Geology
  • Taught in 2022, 2025, 2026
• EARTH 638 - Advanced Engineering Geology
  • Taught in 2022, 2025, 2026
• ENVE 153 - Earth Engineering
  • Taught in 2025
• GEOE 153 - Earth Engineering
  • Taught in 2025

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Galaszkiewicz, A., Delaney, K.B. and Steelman, C. 2024. Identifying sulphurous water discharge from legacy oil and gas wells using spectral band analysis of aerial and satellite imagery. Geomatica, 76.

• Rana N.M., Delaney, K.B., Evans, S.G., Deane, E., Small, A., Adria, D.A.M., McDougall, S., Ghahramani, N., and Take, W.A. 2024. Application of Sentinel-1 InSAR to monitor tailings dams and predict geotechnical instability: practical considerations based on case study insights. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 83, 204.

• Evans, S.G., Delaney, K.B. 2018. The V1 (Flying Bomb) attack on London (1944 – 1945); the applied geography of early cruise accuracy. Journal of Applied Geography, 99, 44 – 53.

• Delaney, K.B., Evans, S.G. 2017. The evolution (2010-2015) and engineering mitigation of a rockslide-dammed lake (Hunza River, Pakistan); characterisation by analytical remote sensing. Engineering Geology, 220, 65 – 75.

• Delaney, K.B., Evans, S.G. 2015. The 2000 Yigong landslide (Tibetan Plateau), rockslide-dammed lake and outburst flood: review, remote sensing analysis, and process modeling. Geomorphology, 246, 377 – 393.

• Delaney, K.B. and Evans, S.G., 2014. The 1997 Mount Munday Landslide, British Columbia; behaviour of a rock avalanche on a glacier surface. Landslides, 11, 1019 – 1036.

• Guthrie, R.H., Friele, P., Allstadt, K., Roberts, N., Evans, S.G., Delaney, K.B., Roche, D., Clague, J.J., Jakob, M., 2012. The 6 August 2010 Mount Meager rockslide-debris flow, Coast Mountains, British Columbia: characteristics, dynamics, and implications for hazard and risk assessment. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 12, 1277 – 1294.