News

ERS 1B student Madeline (Maddi) Leblanc has started an annual grassroots fundraiser to build awareness for brain cancer research. This year’s event – a group paddleboard journey down the Welland Canal – will be held on 23 July 2015. You can read more about Maddi’s story on the University of Waterloo’s Student Success Office website. Well done, Maddi!

Researcher Sarah Wolfe’s work on water decision-making is the focus of a ‘Storyteller’ entry by Faculty of Environment graduate student Tessa Soltendieck.

ERS 1B student Perry Schumacher was chosen as the Canadian delegate (of 15 young people from around the world) to participate in an international documentary film. The film – Rise of the Eco-Warriors – documents the group’s work saving rainforests and giving hope to endangered orangutans.

Esri Canada is pleased to announce the 2015 International Esri Young Scholars Award program. The award is available to any candidate studying GIS at a Canadian university or college subject to the terms and conditions listed below.

Professor Robert de Loë, of Environment and Resource Studies and the Water Institute at Waterloo, has been awarded an Insight Development grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

REEP House for Sustainable Living began as a two-year project created in 1999 in the basement of the Environmental Studies (now Environment) building at the University of Waterloo. Their initial goal was to match academic research with practical action in the community.

The Faculty of Environment is pleased to announce that Derek Armitage (ECGG) of Environment and Resource Studies received a partnership grant from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as co-applicant for a study titled, OceanCanada.

ERS Alumnus Ben Vandenberg tackles farm to table brewing.

Prof. Brendon Larson comments on Whitebark Pines in NY Times

ERS Welcome Weekend (PDF) happens this weekend! Elora Gorge Conservation Authority - first year students are welcomed by Professors and upper year students with a weekend camping trip.