Yuanming Shu (MSC '10, Geography | PHD '15, Geography) is the co-founder and CEO of Ecopia Tech Corporation. Read his story and the impact that his company has had on urban planning, risk assessment, and other major decision-making processes by capturing highly detailed, accurate and up-to-date mapping data.
Alice Ng Bouwma (BES '04, Environment and Resource Studies) is the Grants Program Manager at World Renew and she shares her work and volunteer experiences since graduation.
The School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability researchers Derek Armitage says, in light of the meeting of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) and negotiations around post-2020 global conservation targets, there is renewed attention on the need to assess and apply novel conservation policy tools. One of these tools is referred to as ‘Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs)’.
The disruption of Indigenous-controlled fire use at the onset of colonization has resulted in high-severity fire activity, according to a new study by a research team at the University of Waterloo.
Environment's Sarah Wolfe is leading a collaborative research program that recently received a $200,000 federal grant to study the role fear and awe play in coping with climate change. Wolfe developed the program, The Affective Load of Sustainability Education: The implications of emotion for students' engagement and knowledge retention, to extend her earlier Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research using Terror Management Theory as part of her Society, Environment and Emotions Lab (SEE-Lab).
The Canadian government has announced funding for a new research training platform to guide the development of a new generation of health, social sciences and humanities, engineering and natural sciences researchers. The goal is to find ways to make Canadian cities healthier, more livable, and more resilient. Dawn Parker (School of Planning) will lead the UW team, along with Sharon Kirkpatrick (Health), supported by the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, or WICI (led by Knowledge Integration’s Vanessa Schweizer).
This week School of Environment Enterprise and Development researchers, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Neil Craik and Burgess Langshaw Power shared with Canadians their perspective on solar geoengineering as a potential way to manage climate change. As published in The Conversation they describe what exactly solar genoengineering entails.
Splettstoesser is one of two 2021 Canadian recipients of the CCAE TD Insurance Meloche Monnex Fellowship in Advancement awarded by the Canadian Council for Advancement of Education (CCAE). The opportunity gives a chance for her to spend a year fully immersed in the world of university advancement splitting time being mentored by her former boss Maryam Latifpoor-Keparoutis at the Faculty of Environment’s Advancement Department and working with Kris Cates-Bristol at the University of Waterloo’s Central Office of Advancement team on developing skills for a future in the field.
The University of Waterloo’s Water Institute (WI) and Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) are advancing climate change efforts by delivering a uniquely designed, three-week virtual summer school. Ninety-four participants from more than 15 countries participated in this year’s program, which ran from May 31st to June 18th, 2021.
Environment assistant professor Kelsey Leonard has been named the faculty's newest Canada Research Chair. With global warming now raising sea levels, Leonard’s position as Chair in Indigenous Waters, Climate and Sustainability will help her explore ways of facilitating Indigenous Knowledge to restore our threatened ocean, lakes and rivers, while asserting Indigenous sovereignty.