As one of Canada’s oldest and largest faculties of the environment, embedded in Canada’s innovation university, we use interdisciplinary approaches and leading-edge technology to advance knowledge and collaborate on viable solutions to complex issues relating to climate change, resilient cities, natural resources and biodiversity, and sustainable transitions. Bringing together outstanding scholars with partners inside and outside of academia and around the world is critical to achieving our mission to drive transformative change for people and our planet.
World renowned faculty researchers, institutes and facilities
Waterloo Environment is home to a vibrant community of established and emerging scholars who lead and actively participate in innovative, cross-faculty research groups, centres and institutes, catalyzing new fundamental and applied research. On any given day, you might find one of our scholars flying across the Arctic with a cutting-edge LiDAR sensor to measure snowpack, exploring Singapore with students and a mobile meteorological cart to identify hot spots, or filming and producing a documentary on affordable housing solutions in communities across Canada. The University and Faculty have top-notch research facilities and IT services, including our new supercomputer. This allows our researchers to push the boundaries of environmental research for greater impact.
