Geography and Environmental Management graduate students from the Geospatial Club ran a successful workshop about Machine Learning for Geospatial Data. This event was held in collaboration with the Dana Porter Geospatial Centre.
We would like to congratulate Paul Parker, recipient of the Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO) President's Award!
We are proud to have Dr. Steven R. Fassnacht, a professor of Snow Hydrology from Colorado State University, visit the University of Waterloo to present his research. Please join us in EV1-221 at 1:30 pm on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 for his talk titled “Integration of Multi-disciplinary Data Sources to Understand Hydro-Climatic Change”.
Title: “Integration of Multi-disciplinary Data Sources to Understand Hydro-Climatic Change”
Join the Waterloo Association of Geography Students (WAGS) in banning the sale of plastic on campus by the year 2025. Our first initiative is promoting the use of reusable straws and/or encouraging students, staff and faculty to refuse the plastic straw. We want to make University of Waterloo a leader in sustainability by eliminating the sale of wasteful plastics (water bottles, plastic bags, straws, unnecessary packaging, etc.) on our campus. The lemonade stand will run from 11:00am to 2:00pm in front of Dana Porter Library.
With over 500 events in 94 countries, Arduino Day celebrations on May 12 provided proof of the popularity of the Arduino platform in the maker world. In our corner of the world, the Arduino platform can offer a low cost, and customizable means to augment commercial research equipment such as weather stations, provided you are not afraid to do a little work.
Please join us for a presentation by PhD candidate Aaron Thompson, entitled:
‘Low-cost DIY Arduino Weather Station’
An outline of the presentation follows:
In preparation for her upcoming PhD thesis defence, Janine Baijnath-Rodino will present her research at our seminar this month. Her presentation is entitled:
Climatological Trends and Predictions in Snowfall over the Canadian Snowbelts of the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin.
Please join us with your tough questions to help Janine prepare. Her abstract follows:
Global tourism accounts for 8% of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, four times more than previously believed, new research says.
Some gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the atmosphere, producing a "greenhouse effect," and so make the planet warmer. The amount of greenhouse gases released by a particular activity is referred to as its "carbon footprint."
Congratulations to Geography and Aviation professor Dr. Suzanne Kearns, who recently launched her new book, Fundamentals of International Aviation, at the Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre.
Newly published research from GEM prof Dr. Derek Robinson and former Master's student Andrei Balulescu shows how small businesses could make use of freely available data on public spending habits to make themselves competitive with much larger companies! A summary of their findings can be found here, or you can check out the full research paper.
Congratulations to GEM's Percy Korsah for winning the People's Choice award at UWaterloo's Three Minute Thesis competition!