The Weather and Society study group is pleased to announce the Winter 2014 issue of the "Weather and Society Advisor" newsletter. This latest issue of the Advisor takes a look at several winter storms that occurred this season, as well as the December 2013 ice storm that impacted the Waterloo region.
Agent-based modelling and GIS: applications to land use change and environmental modelling
Shifting climates (drought, wildfire, insects/disease) along with cumulative disturbance pressures are exerting increasing pressure on headwaters forested regions that supply water and water associated ecosystem services to extensive regions of North America.
Canada’s Premiers today announced the recipients of the Excellence in Water Stewardship Award, a highlight of Canada Water Week.
Dr Erin Joakim from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, was recently welcomed to the Coastal Marine Research Centre (CMRC), University College Cork, Ireland. Erin won a prestigious Dobbin Scholarship to look at Building Adaptive Capacity to Coastal Climate Change Hazards using Bottom-Up and Grassroots Approaches: A Comparison of Vancouver, Canada and Cork, Ireland.
Again this year, the Department of Geography and Environmental Management has been ranked in the top 100 Geography departments in the world by UK firm Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.
The Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo welcomes Dr. Heather McNairn, Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada who will be presenting "Optical and Radar Satellites to Map and Monitor Canadian Agriculture: Current Activities and Future Opportunities"
The Cryospheric Science Group of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) is pleased to announce the monthly Cryosphere Research Group Seminar Series for February given by Dr. Andrea Scott (Assistant Professor in System Design Engineering; http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ka3scott/), entitled “Using data assimilation to improve sea ice concentration estimates.”
First-year student Brieuc de Vuyst wins Grand Prize at Faculty’s annual environmental entrepreneurship competition
By Venessa Nyarko
Five students from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management will be part of a team of students representing The University of Waterloo at the COP19 conference in Warsaw, Poland from November 11-22, 2013.