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.
Amber Silver, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo received a Ph.D Presentation award at the Joint Annual Meeting of ELDAAG and CAGONT, the Ontario and Eastern Lakes divisions of the Canadian and American geographical associations.
The Department of Geography and Environmental Management is very pleased to welcome retired astronaut Chris Hadfield to the University of Waterloo as a Professor of Aviation. The University's Aviation program is run jointly by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management and the Faculty of Science.
Many academic institutions automatically elevate faculty to professor emeritus status upon their retirement. At the Université de Montréal (UdeM) the process is more selective. Through an internal nomination process, a handful of former UdeM faculty are identified, vetted and eventually chosen as permanent faculty members of the 135-year-old institution.
Dr. Geoff Wall, a retired Geography and Environmental Management (GEM) professor in the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment, is the subject of a publication titled, The “Great Wall” in tourism research – a portrait of Geoff Wall by P. F. Xie in the journal "Anatolia – An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research.”
As our climate changes, flooding, fire, tornadoes and drought likely sit atop many people’s list of potential environmental hazards.