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.
First-year student Brieuc de Vuyst wins Grand Prize at Faculty’s annual environmental entrepreneurship competition
By Venessa Nyarko"Climate and Human Migration: Past experience and future challenges" (Robert A. McLeman, 2013).
12:30pm lunch, 1:00-2:30pm panel discussion (taped).
All are welcome, a light lunch is provided.
Participants: Dr. Jenna Hennebry (Moderator), Dr. Robert McLeman, Dr. Simon Dalby, Dr. Alison Mountz, and Gabriel Williams.
The Cryospheric Science Group of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) is pleased to announce the monthly Cryosphere Research Group Seminar Series given by Dr. Kevin Kang, “Development and evaluation on ice phenology algorithm from space-borne active and passive microwave measurements” and Ali Perviz Muhammad “Monitoring ice break-up on the Mackenzie River, Canada, from MODIS Aqua and Terra observations.” Any member of the Faculty of Environment is welcome to attend!
This year’s theme is “The New Age of Exploration” reminding us that “geography enables us all to be intrepid explorers in our own way”. This coincides with the National Geographic Society’s 125th birthday.
GIS Day is a global event to educate people about how geography makes a difference in our lives through the technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).