The September-October 2019 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality contains a special section “Celebrating the 350th Anniversary of Discovering Phosphorus – For Better or Worse”.
Congratulations to incoming 1st year students Andrew Ding (Geomatics, 2nd from left), and Ben Woodward (Geography & Environmental Management, 2nd from right) who recently brought home multiple medals from The International Geography Olympiad in Hong Kong.
The seventh annual 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition has its top 15 finalists!
Team Salinity, a group of students and recent graduates from the Faculty of Environment, developed SongSAT as a tool to express the beauty of satellite imagery through sound. Beyond the remarkable audio experience of the music that this creates, the software provides an opportunity for the beauty of satellite imagery to communicate to an audience with visual impairments, providing them with an opportunity to appreciate the wonders of the world from above.
Sunwing Airlines recently featured 3 UWaterloo Geography & Aviation graduates in a promotional video, celebrating women in aviation. The video was featured on their Youtube.
Congratulations to our female first officers at Sunwing!
In preparation for her upcoming PhD thesis defence, Nastaran Saberi will present her research at our seminar this month. Her presentation is entitled:
Snow Properties Retrieval Using Passive Microwave Observations
Please join us with your tough questions to help Nastaran prepare. Her abstract follows:
ENVigorate Festival 2019 in the Faculty of Environment will be on Wednesday, March 20th
The ENVigorate Festival is a WESEF-funded festival that receives additional support from the Dean’s Office in the form of a Grad RA. The festival promotes community building and skill sharing in our faculty. We run many different workshops, programs, a community fair, a SWAP shop, open and closing ceremonies including food - all designed to bring our community together at the end of the winter term.
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”