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 NyarkoThe Faculty of Environment is proud to announce an exciting new free lecture series presented by Dean André Roy.
Please join us Friday January 24th for a free two-part lecture on the environment presented by experts in our faculty.
Complimentary lunch will also be served at 12pm.
Be sure to join the conversation using #envlecture
"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.