Geography and Environmental Management hosts record-breaking conference

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

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More than 200 geographers and interdisciplinary scholars converged at the University of Waterloo this past weekend for the 2016 Canadian Association of Geographers - Ontario Division (CAGONT) Annual Meeting.

This year’s event breaks records as the largest CAGONT conference in the history of the organization, with participants from 19 universities. “We had higher attendance and a higher number of abstracts than any other time this conference has been offered,” said Professor Susan Elliott, whose team orchestrated the event. “Our team was VERY pleased with both the record turn-out as well as the quality of the papers.”

Highlights from the two-day conference included an urban walking tour of Kitchener, a more traditional field trip to the Fletcher Creek Ecological Preserve, a scintillating keynote lecture, 126 presentations and 50 posters with topics ranging from global health to geochemistry.

Faculty of Environment Dean Jean Andrey, who is also a past president of CAG, said, “This conference highlighted the vibrancy of the discipline of Geography and showcased why Geography at Waterloo is ranked #45 in the world.”