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An exciting and fully-funded opportunity is currently available. Our collaborative research team is seeking a graduate student with deep interests in estimating retail market potential and land-use change. The successful applicant would be funded through a combination of teaching assistant positions in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo and internship positions funded by Mitacs.

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.

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.”

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.

The Department of Geography and Environmental Management has been ranked amongst the world’s elite Geography programs, placing in the top 100 of the QS World University Rankings.

The Weather and Society Study Group of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) is pleased to announce the inaugural issue of the Canadian Weather & Society Advisor. The Study Group is a collection of graduate students and academics from the Faculty Environment who share a keen interest in exploring the interactions of weather and society.