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Taking us on her experience trekking through Western Nepal, Caitlin Laidlaw, a masters’ student in Geography & Environmental Management, answers the question: how do locals who live with snow leopards feel about conservation? Her short documentary is this year’s second place GRADflix competition winner.

Today's students learn best through experiential learning. Fieldtrips give them the opportunity to touch, feel, and hear what they're learning about in the classroom as well as experience new cultures and practices outside of their own world. Upper-year undergraduate students taking GEOG 460 visited four local community projects to learn about food sustainability in Waterloo Region.

Congratulations to Helen Jarvie and Merrin Macrae from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management for receiving a prestigious award! Their paper, entitled Biogeochemical and climate drivers of wetland phosphorus and nitrogen release: Implications for nutrient legacies and eutrophication risk, has been recognized as the 2022 Journal of Environmental Quality outstanding paper award winner.

Read more about the award on the Water Institute's website.

Dr. Jonathan Li was recently awarded the 2021 Geomatica Award from the Candian Institute of Geomatics.

Dr. Suzanne Kearns was recently ranked by the Women's Executive Network (WXN) as one of the 100 most powerful women in Canada. WXN specifically cited Dr. Kearns work on the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics (WISA), which launched this year.

The research of Dr. Mike Stone and the forWater Network team was recently higlighted by the Water Science Policy nongovernmental organization.

GEM graduate Kirsten Grant was recently awarded the 2021 Outstanding Paper award by Vadose Zone Journal. Her paper was titled "Nutrient Leaching in Soil Affected by Fertilizer Application and Frozen Ground".

Kirsten Grant worked with Dr. Merrin Macrae to earn her MSc degree from the GEM Department. Congratulations to Kirsten!

Waterloo researchers contribute to new science led by Nature United

By protecting, better managing, and restoring nature, Canada can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, concludes Nature United’s ground-breaking Natural Climate Solutions for Canada. The new study published in Science Advances shows that Natural Climate Solutions can help Canada mitigate up to 78 Mt CO₂e annu

Global climate change is a grand challenge for society in the 21st century. The observed impacts and future risks of accelerating climate change demand determined climate action.

GEM faculty member, Dr. Sarah Burch, has been appointed the new executive director of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3).