$78,500 in total project funding awarded for promising faculty members
The Department of Geography and Environmental Management has gotten off to a great start in 2014, with the announcement that two young researchers have been offered financial support for their internationally acclaimed work.
Prof. Richard Kelly garnered the lead story in the KW Record today, article by Greg Mercer.
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This follows a similar story regarding Prof. Kelly's research previously in the National Post.
Five students from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management will be part of a team of students representing The University of Waterloo at the COP19 conference in Warsaw, Poland from November 11-22, 2013.
Amber Silver, a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo received a Ph.D Presentation award at the Joint Annual Meeting of ELDAAG and CAGONT, the Ontario and Eastern Lakes divisions of the Canadian and American geographical associations.
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.
The Department of Geography and Environmental Management is very pleased to announce that Owen Sutton has been awarded the Casey Family Award for 2013. The scholarship recognizes outstanding academic achievement by an upper year student in the GEM or Geomatics programs. Congratulations Owen!
The Department of Geography and Environmental Management is very pleased to welcome two new faculty members to the department to support the new Masters in Climate Change (MCC) program.
The Weather and Society Study Group of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) is pleased to announce the second issue of the Canadian Weather & Society Advisor.
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.”