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Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Management Dr. Derek Robinson became a Fellow of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs) this week. Receiving the Society's Medal for research excellence and service to the Society, Dr. Robinson joins an elite group of recipients since the award commenced in 2001.

Dr. Susan Elliott has been mentioned in today's Daily Bulletin, in recognition for her work with the Allergy, Genes and Enviroment (AllerGen) research group. The group recently published a study, Surveying Prevalence of Food Allergy in All Canadian Environments: SPAACE to SPAACEwhich included the largest nation survey to date on food allergies.

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The September-October 2019 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality contains a special section “Celebrating the 350^th Anniversary of Discovering Phosphorus – For Better or Worse”.

The Department of Geography and Environmental Management's inaugural Arctic Field School is underway. Find out more about what our adventurous group of students, led by our own intrepid Prof. Christine Dow, is up to as they chart their way through the Canadian Arctic.  The daily blog can be found here.

Congratulations to incoming 1st year students Andrew Ding (Geomatics, 2nd from left), and Ben Woodward (Geography & Environmental Management, 2nd from right) who recently brought home multiple medals from The International Geography Olympiad in Hong Kong. 

The Centre for Extended Learning announced that the online course GEOG 181 – Designing Effective Maps – has won the 2018 Award for Excellence In Online Course Design.The centre noted that the course “is a great example of how straightforward, but solid, course design can result in a positive online learning experience for students.” Students who have taken the course noted its well-organized structure, and the “relevant, interesting assignments that connected directly back to course

Team Salinity, a group of students and recent graduates from the Faculty of Environment, developed SongSAT as a tool to express the beauty of satellite imagery through sound. Beyond the remarkable audio experience of the music that this creates, the software provides an opportunity for the beauty of satellite imagery to communicate to an audience with visual impairments, providing them with an opportunity to appreciate the wonders of the world from above.

Sunwing Airlines recently featured 3 UWaterloo Geography & Aviation graduates in a promotional video, celebrating women in aviation. The video was featured on their Youtube.

Congratulations to our female first officers at Sunwing!

We would like to congratulate Vicky Vanthof, a Doctoral candidate in Geography and Environmental Management, who has won the 2019 Hugh C. Morris Experiential Learning Fellowship, offerred by the Kimberley Foundation.

Geography and Environmental Management graduate students from the Geospatial Club ran a successful workshop about Machine Learning for Geospatial Data. This event was held in collaboration with the Dana Porter Geospatial Centre.