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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. 

We would like to congratulate Paul Parker, recipient of the Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO) President's Award!

Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Scott for his recent award from the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG). Dr. Scott received the Award for Scholarly Distinction in Geography. The award as described by the CAG:

Congratulations to Dr. Suzanne Kearns, who was presented with the William A. Wheatley award at the recent University Aviation Association (UAA) conference. 

From the UAA website:

Congratulations to Sarah Burch for receiving a prestigious SSHRC Partnership Grant entitled "TRANSFORM: Accelerating sustainability entrepreneurship experiments in local spaces,”. Sarah is an Associate professor in GEM and a Canada Research Chair in Sustainability Governance and Innovation.

Sarah Burch, a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Sustainability Governance and Innovation, has been named a Recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 ^TM for 2018. Burch’s research focuses on governing responses to climate change (both adaptation and mitigation) in urban spaces. She also explores triggers of transitions toward more sustainable development pathways. Currently, her work has focused on acknowledging the contributions towards sustainability made by small and medium businesses, and how to radically transform organizations to be significantly more sustainable.

Congratulations Sarah!

On Monday, May 14th, a group of GEM and ERS students headed out to Nepal, as part of a 22-day course field trip to the Kathmandu and Everest regions.