News

Congratulations to GEM students Nehal Kanetkar, Tanya Iljas, Vineet Virwani (pictured in order) on their winning proposal to L&B Consultants on aviation sustainability. This was through their participation in the GEOG 474 course on Sustainability in Aviation, taught by Dr. Suzanne Kearns.

The students issued the following statement:

Congratulations to Geography and Aviation professor Dr. Suzanne Kearns, who recently launched her new book, Fundamentals of International Aviation, at the Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre.

Dr. Sarah Burch and her GATE research have come out with new research on how Canadian small businesses think about sustainability! Read more and find a link to a research summary here. 

Newly published research from GEM prof Dr. Derek Robinson and former Master's student Andrei Balulescu shows how small businesses could make use of freely available data on public spending habits to make themselves competitive with much larger companies! A summary of their findings can be found here, or you can check out the full research paper. 

Congratulations to GEM's Percy Korsah for winning the People's Choice award at UWaterloo's Three Minute Thesis competition!

Three of our hardworking Geography and Environmental Management professors recently joined with David Roewade, Sustainability Specialist for the Region of Waterloo, to give a roundtable discussion on the topic of climate change.

Congratulations to Geography & Aviation student Jodie Scarrow for recently being featured in the Waterloo Region Record. The article explores the emerging role of women in the aviation industry, as well as Jodie starting a 'Winged Warriors' chapter for Waterloo. See the full article here.

Geography & Environmental Management professor Dr. Tara Vinodrai was recently featured in an article posted by Waterloo News. It is related to her research on the impacts of mixed-use neighbourhoods. Here is the artcle. 

"If you're interested in how technology intersects with nature and society, Geomatics is worth pursuing."

An excellent introductory statement to the area of Geomatics, recently featured on the UWaterloo 'Beyond Ideas' section of the website. Here is the article, "Finding A Fit In Geomatics".

The aviation industry is facing a pilot shortage – to the point where attracting, recruiting, and educating the next generation has been named a ‘Global Priority’ by an agency of the United Nations.