News

On November 1, 2023 the RISE project team and partners came together for our first Annual Meeting.

We’re looking for a qualified integrated modeller to join our team. This key team member will be responsible for ensuring best practices for integration, verification and validation of integrated project models that will be critical in the development of the RISE Scorecard.

Are you an undergraduate, co-op or graduate student looking for a research opportunity? We’re currently hiring for two research assistants to join the RISE project team related to participatory modelling for measuring carbon and stormwater trajectories in residential developments.

UWaterloo’s Beyond the Bulletin podcast re-visits their interview with RISE co-Principal Investigator Rebecca Rooney on the importance of wetlands.

RISE graduate student Thiruni Thirimanne presented at the Natural Channels Conference this summer on using powerful GIS-based tools to effectively tackle growing erosion risk in urban watersheds.  

Are you an undergraduate student currently looking for a Master’s degree opportunity? We have Master’s degree opportunities related to the following: urbanization, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, stormwater modelling, integrated modelling, participatory modelling – and more!

Co-Principal Investigator Derek Robinson’s latest research explores using an inventory approach to quantify land carbon stocks in urban areas, using the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo region as its study area.

Co-Principal Investigator Rebecca Rooney is featured in The Record on Bill 23 and the need to protect wetlands.

Lead Principal Investigator Michael Dresher co-authors article in The Conversation with UWaterloo colleague Luna Khirfan to explore the negative environmental impacts of Bill 23.

Co-Principal Investigator Rebecca Rooney is interviewed on CBC discussing the Ontario government's new plan for assessing wetlands and how it could impact wetlands in Waterloo Region.