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Lorne Russwurm Award for Outstanding TA Performance – Awarded to Collin Branton

September 26, 2016

The Lorne Russwurm Award for outstanding performance by a teaching assistant (TA) is awarded by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management annually to a TA that has performed beyond the ‘call of duty’ and exemplified outstanding performance. The contributions of Collin Branton exceeded instructor expectations and all formal course requirements. Through a competitive process...

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Early Researcher Award for Research in Agricultural Systems with UAV and Simulation

August 31, 2016

Today, Kathryn McGarry, MPP for Cambridge, and Daiene Vernile, MPP for Kitchener Centre, announced $2.3 million in funding for 21 University of Waterloo researchers, including Derek Robinson and John McLevey, both recipients of Early Researcher Awards.

The Early Researcher Award (ERA) program helps promising and...

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Seeking Graduate Students for Fully Funded Research on Agricultural Systems

March 25, 2016

We are seeking two PhD students (and may consider highly skilled students interested in obtaining a Master’s) with deep interests in agricultural systems, ecology, geography, or computer science to join our research team. Applicants do not need to have expertise or backgrounds in each of the above disciplines as unique expertise and depth in each of these disciplines is required to make novel scientific, empirical, and modelling advances and contribute to the success of the larger project. We are seeking specific knowledge and skills in ecological fieldwork (...

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CTV Interview – Day of the Drones

September 29, 2015

A couple weeks ago I was interviewed by CTV for inclusion in a small three-part series on the news at 6, titled “Day of the Drones”. While the interview was focused on the application of unmanned aerial vehicles in my research program, they incorporated a small piece of that interview in Segment 2, which describes the steps to gain approval for commercial and research flights from Transport Canada.... Read more about CTV Interview – Day of the Drones

WICI Talk – Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modelling

March 3, 2015

As an affiliate member of the Waterloo Institute of Complexity and Innovation (WICI), I was invited to give a talk in their on-going speaker series. In an effort to relate my research back to the foundations of WICI and more broadly complexity science, I provided some context about my perspective on research as a geographer with a focus on spatial analysis and land systems, gave a 3-slide introduction to agent-based modelling, described some past research in terms of heterogeneity and interaction (a...

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