The September-October 2019 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality contains a special section “”.
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 in Hong Kong.
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 UݮƵ Geography & Aviation graduates in a promotional video, celebrating women in aviation. The video was featured on their .
Congratulations to our female first officers at Sunwing!
Geography and Environmental Managementgraduate students from theran a successful workshop about Machine Learning for Geospatial Data. This eventwas held in collaboration with the Dana Porter Geospatial Centre.
We would like to congratulate Paul Parker, recipient of the President's Award!
Global tourism accounts for 8% of total worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, four times more than previously believed, new research says.
Some gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat in the atmosphere, producing a "greenhouse effect," and so make the planet warmer. The amount of greenhouse gases released by a particular activity is referred to as its "carbon footprint."
The Department of Geography and Environmental Management is very pleased to announce that Amelia Snow is this year's recipient of the Canadian Association of Geographer's Award. This award is granted annually to the most outstanding students graduating in Geography honours/majors programmes at universities or colleges across Canada. Congratulations Amelia!
In collaboration with Dr. Johanna Wandel, Dr. Derek Robinson, one of the (Department of Geography and Environmental Management's first Master’s of Climate Change students), and Christine Tu (TRCA) the group was awarded funding to support Glenn in an 8 month internship working with the TRCA.
The Department of Geography and Environmental Management is very pleased to announce that Andrei Balulescu, a masters student in our department, has been selected to receive the Lorne Russwurm Award for Outstanding Performance as a TA in the 2013-14 academic year.