News

2024

• Fall

  • Department of Geography and Environmental Studies GG101 Introduction to Physical Geography 2024/2025 Instructional Assistant Marking Positions
  • Department of Geography and Environmental Studies GG102 Introduction to Human Geography 2024/2025 Instructional Assistant (IA) Marking Positions
  • N.W.T.'s Scotty Creek research station rebuilt, now with its own fire-protection system

• Winter

  • How can Canada deliver safe drinking water to First Nation communities? Q and A with Laurier researcher Sheri Longboat
  • Free drone flying experience
  • Future-Ready Northern Research Laurier students helping northern communities adapt to climate change

2023

• Fall

  • Tip of the Ice Road
  • Laurier PhD student Arash Rafat awarded prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

• Summer

  • A climate research hub in the North rises from the ashes
  • 2023/2024 GG102 Introduction to Human Geography Instructional Assistant (IA) Marking Positions
  • 2023/2024 GG101 Introduction to Physical Geography Instructional Assistant Marking Positions
  • Great Lakes’ fragile dunes
  • New Course: GG300P Winter 2024
  • Laura Cobham wins Esri Canada Young Scholars Award
  • Building back Scotty Creek Research Station
  • Homa Kheyrollah Pour selected as Laurier Early Career Researcher Award winner
  • The Dehcho Collaborative on Permafrost (DCoP) is seeking a Post Doctoral Fellow
  • Lifesaving tech installed at Canada's deepest lake by Wilfrid Laurier researchers
  • Indigenous-led climate research station rebuilds after October 2022 wildfire

• Winter

  • Laurier researchers partner with NWT Indigenous Guardians to provide real-time monitoring of lake ice for safe travel
  • Food and Sustainability Certificate
  • Esri Young Scholars Award 2023
  • Esri Canada GIS Scholarships
  • Snigdha Basu MES profile

2022

• Fall

  • 2022/2023 GG102 Instructional Assistant (IA) Marking Positions
  • 2022/2023 GG101 Instructional Assistant Marking Positions

• Summer

  • Laurier PhD student Gifty Attiah using geospatial tools to solve environmental and climate issues
  • Laurier PhD student Geoff Kershaw continues family tradition with research into alpine headwaters in northwestern Canada
  • Environment enhances the writing process at Laurier’s Nature Writing Retreat
  • Capstone Urban Sustainability Project (CUSP) students partner with the City of Cambridge on a project aimed at exploring housing issues

• Winter

  • ES110 Poster Contest Entries. Opens link to flickr display.
  • 2022 BeSpatial Ontario: Nathan Adams Student Bursary ($500) - Due April 1
  • CRRC talk invitation: Future of the Arctic, with Ed Struzik
  • Laurier appoints acting associate vice president and dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
  • Esri Young Scholars Award
  • ReSEC Ice Road Safety

2021

• Fall

  • Job: GG102 Instructional Assistant
  • Job: GG101 Instructional Assistant
  • GG101: Engage the Physical World
  • Introduction to Human Geography (GG102)

• Summer

  • Graduate student opportunities in Integrating SWOT Altimetry and Physics Based Modelling to monitor and predict changes to Arctic-Boreal Lakes
  • Protected Areas and Climate Change GG300J (offered Winter 2022)
  • Laurier co-hosts Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing with focus on climate change in northern regions
  • One Earth, One Health ES274 [online]
  • Our Digital Earth GESC151(OC)
  • 2021 ECO-Award Recipient: Jennifer Marshman
  • PhD position with Remote Sensing of Environmental Change research group

• Winter

  • Alison Mountz receives AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
  • Global Issues in Water and Environmental Health: WASC101
  • Global nurse migration pathways by Sierra Phillips and Harshul Mehta Finalists for the 2020 ArcGIS StoryMaps Competition
  • New Environmental Data Analytics field of specialization available to Masters starting Fall 2021