A new publication from Jonas Hamberg, PhD (they/them) (who did the heavy lifting), Derek Robinson , Andrew Trant, Paul Richardson (post doc) and me on restoration using soil translocation Wiley Ecology & Evolution (as EIC I am never involved in Rest Ecol reviews of my own papers)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re…

School of the Environment @ UWindsor Thanks for a great day meeting #Students & faculty from School of the Environment @ UWindsor & GLIER at UWindsor. Great discussions about #fish #telemetry #data , #drones / #uav , and so much more. First time to see an autonomous under water vehicle too! The Slocum Glider. Waterloo Geography

New collection of Jupyter Notebooks enables programmatic access to cloud-hosted USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) lidar data

Blog: opentopography.org/blog/new-colle…
GitHub: github.com/OpenTopography…

#lidar #dataviz #3dep

Put the land back in the Greenbelt now! Auditor General's report shows that the Ontario Government colluded with developers to remove lands from the Greenbelt environmentaldefence.ca/2023/08/09/sta… via EnvironmentalDefence #HandsOffTheGreenbelt #onpoli

Very excited to continue working w Korotu to quantify #tree #carbon as a WWF-Canada RBC Microsoft Nature x Carbon Tech Finalist! Our Phoenix LiDAR #drone / #uav & Mitacs funded Waterloo Geography #students are shown with other fantastic finalists. Thank you WWF-Canada!

Pleased to share a new paper discussing the opportunities for #AI to increase the representation of #learning in #agent -based #models . Led by the great Li AN SDSU Geography and coauthored by many other great colleagues. authors.elsevier.com/c/1hA584sKhEZG…

#UWaterloo is proud to announce that a full tuition waiver will be offered to all qualifying students from two First Nation communities on whose traditional territory the University is situated.

More: bit.ly/431yA10 | #UWaterloo News

New set of #drone / #uav presentations provided by
Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Aeronautics brings @SkySightCanada, Drone Spray Canada, GHD, and Terresky together to talk about #agriculture , #Construction , #ecology , #carbon monitoring, and #realestate applications
youtu.be/51Hx7EXKooU #Geography

Lots of fun talking about #remotesensing #drones / #UAV with pix4d Phoenix LiDAR at the ' #mapping the past' workshop hosted by Environments of Change University of Waterloo today. Great questions and intersection of #History and #Geography !

Canada's grad students haven't had a raise in 20 years. So on Monday they're walking out in protest. My story for nature
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Another great Annual General Meeting w Environments of Change SSHRC project led by Steven Bednarski St.Jerome's University & including many others like Andrew Trant Waterloo Environment, Zack MacDonald. Inclusion of AR for Gr4 by @aliringbull Waterloo Region DSB & Nick Graham Queen's University... & some #drone work too!

Using #drones / #uav w Waterloo Geography #MSc #student B. Giura to monitor ephemeral gullies in Southern Ontario w Asim Biswas Prasad Daggupati Hitesh School of Environmental Sciences and generously funded by Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Stay tuned for exciting results and drone vs manual measurements!

We were so lucky to learn about drones and their uses from U of W Prof Derek Robinson (Sheppard Dad) and Masters student Brandon Giura. Thank you Derek and Brandon for giving our Flyers such a cool and amazing presentation! Waterloo Region DSB

Perfect weather to resume field activities to monitor ephemeral gullies in Southern Ontario Asim Biswas Prasad Daggupati Derek Robinson Thanks School of Environmental Sciences Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs NSERC CREATE Climate-Smart Soils

It’s official - as of today, all Canada Student Loans and Canada Apprentice Loans are permanently interest-free, including ones being repaid right now.

We know the pandemic has been hard on students, and we'll be there for them for as long as it takes.

Weather forced us indoors for University of Waterloo #drone #course #Geography and #aviation 270, but we used the opportunity to break out all the gear! LeicaGeosystems GS18 DJI #inspire1 #matrice 600, Teledyne FLIR R60, and Phoenix LiDAR w RIEGL. Great questions & discussion!

#UWaterloo ranked among the top 30 universities in the world across 2 subject areas of the QS World University Rankings 2023. #UWaterloo 's strengths in STEM were complemented by showings in hospitality and leisure studies and environmental sciences. More: bit.ly/3lHFLuK

Join us on Wed, March 22 at 9AM for our 1st WISA Talks of the year!

WISA Associate Director Derek Robinson will be leading a talk about the multiple applications of drones such as remote sensing, thermal imaging, mapping, crop spraying, infrastructure inspection, and more!

We’re looking for grad students for this fully funded project studying biodiversity in urban settings. Check out the #waterloowetlandlab for details. Please share! Start May or September

Thanks to Craig Willis for presenting on Whole Tale! Webinar recording now available for viewing here: youtube.com/watch?v=liteBV…