Geography and Environmental Management
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Geography and Environmental Management .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Characterizing the Dynamics of Otto Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic: 1992-2020
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-22)The mass loss observed from glaciers in the Canadian Arctic is unprecedented over recent decades (Hugonnet et al., 2021) and is the third largest contributor to global sea level rise (Derksen et al., 2019). One way in which ... -
Improving the efficiency of Calibration in Earth System Modelling with Short-term Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-07)Calibration is an important process in developing Earth system models to reduce the deviations between model and observations and improve model performance. Current calibration process is quite resource demanding, requiring ... -
Improving Predictions of Precipitation Phase over Canada with the Development of a Spatially Aware Parameterization of Rain/Snow Partitioning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)Partitioning precipitation into rain or snow is an important aspect of hydrologic and climatological modelling, affecting a wide variety of downstream processes (Harpold et al., 2017). Current conventional methods typically ... -
Intra-annual and Long-term Dynamic Behaviour of Hubbard and Valerie Glaciers, Alaska
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Western North American mountain regions are warming at a faster rate than the global average, which is influencing the retreat and melting of glaciers, with a 75% disappearance of glacier volume in Western North America ... -
Optimization of Rooftop Delineation from Aerial Imagery with Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)High-definition (HD) maps of building rooftops or footprints are important for urban application and disaster management. Rapid creation of such HD maps through rooftop delineation at the city scale using high-resolution ... -
Dissolved organic carbon concentration and character in northern hardwood-dominated headwater catchments: A paired-catchment investigation of legacy harvesting impacts
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-01)The water quality of forested source water regions can be degraded by natural and anthropogenic landscape disturbances such as wildfires and forest harvesting, the latter an economically important primary industry in Canada ... -
Quantifying the Impacts of Flash Flooding on Dominica’s Material Stocks in Buildings: A GIS-based methodological framework for Small Island States
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-06)Economic growth is usually accompanied by extensive extraction of natural resources, especially in developing countries. From a “material-stock-flow-service” perspective, the substantial part (e.g., construction materials) ... -
Local controls on tree seedling growth following mounding on peatland seismic lines in Brazeau County and Lac La Biche, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-22)Seismic lines in boreal peatlands are struggling to restore native canopy level vegetation. Mounding is a common restoration method that provides an advantageous growing environment for native tree seedlings. Although many ... -
Mining Geotagged Tweets: Tracking Spatiotemporal Variation of Mental Health in Canada during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)This thesis explores and analyzes the evolution of the pandemic as a stressor on mental health in Canada through monitoring the sentiment polarity dynamics, emotion trends, and changes in keywords being discussed on Twitter, ... -
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Human Mobility based on Land Use Types in the Greater Toronto Area during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)The 2019 Coronavirus disease COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It undoubtedly poses a huge challenge in terms of public health and social ... -
Multiple jeopardies: COVID-19 related health and wellbeing among older adults in Uganda
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the disparities in access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) resources and health among various populations and regions, with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) being affected ... -
Upsampling Indoor LiDAR Point Clouds for Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)As an emerging technology, LiDAR point cloud has been applied in a wide range of fields. With the ability to recognize and localize the objects in a scene, point cloud object detection has numerous applications. However, ... -
Legacy Forest Harvesting Impacts on Phosphorus Transport Dynamics in Hardwood Dominated Canadian Shield Catchments: Evaluating Changing Source Availability and Source Channel Connectivity
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-08)Forests are critical to the safe provision of drinking water across the globe and provide over 4.1 trillion USD per year in savings to drinking water treatment costs. These supplies are threatened by climate change-exacerbated ... -
Evaluating flood risk governance with geospatial technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-02)The concept of governance for flood resilience has gained traction in scholarship and practice over the last 15 years. Governance is distinct from government as it recognizes that flood risk management (FRM) is carried out ... -
Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflict: social and ecological dimensions of snow leopard-livestock conflict in Shey Phoksundo National Park
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)Human-wildlife conflict is one of the world’s leading conservation challenges. Carnivores are often found at the forefront of these conflicts with humans, and livestock depredation as a leading cause of conflict between ... -
Edge of Field Vegetated Buffers as a Potential Source of Dissolved Phosphorus over the Non-Growing Season in Cold Climates
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-26)Phosphorus (P) rich runoff from agricultural landscapes are a major contributor to freshwater eutrophication issues. To intercept this runoff before it reaches waterways, vegetated buffer strips (VBS) are often employed ... -
Effects of seismic lines on peatland carbon cycling in boreal Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)Peatlands serve as long-term carbon (C) sinks as well as a significant source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere. Over 134,000 km2 of peatlands are in northern Alberta, a part of the boreal region of Canada where extensive ... -
Remittances, household food security, and entrepreneurship development: A case study of Mzuzu, Malawi
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-16)With the substantial increase in migrant remittances to developing countries since the 1990s, there is a growing interest in migration and development among academics and development practitioners. Remittances, if channelled ... -
Seasonal and Multi-year Variability of Ice Dynamics of South Croker Bay Glacier, Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic from 2015 to 2021
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)The effects of climate change have already been observed across the globe, impacting weather, ecosystems, and society. These effects have been most pronounced in polar regions, which experience warming at a faster rate ... -
Adaptive Capacity, Collaboration, and Adaptive Governance: The Galapagos small-scale fishing sector
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Over the last decades, employing adaptive capacity and vulnerability terms to indicate forms of achieving more sustainable goals, particularly in the management of natural resources, has become increasingly frequent. While ...
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