Past Events

Join us for The Bookshelf’s second Literary Salon, co-sponsored by the School of Environmental Sciences, featuring our own Dr. Madhur Anand in conversation with Barb Minett. This special evening celebrates the publication of Anand’s debut novel, To Place a Rabbit. Dr. Anand is an award-winning poet and author, recipient of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction, and professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph.

Please join us for an School of Environmental Sciences Outreach event examining the intersections of environmental sciences and the literary arts, hosted by our own Dr. Madhur Anand at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. 

The Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute invites everyone for an afternoon of presentations about the preservation of glaciers for World Water Day 2025.

We welcome Dr. Serra-Willow Buchanan as a speaker for our SES Seminar series to talk about "Tiny Pollutants, Big Questions: The Role of Microplastics in Soil Ecosystems". Dr. Serra-Willow Buchanan is a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Environmental Sciences with Dr. Kari Dunfield and Dr. Adam Gillespie. 

We welcome Dr. Alvaro De la Mora as a speaker for our SES Seminar series to talk about "Resistance mechanisms and microbiome changes of honey bees selected for Low Varroa population Growth against Varroa destructor." Alvaro De la Mora has a Ph.D from the Honey Bee Research Centre here at the School of Environmental Sciences. He currently is a postdoctoral fellow at the Honey Bee Health Research lab, at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM), University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

We welcome Dr. Rebecca Saari as a speaker for our SES Seminar series to talk about "Future Air Pollution Alerts under Climate Change: Implications for Health and Health Equity". Rebecca Saari is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Global Change, Atmosphere, and Health, and an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

We welcome Dr. Elisse Magnuson as a speaker for our SES Seminar series to talk about "Microbial life and activity in a Martian analogue". Dr. Magnuson is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Environmental Sciences working with our own Dr. Jackie Goordial. 

Ontario Agricultural College One Health Lecture Series presents Gwynne Dyer "Intervention Earth: Life Saving Ideas from the World's Climate Engineers". 

For our first seminar in collaboration with the EDI committee, we warmly welcome Dr. Marsha Hinds Myrie on October 10th, 2024, for a talk entitled "Positionality and Curriculum Violence in Building Inclusive Teaching Practice".

Indigenous Initiatives presents: Métis professor and architect Dr. David Fortin will discuss an emerging positionality in design away from human-centred thinking and instead towards the enhancement of all life. Framed as an evolution from earlier emphases in architecture focused on Critical Regionalism, or the emphasis on design informed by geography, Critical Relationalism instead asks what relationality means in design and how this can guide intentions when approaching the design process.