Past Events

Grade 11 and 12 students are invited to participate in a unique opportunity to learn about our new Bachelor of Indigenous Environmental Science and Practice (BIESP) undergraduate program.  This event will include a program presentation and panel including current student support staff, program experts, and faculty to answer all your questions. Registrants will receive a package including a University of Guelph viewbook, program brochure, and swag.

  Hammond Lecture Series 2021 | Featuring Dr. Marc-André Parisien FOREST FIRES: Our Current Understandings The Hammond Lecture Series began in 2000 in honour of Kenneth Hammond, founder of Hammond Manufacturing and former member of U of G’s Board of Governors. Hammond was an advocate of environmental and resource issues and environmental education.

Connor Kiselchuk will defend the MSc thesis "Carbon Dioxide Production from Organic Waste Recycled in Controlled Environment Agriculture Systems"  Advisor: Dr. Mike Dixon and Dr. Thomas Graham (co-advisor) Advisory Committee: Dr. Gordon Price Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)    

Caitlin MacDonald will defend the MSc thesis "Physiological host range and occurrence of Trissolcus japonicus, a parasitoid of the brown marmorated stink bug in southern Ontario"  Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Scott-Dupree Advisory Committee: Dr. Tara Gariepy (co-advisor), Hannah Fraser Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)  

The School of Environmental Sciences Graduate Student council presents 2021 Virtual Graduate Student Conference on May 27, 2021 The program can be found here: https://ses.uoguelph.ca/ses-2021-virtual-graduate-student-conference

Jacob Lachapelle will defend his MSc thesis "A microscale 3‐D model of urban outdoor thermal exposure (TUF‐Pedestrian): impacts of street tree configuration"  Advisor: Dr. Scott Krayenhoff Advisory Committee: Dr. Jon Warland, Dr. Ariane Middel Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)  

Emily Agar will defend the MSc thesis "Investigating the relative impacts of environmental stressors on wild bee community composition through an analysis of historical records"  Advisor: Dr. Nigel Raine Advisory Committee: Dr. D. van Engelsdorp Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)  

Ashley Garland will defend her MSc thesis "Characterizing solidified industrial waste for greenhouse crop production"  Advisor: Dr. Asim Biswas Advisory Committee: Dr. Youbin Zheng Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca)  

  Komathy Prapagar will defend her PhD thesis "Quantifying the variability and dynamics of soil hydromorphism in the riparian buffer systems"  Advisor: Dr. Richard Heck Advisory Committee: Dr. Naresh Thevathasan & Dr. Asim Biswas Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca) Abstract:

Jessica Awrey will defend her PhD thesis "Long‐term cover crop impacts on processing tomato production: fruit yield and quality, disease, and plant N content"  Advisor: Dr. Laura Van Eerd Advisory Committee: Dr. Cheryl Trueman & Dr. Kimberley Schneider Everyone is welcome. If you would like to attend, please inquire with our Graduate Program Assistant (ses.gradsec@uoguelph.ca) Abstract: