🎉 Congratulations to Frances Leung on winning the Esri Canada Centres of Excellence 2026 Winter Blog Award. As a regular contributor to GIS and remote sensing related content to the Esri blog, her article (ecce.esri.ca/uoft-blog/20...) on creating planetary timelapses using satellite imagery.

🌟 GGE students presented research, joined paper sessions, volunteered, and connected with researchers and alumni at ISPRS 2026 and CRSS-SCT 2026. Congratulations to Peter Ge on 2nd Place in the student oral competition and alumnus Mitchell Bonney on the Second Best CJRS Paper Award! 🎉

We are excited to share that the annual newsletter from the Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment is now available! Check out this year’s highlights of achievements, updates, and stories from our students, staff, faculty, and alumni. Read more here: mailchi.mp/utoronto/geo...

Professor Mei-Po Kwan, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, will be visiting us and deliver a guest lecture on July 6 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. The lecture will take place in DV 3130 at the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Imran Smlatic presented his JEG417 undergraduate thesis (supervised by Professor Alanna Bodo) yesterday at the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Annual Meeting 2026 in Halifax. Congratulations, Imran!

We were honoured to take part in UTM’s recent Governing Council tour with President Melanie Woodin and members of Governing Council, highlighting land-based, field-based, and experiential learning across campus. Photo by Nick Iwanyshyn

🎉 We are very pleased to share that GeoTrio, a student team from the Geospatial Data Science program in GGE, won the Second Runner-Up Award in theEsri Canada GIS Centres of Excellence (ECCE) App Challenge 2026. Congratulations to Jad El Asmar, Blaeden Kohout, and Hari Patel for their creativity!

🗺️🩺 Announcing another NEW upper-year course in the HES minor series: GGR380H5, Geographic Approaches to Health Research: Methods and Ethics Students will learn about ethical research practice, with attention to decolonizing methodologies, anti-racist research approaches, and more.

Announcing our upper course in the new HES minor: GGR364H5, Geographies of Global Health Explore global health through a geographic lens, including health inequities, colonial legacies, neoliberal policies, international organizations, and ethical issues in global health practice.

Last group of amazing GGE 2026 Awards of Excellence recipients! 🎉 For full details about all the awards and recipients, please visit our webpage: www.utm.utoronto.ca/geography/aw... #UTM #Geography #Geomatics #environment #AwardsOfExcellence #StudentAchievement #AcademicExcellence

🌎🩺 New course offering this Fall: GGR253H5, Health, Environments, and Society Explore how social, economic, political, physical, and health care environments shape health, wellbeing, and health inequities. Gateway course for our new minor. No prerequisites, all students welcome!

Third group of amazing GGE 2026 Awards of Excellence recipients! 🎉 For full details about all the award and recipient, please visit our webpage: www.utm.utoronto.ca/geography/aw... #UTM #Geogrpahy #Geomatics #environment #AwardsOfExcellence #StudentAchievement #AcademicExcellence

Last week, our GGE team attended the 19th Annual EcoBuzz Conference! 🌿 We enjoyed meeting so many high school students from the Peel Region and sharing information about our Programs in Environment. Thanks to everyone who came by to say hi!

It's the second group! Congratulations once again to all of our 2026 Awards of Excellence recipients! 🎉 Two more groups to come as we continue celebrating this year’s award recipients and their achievements. For full details about all the awards and recipient, please visit our webpage

Congratulations once again to all of our 2026 Awards of Excellence recipients! 🎉 These awards recognize the outstanding hard work, dedication, and contributions our students have made throughout the academic year. More to come as we continue celebrating this year’s award recipients.

We are excited to share that a new minor is launching in the Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment this fall.🎉 Introducing the Health, Environments, and Society Minor. More information is coming soon. Stay tuned and help us spread the word!

Looking for Fall and Winter 2026 to 2027 courses? 🌿❄️🌎 Explore upper-year physical geography courses in climate change, ecosystems, landforms, hazards, Arctic environments, field methods, and more. There will be fun opportunities for fieldwork, hands-on learning, and research too.

Congratulations to all of our graduate students who received awards this year! 🎉 Last night, we were delighted to celebrate their achievements at the University of Toronto Faculty Club. We are so proud of you and grateful for the opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments as a community.

Thinking about what to take in the 2026-2027 semesters? Looking for courses that help you understand the Earth, climate, water, landforms, and environmental change? We have a few physical geography options for you to explore in the new academic year! 🌎✨

Today we are celebrating the end of the 2025 to 2026 GGE Graduate Presentation Series 🎉 A special thank you to Carolyne, Kuang, Lisa, Matthew, Peter, and Tasmia for helping with the events. Congratulations again to all of our graduate presenters on a wonderful and successful series!

A heartfelt thank you to the Department and the GGE Graduate Committee for their generous support in organizing last night’s graduate student dinner. It was a wonderful chance for us to relax, connect, and celebrate the end of the term together.

A wonderful day at the UTM March Open House ✨ Our department was so happy to welcome prospective students and parents to our booth to learn more about our program, meet our community, and explore what studying with us can look like. We cannot wait to see where your journey takes you.

Last month, the GGR317 class went on a field trip to Camp Kawartha to measure snow and ice for an assignment on the spatial variability of snow cover. You can read about the trip in Kate Martin's article. www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/ex...

'Experiential learning is crucial': UTM students get hands-on learning in science of snow | University of Toronto Mississauga

If you want to really understand snow, you have to go where the drifts are deep and the cold wind blows.Students in a third-year geography course on Canada’s frozen environments at the University of T...

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Happy to shared that our MSc student Hafssa Al-Rawi presented her research, titled “Quantifying Ecological Change in Environmentally Significant Areas Under Urban and Climate Pressures: A Remote Sensing Study of Mississauga”, last week at the CECCS Sustainability Research Fair. Well done! 👏

This Wednesday, our first-year Master’s students presented their research for the first time for the GGE Graduate Seminar. Thank you to all the presenters, Abdullahi Salad, Ernest Steele, Hafssa Al-Rawi, Matthew Bowery, Riley Forth for your engaging talks, and to Lily Dart for chairing the session.

How can satellite imagery recreate a major event on Earth through time? GGE PhD student Frances Leung shows how Esri Landsat Explorer can be used to build a planetary time-lapse of the Tweedsmuir wildfire in BC. Link to article: ecce.esri.ca/uoft-blog/20...

Many thanks to the presenters at last Wednesday’s GGE Graduate Seminar Series, PhD students Scarlett Rakowska, Devin Yongzhao Wu, and Frances Leung, for sharing your research, and to Isaac Mendita for chairing the session. #UofT #UTM #Geography #GraduateStudent #ResearchSharing

Former Department of Geography & Planning graduate student and current GGE Undergraduate Program Coordinator Lisa Marno joined ENV100 as a guest lecturer, sharing insights on climate change in the Arctic. Thank you for sharing real-world expertise with our students. ❄️🌍 #UofT #UTM #ENV100 #UTMGGE

Graduate and undergraduate members of the Cryosphere Research Lab, supervised by Prof. Brown, have been monitoring snow and ice conditions on lakes in Central Ontario. They are taking measurements throughout the winter, highlighting the variability in climate and its effects on snow and ice.

GGE ROP students Samira Kamal Eddin and Razia Saleh attended the 2026 Finger Lakes Research Conference in Geneva, NY, USA. They presented the project entitled "Tracing the Evolution of the Polycentric Governance System of the Finger Lakes Watershed: A Canandaigua Case Study". 👏