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Green Mining Science Camp commences May 20th to 25th. Teachers and students from mining communities from across the country and from South Africa will be participating in a week long hands on science camp that demonstrates the issues with acid mine drainage. The event has been sponsored by the RBC Blue Water Foundation Endowment. Classroom on the side of a mountain, Earth/Envir Sc 4FF3 Field Camp in the McMaster Daily News Congratulations to Sandra Micucci who defended successfully her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations to Rachel Humphrey for winning the 2012 CMOS Undergraduate Scholarship from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanography Society Congratulations to Lily DeMiglio who won the Award for Best Oral Paper at the Hospice Palliative Care Ontario 2012 Conference, April 29 - May 2nd, held in Richmond Hill. McMaster University and SGES is proud to announce the launch of two new awards honouring Gerard Middleton and Roger Walker. The Middleton/Walker Tribute Fund Congratulations to Keri Cameron on passing her doctoral comprehensive examination. Congratulations to Jeanette Eby who was honored by YWCA as a young woman of disctinction.
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SGES Seminar
School of Geography & Earth Sciences Seminar Series will continue in the Fall
Date: Tuesday , 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Place: General Sciences Building, Rm. 330
All are welcome to attend!
Institutes and Centres
- Centre for Spatial Analysis
- McMaster Centre for Climate Change
- McMaster Institute of Environment & Health
- McMaster Institute for Transportation & Logistics
Canada Research Chairs
SGES Research Labs
- AGE Laboratory
- GIS Laboratory
- H2O Water Group
- Hydrometeorology and Climate Research Lab
- McMaster Ecohydrology Research Group
- McMaster Research Group for Stable Isotopologues
- Subsurface Contaminant Hydrology Research Group
- Timely Access & Seamless Transitions in Rural Palliative/End-of-Life Care
- Water Resources and Hydrologic Modeling Lab
- Watershed Hydrology Group
Geographical Associations
- Association of American Geographer
- Canadian Association of Geographer
- Canadian Geophysical Union
- Geological Association of Canada
- International Geographical Union
Conferences
- GEOIDE, 2011 Annual Scientific Conference, Quebec City, May 14-17, 2012
- GAC®-MAC,St. John's 2012 - May 27-29, 2012
- CAG, Annual Meeting, May 28-June 2,Waterloo, 2012
- 46th CMOS Congress, Montreal QC, May 29 - June 1, 2012
- CGU, Canadian Geophysical Union Annual Scientific Meeting, Banff, Alberta, June 4-8, 2012
- American Geophysical Union, 6–10 December 2012, San Francisco, California, USA
- TRANSLOG 2011, October 15-16, Hamilton 2012
- AAG Annual Meeting, April 9-13, 2013 - LOS ANGELES 2013
Events and Information
- Resource Schedule Geo Room Booking
Green Mining Science Camp
May 20th to May 25th
Sponsored by RBC Blue Water Endowment

New Scholarship Information
McMaster University and SGES is proud to announce the launch of two new awards honouring Gerard Middleton and Roger Walker.
THE MIDDLETON / WALKER TRIBUTE FUND
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