Gifty defends her PhD thesis!

ReSEC Research Group PhD student Gifty Attiah successfully defended her thesis on September 09, 2024.

ReSEC Research Group Publishes a New Study on A Polar Lakes - Great Bear Lake

Seasonal Temperature and Circulation Patterns in a Hybrid Polar Lake, Great Bear Lake, Canada paper is published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Alicia Pouw wins prestigious Doctoral Weston Family Awards in Northern Research

Congratulations Alicia on this achievement! Read more about the news here

ReSEC PhD Student Alicia Awarded Dr. Weston Blake Jr. Memorial Doctoral Scholarship

We are thrilled to announce that Alicia, our PhD student, has been awarded the Dr. Weston Blake Jr. Memorial Doctoral Scholarship.

New Publication: Impact of Gravel Highways on Arctic Lake Ecosystems: A Collaborative Study by ReSEC & Freshwater Ecology Lab

A recent collaborative study between the ReSEC and Freshwater Ecology Lab (Department of Biology at Laurier), explored the effects of gravel highways on water quality

Congratulations to Arash for winning the Best Presentation Award at the 27th IAHR International Symposium on Ice

ReSEC PhD student, Arash Rafat, attended the 27th IAHR International Symposium on Ice (IAHR).

ReSEC Lab Published a Study Assessing Ice Break-Up Trends in Slave River Delta through Satellite Observations and Random Forest Modeling

A new study led by Ida Moalemi of ReSEC Lab, published in the Remote Sensing Journal, investigates the ice break-up trends in the Slave River Delta (SRD) and their impact on the GSL

ReSEC Lab Published a Study on Evaluation of Semi-Empirical Approaches to Retrieve Satellite-Derived Lake Chlorophyll-a Concentrations

The new study led by ReSEC/Ecohydrology MSc, Ali Reza Shahvaran, publised in Remote Sensing Journal. This study We evaluated products of 11 atmospheric correction processors as well as 27

ReSEC Lab New Study Reveals Decades of Temperature Changes in Over 500 Canadian Lakes

The new study led by ReSEC PhD candidate, Gifty Attiah, publised in Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. This study shows a comprehensive analysis of temperature changes

Arash Rafat awarded prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

ReSEC Team memebre, Arash Rafat (PhD student) has been awarded a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship an award of $150,000 over three years to continue his studies.

Congratulations to Arash for winning the Best Presentation Award at CRIPE 2023

ReSEC PhD student, Arash Rafat, attended the 22nd workshop on the hydraulics of ice-covered rivers (CRIPE). CRIPE organizes a Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers every two years

ReSEC students presented at CSRS 2023 in Yellowknife, NWT

ReSEC members presented at 44th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing (CSRS) titled "Remote Sensing For A Resilient Future: Monitoring Our Dynamic Environment.". The conference was held in

New Study by ReSEC uses GPR to Enhance Understanding of Snow and Lake Ice Interactions

ReSEC research PhD Student, Alicia Pouw, led a research paper, published in The Cryosphere Journal entitled “Mapping snow depth on Canadian sub-arctic lakes using ground-penetrating radar”

Homa receives the 2023-24 Laurier Early Career Researcher Award from the Faculty of Science

Wilfrid Laurier University is honouring three of its faculty members with Early Career Researcher Awards. The internal awards recognize professors who are early in their careers and have

ReSEC Research Group Attended GWF Finale

Members of ReSEC Research Group attended the Global Water Futures (GWF) Final Open Science Meeting - "Results, Capacities, and Solutions" on May 15-17, 2023

New Paper by ReSEC Team on Developing New Algorithm to Retrieve Lake Surface Temperatures since 1984

ReSEC research group members Gifty Attiah (PhD candidate) and Homa Kheyrollah Pour, in collaboration with Department of Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo (Dr. Andrea Scot

ReSEC partners with NWT Indigenous Guardians for real-time monitoring of lake ice

ReSEC team partnered with the community of Łutsël K'é (pronounced “loot-sell-kay”) on ice safety monitoring and community capacity building and installed sensors in two locations on Great Sl

New Paper by ReSEC Team on Thermodynamic Interactions Between Air, Snow, Ice, and Water on Lake ice

ReSEC research group members Arash Rafat (PhD student), Alex MacLean and Homa Kheyrollah Pour, in collaboration with Aurora Research Institute and Environment and Climate Change Canada, publ

ReSEC research group member presented at ArcticNet 2022

Ida Moalemi, ReSEC MSc student presented her research on "Ice Cover and Water Classification on Slave River and Peace-Athabasca Deltas, Using Machine Learning Techniques​" at ArcticNet ASM 2

ReSEC graduate student Arash Rafat receives the Max and Lynn Blouw Graduate Student Scholarship

Arash Rafat, a first-year PhD student in ReSEC, was awarded the 2022-2023 Max and Lynn Blouw Graduate Student Scholarship at Wilfrid Laurier University. This scholarship recognizes a graduat

Homa presented at Laurier's Inspiring Conversations Series - Confronting Climate Change in Canada's

Homa presented at Laurier's Inspiring Conversations Series "Confronting Climate Change in Canada's" In this Inspiring Conversation, held on Nov. 30, 2022, three of Laurier’s leading researc

ReSEC Members present at 35th Annual Cold Regions Conference

Members of the Remote Sensing of Environmental Change research group took to the 35th annual Cold Regions Research Centre Annual Conference on November 24th and 25th. The following is a list

New paper alert on the timing and rates of chlorophyll-a in global temperate & cold-temperate lakes

A new paper published in Earth System Science Data, researchers from ReSEC and Ecohydrology Research Group at the University of Waterloo assembled a dataset on chlorophyll-a concentrations p

ReSEC member participated in the NASA SnowEX 2022 - 2023 field campaign

This October, ReSEC Lab member Alicia Pouw (PhD student) had the opportunity to participate in the NASA SnowEX 2022 - 2023 field campaign. Focused on the tundra and boreal forest snow, Alici

PhD student, Michael Dallosch, presented at CSRS 2022

Michael Dallosch, WLU/UW student presented his PhD project results at 10th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics & 43rd Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing results on "Lake Ice as

Congratulations to Alicia for winning the Campbell scientific Canada prize - Eastern Snow Conference

Members of ReSEC Research Group attended the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 56th Congress, the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) Annual Meeting, and the 78th Eastern

ReSEC member at the Canadian Water Summit 2022!

Arash Rafat, ReSEC member, attended the Canadian Water Summit sponsored by Laurier's Sustainability Office. This year’s summit saw the inaugural Downstream Networking Event which was designe

ReSEC Research Group Attended GWF 2022

Members of ReSEC Research Group attended the Global Water Futures 2022 Annual Open Science Meeting (GWF ASM) virtual conference on May 16th – 18th 2022!

Congratulations to Arash on being named as one of the recipients of the 2022 Weston Family Award

Arash Rafat has been have been named as one of the recipients of the 2022 Weston Family Award in Northern Research (Master's Level).

Vivian Gao Biology/ReSEC student presented at CCFFR-SCL 2022

Vivian Gao, Laurier Biology/Geography student presented her MES thesis preliminary results on "How might gravel roads influence macroinvertebrate communities in Arctic lakes? at CCFFR-CSL 2

ReSEC member, Alicia Pouw, among the impressive list of women and Girls in Science at Laurier

Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To celebrate, meet some of the impressive women at Laurier who are studying in scientific fields and empowering future generations t

Simba the apparatus — not the lion — helping measure ice thickness in N.W.T.

ReSEC members talking about the research on monitoring lake ice conditions using SIMBAs in the NWT with CBC North. To most people, the names Simba and Mufasa might be characters in The Lio

Duo hope to use research data to make ice travel safer

ReSEC members talking about the research on monitoring lake ice conditions using SIMBAs in the NWT with NNSL Media. Homa Kheyrollah Pour and Arash Rafat, an assistant professor of geography

ReSEC Research Group on Laurier News Hub

This is SIMBA. It may look simple, but this sensor collects real-time measurements of ice thickness and snow depth. ReSEC research group members are installing sensors across the #NWT to imp

New paper presents 10 best practices in water data management

A new paper in the journal Hydrological Processes outlines 10 best practices for data stewardship to help water science researchers to share their data according to the findable, accessible,

ReSEC members winners of CRRC Days 3-minute research synopsis competition

Alicia Pouw (MSc student), Arash Rafat (GES MSc) and Ethan Lim (RA, Sir John A. Macdonald High School) won the 3-minute research synopsis competition of their research project in the 34th an

ReSEC Members present at 34th annual CRRC Days 2021

Members of the Remote Sensing of Environmental Change research group took to the 34th annual Cold Regions Research Centre conference on November 25th and 26th that was held virtually. PhD st

Alicia & Jason presented awards during the 42nd Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing

Alicia & Jason presented awards during the 42nd Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing

ReSEC team co-hosting Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing 2021

ReSEC team is co-hosting the 42nd annual Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing (CSRS), a virtual event taking place from June 21 to 24. This year’s theme is Understanding Our World: Remote Se

New paper Published by ReSEC Team members in Journal of Hydrology

Rahim Barzegar and Homa Kheyrollah published a paper titled “Improving GALDIT-based groundwater vulnerability predictive mapping using coupled resampling algorithms and machine learning mode

ReSEC Research attended GWF 2021 Annual Science Meeting

ReSEC research group members attended the 2021 GWF virtual conference on May 17-19 2021!

ReSEC group students awarded NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships

Jane Ye current ReSEC/Ecohydrology Research Group undergraduate student and Arash Rafat recently joined ReSEC lab have been awarded NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships for their upcoming Mast

ReSEC Members attended Arctic Science Summit Week 2021 (ASSW 2021)

Members of the Remote Sensing of Environmental Change research group attended Arctic Science Summit Week 2021 which took place online from Lisbon 19 to 26 March 2021 with the theme "The Arct

ReSEC Member on CBC news talking about ice road monitoring

For many northern communities, ice roads are essential for accessing things like food and fuel. But climate change is causing them to be less reliable, and often unsafe. Homa discussed this

Homa presented at Laurier's Biology Seminar Series

Homa presented at Laurier's Biology Seminar Series on the “Vulnerability of cold regions lakes to global environmental pressures”.

Alicia and Jane winners of 1st and 2nd place CRRC Days 3-minute research synopsis competition

Alicia Pouw (MSc student) won first place and Jane Ye (undergraduate thesis student) won second place in the 3-minute research synopsis competition of their research project in the 33rd annu

ReSEC Members present at 33rd annual CRRC Days 2020

Members of the Remote Sensing of Environmental Change research group took to the 33rd annual Cold Regions Research Centre conference on November 26th and 27th that was held remotely to intro

GWF invests in Laurier research on impacts of climate change in the Arctic

Kheyrollah Pour, assistant professor of Geography and Environmental Studies and Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change, is studying the effects of climate change on

New paper co-authored by ReSEC Team members published in Journal of Great Lakes Research

Homa Kheyrollah Pour co-authored a paper titled “Retrieval of ice/water observations from synthetic aperture radar imagery for use in lake ice data assimilation”, which was recently publishe

ReSEC Members Present Research at CSRS 2020 Annual Meeting

Homa Kheyrollah Pour and Jeremy Harbinson attended the 41st Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing Virtually and Homa presented the overview of ReSEC Research.

Researching Climate Change with Wilfrid Laurier University

Leading research on global warming is being conducted by Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, using the Deep Trekker DTG3. Dispatching to Délı̨nę, within the Tsá Tué International Biosphere R

Homa Kheyrollah pour to receive NSERC Discovery & Discovery Launch Supplement Grant

How Underwater Data Collection is Made Easy with a Deep Trekker ROV

ReSEC Team members recently returned from the Northwest Territories after conducting research on global warming using the DTG3 .

Jason Skidmore and Jane Ye awarded NSERC USRA

Jason Skidmore and Jane Ye awarded the National Science and Engineering Research Council Undergraduate Student Research awards for Spring 2020.

ReSEC team among five Laurier research teams who are helping protect the Earth

Laurier is home to dozens of researchers studying ways to save and adapt to our warming planet. This Earth Day, we highlight five faculty members on the frontlines of the fight against clima

ReSEC Lab Research on Climate Change Using DTG3

Laurier has a longstanding research partnership with the Government of the Northwest Territories through their Centre for Cold Regions and Water Science. Using the DTG3, ReSEC team set out t

Homa Kheyrollah Pour to receive funding from Ontario’s Ministry of Economic

Four Laurier researchers receive provincial funding for projects that tackle pressing societal issues

Homa Kheyrollah Pour to co-chair the program committee of Canadian Science Policy Conference 2019

The 11th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference was held on November 13-15 in Ottawa. The conference brings together policy-makers and researchers from government, academia, NGOs