Dr John Pomeroy will provide an update on the Global Water Futures (GWF) Program, since its inception on September 6, 2016 and its future plans for national and international engagements
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting is taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana from December 11th to 15th, 2017. Ecohydrology Group researchers, Geertje Pronk, Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Philippe Van Cappellen, organized a session titled “Integrative Approaches to Advance Understanding of Soil and Sediment Biogeochemical Functioning”.
Details about AGU 2017 can be found on the official website.
The 61st Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, will be held at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Ontario from June 18-22, 2018. The theme for 2018 is Great Science for Tomorrow’s Solutions.
Abstract submissions for both oral and poster presentations are welcome. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 19, 2018. View the Call for Abstracts for details.
Proposed sessions chaired by University of Waterloo researchers:
The 1st International Conference on Water Security will be held in Toronto, Ontario. The conference complements the launch of Elsevier's new journal on Water Security.
Themes and topics:
The 2nd International Summit on Water Environmental Management will be held November 27th, 2017 in Nanjing, China. The Summit will bring together international audiences from academia, government, and industry and will serve as a forum for participants to exchange insights and generate knowledge on sustainable water management and promote international technology cooperation in water.
Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen will present a keynote lecture titled: "Evolving Concepts in Integrated Water Management - Environmental Indicators, Ecosystem Services and Environmental Flows".
Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Ecohydrology Assistant Professor, attended the “Subsurface and Coastal Water Dynamics and Peatland Ecology” Summer School organized by the Baltic TRANSCOAST research training group in Rostock, Germany. Fereidoun is a Mercator Fellow in the Baltic TRANSCOAST program and during this Summer School he gave 3 lectures on peat biogeochemical processes and presented the importance of peat structure on water storage, flow and solute transport using experimental and modeling approaches.
Presentations from local researchers
Three minute student research presentations
Poster session (registration deadline extended to January 26th)