Join Lovell Endowed Professor Ximing Cai from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as he presents "Modelling River Basins as Coupled Human and Natural Systems" as part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks series.
For more information about the speaker and the presentation, see the event listing on the Water Institute's 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:
- How do water governance, institutions, aging infrastructure and finance come together to achieve water security in the developed world?
- The science of integrated water management (smart watersheds, water services, agricultural, energy, minerals and other use systems, environmental flows, legacies, collaborative governance, BMPs)
- Climate, renewable energy, economic development and demographic change and migration: challenges or opportunities for regional water security. Water security and conflict (either transboundary water cooperation or armed conflict and water)
Join Curtis Richardson, a professor of Resource Ecology and Director of the Duke University Wetland Center, as he presents "Decoding the Secrets of Carbon Preservation in Peatlands along a Boreal to Tropical Gradient from Minnesota to Peru" as part of the Water Institute's WaterTalk lecture series.
For more information about the speaker and the presentation, visit the Water Institute's page.
The 2018 Canadian Geophysical Union Joint Meeting is being held in Niagara Falls from June 10th to 14th. Members from the Ecohydrology Research Group are presenting two sessions at the conference:
Dr. Claudia Wagner-Riddle from the University of Guelph will be presenting a talk as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series on May 29th.
Join Professor Ryan Walter from California Polytechnic State University as he presents, "What lies beneath: Internal waves in the nearshore coastal environment" as part of the Water Institute's WaterTalk lecture series.
For more information about the speaker and the presentation, visit the Water Institute's page.
Postponed until further notice
Dr. Adam Gordon Yates from Western University will be presenting a talk as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series on May 1st, 2018, titled "Understanding the Effects of Phosphorus Concentration Dynamics on Benthic Primary Production using Artificial Stream Experiments".
Join Sharon Megdal from the University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center as she presents "Groundwater governance and management research: Connecting researchers and practitioners" as part of the Water Institute's WaterTalk lecture series.
For more information about the speaker and the presentation, visit the Water Institute's page.
Join Professor Jay Austin from the University of Minnesota Duluth as he presents "Winter Conditions, Ice, and Climate Change on Lake Superior" - part of the Water Institute's WaterTalk series.
Please register for the event.
For more information about the speaker and the event, visit the Water Institute's page.
Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World
Join the Water Institute in celebrating the University of Waterloo's ninth annual World Water Day event! This year's theme is Nature for Water.
A free lunch is provided for those who register.
Please register for the event, and/or sign up to present a poster.
For more information, visit the event's home page.
The re-emergence of large blooms of benthic filamentous algae in the lower Great Lakes during the late 1990s and early 2000s seemed to run counter to evidence of ecosystem recovery from eutrophication after point-source phosphorus controls were enacted under the Great Lakes under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
Western University will be hosting this year's Canadian Geophysical Union Eastern Student Conference, on Saturday, March 17, 2018. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to present their research and proposed ideas at the conference. Please submit an abstract for a poster presentation if you are interested!
Submissions:
Join Dr. Daniel McLaughlin from Virginia Tech as he presents "Wetland Water Storage: Drivers and Functions at Varying Spatial Scales".
For more information about the speaker and the presentation, visit Water Institute's website.
Please register for the event.
Sustainably producing enough food for the world's growing population is one of this century’s defining challenges. Innovative solutions are needed to increase productivity without further degrading agricultural lands or adversely affecting local and global ecosystems. One promising avenue lies in understanding and managing the soil microbiome, which collectively provides critical ecosystem services that underpin both productivity and sustainability. Management practices that alter the soil environment also alter the soil microbiome.
Join Dr. Emily Stanley as she presents "Aquatic Methane at Small and Large Scales", part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series.
Visit the Water Institute's page for more information.
Please register for the event.
Join the Ecohydrology Research Group on Friday, February 2nd, 2018 for the research symposium and public lecture held in celebration of World Wetlands Day!
Research Symposium
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Presentations from local researchers
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Three minute student research presentations
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
Dr. John Pomeroy, Director of the Global Water Futures (GWF) program, will be giving a presentation about GWF. This information session is open to anyone who is interested in learning more about GWF and the latest program activities.
More information about GWF can be found at: https://gwf.usask.ca/
