World Wetlands Day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2nd 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar.
To celebrate World Wetlands Day the Ecohydrology Research Group invites you to join us for:
- a reception and poster session featuring research on wetlands and
- a distinguished public lecture titled "Reclaiming, using, and protecting wetlands: how the Dutch created The Netherlands" by Professor Jos Verhoeven from Utrecht University in the Netherlands
The poster session will begin at 4:30pm in the atrium of the Centre for Environmental and Information Technology (EIT). There will be a monetary prize for best student poster! Registration to present a poster is now closed, but anyone interested in wetlands research is welcome to attend the reception and view the posters. The reception will have a cash bar and complimentary hors d'oeuvres. Poster titles are listed below.
Professor Verhoeven's lecture will be at 7pm in EIT 1015. Registration for attending in the lecture hall is sold out; however, a large-screen television will broadcast the talk beside the lecture hall (in the EIT atrium with the posters); and the talk will also be broadcast online.
Poster Presentations (4:30 - 6:30)
| Presenter | Title |
| Tariq Aziz | Economic valuation of five waterrelated ecosystem services for different ecological footprints under anthropogenic stresses in the Grand River watershed |
| Bingjie Shi | Importance of Tetrahedral Iron during Microbial Reduction of Clay Mineral NAu-2 |
| Jacqueline Serran | Restoring wetlands through market based instruments |
| Anna Waz | Wetland mapping - Identifying existing and potential wetlands for restoration |
| Zahra Akbarzadeh | Reactive Transport of Nitrogen in Seine River Sediments |
| Ali Ameli | Quantifying hydrologic connectivity of geographically isolated wetlands to surface water systems |
| Alexander Cebulski | Investigating the rate of recovery of ecosystem services in restored wetlands |
| Jason Igras | Wetlands as preventative and mitigative management measures in the pursuit to reduce phosphorus loading to the Great Lakes |
| Fereidoun Rezanezhad | Stream-subsurface nutrient dynamics in a groundwater-fed stream |
| Phaedra Henley | An ecosystem health approach for sustainable development of an African RAMSAR wetland |
| Taylor Maavara | Are dammed reservoirs a global carbon source or sink? |
| Tatjana Milojevic | Effect of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Soil Oxygen Dynamics |
| Danny Hyumin Oh | The influence of water table fluctuation on nutrient dynamics in sand from a freshwater beach environment |
| Ekaterina Markelova | The systematic determination of physical, chemical and microbial influences on EH measurements |
| Elaine Secord | Comparison of EK-ISCO & EK-TAP to Remediate Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Sources & Groundwater Plumes |
| Tristan Gingras-Hill | Assessing the biogeochemical characteristics of a reclaimed upland during the initial stages of succession in a constructed watershed. |
| Igor Markelov | Modeling the Sequence of Oxidant and Reductant Utilization during Organic Matter Decomposition |
| Hans Dürr | Direct inputs of nutrients via Groundwater to near-shore zones of large water bodies: Regional scale approaches and impact |
| Saraswati Saraswati | Road-induced greenhouse gas emissions from boreal peatlands and potential for mitigation |
| Kimberley Murray | Greenhouse gas exchange from sites used as a source of vegetation donor material for peatland restoration |
| Casey Remmer | Developing a hydroecological monitoring program for a remote, hydrologically-dynamic wetland in northern Canada |
| Stephanie Slowinski | Dynamic Nutrient Limitation in a Major Tributary to Eastern Lake Erie: The Role of Groundwater Silicon |
| Colin McCarter | Wastewater contaminant transport and treatment in a nutrient limited ribbed fen |
| Alexandra Engering | Greenhouse Gas Flux on an Inverted Well Pad Peatland Restoration in Peace River, Alberta |
| Eric Kessel | The transport of Sodium from a contaminated tailing sands upland to a constructed fen peatland: two years post-construction |
| Catherine Brown | Determining the impacts of sub-surface irrigation on the CO2 uptake of Sphagnum moss in a reclaimed peatland |
| Frederick Cheng | Nutrient processing rates scale inversely with water residence times |
| Sabrina Touchette | Carbon exchange in a restored peatland: evaluating the role of three graminoid species |
| Behrad Gharedaghloo | Characterization of multiphase flow in peat |
| Sarah Irvine | Vegetation controls on DOC production on a reclaimed fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta |
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