World Wetlands Day Public Lecture and Poster Session

World Wetlands Day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2^nd 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