Events

Biogeochemical Cycling of Nutrient Silicon in a Human-Impacted Large Lake Nearshore Environment (Hamilton Harbour Area of Concern, Lake Ontario, Canada)

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.

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/

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 

• Presentations from local researchers 

• Three minute student research presentations

• Poster session (registration deadline extended to January 26th)

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.

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. 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.

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:

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.