Events

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.

Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World

Many of us have been awed by the stunningly beautiful view of alpine lakes and streams- and they are not just beautiful. Nearly half of the world’s population relies on rivers originating in high mountains for water supply. Source areas of mountain streams have rugged topography with sparse soil and vegetation covers, and were once considered “Teflon basins” that have minimum capacity to store groundwater.

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.

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.

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 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.

Dr. Claudia Wagner-Riddle from the University of Guelph will be presenting a talk as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series on May 29th.

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:

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 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)