The 2018 Canadian Science Policy Conference is being held in Ottawa, Ontario, from November 7th to 9th. The theme of this year's conference is "Building Bridges Between Science, Policy, and Society."
The Water Institute and Canadian Rivers Institute are co-hosting the 2018 Hynes Lecturer, Dr. Margaret A. Palmer (University of Maryland), who will be presenting, "Restoration, watershed context, and biogeochemical processes: from streams to wetlands."
For more information about the speaker and the presentation, visit the Water Institute's page.
Please register for the event.
Undergraduate students (in the Earth 436 and Earth 499 courses) in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department will be presenting their work at the Fall Thesis Symposium Day on November 22nd, 2018.
Presentations will be in the Davis Centre (DC) 1302 and 1304. Refreshments will be provided.
Everyone is welcome to attend and support the students!
Professor Keith Hipel, from the Department of Systems Design Engineering will deliver the Miroslaw Romanowski Lecture at the University of Waterloo on November 29th. His talk is titled: "Negotiations over Groundwater Contamination".
Event details and links to registration can be found here.
American Gephysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2018 is taking place in Washington, DC
Abstract: Microbial processes influence geochemical reaction pathways in a range of natural and engineered environments. These processes often result in the precipitation, alteration, or dissolution of mineral phases, thereby also altering the chemistry of the surrounding fluid.
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Dr. Haley M. Sapers
University of Southern California
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Lab
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Dr. Allyson Lee Brady
School of Geography and Earth Sciences
McMaster University
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Dr. James Knighton
Biological and Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
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