Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) public lecture - Blockchain: A new foundation for distributed energy resources



Speaker: Jason Jonkman, Senior Engineer, NREL
The Water Institute is excited to announce the 2018 RBC Distinguished Lecture, presented by 2018 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate, Professor Mark van Loosdrecht. This is a free, public lecture.
Anne Bordeleau, O’Donovan Director of the School of Architecture, invites alumni, students, friends and the community to a reception at the Cambridge campus to celebrate the illustrious teaching career of professor Donald McKay.
After the reception, there is an opportunity to hear professor McKay deliver “The Last Lecture”.
Registration includes light refreshments and one drink; cash bar thereafter.

Sankaran Ramalingam, WISE Senior Research Fellow, University of Waterloo

David Thompson, Project Manager, Technical Services, Walker Environmental
Abstract
This talk will focus on the three projects being pursued at the Walker Environmental landfill in Niagara Falls, Ontario through our landfill gas utilization partnership, Integrated Gas Recovery Services (IGRS).

Dr. Sriram Narasimhan
Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
University of Waterloo

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Lovell Endowed Professor Ximing Cai from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will be presenting, "Modelling River Basins as Coupled Human and Natural Systems."
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Curtis Richardson, professor of Resource Ecology and Director of the Duke University Wetland Center, presents, "Decoding the Secrets of Carbon Preservation in Peatlands along a Boreal to Tropical Gradient from Minnesota to Peru."