Seminar

As part of the Water Institute's webinar series: The Value of Water in Canada, Merrell-Ann Phare, Commissioner, International Joint Commission, Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), will present: Safeguarding water values through collaborative water governance.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Patricia Chow-Fraser, Professor, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, will present: Déjà vu or Jamais vu? Using a 20-y record to discern how coastal wetlands of eastern and northern Georgian Bay responds to climate-induced water-level disturbances.

Join the Water Institute in person for World Water Day 2024 celebrations! More information, including speaker profiles, can be seen on the World Water Day event website. 

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University, will present: Economics of valuing water resources.

In this talk, Dr. David Fortin offers an overview of the challenges facing Indigenous design within a mostly commodified built environment.

As part of the Water Institute's webinar series: The Value of Water in Canada, Steve Brown, Senior Associate, Water Resources, Stantec, will present: Stream restoration as a tool for water asset management.

Join this health and data seminar to learn about opportunities to improve your access to health data at the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). The seminar will introduce the important and rich information available at CIHI, share progress being made in Canada towards better health data, and discuss working with CIHI data as a researcher or partner.

Toward Decolonizing UW Health Studies Collaborative Speaker Series Invites You To Our 2024 Winter Webinar: Setting the table for culturally safe food conversations with Indigenous Peoples in Canada on Jan 31 at 6pm EST. 

On January 26, Brock Hart, co-founder of Overlap, will share compelling stories and insights from Overlap's 12-year history. In "Designing Hope," Brock will unveil the art of complex problem-solving through the lens of design-based methods.

Dr. Stuart Phillips, professor of Kinesiology at McMaster, Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health and UWaterloo alum, will speak on the interaction of exercise/physical activity, aging and nutrition in skeletal muscle and body composition.