This week, researchers from Lake Futures met with researchers across all Global Water Futures (GWF) projects at the GWF 2018 Annual Science Meeting, held at McMaster University, in partnership with the Six Nations of the Grand River. The conference spanned over four days (June 3-6, 2018), with plenty of time for plenary talks, poster-viewing, and collaborating with fellow scientists. A video summarizing the event can be found on YouTube.
The following Lake Futures researchers presented sessions at the conference:
Nandita Basu & Philippe Van Cappellen: Regional Issues: Great Lakes
Zobia Jawed: The role of practitioners in DSS formulation
Roy Brouwer: The Economic Costs of Eutrophication in the Great Lakes Basin
Kimberly Van Meter: Biogeochemical Asynchrony (Award won for best presentation given by a Postdoctoral Fellow)
Jennifer Baltzer & Heidi Swanson: Regional Issues: Northern Canada
Mark Servos: Modeling the response of fish to major infrastructure upgrades in wastewater treatment plants
The following Lake Futures HQP and Research Associates presented posters at the conference:
#10 - Melani-Ivy Samson: Urban Metabolism of the Greater Toronto Area: A Study of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Across an Urban, Suburban, and Rural Continuum
#12 - Homa Kheyrollah Pour: Seasonal Patterns of Chlorophyll and Temperature in Lakes: Detection and Attribution of Climate Change Signal
#38 - Jessica Ives: Assessing drivers of human-induced change in Lake Erie using fuzzy cognitive mapping
#48 - Serghei Bocaniov: Understanding the role of large-scale physical processes in algal bloom formation in a large shallow lake (Lake St. Clair, U.S.A. – Canada)
#59 - Ming Han: Developing crop growth model in Raven
#66 - Igor Markelov: Dynamic modelling of geochemical (C, N, P, Fe, O, S) fluxes in lakes using a coupled water-column and sediment diagenesis model
#89 - Zobia Jawed: Use of Decision Support Tools to Address Emerging Issues in the Great Lakes
Melani with her poster
Thank you to those who organized the conference. We are all looking forward to next year's Annual Science Meeting in Saskatoon!