On October 24th, 2018, Zobia Jawed gave a guest talk to an Ecology Class at MacMaster University. The talk was titled "Nutrient Changes in the Great Lakes: Addressing Algae Blooms and Biodiversity in an Era of Climate Change". It focused on water as an interdisciplinary issue, looking specifically at waste water treatment plants.
John Dony, a current master's student working on the Lake Futures project, has been awarded the UW Provost Graduate Scholarship. The scholarship started in Fall 2018 and will continue for three semesters.
Congratulations John!
Haiyan Liu, a Lake Futures postdoctoral fellow, attended the 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists in Gothenburg, Sweden this week. At the conference, Haiyan gave an oral presentation of her paper "Modeling Farmers’ Demand for Catastrophic Drought Risk Insurance under Climate Change Using Choice Experiments" in a parallel session.
Great job, Haiyan!
More information about this year's conference can be found on the conference website.
Professor Mark Servos, Canada Research Chair in Water Quality Protection and professor of Biology, Nandita Basu, professor in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering, and post-doctoral fellow, Kim Van Meter, were prominently featured in Kitchener-Waterloo’s local newspaper.
For many Canadians, summer time means time at the lake, swimming, fishing, boating, and relaxing. Nothing can spoil this experience like blue-green mats of muck, caused by algal blooms. These blooms negatively affect not only recreational activities – but also put drinking water source, property values, wildlife, and human health at risk. In the 1970s, scientists discovered that the nutrient phosphorus caused algal blooms, which led to new regulations and improved sewage treatment. Nevertheless, blooms continue to plague many Canadian lakes.