In a recent article in The Record, Nandita Basu commented on the potential impact of proposed Bill 66, saying it threatens the environment by allowing municipalities to bypass policies and acts protecting water and land.
Lake Futures is attending AGU 2018 in Washington DC!
Throughout the week there will be presentations and posters from Nandita Basu, post-doctoral fellows and students associated with Lake Futures. This is a great opportunity to find out more about research being done in the Basu Lab. See the schedule below for times and dates.
The University of Waterloo hosted the workshop Local Water Solutions in a Changing Climate on December 5, 2018. Almost 100 researchers, partners and knowledge users attended.
Nandita was invited to speak at the Ohio State University SENR Seminar Series. Her talk was entitled, "Back to the Future: How Past Land Use Impact Current Water Quality".
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.
On June 25th, University of Waterloo Science Faculty and Staff award winners were honoured at the annual Dean's Reception.
The following Lake Futures researchers were acknowledged:
This week, Lake Futures highly qualified personnel (HQP), including PhD students, Master's students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate students, had the opportunity to attend the Lake Futures summer retreat on Lake Erie, in which they were able to see the effects of their research first-hand. Dr. Mark Servos, lead investigator of Work Package 3: Ecosystems, organized the two-day excursion.
Kim Van Meter, a postdoctoral fellow working on the Lake Futures project, won the first place prize among presentations given by postdoctoral fellows at the Global Water Futures (GWF) 2018 Annual Science Meeting. Kim's talk, titled "Biogeochemical Asynchrony", was presented as part of the Watershed Management and Disturbance session, led in part by Lake Futures Project Investigator, Nandita Basu.