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.
Dr. James Craig, Dr. Bryan Tolson, and Dr. Kevin Shook (University of Saskatchewan) will be teaching CIVE 781: Principles of Hydrologic Modelling at the University of Waterloo from June 4th to 8th. The professional short course will address the creation, development, and application of watershed hydrology models.
While this year's course is full, those interested can be put on next year's notification list.
On Friday, six members of our team met with researchers at Environment Canada to discuss the Lake Futures project. The two groups exchanged information to see where our projects and programs intersect with respect to current plans, and what types of environmental data will be required moving forward.
The attendees of the meeting were: Philippe Van Cappellen, Serghei Bocaniov, Kiana Zolfaghari, Homa Kheyrollah Pour, Igor Markelov, and Tatjana Milojevic from Lake Futures, and Sean Backus, Alice Dove, Caren Binding, Luis Leon, and David Depew from Environment Canada.
Yesterday, researchers Kim Van Meter, Guy Tenkouano, Frederick Cheng, Amanda Niederkorn, Roland Hall, and Lisa Kester travelled to the Belwood Reservoir to gather sediment core samples. Luckily, they were greeted by beautiful weather.
The Global Water Futures (GWF) Inception Meeting took place this week, on January 22nd and 23rd, at Wilfrid Laurier University. The meeting featured presentations from Principal Investigators and researchers from the GWF team, including Lake Futures PI, Dr. Nandita Basu.
For more information, please visit the Global Water Futures website, and the Lake Futures Inception Meeting presentation, posted under our new Resources tab.