Nandita Basu, Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences, will now serve on the Great Lakes Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, representing Canada.
Meghan Mcleod, an undergraduate research assistant, won the Best Undergrad Poster award at the University of Waterloo World Wetlands Day celebration! Her poster focused on phosphorus legacies in human-impacted watersheds.
Congratulations Meghan!
Multiple Lake Futures researchers presented their work at the University of Waterloo World Wetlands Day 2019 celebration on February 4th. Philippe Van Cappellen opened the event with welcoming remarks, including a brief history of World Wetlands Day with the Ecohydrology Research Group.
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!
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.