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The NSERC Chair group attended the 2022 Ontario’s Water Conference & Trade Show, which was organized by OWWA and was held from May 2^nd to May 4^th in Niagara Falls. Chair members delivered five oral presentations and two poster presentations at this conference in different sessions, ranging from climate change, distribution, and treatment, to university research.

Climate Change Session

Kirti Nemani,PhD Candidate

The NSERC Chair group will attend the 2022 Ontario’s Water Conference & Trade Show (https://pheedloop.com/owwa22/site/program/), which is organized by OWWA and will be held from May 2^nd to May 4^th in Niagara Falls. Chair members will deliver five oral presentations and two poster presentations at this conference. See below for titles and short abstracts of the presentations:

Climate Change Session

Tuesday, May 3, 10:30 am - 11 am

Thesis Title: Super-fine Powdered Activated Carbon for the Removal of Microcystin-LR from Drinking Water

This year Information Day for our partners was held virtually as well and was comprised of two different webinars. The first webinar was held on November 3rd and was facilitated by UW NSERC Chair Dr. Peter Huck. Guest speaker was Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology, Ph.D.

NSERC Alliance Grant: Microplastics fingerprinting at the watershed scale: From sources to receivers