Blue Drinks # 1 : Dr. Sarah Gewurtz

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Blue Drinks: Dr. Sarah Gewurtz

‘Blue Drinks’ is an informal event for graduate students to meet and network with leading water professionals from public and private sector alike. We are excited to share that we will be continuing the SWIGS tradition by hosting 2 Blue Drinks events this Fall term.

For the first Blue Drinks event, we are pleased to have Dr. Sarah Gewurtz, Physical Scientist from Environment and Climate Change Canada on Wednesday Oct 28 at 5:00 – 6.30pm EST. Dr. Gewurtz brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in environmental sciences and risk assessment from her various positions in private sector, and provincial and federal governments. Join us virtually in MS teams for an evening of networking, career guidance and professional development. You will have an opportunity to connect in small groups with Dr. Gewurtz and your peers in break-out rooms.

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Dr. Sarah Gewurtz
Dr. Sarah Gewurtz is proud to be the newest member of Environment and Climate Change Canada’s    Wastewater Monitoring Unit.  “We manage a monitoring program that measures contaminants of concern in wastewater treatment plants across Canada.”  She has spent much of her career conducting monitoring and surveillance studies on trace contaminants in the environment. 

She received a B.Sc. at the University of Guelph in Environment Science, a M.Sc. at the University of Windsor in Biological Sciences, and a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in Geography/Environmental Science, where she focused on studies related to environmental science, particularly on the fate and transport of contaminants.  She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks.  Sarah worked as a Risk Assessor at GHD in Waterloo, Ontario for seven years, where she conducted ecological and human health risk assessments on contaminated sites throughout North America.