Events

Work with liquid, ion, or gas chromatography, and/ or mass spectrometry (MS)? Need extra support to push your research program forward? Come out to the inaugural meeting for the mass spectrometer user group.

There will be a presentation by the University of Waterloo's Mass Spectrometry Facility's Dr. Richard Smith, followed by an open forum for questions. This will also be a great opportunity to connect with fellow mass spectrometer users for later questions and troubleshooting.

Food will be provided!

Get your ugly Christmas sweaters out of the closet, we are having our Holiday Party on December 1st this year! This year we will be going to both Wellington Brewery for a tour and tasting, then off to Heuther Hotel in Uptown Waterloo! What a fantastic way to launch the month of December off. 

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Curtis Richardson, professor of Resource Ecology and Director of the Duke University Wetland Center, presents, "Decoding the Secrets of Carbon Preservation in Peatlands along a Boreal to Tropical Gradient from Minnesota to Peru."

Register today.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Lovell Endowed Professor Ximing Cai from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will be presenting, "Modelling River Basins as Coupled Human and Natural Systems."

Register today.

As grad students, it can sometimes feel like we have filled our brains with all this niche information that might never be useful... Well at least for one-night let's put all those random water facts to good use for a trivia event all about water! All interested students are welcome for an evening of fun facts with friends. 

‘Blue Drinks’ is an informal event for graduate students to meet and network with leading water professionals from public and private sector alike.

Join our SWIGS Movie Night to watch a film together.

‘Blue Drinks’ is an informal event for graduate students to meet and network with leading water professionals from public and private sector alike. For Blue Drinks #2 of the semester we have the pleasure of hosting Sandra Witt. 

Join us Tuesday November 24^th, 2020 @ 5 – 6:30 pm EST
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Are you struggling with writing from home? Would you like to join a group of like-minded graduate students who have similar writing goals?  SWIGS is excited to partner with the UW Writing and Communication Center to host a weekly virtual writing cafe on Thursdays 3:00 – 5:00pm EST.

Are you struggling with writing from home? Would you like to join a group of like-minded graduate students who have similar writing goals?  SWIGS is excited to partner with the UW Writing and Communication Center to host a weekly virtual writing cafe on Thursdays 3:00 – 5:00pm EST.