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Welcome to a winter term chock-full of networking, conferences, fun social events, and academic workshops!

Read below for event details and check out all other events at http://bit.ly/uwswigsevents.

SWIGS is looking for volunteers! Please see our volunteer page.

If you would like to get involved with SWIGS or have any suggestions for events/workshops, please contact us at: uw.swigs@gmail.com

Do you like Science? Do you like beer? Then boy, do I have a fun proposition for you!

The Laurel Creek Citizens Working Group is recruiting volunteers for the upcoming year, to help plan stewardship activities and educational aquatic activities to teach the public at events. 

The very popular SWIGS R workshop is back! Our instructor for this workshop will be Jody Daniel, PhD student in the Department of Biology.

REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/WjoEP2nKv5SupbmAA (lunch included!)

On behalf of the SWIGS executive team, we want to extend a warm welcome to everyone stepping into a new academic year. Fall 2019 is going to be super busy, super productive and super fun! 

On Monday July 15 SWIGS members volunteered their time picking up litter at Columbia Lake, on the UW Campus. With water levels low, we found plastic litter like water bottles and frisbees in the mudflats. 

Growing up Mark Ranjram, PhD candidate in Waterloo’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department, felt the way many young children today feel when it comes to global issues: There isn’t anything I can do to help solve these problems. Too many children believe they don’t have a voice or a seat at the table when it comes to tackling global challenges such as climate change.

Collaborative Water Program alum Fredrick Cheng, PhD candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded the American Geophysical Union Horton (Hydrology) Research Grant. Each year this prestigious grant is awarded to up to three students during their candidacy for a PhD degree in hydrology, water resources, or a closely related field.

It’s 8:00 in the morning in the Sindh province of Pakistan, and Sajida Awan is preparing to head back into the field to conduct a full day of interviews with local farmers. The temperature is rising, it will be 50 degrees Celsius by mid-day, and it will take her at least two hours to get to her location.

The Clean Water Here Global Photography Exhibit, in partnership with the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute, opened at THEMUSEUM on Saturday, May 5, 2018 and features 13 photographs from around the world that document what the lack of safe drinking water means knowing the water cycle in its entirety includes all uses and users.