Join SWIGS for the final Blue Drinks of the year! Whether you’re taking a break or celebrating end of year success, let us know what you’ve been up to! Connect with prof, colleagues, and friends for merriment and some festive surprises! Food will be provided!
Help SWIGS escape from an Adventure Room puzzle! Meet at Adventure Rooms – 283 Duke St W, Kitchener, in Unit 101 (down the stairs, just in front of Apollo Cinema!). Cost is only $5/person, but space is limited! Contact Nicole Balliston, your SWIGS VC Social, to reserve a spot and for directions regarding payment. E-mail here: nballiston@gmail.com
Join us afterwards at a yet to be determined location for drinks/snacks afterwards. SWIGS will also cover snacks for this event, so we hope to see you there!
Rethinking the framework for regulating water quality in urbanizing watersheds.
The Water Institute is pleased to host a seminar by the second of the RBC Fellows visiting Waterloo this term. Dr. Priyanka Jamwal, Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India, will deliver a seminar titled Rethinking the framework for regulating water quality in urbanizing watersheds.
Come in out of the cold and join your fellow water enthusiasts for an afternoon coffee hour. Join SWIGS for snacks, coffee, tea and great conversation.
The fourth lecture in the Water Institute’s WaterTalks Lecture Series features Susan Hubbard, Associate Lab Director for Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Hubbard’s lecture is titled Geophysical approaches for quantifying watershed structure and function.
SWIGS will be hosting peer-to-peer lunchtime talks to help facilitate networking and information sharing between students working with water at UW. Graduate students working with water at UW will give a short presentation on their areas of research, followed by questions and general discussion. All are welcome, and a hot lunch and drinks will be provided to presenters and attendees!
Though we have sufficient speakers for the first event, please email ekmccann@uwaterloo.ca if you are interested in speaking at a later date.
Each year, the student-run World Water Day conference highlights a specific aspect of freshwater selected by UN-water. This year, the theme is “Water and Jobs: a celebration of all the professions and livelihoods connected to water". This year’s World Water Day is hosted at the University of Waterloo, and will highlight university water research and raise awareness of local and global water issues. The event includes poster presentations, water sector networking, booths from the local community, government, and businesses, and a buffet lunch.
The final of the 2015-16 Water Institute WaterTalks lecturers is Dr. Prabhakar Clement. Dr. Prabhakar is a Harold Vince Groome Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at Auburn University. Dr. Clement’s lecture is titled: Worthiness of complex groundwater models for decision making – When should we say enough is enough?
Join us for the final Blue Drinks of the term! Free food, water connections, and celebratory wrap up of the year so far! Bring your friends! Learn about the soon to be open executive team positions!
Blue Cities 2016 is the inaugural event for the Canadian Municipal Water Consortium of the Canadian Water Network. This event will bring together municipal water leaders, industry partners and topic experts from across Canada and the globe.
Participants will exchange knowledge, strategies and experience to advance resilient solutions that address drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and management of urban watersheds.