Barbecue, s'mores, food, games, prizes and more! Come meet the new students and current SWIGS members! What more can you ask for?
Dress warmly and come by the Laurel Creek fire pit across of Environment 2 (EV2).
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."
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."
We will meet at 5:30pm on Thursday, September 12 at the Brubacher House on the UW Campus (Columbia -> Hagey -> Frank Tompa Drive). We'll stop to see whatever we like! Plants, birds, the shoreline environment, a nice meandering stream! Round trip approx. 1.5 hours.
Celebrate the start of a new academic year with SWIGS! All SWIGS Members are welcome. If you study water at UW, that's you! Snackatizers will be provided, with the bar available to order drinks and meals. Also celebrating the conclusion of WATER 602 for the CWP Cohort.
We encourage SWIGS members to join us and attend the Global Climate Strike in Waterloo, supporting youth efforts for Climate Action. Be creative and make your own sign! We will meet in front of the Davis Centre Library at 11:30 and take the ION to Waterloo Town Square to join the strike. The strike is officially from 12-2:30 so even if you can only make it for part of the time, we would love to have you join. Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
What is one challenge water researchers all have in common...data management! This workshop will cover various techniques that can be used to keep your data consistent and organized. Please bring your own laptop for this workshop.
This will take place in PHY 145 from 10:00am-3:00pm. Coffee, snacks and lunch will be provided. Please bring your own mug.
REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/WjoEP2nKv5SupbmAA
The R Basics workshop will be a guided introduction to coding using R, which has many applications for water researchers in science and math. Join us for a morning introductory session covering R basics, followed by some intermediate level problem solving in the afternoon. Please bring your own laptop for this workshop.
Event info here:
https://uwaterloo.ca/water-institute/events/gwf-data-management-webinar
When: Thursday, November 14, 2 pm to 3pm EST