Wednesday, June 28, 2017 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT
In this Water Institute seminar, professor Sascha Oswald from the University of Potsdam's Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences presents, "Detailed monitoring of microplastic particles in an urban water course facilitated by a novel, powerful detection method - an approach for identifying dynamic inputs of microplastics."
Coffee and refreshments will be provided.
Monday, June 26, 2017 — 8:00 AM to Thursday, June 29, 2017 — 4:00 PM EDT
Registration is now open for Horizontal Direction Drilling: Design to Construction.
Sunday, June 25, 2017 (all day) to Wednesday, June 28, 2017 (all day)
The second International Conference on Amphibious Architecture, Design and Engineering 2017 (ICAADE) will unite academics, practitioners, professionals and policymakers from in the exchange of knowledge on amphibious flood mitigation strategies, inviting collaboration among researchers, business, institutions and governments around the world. Flood mitigation and climate change adaptation will require the development of new housing types and retrofit strategies in order to maintain community integrity in populated regions where flooding is expected to increase.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 — 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Attend the AquaHacking semi-finals
Join us on June 21, from 5-9 p.m. at the Centre for International Governance Innovation as aspiring water entrepreneurs pitch their solutions to problems facing Lake Erie. The five winning teams of the semi-finals will move on to compete in the final competition on September 13, 2017, where there's $75,000 in prize money available, in addition to access to local accelerators and mentors for winning teams.
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 2:00 PM EDT
Catchment scale flow and transport: Selecting model complexity and using parametrization and scaling methods to develop robust and efficient models
As part of Ecohydrology's seminar series, professor Sabine Attinger from the Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research will present, "Catchment scale flow and transport: selecting model complexity and using parametrization and scaling methods to develop robust and efficient models."
Coffee will be provided.
Monday, June 19, 2017 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Janet Hering, director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne presents, "Linking Eawag’s Research to Policy and Practice."
Monday, June 19, 2017 — 8:00 AM to Friday, June 23, 2017 — 5:00 PM EDT
This course, hosted at the University of Waterloo and co-sponsored by the Canadian Society for Hydrological Sciences and the Canadian Water Resources Association, addresses the development of computational models of watershed hydrology in support of water resources management and scientific investigation.
Friday, June 2, 2017 1:30 PM EDT
The Institute for Polymer Research is hosting a seminar by Nicolas Kalogerakis, a professor of biochemical engineering and vice-president of the University Council at the Technical University of Crete in Greece. Professor Kalogerakis is presenting, "Bio-degradation of plastic debris in the marine environment: Any hope for clean oceans?"
Saturday, April 8, 2017 — 10:00 AM to Wednesday, June 21, 2017 — 6:00 PM EDT
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