Monday, June 18, 2018 — 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
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."
Sunday, June 17, 2018 — 8:00 AM to Wednesday, June 20, 2018 — 5:00 PM EDT
The First International Conference on Water Security will welcome academics, thinkers and practitioners from around the world to present, discuss and highlight key issues and directions for change from scientific and policy perspectives, including data needs and how data can be acquired, successful public and private sector business models in different settings, political opportunities and obstacles, what the expressed human needs are, and where the knowledge gaps exist.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 — 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
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."
Monday, June 11, 2018 — 8:00 AM to Friday, June 15, 2018 — 5:00 PM EDT
"Interactions between ecosystems and rural–urban fringes"
Bordeaux, France, June 11 - 15, 2018
The Summer School is part of the COTE Cluster of Excellence training program and gathers PhD students in environmental sciences, each specialized in different disciplines such as ecology, chemistry, biology and even sociology. Through talks, field trips and roundtables with international experts on integrative ecology, the program will provide a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach on the interactions between ecosystems and rural-urban fringes.
Sunday, June 10, 2018 (all day) to Thursday, June 14, 2018 (all day)
The Water Institute, together with the Canadian Journal of Soil Science, is pleased to sponsor the 2018 Joint Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union, Canadian Soil Science Society, Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics, Eastern Section of the Seismological Society of America & the Canadian Society for Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Specifically, the Water Institute has sponsored the Sunday night public lecture "Niagara Falls - Behind the Scenes of the Natural Wonder" by Aaron Thomson, Canadian Co-Chair of the International Niagara Board of Control.
Thursday, June 7, 2018 — 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM EDT
Clean drinking water is a valuable resource for human societies and the protection of drinking water is of considerable importance to researchers and governments. How can we ensure the continued protection of drinking water in Canada and beyond our borders?
Please register to join us for GRADtalks: Drinking Water on Thursday, June 7.
Monday, June 4, 2018 — 9:00 AM to Wednesday, June 6, 2018 — 9:00 AM EDT
This will be the first annual general meeting of the Global Water Futures (GWF) program. Plenaries, project reporting, posters, student events, breakout sessions, and other important GWF initiatives will take place during this time.
The primary purpose of the GWF inaugural Annual Science Meeting is to provide an opportunity for all GWF researchers and affiliated highly-qualified personnel to gather and share their scientific findings and other relevant activities and outcomes with GWF community and users/stakeholders.
Monday, June 4, 2018 — 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is hosting a workshop led by Warren Leach, Oregon RFID, on Radio Frequency Identification Transponders for tracking studies in rivers.
Topics covered
RFID for fish and wildlife tracking
Monday, June 4, 2018 — 8:01 AM to Saturday, June 9, 2018 — 4:00 PM EDT
This course addresses the development of computational models of watershed hydrology in support of water resources management and scientific investigation. The full model development and application cycle is considered: pre-processing, understanding, and generating input forcing data; system discretization and algorithms for simulating hydrologic processes; parameter estimation; and interpreting model output in the context of often significant system uncertainty.
Saturday, May 5, 2018 — 11:00 AM to Sunday, June 24, 2018 — 8:00 AM EDT
A global photography exhibit created by Clean Water Here and 1x.com, and in partnership with the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute, is coming to THEMUSEUM in Kitchener this spring.
