Events by month

Join us at the University of Waterloo in celebration of World Wetlands Day. On this annual international day of significance, wetlands groups across the globe commemorate the February 2, 1971 adoption of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

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As part of THEMUSEUM's Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters dialogues series, Water Institute member and Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Monica Emelko, will present “Fires, Floods and Other Natural Disasters: Climate change threats to water across Canada.”

The workshop will present a standardized defect coding, condition classification and grading system for water distribution pipelines.

This one-day workshop will focus on the construction of municipal pipelines using the microtunnelling trenchless construction method. Over the past several years Ontario has grown from not using microtunnelling to becoming a leader in North America for complex and challenging projects that include curved concrete pipelines.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Alex Mayer, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan Technological University, presents, "Developing the Great Lakes’ Blue Economy: Water productivity, water depletion, and virtual water trade in the Great Lakes basin."

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The Water Institute is partnering with the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to offer a non-credit short course to interested graduate students and post-doctoral fellows during the upcoming February break. 

Environmental scientists and engineers often require calibrating and testing their models against observed data. Despite major research efforts by the hydrological community, both topics present formidable challenges, both in operational and research settings.

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