8:30-8:45 a.m. |
Welcome
Charmaine Dean, Vice President, Research
Roy Brouwer, Executive Director, The Water Institute
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8:45-9:30 a.m. |
Opening Keynote Lecture
Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment for Sanitation Joan Rose, Professor and Homer Nowlin Chair in Water Research, Michigan State University; 2016 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
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9:30-10:30 a.m. |
Human Health and Well-Being
The Dichotomies of Water and Well-Being Susan Elliott, Professor, Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
We Want to Drink the Water and Eat The Fish: Community-Partnered Contaminant Research in Canada's North Heidi Swanson, Professor, Biology, University of Waterloo
To Water Through Governance: Consent-Based Collaboration to Protect Waters Merrell-Ann Phare, Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, Winnipeg
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10:30-10:50 a.m. |
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10:50-11:35 a.m. |
Students will present outcomes of the Collaborative Water Program's WATER 602 course
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11:35 a.m.-12:35 p.m. |
Urban Water Systems
Robust Drinking Water Systems Peter Huck, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo; NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Treatment
Sustainable Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment Applications Michael Tam, Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo
Emerging Solutions to the Water Challenges of an Urbanizing World Tove Larsen, Professor/Group Leader, Urban Water Management at Eawag, Switzerland
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12:35-1:20 p.m. |
LUNCH |
1:20-2:20 p.m. |
Watershed Management
Neocastorization of the World – Or How Damming of Rivers is Changing Global Biogeochemical Cycles Philippe Van Cappellen, Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo; Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology
Global Drinking Water Security: Climate Change Threats and Adaptation Strategies Monica Emelko, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo
The Complex Politics of Governing Watersheds William Blomquist, Professor, Political Science, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
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2:20-3:20 p.m. |
Blue Economy
Flood Risk Governance in a Changing Climate Jason Thistlewaite, Professor, Environment, Enterprise and Development, University of Waterloo
The Economics of Water Pollution Control and Abatement Alain-Désiré Nimubona, Professor, Economics, University of Waterloo
Working at the Intersection of Academic and Private Sector Research to Support the Blue Economy Brenda Lucas, Executive Director, Southern Ontario Water Consortium
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3:20-3:40 p.m. |
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3:40-4:40 p.m. |
Global Water Cycle
Nutrient Legacies in Anthropogenic Catchments: Implications for Water Quality Nandita Basu, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo
Coupled Hydrodynamic-Biogeochemical-Ice Modelling in Large Lakes Kevin Lamb, Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
Integrated Terrestrial Observatories - The New Initiatives TERENO, MOSES and eLTER Georg Teutsch, Scientific Director, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany
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4:40-5:00 p.m. |
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5:00-6:15 p.m. |
The Future of Water: Innovation, Resource Recovery, and the Blue Economy Mark van Loosdrecht, 2018 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate; Professor, Department of Biotechnology, TU Delft, The Netherlands
*Free, public lecture. Please register here.
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6:15-7:30 p.m. |
RECEPTION |