Events

Dangerous Ideas is hosting a panel discussion on May 31, 2017, featuring  Vandana Shiva, Shiv Chopra, Maude Barlow and Chief Leslee White-Eye. This event will take place at St. Paul’s University College in room 105.

Program

11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. | Beehive Collective Workshop

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.  | Water is Life Panel

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?"

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.

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."

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. 

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. 

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.

Registration is now open for Horizontal Direction Drilling: Design to Construction.

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. 

Ever considered a career in water? Come out to the Water Industry Info Session and Networking Night to learn about career paths and research in the water industry in areas such as conservation, wastewater and drinking water. 

Wednesday, July 19 | 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Science Teaching Complex 0010

Why attend?