Events

McMaster Water Week is a celebration of water and water-related research at McMaster University. The McMaster Water Network is organizing several events throughout the week including a keynote lecture, documentary screening, career night, and a student research showcase. All events are free and open to the public. 

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As part of the University of Saskatchewan's Global Institute for Water Security Distinguished Lecture Series, the Water Institute's executive director and professor of economics, Roy Brouwer, will present, "Integrating Economics into Water Policy and Decision-Making." This lecture is part of aweekly seminar series featuring top water experts from around the world. 

Megacities – Running on Empty 

Dr. Frank Schwartz, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Professor John Hartig, Fulbright Scholar serving as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, presents, "Bringing Conservation to Cities: Lessons From Building the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge."

Light refreshments will be provided.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto, presents, "Exploration of the Earth’s Deep Hydrogeosphere and Subsurface Microbial Life."

Light refreshments will be provided.

Join the Ecohydrology Research Group on Friday, February 2, 2018 for the research symposium and public lecture held in celebration of World Wetlands Day!

Research Symposium 

• Presentations from local researchers 

• 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) presentations

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Emily Stanley, professor in the Department of Integrative Biology and Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin Madison, presents, "Aquatic Methane at Small and Large Scales ."

Light refreshments will be provided.

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Daniel McLaughlin, an assistant professor in Virginia Tech's Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, will be presenting a WaterTalk on "Wetland Water Storage: Drivers and Functions at Varying Spatial Scales."

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Join three of our Water Institute members at the Waterloo Region Museum for a special presentation and roundtable discussion about climate change in the Region of Waterloo and across the globe.

Alpine Hydrogeology: The Critical Role of Groundwater in Sourcing the Headwaters of the World

Professor Masaki Hayashi
Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary
Canada Research Chair in Physical Hydrology

Everyone welcome - refreshments served.