Events

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. 

As part of the Water Institute WaterTalks lecture series, with Günter Blöschl, head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management and professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Vienna University of Technology, will be presenting "Emerging outcomes from a cross-disciplinary doctoral programme on water resource systems."

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Antje Witting from the Department of Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Konstanz, presents, "Policy learning in the context of urban flood mitigation."

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As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Arnold Heemink, professor of Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology, is presenting "Storm surge forecasting using data assimilation."

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As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Diane Orihel, National Scholar in Aquatic Ecotoxicology and assistant professor in Biology and Environmental Studies at Queen’s University, and Alana Greaves, environmental toxicologist and a postdoctoral researcher with Queen’s University present, "The importance of ecosystem-based ecotoxicology for advancing environmental policy, with special reference to Canadian Oil Sands development."

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.

Join us on February 14, as Piet Klop, Senior Investment Advisor, PGGM Investments in the Netherlands presents, "Water-Related Risks and Opportunities: An Institutional Investor’s Perspective."

Coffee and 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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Coastal eutrophication in the lower Great Lakes – amelioration of nuisance blooms of benthic algae may be more challenging than we think

Coffee will be provided.