Events

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, David R. Steward, Professor, Walter B. Booth Distinguished Professorship, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, will present: Analytic element method solutions extend computational frontiers in interdisciplinary hydrosciences and beyond.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Emily S. Huff, Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, will present: A holistic approach to monitoring abrupt environmental shifts in the Kluane Lake region.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in EV3 3412 and online via Zoom.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Fabio Pulizzi, Chief Editor, Nature Water, will present: Nature Water: A journal for all water-related research.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Bryan Tolson, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and PhD Candidate Ming Han will present: The Ontario lake-river routing product.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in EIT 1015 and online via Zoom.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Poornima Unnikrishnan, Researcher, Department of Systems Design Engineering will present: Atmospheric moisture tracking.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in EIT 1015 and online via Zoom.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Bertram Boehrer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Magdeburg, Germany, will present: Extreme gas pressures in lakes: from the "killer" Lake Nyos (Cameroon) to Guadiana Pit Lake (Spain) and Lake Kivu (Rwanda and DR Congo).

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in DC 1302 and online via Zoom.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Jacob de Boer, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, will present: Microplastics in the environment and pitfalls in their analysis.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in DC 1302 followed by a reception from 3:30-5:00p.m.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, William A. Mitch, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, will present: Challenges and opportunities for moving from the linear to the circular water cycle.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in DC 1302 from 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Gunilla Öberg, Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Professor, The Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway will present: Does the framing matter? On dissent, consensus, and scientific controversies in policy-relevant research.

This event will be offered in person on the University of Waterloo campus in DC 1302 from 12:00  - 1:00 p.m. Lunch reception to follow in DC 1301 (The Fishbowl) from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, John Cherry, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Leader of the Groundwater Project, Recipient of the 2020 Stockholm Water Prize and Lee Kwan Yew Water Prize, 2016 presents: The Global Water Crisis Paradox: Groundwater, Food and Poverty.

This event will be offered in person at the University of Waterloo Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building.
3:30-4:00 p.m. Doors Open
4:00-5:00 p.m. Lecture
5:00-6:30 p.m. Reception