Lecture

Friday, July 19, 2019 10:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

WaterTalk: Importance and Effects of Physical Processes in Lake Ecosystems

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series and co-sponsored by the Department of Applied Mathematics, Professor Hilmar Hofmann, will present "Importance and Effects of Physical Processes in Lake Ecosystems."

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Dr. Kaveh Madani, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London, and currently a Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellow at the Department of Political Science and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies of Yale University, will present "Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Deceiving Assumptions and Misleading Policies in Modelling and Managing Water”

As part of the Water Institute's seminar series Richard Marinos, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, will present "Ecosystem Recovery from Acid Rain: Biogeochemical Consequences in the Soil-Stream Continuum."

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The Race for Groundwater

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Professor Grant Ferguson, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Geological and Environment Engineering and Associate Member of the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan, will present "The Race for Groundwater."

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Monday, March 25, 2019 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Monitoring, modelling and management of urban water pollution

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Professor David McCarthy from Monash University in Australia will present "Monitoring, modelling and management of urban water pollution.”

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As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Jeanne M. VanBriesen, Duquesne Light Company Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and the Director of the Center for Water Quality in Urban Environmental Systems at Carnegie Mellon University will present "Effects of wastewater from energy extraction and utilization on drinking water sources and risk."

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Thursday, February 28, 2019 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Signals, Cycles, Circles and Surprises: Some reflections on water quality in the Anthropocene

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Martyn Futter, Associate Professor in Landscape Scale Water Quality Modelling at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, will present "Signals, Cycles, Circles and Surprises: Some reflections on water quality in the Anthropocene."

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As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Slobodan Simonovic, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University, will present "Use of quantitative resilience in managing urban infrastructure response to natural hazards."

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Friday, March 22, 2019 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

2019 Water Institute RBC Distinguished Lecture

What the challenge of clean water at home and around the world tells us about ourselves, our country, and our planet

bob rae
Bob Rae
Former Premier of Ontario
Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto
Lawyer, Mediator, Speaker, Writer
Active on First Nations, Social Justice, International issues 
Toronto, Ontario

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Thursday, February 21, 2019 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Nutrients, water quality and water security: from catchment to global perspectives

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Professor Helen Jarvie, Principal Scientist of Hydrochemistry at The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the United Kingdom, will deliver a lecture on river-system biogeochemistry with particular emphasis on nutrient cycling and water quality, from watershed to global perspectives.

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