Lecture

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Ng How Yong, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore, will be presenting, "Research Activities at the National University of Singapore Environmental Research Institute."

The Future of Water: Innovation, Resource Recovery, and the Blue Economy

Mark van Loosdrecht

2018 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

Professor, Biotechnology, TU Delft, The Netherlands

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Lovell Endowed Professor Ximing Cai from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will be presenting, "Modelling River Basins as Coupled Human and Natural Systems."

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Curtis Richardson, professor of Resource Ecology and Director of the Duke University Wetland Center, presents, "Decoding the Secrets of Carbon Preservation in Peatlands along a Boreal to Tropical Gradient from Minnesota to Peru."

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.

This course addresses the development of computational models of watershed hydrology in support of water resources management and scientific investigation. The full model development and application cycle is considered: pre-processing, understanding, and generating input forcing data; system discretization and algorithms for simulating hydrologic processes; parameter estimation; and interpreting model output in the context of often significant system uncertainty.

As part of the Centre in the Square's National Geographic Live series, Kenny Broad – National Geographic’s Explorer of the Year for 2011 – will present, "Extreme Cave Diving: Exploring the Bahamas' Blue Holes."

As part of the Waterloo's Ecohydrology Research Groups' Seminar Series, Dr. Lori Phillips, Research Scientist-Microbial Ecology in the Science & Technology Branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canadapresents, "Linking agricultural management to microbial ecosystem processes."

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Ryan Walter, assistant professor in the Physics Department at California Polytechnic State University, presents, "What lies beneath: Internal waves in the nearshore coastal environment."

The annual UN World Water Day in Waterloo is on March 22, 2017. This year's theme is Nature for Water,  exploring how we can use nature to overcome the water challenges of the 21st century.