News archive - January 2023

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Research snapshot: Fires can significantly accelerate fine sediment transport and alluvial fans can buffer this impact

In the latest research from the forWater Network, scientists have found that fires in forested source water regions can significantly accelerate fine sediment transport from hillslopes to receiving streams. The mobilization of fine sediment and associated nutrients, such as phosphorus (P), into high quality surface waters can substantially increase primary productivity, which can severely degrade water quality, threaten aquatic ecosystem health, and challenge drinking water treatability to the point of service disruptions.

Monday, January 23, 2023

Springer launches first issue of Nature Water

Springer Nature has launched Volume 1, Issue 1 of its latest Journal Nature Water, offering a new avenue for the publication of the latest research and discovery related to water resources.

Nature Water will be a monthly, exclusively online publication publishing world-class water research, spanning natural sciences, engineering and social sciences.

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Jimmy Lin named a 2022 ACM Fellow

A message from the Cheriton School of Computer Science.

Water Institute member Professor Jimmy Lin has been named a 2022 ACM Fellow for his contributions to question answering, information retrieval, and natural language processing.

The Association for Computing Machinery is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM fellowships are conferred to the top 1 percent of the association’s members, and the prestigious recognition indicates outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and outstanding service to ACM and the larger computing community.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

John Cherry returns to Waterloo to deliver the 2023 WaterTalks opening lecture

World-renowned hydrogeologist and groundwater advocate Dr. John Cherry to present the Water Institute’s WaterTalks lecture on Wednesday, January 18, 2023

The Water Institute in collaboration with the Faculty of Science, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, is delighted to welcome Dr. John Cherry, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Hydrogeology, as the opening lecturer for the 2023 WaterTalks lecture series. The lecture will be presented on Wednesday, January 18 and is free to the campus community, alumni and the public.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Mourning the loss of Professor Emil O. Frind

The groundwater community is mourning the recent passing of Dr. Emil Frind, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Groundwater Modelling from the University of Waterloo’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He passed away on Sunday, December 25, 2022, at the age of 90.

Dr. Frind pioneered the field of quantitative groundwater science and was a leader in the development of modelling methodologies for groundwater processes.