The Water Institute Announces the 2015-16 WaterTalks Lecture Series

Thursday, October 8, 2015

The Water Institute Watertalks.
The Water Institute is pleased to announce the second installment of our WaterTalks Lecture Series. The series brings several high-profile speakers to UWaterloo to share their research with our water community. The 2015-16 speakers are:

October 29, 2015: Dr. Dustin Garrick, Assistant Professor and Philomathia Chair of Water Policy, Department of Political Science and Booth School of Engineering Practice, McMaster University
Pathways to Water Security for Rivers under Pressure: Water Markets and Transboundary Governance in Australia and Western North America

November 26, 2015: Dr. John Reynolds, Professor of Aquatic Ecology and Conservation, Tom Buell BC Leadership Chair in Aquatic Conservation, Simon Fraser University
Salmon-fuelled Ecosystems of the Great Bear Rainforest

January 28, 2016: Dr. Sharachchandra Lélé, Senior Fellow, Asoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India
Bridging Many Divides: Building an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Water Issues in a Developing Country Context

February 25, 2016: Dr. Susan Hubbard, Associate Lab Director, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
New Approaches for Characterizing Watershed Structure and Function

March 31, 2016: Dr. Prabhakar Clement, Harold Vince Groome Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Worthiness of Complex Groundwater Models for Decision-making: When Should We Say Enough is Enough?

All are welcome! All of the lectures begin at 2:30 pm in either DC 1304 or 1302, University of Waterloo. The talks will also be available via Livestream and posted to the Water Institute's YouTube channel afterwards.