The Water Institute congratulates nine of its members on receiving more than $343 thousand in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), through its 2020 Discovery Grant Program.
Announced on June 17th by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, more than $492 million in funding will go to over 2,400 researchers across Canada to support research in a wide variety of natural sciences and engineering disciplines.
“At NSERC, we take great pride in the Discovery Grants program as our funding flagship. It provides a firm research foundation for the research programs undertaken by thousands of exceptional science and engineering investigators—professors, students, postdoctoral fellows and support staff across Canada.”
Alejandro Adem, President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Special congratulations to Water Institute members awarded 2020 Strategic Partnership Grants:
Christopher
Fletcher
(Geography
and
Environmental
Management):
Using
statistical
learning
to
build
better
Earth
System
Models
Juewen
Liu
(Chemistry):
Competing
ligand
assisted
aptamers
and
DNAzymes
for
nanomaterials
Thai
Phan
(Earth
&
Environmental
Sciences):
Metal
isotopes
as
chemical
weathering
tracers
Francis
Poulin
(Applied
Mathematics):
Dynamics
of
Jets
and
Vortices:
Geophysical
and
Astrophysical
Investigations
Marek
Stastna
(Applied
Mathematics):
Simulating
the
footprints
of
mixing
in
stratified
fluids
Michael
Stone
(Geography
and
Environmental
Management):
Fine
sediment
impacts
on
water
treatability
in
fire
impacted
watersheds:
Quantification
of
downstream
propagation
and
water
quality
threats
Maria
Strack
(Geography
and
Environmental
Management):
Peatland
methane
emissions:
Improving
process-based
understanding
to
foster
better
management
practices
André
Unger
(Earth
&
Environmental
Sciences):
A
Transport-Rate-Limited
Numerical
Model
for
Simulating
Cell
Growth
and
Biodegradation
Rates
in
Porous
Soil
and
Rock
Michael
Waite
(Applied
Mathematics):
Vortices,
waves,
and
energy
cascades
in
atmospheric
turbulence
See the full list of University of Waterloo NSERC research grant recipients.
