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Two Water Institute faculty members have been elected fellows by Canada’s most distinguished engineering academy.

By Angie Docking Faculty of Engineering

A delegation consisting of two Environmental Law Professors from the University of Eastern Finland (UEF), Dr. Niko Soininen and Dr. Antti Belinskij, Senior Research Scientist from the Finnish Environment Institute, Dr. Saija Koljonen, and Ph.D. student Ms. Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, also in the department of Environmental Law at UEF, visited the Water Institute from May 9-19.

By the Department of Chemical Engineering

Two Chemical Engineering graduate students have won a nationwide video contest focused on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Carlo Cunanan, a master’s student, and Kiyoumars Zarshenas, a PhD student, are among the six winners of the Science, Action! initiative, which is a collaboration between the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies (FRQNT).

The winners were chosen based on their videos' ability to highlight the impact of their engineering research on sustainable development goals.

Prince Hussain was on campus promoting his vision for ecological consciousness and protection of the world’s oceans

By University Relations

The University of Waterloo welcomed Prince Hussain Aga Khan and Princess Fareen Aga Khan to campus. Prince Hussain visited Waterloo for a special presentation of his exhibition, The Living Sea – Fragile Beauty, which focuses on the beauty and majesty of the oceans and the critical importance of ocean ecology.

Forested watersheds supply over two-thirds of the world’s drinking water. Recent headlines across Canada have emphasized that the last decade has seen an increase in the frequency and intensity of wildfires that is threatening these source watersheds, and necessitating more expensive water treatment to address degrading water quality. Given the increasing wildfire frequency in a changing climate, it is important to understand the magnitude of water quality impacts following fire.

Originally published by the Daily Bulletin.

In February 2023, the University of Waterloo Weather Station celebrated 25 years of taking the region's temperature.

On Thursday, May 18, the Weather Station will celebrate the anniversary with an open house at the station and an official renaming ceremony. The station will be renamed the 'Eric D. (Ric) Soulis Memorial Weather Station.'

Congratulations to Water Institute researchers who have been awarded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) Alliance Missions Grant funding as part of the 2022 competition.

The Ecohydrology Research Group (ERG) recently announced  funding of $1,348,540 for a new collaborative research project entitled “Adaptive management of green stormwater infrastructure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from urban watersheds”, which will span 3 years 2023-2026.

Professor Chris Houser will join the University of Waterloo as dean of the Faculty of Science for a five-year term commencing 1 July 2023. Houser succeeds professor Bob Lemieux who has served as dean since July 2015. 

A Waterloo Engineering news story.

A team from Waterloo Engineering has won an international competition aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art in the mapping of sea ice.

The team included professors, researchers and graduate students in a remote sensing research group that is a subgroup of the larger Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab within the Department of Systems Design Engineering.

A University of Waterloo press release.

Researchers have developed a new mining technique which uses microbes to recover metals and store carbon in the waste produced by mining. Adopting this technique of reusing mining waste, called tailings, could transform the mining industry and create a greener and more sustainable future.