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The Faculty of Environment is pleased to host the 2021 TD Walter Bean Virtual Public Lecture featuring Dr. Amber Wutich, President’s Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Global Health at Arizona State University.

In her talk "MAD Water: Mobile, Adaptive & Decentralized Infrastructure for the Climate Change Era", Dr. Wutich will explore one of the greatest threats facing humans in the coming century - water insecurity.

Research Associate Syed Ismail Hussain from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Water Institute members Carol Ptacek, University Research Chair in Earth and Environmental Sciences, and David Blowes, Canada Research Chair in Groundwater Remediation, together with Agriculture Agrifood Canada (AAFC) Research Scientists Lori Phillips and

After a long absence from in person conferences due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers are pleased to announce that the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (JASM 2022) will take place May 14-20 as a hybrid (in person + virtual) conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Record rainfall in British Columbia has flooded communities and washed away roads in what experts say is part of an increasingly costly trend that both homeowners and renters need to better prepare for.

The forWater Network was recently featured in Water Science Policy in an op-ed written by Ashley Webb in collaboration with Uldis Silins, Water Institute members Monica Emelko, Mike Stone and other researchers. 

Researchers’ careers rely on heavily on self-advocacy to showcase their impact. An important and often overlooked part of self-advocacy is optimizing research discoverability. This is particularly important for early career researchers who are still building their portfolio of scholarly achievements. Understanding bibliometrics and the related tools can aid in making research more discoverable.

A joint initiative to increase academic diversity has expanded from six universities in Ontario to 12 institutions across the country.

Since its inception earlier this year, the Indigenous and Black Engineering and Technology (IBET) PhD project, which aims to support and build a network for Indigenous and Black graduate students, has named 16 doctoral fellows and 24 mentors.

This article was originally posted on the School of Public Health Sciences website.

Craig Janes, Water Institute member and director of the School of Public Health Sciences, received the 2021 George Foster Practicing Medical Anthropology Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology this week. The career award “recognizes those who have made significant contributions to applying theory and methods in medical anthropology, particularly in diverse contexts, to multidisciplinary audiences, and with some impact on policy.”

Sometimes figuring out which conservation practices are most effective at reducing agricultural phosphorus losses to surface water bodies seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know which solutions will work best where. Water Institute member, professor Merrin Macrae, is offering two upcoming pubic presentations that synthesize research from over a decade of on-farm, edge-of-field trials within the Lake Erie watershed to highlight how the efficiencies and trade-offs of different practices vary by region and site.