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Trekking the ends of the Earth to set a timetable for our climate emergency

For eight days straight, Water Institute member and researcher Christine Dow and her team dragged a sled-mounted radar system roughly 85 kilometres across the frozen Antarctic. The hard-earned data they collected has Dow convinced the Antarctic Ice Sheet is destabilizing faster than anyone thought.

On the heels of a recent warning from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees that climate change will force millions around the world to relocate away from coastal areas, a new study co-authored by a University of Waterloo researcher offers the first clear tool to predict where these climate migrants could move to, and how this will affect communities.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has introduced the Engineer-in-Residence initiative, and is very proud to announce the inaugural Douglas Wright Engineer-in-Residence will be current Water Institute External Advisory Board member Mike Murray, M. Eng., P, Eng. Chief Administrative Officer for the Region of Waterloo. Read more about the new program here.

Water Institute member Keith Hipel, a systems design engineering professor, was recognized with the 2019 China Friendship Award this fall.

The honour is China’s highest recognition bestowed upon foreign experts for “their important contributions to the promotion of China's modernization, friendly exchanges and mutually beneficial cooperation between China and foreign countries.”

Hipel has visited China on many occasions as a foreign expert since 1982.

The Water Institute is delighted to announce that it has recently become a member of the Global Peatlands Initiative (GPI).

The University of Waterloo’s Ecohydrology Research Group hosted a special Research Symposium on December 6th to celebrate the 6oth birthday of Philippe Van Cappellen. The symposium was attended by colleagues and students, past and present, many of whom travelled to Waterloo from overseas.