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University of Waterloo Water Institute representatives travelled to the University of Bordeaux this month to share new research and identify opportunities to collaborate. Among a growing number of Waterloo-Bordeaux partnerships, the trip succeeded in strengthening ties with the leading French university, similarly known for global excellence in water research.
Two Water Institute members have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Members have reached a high level of achievement at an early stage of their careers. They represent the emerging generation of scholars and leaders in science and the arts in the country. Membership is for seven years.
Water - On Exhibition drew Waterloo students, across a wide range of disciplines, eager to showcase their research and designs on water as a renewable resource.
Held on Oct. 6 at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, ON, the exhibition was a collaboration between Students of the Water Institute Graduate Section (SWIGS) and the BRIDGE Centre of Architecture + Design.
Water Institute booth at the Innovation Event at the Great Lakes Public Forum displays graduate student oxygen sensor, pictured on the table at left.
Pieter van der Zaag (pictured above left on the Shand Dam at Belwood Lake with program director Bruce MacVicar) spent a week with University of Waterloo Collaborative Water Program students during his stay as an RBC Visiting Fellow.
CBC Radio interviewed water experts to comment on five Canadian communities threatened by climate change, among those interviewed was Blair Feltmate, of the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development.
Warner studies the dynamics of natural, restored, and created wetlands using a variety of ecological and paleoecological indicators. These methods are used to study wetland ecosystems across a variety of spatial scales and temporal scales.