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.
Congratulations to Water Institute members Prateep Nayak, Derek Armitage and Olaf Weber, three of 29 Waterloo researchers to recently receive a combined total of $5.7 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
This past week, WATER 602 (Integrated Water Project) students — a group of almost 50 graduate students — explored the Grand River watershed, examining landscapes, infrastructure and conditions from an interdisciplinary perspective.
$78 million from the Government of Canada will position the country as a global hub for leading-edge, user-driven water science for the world’s cold regions. The University of Waterloo’s Water Institute will be a key partner on the University of Saskatchewan-led Global Water Futures initiative.
Forests, wetlands and grasslands all provide “watershed services” by enhancing water quality and supply, biodiversity and carbon storage. They have economic value but unfortunately their market price is $0, says the executive director of the Water Institute.
Five Water Institute faculty members will receive $590,000 from the provincial government to build Ontario's knowledge-based economy in Waterloo Region.
Kathryn McGarry, MPP for Cambridge, and Daiene Vernile, MPP for Kitchener Centre, made the announcement of the Early Researcher Awards (ERA) and Ontario Research Fund-Research Infrastructure (ORF-RI) awards today as part of an investment in Waterloo region worth $3.6 million.
The green water of Rio’s outdoor Olympic pools has baffled athletes, organizers and spectators but not Waterloo Biologist Kirsten Müller. She is fairly certain that algae is the culprit.
Although low chlorine levels, minerals and copper can also cause water to look green, it’s the cloudy appearance of the water that suggests the presence of an algal biomass.