Dr. Frank Schwartz, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Professor John Hartig, Fulbright Scholar serving as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, presents, "Bringing Conservation to Cities: Lessons From Building the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge."
Light refreshments will be provided.
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Diane Orihel, National Scholar in Aquatic Ecotoxicology and assistant professor in Biology and Environmental Studies at Queen’s University, and Alana Greaves, environmental toxicologist and a postdoctoral researcher with Queen’s University present, "The importance of ecosystem-based ecotoxicology for advancing environmental policy, with special reference to Canadian Oil Sands development."
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Dr. Antje Witting from the Department of Political and Administrative Sciences at the University of Konstanz, presents, "Policy learning in the context of urban flood mitigation."
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Arnold Heemink, professor of Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology, is presenting "Storm surge forecasting using data assimilation."
As part of the Water Institute WaterTalks lecture series, with Günter Blöschl, head of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management and professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Vienna University of Technology, will be presenting "Emerging outcomes from a cross-disciplinary doctoral programme on water resource systems."
As part of Ecohydrology's seminar series, professor Sabine Attinger from the Department of Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research will present, "Catchment scale flow and transport: selecting model complexity and using parametrization and scaling methods to develop robust and efficient models."
Coffee will be provided.
The Institute for Polymer Research is hosting a seminar by Nicolas Kalogerakis, a professor of biochemical engineering and vice-president of the University Council at the Technical University of Crete in Greece. Professor Kalogerakis is presenting, "Bio-degradation of plastic debris in the marine environment: Any hope for clean oceans?"
Hosted by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the 2017 Adrian Smith Lecture will feature professor Alfonso Mucci from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill University. He will be presenting, "Development of hypoxic and acidified bottom waters in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary and its impact on sediment biogeochemistry."
Date: April 20, 2:00 p.m.
Location: EIT 1015
The 12th Hydrocarbon Summit: Transport, Fate and Remediation of Hydrocarbons in the Subsurface, will take place Wednesday, April 19 and Thursday, April 20, 2017, at the University of Waterloo.
Session topics include:
Carbon based injectates for the remediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in groundwater