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WORLD WATER DAY CELEBRATIONS
The Water Institute and the Society of the Water Institute Graduate Students hosted their annual World Water Day Celebration on March 22, 2023. The morning session - WATER: Life, History, Art - featured a fireside chat with Giulio Boccaletti (Author of Water: A Biography), Ulrike Al-Khamis (Director and CEO, Aga Khan Museum) and Dustin Garrick (Environment, Resources and Sustainability) that explored our intricate relationship with water; how it has shaped civilizations, reconfigured landscapes, formed political institutions, and inspired culture and art. The afternoon panel - Water Careers of the Future - provided diverse practitioner perspectives on current and emerging water sector issues and shared invaluable insight with students contemplating careers as water management professionals.
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING WITH
SIX NATIONS STUDENTS
In June 2022, grade nine students from Six Nations Polytechnic joined Mark Servos (Biology) and colleagues from McMaster University to conduct experiments in the Grand River. An experiential, land- and water-based learning approach was used to share knowledge and encourage students to consider careers in the environmental sciences or engineering.
Experiential learning is one of the most effective ways to engage with students and the community. It is easy to get excited about aquatic science when you are knee-deep in a river.
- Mark Servos
COMMUNICATING THE IMPACT
OF RESEARCH
Anita Layton (Applied Mathematics) is a leader in science communication, a necessity to effectively connect with researchers in different fields and with the broader public audience she wants her interdisciplinary research to reach. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher (English Language and Literature) studies how communications practices shape how people engage with scientific and technical subject matters and the importance of trust.
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COMMUNICATING THE IMPACT
OF RESEARCH
Anita Layton (Applied Mathematics) is a leader in science communication, a necessity to effectively connect with researchers in different fields and with the broader public audience she wants her interdisciplinary research to reach. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher (English Language and Literature) studies how communications practices shape how people engage with scientific and technical subject matters and the importance of trust.
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YouTube lectures/programs available
WaterResearch articles available
PROTECTING LOCAL WETLANDS
In November 2022, Rebecca Rooney (Biology) and her Wetland Laboratory organized a successful wetland information session and clean-up event at a Waterloo wetland that collects a large amount of unwelcomed litter. More than 35 volunteers rolled up their sleeves and pulled 18 bags of garbage from the wetland to raise awareness on the value of wetlands and the threats facing them.
JULY 7, 2022
Fabio Pulizzi
Chief Editor, Nature Water.
Nature Water: A journal for all water-related research
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Jacob de Boer
Professor Emeritus, Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Microplastics in the environment and pitfalls in their analysis
OCTOBER 20, 2022
William A. Mitch
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Challenges and opportunities for moving from the linear to the circular water cycle
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Gunilla Öberg
Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Professor, The Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Does the framing matter? On dissent, consensus, and scientific controversies in policy-relevant research
JANUARY 18, 2023
John Cherry
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Leader of the Groundwater Project, Recipient of the 2020 Stockholm Water Prize and Lee Kwan Yew Water Prize.
The Global Water Crisis Paradox: Groundwater, Food and Poverty
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences & Principal Investigator HydroSocialExtremes, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Droughts in a human-dominated world: Feedbacks, legacies and inequalities
MARCH 2, 2023
Aimée Craft
Professor Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa and University Research Chair Nibi miinawaa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water.
Recognizing the spiritedness and agency of water: Personhood and other legal approaches
MARCH 28, 2023
Quentin Grafton
Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University (ANU).
Responding to the World Water Crisis: Mar del Plata (1977) to New York (2023)
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