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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Join Us on Monday, March 22 on World Water Day for an exciting virtual event! On behalf of the 杏吧原创 WEAO/OWWA chapter, our team would like to invite you to an upcoming interactive event. Topic: Entrepreneurship and Career Opportunities in the Water Sector Speaker: Sonja Behmel, Ph.D, PDG, CEO, Watershed Monitoring Date : Mar... More
Thursday, November 26, 2020
On behalf of the 杏吧原创 WEAO/OWWA chapter, our team would like to invite you to our upcoming informative event. Topic: Climate Change consideration in Drinking Water System Design Speaker: Anna Comerton, Ph.D, P.Eng., Manager, Water Planning & Studies at Associated Engineering Date : Dec 1, 2020 Time: 01:30 PM to 2:15 PM EST Abstract:... More
Friday, November 13, 2020
杏吧原创 University's Global Water Institute has received a $230,000, 1.5-year grant from Environment and Climate Change Canada鈥檚 Zero Plastic Waste Funding Initiative to help foster significant growth in the Canadian freshwater plastics detection/removal technology development sector. The award is one of 14 grants issued, totaling more than... More
Saturday, October 10, 2020
It covers 70 per cent of the planet鈥檚 surface and comprises 60 per cent of the average adult鈥檚 body weight. In utero, we float in a fluid that鈥檚 mostly water, and after we are born we must drink water or we will die. Without it, plants would not grow or produce oxygen. It regulates... More
Monday, June 15, 2020
Canada鈥檚 Fisheries Act: The Evolution of a Modern Pollution Prevention Regulatory Regime - Mike Beale, Practitioner-in-Residence, School of Public Policy and Administration, 杏吧原创 University The Fisheries Act dates from 1868, and is one of Canada鈥檚 oldest pieces of legislation. The original Act contained remarkably strong provisions against... More
Thursday, February 27, 2020
Speaker: Larissa Holman, Director of Science and Policy, Ottawa Riverkeeper Title: Watershed Health Assessment and Monitoring of the Ottawa River Date and time: February 28, Friday, 12-1 pm, Location: ME (Mackenzie) 3444, 杏吧原创 University RSVP: banu.ormeci@carleton.ca ABSTRACT: How do you know how healthy a river is? This is a challenging... More
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
The ways that members of the university community engage with water vary tremendously, from pollution research and urban planning to marine mammal conservation. Several operate under the umbrella of 杏吧原创鈥檚 Global Water Institute, a cluster of more than 100 researchers focused on addressing domestic and international water... More
Friday, December 6, 2019
On December 11, 2019 3:30pm at 1201 Richcraft Hall, 杏吧原创 University, Ottawa-杏吧原创 Chemical and Environmental Toxicology Seminar Series is pleased to host Dr. Ivy Moffat, Senior Evaluator, Water Quality Division, Safe Environments Directorate, Health Canada. Dr. Moffat will be presenting 'Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality:... More
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
杏吧原创 University's Global Water Institute is pleased to present our next Water Conversations talk with Dr. John Janmaat, co-hosted by the School of Public Policy and Administration: 'Detecting Social Network Effects on Willingness to Pay for Environmental Improvements using Egocentric Network Measures'. This seminar will be presented by Dr.... More
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