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Friday, December 4, 2020
Satellite trackers help map journey of plastic waste to the ocean Ocean plastic, as we know, is ubiquitous — but where do these items come from and how do they get there? A research team from the University of Exeter in the U.K. is trying to answer these questions by launching electronically tagged reclaimed... More
Thursday, November 26, 2020
On behalf of the Carleton 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
Carleton University's Global Water Institute has received a $230,000, 1.5-year grant from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 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’s surface and comprises 60 per cent of the average adult’s body weight. In utero, we float in a fluid that’s 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’s Fisheries Act: The Evolution of a Modern Pollution Prevention Regulatory Regime - Mike Beale, Practitioner-in-Residence, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University The Fisheries Act dates from 1868, and is one of Canada’s 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, Carleton 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 Carleton’s 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, Carleton University, Ottawa-Carleton 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
Carleton 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
Monday, December 2, 2019
On November 26th, 2019 Carleton's Global Water Institute hosted a successful event at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre featuring a truly engaging talk given by the Egyptian Ambassador to Canada, H.E. Ahmad Abu Zeid, focusing on the future of the Nile River and associated transboundary water issues from an Egyptian perspective. We were also... More
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
The Global Water Institute (GWI) at Carleton University would like to invite you to our third Water Conversations talk of the academic year. Our November speaker is H.E. Ahmad Abu Zeid, Ambassador of Egypt, and he is going to provide the Egyptian perspective on the Nile Waters. This event will be held at the... More
Friday, November 1, 2019
On November 18, 2019 from 12h00-13h30 at 1728 Dunton Tower, Dr. Laurent Beduneau-Wang, currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at HEC Montreal, will be presenting his research on performance indicators related to water management in France – covering the period 1853 – 2017. Through ethnographic observations and interviews in the most important water... More
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