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Friday, November 1, 2019

November 18, 2019: Performance indicators and competitive tensions (1853-2017): The organizational setting of water management

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

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Deep Dive Into Underwater Scientific Research

As Chaffey’s Lock fills with 1.3 million litres of water, Carleton Biology Prof. Nigel Waltho gives his class a quick pep talk. “The focus for these remaining morning dives, especially if we lose opportunities due to poor weather, is fundamental skill training in the colder, deeper waters,” he says. An hour and a half... More

Monday, September 30, 2019

Earth Sciences Professor Richard Amos Receives CFI Funds Supporting Research to Protect Groundwater and Improve Healthy Behaviour of Canadians Research

Carleton University researchers Richard Amos and a team led by Marina Milyavskaya have received approximately $204,000 in combined funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) for work that will improve the healthy behaviour of Canadians and prevent the contamination of... More

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Navigating through Murky Waters: Applications of Palaeolimnology for Understanding Water Quality Change in Lakes

Our September speaker is Dr. Helen Roe from the Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, who is a Reader in Physical Geography in the School of Natural and Built Environment and Director of the Queen’s University Environmental Change Research Cluster. Her talk will review recent advances in palaeolimnology and will provide examples from... More

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Where The Wild Fish Go

Anchored in an aluminum skiff on a small bay at the eastern edge of Big Rideau Lake, Jordanna Bergman nets a northern pike from a large cooler full of water and live fish and lowers it into a shallow plastic trough at the bow of her... More

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Telling Stories of the Ottawa River Through Song

Forming the provincial border between Quebec and Ontario, the remarkable Ottawa River flows west for 1,271 kilometres from Lac Des Outaouais at the top of the Laurentian Mountains to the district of North Bay, where it pours into Lake... More

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Women and Water – Exploring the Relationship Between Gender and Water Management

Earth’s surface is mostly water, but only a small fraction of that water is fresh, and most of that fraction is locked away in alpine glaciers, polar ice caps and remote lakes. Less than .007 per cent of Earth’s water is both fresh and readily available. But even then, it isn’t always safe or... More

Friday, August 10, 2018

Carleton Team Awarded NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant to Identify Opportunities for Conservation Gains in the Rideau Canal Waterway

Carleton University’s Steven Cooke, professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Biology and the Institute of Environmental Science, along with six colleagues from Carleton, including Jesse Vermaire and Joe Bennett, the University of Ottawa and the University of Sherbrooke, have been awarded an NSERC Strategic Partnership worth... More

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Frozen Canoes: Permafrost Partnership Tackles Building in the North

The last shovel of dirt on a strand of gravel connecting a tiny town to a nearby hamlet rarely marks a national milestone, but when the ribbon was cut on the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway in November 2017, the new road was greeted with a community feast and compared to the last spike of the Canadian... More

Monday, June 25, 2018

Fish Research Links to Indigenous Heritage

Even though she was born and raised on the opposite side of Canada and has done research on fish in Africa, Asia and Oceania, Carleton University PhD student and National Geographic Explorer, Andrea Reid, was probably destined to study Pacific salmon. As both a staple food and a source of artistic inspiration, the fish... More

Friday, January 12, 2018

Carleton’s Chris Burn Awarded Distinctive Higher Doctorate of Science

Carleton University Chancellor’s Professor Chris Burn was awarded the rare designation of a Higher Doctorate of Science (DSc) in Geography from Durham University in the United Kingdom on Thursday, Jan. 11,... More

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Grad Student Blog: An International Approach to Water Resource Management

Last fall, Renay Cormier, an MASc Environmental Engineering student in Prof. Banu Örmeci’s research group, was invited to attend a 15-day course on water resources management in the city of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil. It was co-organized by the InterAmerican Network of Academies of Science (IANAS) and the expenses were covered by the... More

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