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Monday, June 15, 2020

Canada’s Fisheries Act: The Evolution of a Modern Pollution Prevention Regulatory Regime

Canada’s Fisheries Act: The Evolution of a Modern Pollution Prevention Regulatory Regime - Mike Beale, Practitioner-in-Residence, School... More

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Carleton Researchers Checking Wastewater for Signs of COVID-19

One of the few reassuring science stories circulating since the coronavirus pandemic abruptly threw Canada into lockdown mode in mid-March is that there is no evidence of people... More

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

New Book Release/Free Download: The First Century of the International Joint Commission

We are excited to announce open access to a newly released book titled: The First Century of the International Joint Commission, focusing... More

Thursday, February 27, 2020

February 28, Friday, 12-1 pm: Watershed Health Assessment and Monitoring of the Ottawa River

Speaker: Larissa Holman, Director of Science and Policy, Ottawa Riverkeeper Title: Watershed Health Assessment and Monitoring of the Ottawa... More

Monday, February 24, 2020

Stories Are For Thinking: The Art and Research of Professor Zoe Todd

Anthropology professor receives funding for a major project which will tell critical stories of conservation in dynamic ways, beginning with Alberta's bull trout in Bighorn... More

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Big Blue: Ten Ways to Look at Water

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... More

Friday, February 7, 2020

Carleton WEAO/OWWA Student Chapter Event: Leveraging research experience in water and wastewater sector

Date and time: February 10th, 5:30 - 6:30 pm Title: Leveraging research experience in water and wastewater sector Speaker: Christine Gan,... More

Friday, December 6, 2019

December 11, 2019 at 3:30pm: Ottawa-Carleton Chemical and Environmental Toxicology Seminar Series

On December 11, 2019 3:30pm at 1201 Richcraft Hall, Carleton University, Ottawa-Carleton Chemical and Environmental Toxicology Seminar... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

December 10, 10:30am: Water Conversations with Dr. John Janmaat

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... More

Monday, December 2, 2019

Fascinating Evening Discussion on Transboundary Water and Diplomacy

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... More

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

November 26 at 5:30pm: Water Conversations with H.E. Ahmad Abu Zeid, Ambassador of Egypt

The Global Water Institute (GWI) at Carleton University would like to invite you to our third Water Conversations talk of the academic... More

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... 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... More

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

October 7, 2019: Water Conversations with Professor Jay Drydyk

Meet Professor Jay Drydyk for a thought-provoking discussion on Dams, Displacement & Development Ethics. When: October 7, 2019 at 12pm to 1pm Where: MacKenzie Building, Rm... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... More

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Water Conversations with Nadia Springle: Water governance in Sub-Saharan Africa: Effectiveness of decentralization policy in expanding water access in Ghana & Tanzania

Water has increasingly become a central theme in global development discourse. Scholars have tied access to... More

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Water Conversations with Paul Villeneuve: Does living near water and greenness impact the mortality of Canadian urbanites? Findings from the Canadian Census Cohort

Half of the world population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to increase rapidly over the... More

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Water Conversations with Anteneh Belayneh: Analyzing Water Allocation and water markets in Southern Alberta

For the sixth installment of the Global Water Institute’s informal talk series, Water Conversations, we heard from Public Policy and... More

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Water Conversations with Tim Patterson: Who Killed Frame Lake? A Precautionary Tale for Urban Planners

For the fifth installment of the Global Water Institute’s talk series, Water Conversations, we had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Tim... More

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Water Conversations with Steven Cooke: On the State of Freshwater Fish and Fisheries: Finding a Future for the Forgotten

For the fourth installment of the Global Water Institute’s informal talk series, Water Conversations, we... 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... 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... More

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Water Conversations with Karen Lawford: Water, Indigenous Women’s Health, and Environmental Violence

For the third installment of the GWI’s Water Conversations series, we heard from Karen Lawford, Aboriginal midwife and instructor of... More

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Dr. Fred Michel Environmental Science Seminar Series: Direct and indirect effects of “the pill” in aquatic food webs, with Dr. Karen Kidd

Dr. Karen Kidd is a prominent ecotoxicologist specializing in the effects of human activities on aquatic... More

Monday, November 20, 2017

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