Events at the Carleton Global Water Institute

The Global Water Institute hosts a variety of events that bring together water researchers, fostering collaboration and sharing insights on cutting-edge water research. These events feature research from across departments and are open to all. Attendees are encouraged to participate, explore diverse topics, and engage with experts in the field of water.

Event summaries will be available after each session for those unable to attend.

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Webinar: Tackling Plastics in Freshwater

While there has been a significant amount of focus on the plastic that ends up in our oceans, we also need to consider the amount of plastic pollution that’s entering our freshwater. This session will explore the current challenges and potential opportunities associated with managing plastic pollution in Canada’s freshwater. During the... More

Friday, October 15, 2021

October 21, 2021 at 6:30pm – 8:00pm Meet Anako’s Inaugural Visiting Scholar, Tasha Beeds

Through the Lens of Water: Indigenous Research Methods, A Water Walker's Perspective. Join Water Walker and Professor Tasha Beeds in a conversation about how water walking contributes to the recovery and discovery of knowledge related to the very fabric of our existence as Indigenous and non-Indigenous people within shared Indigenous lands under... More

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Oct. 27th, 12pm-1pm: Water Conversations Event, with Dr. Cole Van De Ven discussing Subsurface greenhouse gases: An atmospheric or groundwater problem?

Subsurface greenhouse gases: An atmospheric or groundwater problem? Our reliance on the subsurface for freshwater resources and sources of energy has created a nexus of concern for the environment and human health. A principal concern is the potential generation and/or release of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the shallow subsurface because of energy... More

Thursday, March 25, 2021

The nomination period for the WatersNext Awards is closing soon!

The nomination period for the WatersNext Awards is closing soon! Do you know an individual, project, or technology that has made significant contributions to the water industry? Be sure to submit a nomination by March 31.... More

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

World Water Day Virtual Event: Entrepreneurship and Career Opportunities in the Water Sector

Join Us on Monday, March 22 on World Water Day for an exciting virtual event! On behalf of the Carleton 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

Water Conversations with Anna Comerton of Associated Engineering

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

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Healthy Cities—Building Community Through Creativity

Carleton’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will be hosting the next panel as part of their Healthy Cities series on Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. The series explores the many factors—from nature and housing to climate and art—that make a healthy city in 2020. This upcoming edition titled, Building Community Through Creativity, brings... 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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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 3444 Discussion Overview: Large dams almost inevitably displace communities and force them to resettle elsewhere. Forced resettlement can be enormously harmful; one... 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, 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 safe drinking water to a growing list of development criteria, including health, education, income generation and gender equality. There has also been a shift in the way the issue of water access and water security is discussed. Whereas... 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 coming years. Urban living is associated with higher disease rates, and, conversely, living near green spaces has been shown to yield positive health benefits. For the seventh installment of the Global Water Institute’s “Water... 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 Administration PhD candidate Anteneh Belayneh, who began his research into water allocation and water markets in Southern Alberta in 2014.                    ... 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 Patterson, paleolimnologist and professor of Earth Sciences at Carleton University. Dr. Patterson has been working in the Northwest Territories for more than a decade. Today, he shared with us his recent work... 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 had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Steven Cooke of the Carleton Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science on his research into the state, use, and regulation of inland fisheries. Dr. Cooke is the Canada Research Chair... 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 Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University, on the topic of water, indigenous women’s health, and environmental violence in Canada. Dr. Lawford hosted an open-ended discussion, inviting attendees to... 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 ecosystems. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Chemical Contamination of Food Webs (Tier I) and was recently named Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health. She is a professor in the Department of Biology and School of Geography... More

Monday, November 20, 2017

Water Conversations with Tag Elkhazin: Overview of International Law and Cooperative Agreements on Cross Boundary Rivers

Water bodies have little concern for national borders - there are 263 transboundary lake and river basins around the world, covering nearly half of the Earth’s surface. A total of 148 nations include territory within one or more international basins. With the human population and its demand for freshwater growing, and the global supply... More

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Water Conversations with Richard Amos: Managing groundwater contamination in the resource development industry

Today we had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Richard Amos describe his research on managing groundwater contaminants in the resource development industry for our first ever Global Water Institute “Water Conversations” event. Dr. Richard Amos presents his research on October 26th, 2017. Photo credit: Muhammad Salam. Dr. Amos is a professor of Earth... More

Monday, August 21, 2017

Carleton University Launches Global Water Institute

After months of preparation, Carleton University officially launched its Global Water Institute (GWI) following a water research symposium on Wednesday, Aug. 16. Carleton Prof. Banu Örmeci became the Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Global Health in 2017 with a generous $2-million donation from the Jarislowsky Foundation and matching funds from... More

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Global Water Institute Opening Ceremony and Symposium

Water Challenges and Solutions in the Americas Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Carleton University Richcraft Hall Singhal Family Theater 2200 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K15 5B6 Symposium: 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Global Water Institute Opening Ceremony and Reception: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00... More

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Carleton’s Faculty of Public Affairs to Hold CU75 POPS: Water Challenge on World Water Day

Carleton’s Faculty of Public Affairs will host the final competition of CU75 Policy Options and Problem-Solving (POPS): Water – a student-led team challenge designed to encourage innovation and develop pathways to effect change in the... More

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Carleton Marks World Water Day with Seminar on Water in the Era of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Carleton University’s Global Water Institute will celebrate World Water Day with the seminar Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in the Era of the SDGs – New Directions and Emerging Trends presented by Clarissa Brocklehurst. When: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 1 p.m. Where: Room 3235, MacKenzie Building, Carleton University Info: Attendees are asked... More

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