On Monday, February 4th, the Ecohydrology Research Group hosted the 7thannual World Wetlands Day Research Symposiumat the University of ݮƵ.
The 2019 programfeatured:
This year the research talks were presentedby academic researchers and graduate students from the University of ݮƵ, Wilfrid Laurier University, McMaster University, and the University of Toronto. The presenter names and presentation titles are listedin the program.
New this year, were the Lightning Talks. These 5-minute presentations, were given by environmental practitioners and researchers from the University of ݮƵ, the Credit Valley Conservation (), and the rareChartiable Research Reserve ().
A total of 28 posters were presented at the poster session & reception, which was sponsored by the Global Water Futures Young Professionals program. The session included a Best Student Poster competition.
The Best Student Poster presentation award in the undergraduate category went toMeghan McLeod, a student in Applied Mathematics atthe University of ݮƵ. The award in the graduate category went to two students this year. Janey Hu and SuyuanYang (both from the University of ݮƵ'sFaculty of Environment) tied for the Best Student Poster awardin the graduate category.
Each student will recieve$250 as a prize, sponsored by the Ecohydrology Research Group.The complete list of the posters presented this year is listedbelow:
Poster Presentations
- Nicole Balliston: Characterizing Patterned Peatlands in the James Bay Lowlands and the Potential Feedbacks to Anthropocentric
- Sevil Berenji: The Role of Values and Beliefs throughout the Production of Dried Fish: A Focus on the Well-Being of Producers
- Patrick Deane: Investigating the effectiveness of peatland fuel modification treatments in reducing peat ignition potential
- Élise Devoie: The beginning of thaw: isolated and connected talik development in active layer modelling
- Gabriel Dubé: Unsaturated flow in a constructed fen upland and its effects on Na+ flushing
- Iroshani Galappaththi: Governing fisheries value chains towards sustainability: The case of dried fish sector in India and Sri Lanka
- Tyler Hampton: Quantifying post-forest-fire hydrologic response using the Budyko framework and a “backwards” paired-catchment approach
- Dylan Hrach: Quantifying seasonal evapotranspiration of a sub-alpine wetland, Kananaskis, AB
- Janet Hu: Hydrological Function of a Disturbed Swamp-Fen Peatland Complex
- Philippe Van Cappellen: How geophysics informs biogeochemistry
- Kimberly Kleinke: Methane fluxes from Thuja occidentalis and Larix laricina stems in an Ontario fen
- Meghan McLeod: Modelling Phosphorus in Watersheds Affecting Lake Erie
- Sisir Kanta Pradhan: Social-ecological perspective of dried fish value chain
- Tyler Prentice: Quantifying the use of soil prescriptions on moisture regimes in a post-oil sands landscape
- Emily Prystupa: Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentration and Composition in a Reclaimed Fen
- Olivia Trudeau: Impact of linear disturbances on soil characteristics in Northern Alberta
- Suyuan Yang: Hydrodynamics and Salinity in Unsaturated Zone of Constructed Fen
- Nataša Popović: What the Flux? Carbon and Water Dynamics During the Early Development of a Reclaimed, Post-Oilsands Landscape in Northern Alberta, Canada
- Md Abdus Sabur: Internal phosphorus loading: role of dissolved silicate under oxic and anoxic conditions
- Ryan Kangro: Methane Flux Comparison Over Three Growing Seasons
- Teresa Tran: Wasted Water*
- Jason McMillan: Unsettling Ground: Arctic Urbanism on Fluid Ground*
- Santosh Neupane: Future projections of rain-on-snow events and their spatiotemporal distribution across the Fraser River basin, British Columbia, Canada*
- Shengde Yu: Modeling the Water Qualities in Fanshawe Lake*
- Sarah Indris: Application and Environmental Sustainability of Water Recycling for Irrigation in Southern Ontario*
- Senguttuvan Annamalai: Importance of lateral thinking in research
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- Emily Champion: Hydrologic implications of sediment infill within the East Recharge Basin of the constructed Nikanotee Watershed
*Students of the University of ݮƵ’s Collaborative Water Program
The DistinguishedPublic Lecturewas presented by Dianna Kopansky, a UN Environment expert on landscapes & biodiversity and the Global peatlands Initiative Coordinator. Her presentation was titled"Peatlands: Why they matter for the climate, people, and the planet". A recording of the lecture has been posterd on the EcohydrologyResearch Group's YouTube channel.
About World Wetlands Day
February 2nd is World Wetlands Day, whichmarksthe day when the Convention on Wetlandswas adopted in1971 in Ramsar, Iran. The Convention is an international government agreement acknowledging the importance of wetlands and plays a central role in the wise use and conservation of these criticalecosystems. To learn more about the Convention, visit:.