About WaterResearch
Enjoy our twentieth issue of WaterResearch for Fall 2024. The newsletter is published three times per year by the Water Institute at the University of 蓝莓视频. Issues contain summaries of high impact scientific articles published by Water Institute faculty members and their students.
Examine how alterations in water quality, climate, and land cover are influencing macroinvertebrate populations and what these changes reveal about ecosystem health.
Informing the long-term monitoring of shallow, flood-prone lakes
Research findings are shaping the development of a long-term aquatic ecosystem monitoring program for the Peace-Athabasca Delta, a dynamic landscape of shallow lakes facing multiple environmental challenges.
Advancements in thermo-adaptive systems
Discover how this innovative water transport mechanism provides a cost-effective boost to solar-driven water generation, offering a promising solution for large-scale applications.
Policy and practice in Manila and Vancouver
Explore the importance of including managed retreat as a climate change adaptation option in costal cities and barriers that can block its use.
Using thresholds to inform water treatment risks and needs
Explore the concept of Threshold Microplastic Concentration (TMC) supporting management of health risks of waterborne microplastics.
Dive into the performance of various models on the Great Lakes鈥攁 region with complex transboundary datasets, diverse climatic and land use conditions, and immense socio-economic importance to both the USA and Canada.
Evidence from the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica
Widespread seawater intrusion beneath grounded ice may be the missing link between the rapid, past, and present changes in ice sheet mass and the slower changes replicated by ice sheet models.
Assessing the importance of groundwater
Improving our understanding of local water budgets and, in particular, the role of groundwater is imperative to making informed management and conservation decisions.
Assessing the impacts of multiple stressors
Quantifies and compares听how rainbow darters are coping with multiple, natural and human-induced environmental stressors.
A decadal study of the Great Lakes Basin
Take a closer look at the complex interplay of land use, soil type and climate factors contributing to the higher frequency and intensity of algal blooms in the Great Lakes Basin.
of Best Management Practices to reduce Phosphorous loadings into Lake Erie
Assessing the most environmental and cost-effective programs of BMPs, considering both public programming costs and private farm-level costs.
Lessons for monitoring
Reveals the importance of multi-timepoint, multi-depth sampling in lake and reservoir monitoring programs to describe cyanobacteria community dynamics.
The study reveals multiple hotspots for biophysical and social risk categories across the Great Lakes watershed.
Learn more about PlasticNet, a deep convolutional neural network architecture tailored for automatic recognition and classification of microplastics.
Read about the latest advancements in sustainable water harvesting systems achieved through the use of biomimetic surface engineering principles.
This paper sheds light on cabbeling and heat transport which has applications for the timing of ice-off, and for understanding how winter dynamics affects biogeochemical dynamics, including potential algal blooms, during subsequent summer seasons.听
Gain unique insights into the fate and transport of groundwater chloride originating from seasonally applied road salt and the efficacy of road salt reduction strategies.
Dive deep into the significant complexities surrounding efforts to build resilience in the Red River Basin under climate change.
About WaterResearch
Enjoy our sixteenth issue of WaterResearch for Spring 2023. The newsletter is published three times per year by the Water Institute at the University of 蓝莓视频. Issues contain summaries of high impact scientific articles published by Water Institute faculty members and their students.
Investigates long-term baseflow trends and identifies possible climatic drivers across Canada.
Learn more about a new framework that provides promising opportunities for predicting rates of mixing from remotely sensed images and enhanced capabilities to analyze mixing based on geographical information systems.
Presents a step-by-step framework for a systematic robustness evaluation of individual treatment processes and DWTPs demonstrating its application to a full-scale DWTP.
Learn more about drivers of oxic methane production (OMP) and how to predict and mitigate its impact in a changing climate.
Learn more about leverage points for intervention across human, animal and environment sectors that may have potential to change system behaviours to help to mitigate AMR.
Explore the potential, limits and pathways for water markets to contribute to more sustainable and inclusive water management.
Evaluates the use of blends of adsorbents with different adsorptive properties to successfully analyze PFAS in sludge and biosolids.
Dive deeper into the global rivers study revealing impaired or severely impaired biological quality that is negatively impacting the provision of valuable ecosystem services.
This study examines daily spatial maps of sea ice presence probability with longer-term lead times up to 90鈥塪ays and freeze-up/breakup dates of strategic use to shipping operators.
Reviews peatland management pathways and their vast potential for greenhouse gas emission reductions.
Takes a closer look at extensive subglacial hydrological systems in the Antarctic, a region critical for future sea level rise.
Reveals the potential microfluidic platforms offer for POC monitoring of heavy metals in our water, soil, air and food.
Salinization may be an overlooked driver of downward trends of hypolimnion DO concentrations in lakes worldwide.
Provides insight into how the risk associated with impoundments has evolved and provides benchmarks for estimating the likelihood of failures and associated environmental impacts.
Promoting the value of curating, depositing and preserving microplastics data in adherence with the FAIR guiding principles.
Discovers the resilience among the nonprofit water advocacy groups in the face of COVID-19.
Explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on basic human needs such as WASH services in Kisumu, Kenya.
Sheds light on pollution reduction costs related to manufacturing, agriculture and wastewater within the The Great Lakes Basin.
Explores a promising alternative for a fast, easy, inexpensive, in situ testing platform for detecting insecticides in water.
Examines biodegradable plastics such as PHA that offer a promising alternative to conventional plastics.
Swamps, which are characterized by woody vegetation cover, represent large areas of North America鈥檚 wetlands, and are comparatively understudied and largely missing from greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. A better understanding of swamp carbon stocks and fluxes, and how they vary from other wetland types, is required to support improved wetland mapping and climate and earth system modelling efforts.This study shows the importance of swamps for wetland carbon storage and important carbon cycling differences among swamp types. It demonstrates that regardless of organic versus mineral swamp definitions, all swamp types are important in terms of carbon accumulation and fluxes.
Investigates drinking water perception and consumption in Indigenous communities and the importance for public health
The first Canadian study to assess whether socially vulnerable groups bear a disproportionate burden of 铿倁vial, pluvial and coastal 铿俹od risk.
Featured in Nature Communications, this study pinpoints strategies to improve watershed management and planning given the critical role of legacy nitrogen.
Examines shifting hydro-biogeochemical behaviour in intensively managed landscapes
Featured in Nature Communications, this study demonstrates an approach that covers model components and processes at a continental scale.
Analyzes the costs of environmental regulations on natural resource extraction industries.
See results of the first comprehensive study of surface water microplastic pollution in Lake Superior
Assesses the capacity in Dhaka, Bangladesh to support more collaborative approaches to water management
Studies flow patterns evolving around natural obstructions, such as boulder clusters, wood jams or patches of riparian vegetation.
