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Renison University College will be hosting the annual, international Trinity Institute Conference on March 22-24, 2017. This year's livestream from New York City will focus on Water Justice.

Trinity Institute is a global conference held in New York City and webcast all over the world. With a sharp focus on the need for water justice initiatives in areas of access, droughts, pollution, rising tides, and flooding, Trinity Institute aims to offer actionable guidance surrounding these issues.

In this seminarÌýBarret Kurylyk, Research Associate at McMaster University, presents an overview of the role of heat energy in the hydrologic cycle, looking at the role of heat as a tracer, of heat as a water quality issue, and the application of physically-based models to questions of permafrost hydrology.

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Light refreshments will be provided.Ìý

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As part of the Water Institute'sÌýWaterTalks lecture series, Jeremy Schmidt, lecturer of Human Geography at Durham University, United Kingdom, presents "Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity."

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°Õ³ó±ðÌýÌýat Wilfrid Laurier University will hostÌý, from Brock University, as he gives a lecture on, "Evaluating Landscape Changes and Associated Influences on Lakes and Rivers in Old Crow Flats, Yukon."

In this talk Ni-BinÌýChang, director at the Stormwater Management Academy and professor inÌýEnvironmental Systems Engineering at theÌýUniversity of Central Florida, focusesÌýon the challenges and forefronts in optical remote sensing for earth observationsÌýusing case studies of Lake Erie and Lake Nicaragua.

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As part of the Water Institute'sÌýWaterTalks lecture series, Janet Hering, director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology () and professor at the Swiss Federal InstituteÌýof Technology in Zürich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne presents, "Linking Eawag’s Research to Policy and Practice."

As part of our WaterTalk lecture seriesÌýStÃ¥le Navrud, professor of environmental and resource economics, presents, "How to value marine and coastal ecosystem services for policy use."Ìý

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Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.Ìý

As part of our WaterTalk lecture series professor Max Maurer, head of theÌýÌýat the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & TechnologyÌý(), presents, "Data instead of concrete? Exploring the potential of digitalization in urban drainage."Ìý

The 2017ÌýWater Institute RBC distinguished lecturer, Quentin Grafton, will presentÌý±õ²Ô²Ô´Ç±¹²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô,ÌýIncentivesÌýand Infrastructure in the Blue EconomyÌýas part ofÌýÌýElsevier's fourth International Water Research Conference, hosted by the Water Institute.Ìý