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Minister Chagger (far right) announces ��ݮ��Ƶ grant winners, including Water Institute members David Blowes (second from right) and James R. Craig (third from right).

Water research was among several areas to receive substantial government support this past week from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Canada Research Chairs (CRC) grants. The Honourable Bardish Chagger, Minister of Small Business and Tourism, and member of parliament for ��ݮ��Ƶ, revealed seven University of ��ݮ��Ƶ award recipients — including Water Institute members David Blowes and James R. Craig — Friday during a special announcement in the University’s Science Teaching Complex.

Two Water Institute members have been elected to the .

Members have reached a high level of achievement at an early stage of their careers. They represent the emerging generation of scholars and leaders in science and the arts in the country. Membership is for seven years.

Water - On Exhibition drew ��ݮ��Ƶ students, across a wide range of disciplines, eager to showcase their research and designs on water as a renewable resource.

Held on Oct. 6 at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ School of Architecture in Cambridge, ON, the exhibition was a collaboration between Students of the Water Institute Graduate Section (SWIGS) and the 

The  and the  published an op-ed by Water Institute member and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Barry Warner.

Warner studies the dynamics of natural, restored, and created wetlands using a variety of ecological and paleoecological indicators. These methods are used to study wetland ecosystems across a variety of spatial scales and temporal scales.

$78 million from the Government of Canada will position the country as a global hub for leading-edge, user-driven water science for the world’s cold regions. The University of ��ݮ��Ƶ’s Water Institute will be a key partner on the University of Saskatchewan-led Global Water Futures initiative.

Forests, wetlands and grasslands all provide “watershed services” by enhancing water quality and supply, biodiversity and carbon storage. They have economic value but unfortunately their market price is $0, says the executive director of the Water Institute.

The green water of Rio’s outdoor Olympic pools has baffled athletes, organizers and spectators but not ��ݮ��Ƶ Biologist Kirsten Müller. She is fairly certain that algae is the culprit.

Although low chlorine levels, minerals and copper can also cause water to look green, it’s the cloudy appearance of the water that suggests the presence of an algal biomass.

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Seven full-length videos are now available below that feature many of the guest speakers who presented at the Ecohydrology Research Group .

The research group, with support from the Water Institute, held a full-day research symposium on June 16, 2016, featuring coastal ecologists, watershed model developers, and environmental policy researchers from Europe and North America.

Water Institute members are invited to submit proposals for the Water Institute’s Seed Grant Program fall term 2016 competition.

The program aims to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration, facilitate interaction with national or international authorities, encourage new areas of research, and encourage the development of research proposals.