Showcase your water-related research at the Water Institute’s World Water Day (WWD) celebration.
UW Graduate and undergraduates are encouraged to present a poster of any stage of their research. Posters presented at other conferences will be accepted.
Students are responsible for designing, printing, hanging and taking down their own posters. Students must set up their posters between 9:30 - 10:30 am before the start of the event. We encourage students to be near their posters between 12:20 - 2 pm during the poster session. Judging will take place during the poster session, with the winners announced at the end of WWD at 3:30 pm. Posters will be judged on clarity, scientific quality and presentation of the research. Posters can be taken down at the end of the event at 3:30 pm.
Posters will be displayed on a poster board that is 4 feet wide by 3 feet tall. Posters will be assessed for their organization and legibility, design and choice of graphics and tables, overall impression and significance of the research, research content, and the student’s knowledge of the material if they speak with a judge. For more guidelines on how to design a research poster, students can refer to our 2025 World Water Day: Tips & Guidelines.
If you would like support or have questions, please contact Taylor Virgin (tlvirgin@uwaterloo.ca) or Nathanael Bergbusch (ntbergbu@uwaterloo.ca), Co-Vice Chairs Conference of SWIGS.
Registration is required and space is limited.
List of Posters presented:
| PosterNo | FirstName | LastName | PosterTitle | Department |
| 1 | Noelle | Starling | Looking at the impact of reservoirs across the Lake Winnipeg Basin on nitrogen and phosphorus loads and transport through C-Q modeling | Department of Earth and Environmental Science |
| 2 | Alexa | Holder | Facing the flood: A proposal for amphibious architecture for Peguis, Manitoba | School of Architecture |
| 3 | Navya | Vikraman Nair | Can coastal wetlands unlock resilient communities and sustainable fisheries for life above and below water? | School of Environment, Enterprise and Development |
| 4 | Sierra | Vowels | A decade of environmental monitoring in Laurel Creek: Strengthening ecological education in field ecology through long-term data | Faculty of Environment |
| 5 | Carissa | MacKenzie | Gravel access roads and carbon cycling in boreal peatlands | Department of Geography and Environmental Management |
| 6 | Natalie | Schneider | Stream periphyton response to phosphorus loading events is constrained by antecedent conditions | Department of Biology |
| 7 | Anja | Skrobonja | Stream periphyton communities impacted similarly by distinct phosphorus enrichment patterns | Department of Biology |
| 8 | Favour | Ozordi | A case study on flooding in the Yukon: The role of hydrometric data and indigenous collaboration | Department of Economics |
| 9 | Katryna | Barone | The influence of source water on alpine river systems in Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga (Torngat Mountains National Park), Nunatsiavut, Labrador | School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability |
| 10 | Camila | Granito | Enhancing nutrient circularity through biosolids quantification and recovery in municipal waste systems: An Ontario perspective | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 11 | Arash | Ghomlaghi | Stormwater modeling at the Region of ݮƵ International Airport | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 12 | Cynthia | Bova | Strong temperature trends shown in a season of high frequency sampling of methane ebullition in two southern Ontario stormwater ponds | Department of Earth and Environmental Science |
| 13 | Madeline | Tucker | Evaluating the influence of wetlands in a regional hydrologic model of a northern Ontario watershed | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 14 | Rayden | Laliberte | Assessing the water quality stratification in urban stormwater management (SWM) ponds | Department of Geography and Environmental Management |
| 15 | Andrii | Kramarenko | Rapid assessment index to quantify the waterfowl forage value of wetland plants | Department of Biology |
| 16 | Chinonso | Chris-Emenyonu | Assessing the effect of water table on CO2 exchange in a rewetted peatland | Department of Geography and Environmental Management |
| 18 | Jingya | Pang | Assessing the potential of activated bauxite residue (ABR) to remove PFAS in the water column | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 19 | Shayna | Meinzinger | Quantifying greenhouse gas emission dynamics in restored wetlands | Department of Earth and Environmental Science |
| 20 | Lauren | McElroy | Voices for salmon: Community perceptions of conservation and justice | School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability |
| 21 | Hillary | Sutton | Evaluating the capacity of the 2021 Prince Edward Island Water Act to accommodate and facilitate sustainable water management on Prince Edward Island | School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability |
| 23 | Joseph | Wortman | Photocatalytic degradation of microplastics using metal organic frameworks | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| 24 | Amy | Lacey | Establishing baseline metal(loid) concentrations for aquatic sediment monitoring in the Whooping Crane Nesting Region (Wood Buffalo National Park) | Department of Biology |
| 25 | Ambneesh | Mishra | Removal of chromium from aqueous waste using agricultural waste - A sustainable pathway towards water treatment | University of Łódź |
| 26 | Will | Rauch-Davis | Graduate student perception of food accessibility in Kitchener-ݮƵ Region | School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability |
| 27 | Qiuya | Zhao | The coupling mechanism of water competition and economic development in China: A spatial heterogeneity analysis within water-food-energy-economic nexus | Department of Economics |
| 28 | Scarlett | van Berkel | TBD | School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability |