2024 Water Sustainability Summit
Part of the UCalgary Discovery Exchange Series
Four-day workshop in the Canadian Rockies with leading water security experts
Navigating Canada’s Water Security: Predicting Floods, Droughts, and Water Quality Threats
UCalgary is pleased to present the 2024 Water Sustainability Summit, our inaugural Discovery Exchange Series program.
Navigating Canada’s Water Security: Predicting Floods, Droughts, and Water Quality Threats is a 4-day workshop for researchers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to exchange and create new knowledge together.
Spend time at the University of Calgary campus and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, with field excursions to the Bow River, the Athabasca Glacier in the Columbia Icefield, and Lake Minnewanka.
On Days 3 and 4, our partners from Environment and Climate Change Canada will engage participants in high-level discussion on the development of a next generation national water quality model for Canada.
Days 3 & 4 in partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada
Led by UCalgary Experts
Join UCalgary experts Dr. Martyn Clark, Dr. Kerry Black, Dr. Alain Pietroniro, Dr. Kelly Munkittrick, and Dr. Fred Wrona who will lead the 2024 Water Sustainability Summit.
Dr. Martyn Clark
Professor of Hydrology and Schulich Research Chair in Environmental Prediction
University of Calgary
Dr. Kerry Black
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair (Integrated Knowledge, Engineering & Sustainable Communities), in the Center for Environmental Engineering Research and Education (CEERE)
University of Calgary
Dr. Alain Pietroniro
Professor of Civil Engineering
University of Calgary
Dr. Kelly Munkittrick
Professor and Campus Alberta Innovation Program Chair in Aquatic Ecosystem Health
University of Calgary
Dr. Fred Wrona
Professor and Svare Research Chair in Integrated Watershed Processes
University of Calgary
Launch of the United Nations University Hub at UCalgary in 2023.
About the Summit
- Over 4 days, participants will explore the complexity of environmental predictions, diving into quantitative and qualitative methods that inform the future of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
- Topics include long- and short-term environmental predictions, surface and groundwater interactions, transdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem health, Indigenous ways of knowing and doing, and water policy and knowledge-informed decision making.
- Participants will engage in workshops focused on understanding how long and short-term predictions are informing decisions in water and environmental protection and stewardship, and how they can serve as early-warning systems for emerging threats to aquatic ecosystems.
- Participants will learn emerging approaches to developing actionable and predictive information and tools that empower communities to respond to climate threats that affect personal safety, ecosystems, and the economy.
- Examples from across the globe will be highlighted and explored to share best practices and emerging research in environmental predictions and sustainable water management.
- As a unique opportunity, in the final two days of the program, participants will engage with experts from Environment and Climate Change Canada in high-level discussion on the development of a next generation national water quality model for Canada.
Contact
The UCalgary Discovery Exchange Series is managed by the Office of the Vice-President Research.
- Contact us at research@ucalgary.ca
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The UCalgary Discovery Exchange Series offers unique, research-focused experiential opportunities for members of the national and international research community to exchange and create new knowledge together.
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