Global Institute for Water Security
National Hydrology Research Centre
11 Innovation Boulevard
Saskatoon, SK S7N 3H5 Canada
Tel: (306) 966-2021; Fax: (306) 966-1193
GIWS Workshop – Annual Progress and Plans
Oak Room, Park Town Hotel
924 Spadina Crescent East, Saskatoon
Monday, June 13 & Tuesday, June 14, 2016
WORKSHOP AGENDA
TIME
Monday, June 13
8:00 – 8:30 am
8:30 – 8:45 am
CANADIAN ROCKIES
8:45 – 9:30 am
TITLE
INVESTIGATORS
Registration & Refreshments
Welcome & GIWS Highlights for 2015-16
(including CFREF-GWF)
Wheater
Canadian Rockies Hydrological Observatory
(including Sibbald Wetlands)
9:30 – 9:45 am
9:45 – 10:00 am
BOREAL FOREST
10:00 – 10:20 am
Group Discussion – Canadian Rockies
Refreshments Break
10:20 – 10:40 am
Alberta oil sands – Salt Dynamics/ End Pit Lakes/
Reclamation
MOST Research Update
10:40 – 11:00 am
BERMS/ White Gull Creek
11:00 – 11:20 am
11:20 – 11:40 am
Group Discussion – Boreal Forest
Water and Health - Stormwater and Wastewater
Discharges
SOCIO-HYDROLOGY & DELTAS
11:40 am – 12:00 pm Socio-hydrology Developments
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:20 pm
Cumberland House/ Cumberland Marsh/ E.B.
Campbell Dam
1:20 – 1:40 pm
Delta Dialogue Network
1:40 – 2:00 pm
2:00 – 2:20 pm
2:20 – 2:40 pm
Delta Stewardship Planning for Water Security
– GIWS Seed Funding Project
The Slave Watershed Environmental Effects
Program
Group Discussion – Socio-Hydrology & Deltas
Westbrook/ Pomeroy/
McDonnell/ Helgason/
Ireson/ Bedard-Haughn
All Participants
Ireson/ Johnstone/ Helgason/
Barr/ van der Kamp
Ireson/ Lindsay/ Barbour/
McDonnell
Pratt/ McDonnell/ Ireson/
Barbour/ Hendry
All Participants
Markus Hecker
Gober/ Wheater
Jardine/ Lindenschmidt/
Belcher/ Reed/ Strickert
Steelman/ Staples/
Bharadwaj/ Jardine/ Jones/
Lindenschmidt/ Poelzer/
Reed/ Strickert
Strickert/ Patrick/ Jardine
Jones/ Bharadwaj/ Doig/
Jardine/ Lindenschmidt
All Participants
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PRAIRIES
2:40 – 3:00 pm
St. Denis
3:00 – 3:20 pm
Bright Water Creek, Kenaston
3:20 – 3:40 pm
3:40 – 4:00 pm
4:00 – 4:20 pm
Refreshments Break
Swift Current Runoff Plots
Prairie Ag Water Quality: Smith Creek and
Tobacco Creek
Prairie Modelling
Group Discussion – Prairies
4:20 – 4:40 pm
4:40 – 5:00 pm
5:00 – 5:10 pm
5:10 – 7:00 pm
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Drinks Social (two drink tickets per person;
venue is the Oak Room )
Bedard-Haughn/ Spence/
Pennock/ Ireson/ Baluch/ van
der Kamp
Helgason/ Ireson/ Pomeroy/
Shook
Coles/ McDonnell
Baulch / Pomeroy/ Shook/
Westbrook/ Wheater
Shook/ Pomeroy
All Participants
Wheater
All Participants
Tuesday, June 14
LAKES AND WATER QUALITY
8:00 – 8:15 am
GIWS data management system
8:15 – 8:30 am
Swift Current Creek – Exotic Contaminants
8:30 – 8:45 am
Lake Diefenbaker – eDNA/ Fingerprinting
8:45 – 9:00 am
Lake Diefenbaker – Paleo Limnology
9:00 – 9:15 am
Lake Diefenbaker – Water Quality
9:15 – 9:30 am
Lake Diefenbaker & Qu’Appelle – Modelling
9:30 – 9:45 am
Winter Limnology
9:45 – 10:05 am
10:05 – 10:40 am
10:40 – 11:00 am
GROUNDWATER
11:00 – 11:30 am
Refreshment Break
Algal Blooms and Issues for Drinking Water
Management (Buffalo Pound Reservoir and High
frequency trait-based phytoplankton
observation – GIWS Seed Funding Project)
Group Discussion – Lakes and water quality
GIWS Groundwater Initiatives: Oil & Gas Project;
IMII Project; East Regina project; and Province
wide groundwater quality project
11:30 – 11:45 am
Group Discussion – Groundwater
CLIMATE, WATER RESOURCES AND LARGE SCALE MODELLING
11:45 am – 12:05 pm Climate Past and Future (CCRN Review Paper/
prairie modelling)
12:05 – 1:00 pm
Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:20 pm
Understanding Non-stationarity in Climate and
Hydrology
1:20 – 1:40 pm
Water Resource Modelling and Decision Support
1:40 – 2:00 pm
Large Scale Hydrological Modelling (Water
Security and Science Agenda – Water Resources
Zdravkovic
Jones/ Hecker/ Giesy
Jones/ Giesy
Doig/ Liber
Abirhire/ Hudson
Lindenschmidt
North/ Baulch/
Lindenschmidt
Baulch/ Lindenschmidt/
Liber/ Jones/ Giesy/ Kehoe
All Participants
Ferguson/ Lindsay/ Ireson
All Participants
DeBeer/ Wheater
Razavi/ Wheater/ Elshorbagy
Wheater/ Elshorbagy/
Razavi/ Gober
Wheater/ Gober/ Ireson/
Pietroniro
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2:00 – 2:20 pm
2:20 – 2:40 pm
2:40 – 3:00 pm
3:00 – 3:20 pm
WATER AND HEALTH
3:20 – 3:40 pm
3:40 – 4:00 pm
4:00 – 4:20 pm
4:20 – 4:40 pm
4:40 – 5:00 pm
5:00 – 5:10 pm
5:10 – 7:00 pm
50th Anniversary paper)
River Ice and Habitat Modelling
Saskatchewan River Basin Nutrient Modelling
(SPARROW)
Group Discussion – Climate, Water Resources
and Large Scale Modelling
Refreshment Break
Safe Water for Health
Degradation of Antibiotics in Wastewater from
Animal Production Industries – GIWS Seed
Funding Project
Capture and Degradation of
Pentachlorophenol in Aquatic Environments
– GIWS Seed Funding Project
The Water In Me – GIWS Seed Funding Project
Group Discussion – Water and Health
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Drinks Social (two drink tickets per person;
venue is the Finns Irish Pub on main floor)
Lindenschmidt
Lindenschmidt/ Morales
All Participants
Bharadwaj
Soltan/ Hecker/ Jones
Wilson
Clark
All Participants
Wheater
All Participants
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