Welcome!
Welcome to the Spring Research Symposium! The spring research symposium is a chance for SENS MES and Ph.D. students to present their work, using the 3-minute thesis format.
Presentations are judged on their quality and clarity by SENS faculty, staff, students, and guests, and the top choices are awarded a small prize and bragging rights. You can see the 2021 showcase here.
Schedule
April 7, 2022
9:15 AM |
Opening Remarks (Zoom) |
9:30 AM |
Plenary Talk by Dr. Kimberly Nicholas, Lund University, Sweden (Zoom) Visit: https://www.kimnicholas.com |
10:15 AM |
Plenary Q&A (Zoom) |
10:30 AM |
Plenary Talk by Ranjan Datta, Mount Royal University (Zoom) |
11:15 AM |
Plenary Q&A (Zoom) |
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM |
Viewing of Recorded Presentations & Lunch (Panopto) |
1:30 PM |
Presentation Q&A Session 1 (Zoom) |
2:30 PM |
Presentation Q&A Session 2 (Zoom) |
3:15 PM |
Wrap-up and Awards (Zoom) |
Presentation Q&A Session 1
1A: Adaptations and Transitions | 1B: Aquatic Processes |
Selby: Scenarios for Prairie Futures | McAleer: Assessing the Role of Nitrogen Availability in Toxin Production During Cyanobacterial Blooms |
Eisner: Design, Build, Maintain: A Sustainable Policy Approach to the Development of Indigenous Communities in Canada | Mohammady: Long-term Analysis of Phosphorous Loading and Algal Bloom Formation in the Lakes that Drain into Lake Winnipeg |
Lim: The Social Value of Energy in Rural Communities in Canada | Cardenas Perez: Seasonal Trends of Emerging Contaminants in Water and Sediments from WWTPs in Saskatchewan |
Lynes: Knowledge, Values or Both? Bringing Together Ways of Knowing to Advance Energy Transitions | Ji: Development of a Passive Sampling Strategy for Monitoring of Organic Pollutants and Their Impacts in Aquatic Systems |
Kalke: Sustainable Energy Project Ownership in Rural Northern Indigenous Communities: How does ownership structure impact the Community Energy Planning Process? | Baron: Changing Source Water Quality: The Impacts of Climate and Watershed Management on Dissolved Organic Matter |
Shivangi: Thermochemical Conversion of Waste Biomass and Plastics for Energy and Environmental Applications | Ferris: Characterization of Groundwater Dynamics and Controls in the Canadian Prairies |
Presentation Q&A Session 2
2A: Modelling | 2B: Health |
Zhao: Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yield on a Regional Scale Based on Crop Models Simulation | Belcher: First Nations Led Mental Health Recovery in the Face of Environmental and Flooding Jeopardy |
Ma: Practical Challenges Associated with Scaling-up Spatially-explicit Estimates of Wetland Carbon Accounting for Prairie Potholes | Porter: Indigenous Water Management and Policy: Connections across a Watershed and Governance System |
Kowshal: Introducing an Advanced Machine Learning Approach to Develop a Pan-Canadian Scale Geospatial Model to Estimate Which Sets of River Channel Characteristics have a Higher Propensity to Ice Jamming | Spence: What do People Value? Preferences and Economic Values for Tackling Eutrophication in a Canadian Lake |
Braaten: Quantifying the Field-Scale Water Balance with Geological Weighing Lysimeter | Antwi-Boasiako: Pandemic Zoonoses and Wildlife Diseases Policy: Opportunities and Challenges Across Institutional and Geographic Scales |