2019 Annual General Meeting
Halifax, Nova Scotia
​All posters are available for download here or individually below, but are not for distribution outside the network. Please email Dana Herriman if you'd like to be connected with a young professional or supervisor about their on-going research.

THEME 1 - WATERSHED SCIENCE & FOREST MANAGEMENT

(1st Place)  Alyssa Bourgeois, University of Alberta 
​with Suzanne Tank & Bill Floyd

​"Does forest disturbance overwhelm the natural variability of drinking water quality?"

(2nd Place) Rebecca Baldock, University of Alberta 
with Sylvie Quideau, Uldis Silins, Miles Dyck

"Does the Source Matter? Harvesting Impacts on Soil Carbon and Dissolved Organic Carbon Composition"

(3rd Place) Rhys Bauer,
Trent University 
​with Jim Buttle
​

"A question of sensitivity - is storage the answer? Hydrologic influences on dissolved carbon export on the Boreal Shield"

David Foster, Lindsay Johnston, & Dillon Langelaan, Dalhousie University
with Peter Duinker & Rob Jamieson

"Modelling the Effects of Forest Management on Dissolved Organic Carbon"

Hannah McSorley, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Island University
with Bill Floyd & Mark Johnson

"How Does Source Water Quality Vary Across a Protected Drinking Water Supply Area with History of Extensive Forest Harvest?"

Emily Mistick,
University of British Columbia
​with Mark Johnston

"Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in headwater streams of contrasting forest harvest history"

Derek Mueller, University of Alberta
with Uldis Silins

"How does Harvesting Influence the Fate and Transport of Dissolved Organic Carbon to Headwater Streams?"

Emily Pugh, University of Alberta
​with Kevin Devito & David Olefeldt 

"Boreal Plans Lake Water Quality: Landscape & Climate Controls"

THEME 2 - DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS PROPAGATION

Jenny Hall, University of Alberta
with Axel Anderson

"Forestry Roads and Our Surface Drinking Sources: Road Erosion in Western Canada"​

Tyler Hampton, University of Waterloo
​with Nandita Basu

"Quantifying post-forest fire hydrologic response using the Budyko framework & a 'backwards' paired-catchment approach"

THEME 3 - DRINKING WATER TREATABILITY

Soosan Bahramian, University of Waterloo
​with Monica Emelko, Uldis Silins, Mike Stone et al.

"Contemporary Forest Harvesting Can Have No Impact on Drinking Water Treatability"

Ellen Cameron, University of Waterloo
with Kirsten Müller & Monica Emelko

"What Environmental Factors Influence Cyanobacteria Growth in Freshwater Ecosystems?"

Arnold Kwok, University of Waterloo
with Kirsten Müller

"Do Microbial Communities Matter in Aquatic Ecosystems?"

THEME 4 - RESOURCE ECONOMICS

Sabrina Bedjera, University of Waterloo
with Dani Lindamood, Monica Emelko, & Roy Brouwer

"Assessing Drinking Water Security Threats and Costs: An initial costing framework for natural disturbances"

Zehua Pan, University of Waterloo
​with Roy Brouwer

"The Economic Value Behind Land Usage: Assessing land use economics as a tool for enhancing water treatability"