Webinar:
​Analysis of Environmental DNA Samples with Ellen S. Cameron

​Join Ellen Cameron from Kirsten Müller's laboratory at the University of Waterloo for a crash course in the analysis of environmental DNA. From water to community composition - Ellen will provide molecular biology info for non-biologists, explain sampling and laboratory techniques and discuss the interpretation and applications of DNA sequencing data. 

July 8, 2020

Webinar: 
An Introduction to Evolution, Sequence Alignment and Phylogeny with Kirsten Müller

Kirsten Müller, a professor in the department of biology at the University of Waterloo, packs an entire undergraduate course into this 1hr15min webinar. She covers: 
  1. Homology & evolution (including mutation and natural selection)
  2. What is a species?
  3. Why do we want to know what species it is?
  4. DNA markers for taxonomy and identification
  5. Pairwise sequence comparison – BLAST
  6. Sequence alignment – multiple sequence alignment
  7. How to read phylogenetic trees
  8. Phylogenetic reconstruction for hypothesis testing
  9. Models of evolution

June 24, 2020

Webinar: 
Intermediate R Studio with Tyler Hampton

This webinar builds on the introductory webinar "R for beginners" listed below. In this webinar Tyler shares intermediate level tips for making useful and informative plots that are publication-quality.

June 18, 2020

Webinar:
​R for beginners with Tyler Hampton

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. One of R’s strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed.

Please ensure you have the latest version of R and R Studio installed. Use installupdater.zip to support updating or installing the program on your computer. Please see the 2020_forwater_rworkshop.zip for material referenced in the webinar.

​June 11, 2020
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Webinar​:
Working & Communicating
with Partners

This webinar focuses on partner engagement featuring expertise from researcher Peter Duinker (Dalhousie University), Dani Lindamood, Allie Dusome (University of Waterloo) 

March 2019

Webinar:
Managing a Nova Scotia forest for drinking water supply with David Foster

This webinar includes an overview of the management of the Pockwock Watershed for the provision of drinking water to citizens of Halifax Regional Municipality and other ecological values. David discusses the harvests planned for the watershed, how they contribute to forest and ecosystem management, and how we will use them to better understand forestry as a tool for drinking water supply management.

August 2019

​Workshop Summary: 
​Drinking Water Treatability

In February 2019, a workshop introducing Theme 3: Drinking Water Treatability was held at the University of Waterloo. Through a series of lectures, lab sessions, and guest speaker talks, forWater Young Professionals learned about different aspects of drinking water including how to recognize and evaluate the relationship between source water quality and treatment options for utilities and First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities.

February 2019