Beaty Water Research Centre

Join us Jan. 26 at 12:30 PM for our next Virtual Seminar! Our speaker is Stuart Pearson from the Delft University of Technology who will be talking about and sea level rise from the Dutch perspective.

For more information and how to join via Zoom: https://queensu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvcOqgqT8tHdJEKpKhJHtXRyPGDl3y1U3B

One of our affiliated faculty, Dr. George diCenzo is looking for a postdoc and PhD student to join him in Queen's Department of Biology for an exciting project to identify and characterize microbes and enzymes capable of degrading plastics. Please apply by June 1st.

For more info: https://dicenzolab.weebly.com/opportunities.html

The Queen's Department of Biology is hosting their annual Biology Graduate Research Symposium on April 23, 2021. This event will showcase research conducted in the department, with a focus on graduate student work.

For more information and to register:

QUBGRS | Queen's University Biology Graduate Research Symposium The Queen's University BGRS is an annual conference hosted for and by biology graduate students to share their research.

Thank you to Bing Chen for his interesting and informative virtual seminar yesterday on about response!

The 2021 Queen’s Northern Research Symposium will be held virtually on April 13. Researchers from any discipline (including Social and Health Sciences, Engineering, and Natural Sciences) are welcome!

Deadline to register is this Friday, April 9th: https://queensnrs.wordpress.com/about/how-to-register/

The Contaminants of Emerging Concern - Research Excellence Network (CEC-REN), affiliated with Queen's University and the Beaty Water Research Centre is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Genetic Engineering for Wastewater Treatment. See below for more details:

More Info: https://waterresearchcentre.ca/research/opportunities/

Check out this recent The Conversation Canada article from BWRC affiliated faculty, David McDonald (from the Dept. of Global Development Studies) on how COVID-19 has decimated water systems globally, but privatization is not the answer.

Full article: https://theconversation.com/covid-19-has-decimated-water-systems-globally-but-privatization-is-not-the-answer-155689

Queen's University Gazette article: https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/stories/covid-19-has-decimated-water-systems-globally-privatization-not-answer?utm_source=e-queens-gazette_staff&utm_medium=e-newsletter

BWRC affiliated faculty, Leon Boegman from Civil Engineering, is a contributor to this work out of the University of Guelph that has found that more frequent wind events are harming water quality in lakes. This work was also recently covered in the Washington post.

https://news.uoguelph.ca/2021/03/more-frequent-wind-events-hurting-lake-water-quality-u-of-g-study-finds/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/scientists-climate-whipped-winds-pose-great-lakes-hazards/2021/03/15/8ea2186c-85b9-11eb-be4a-24b89f616f2c_story.html

Thank you to Prameet Sheth for his interesting and informative virtual seminar yesterday on multidrug resistant organisms!

The 2021 Queen’s Northern Research Symposium will be held virtually on Tuesday, April 13. Researchers from any discipline (including Social and Health Sciences, Engineering, and Natural Sciences) are welcome!

All abstracts are due Wed. March 10. For more info visit: https://queensnrs.wordpress.com

An interesting and informative presentation from BWRC affiliated faculty Stephen Brown, Sarah Jane Payne and Geof Hall yesterday for the Queen's School of Policy Studies series.

Tomorrow's Queen's University School of Policy Studies lecture features BWRC affiliated faculty, Stephen Brown, Sarah Jane Payne and Geof Hall -"Flushed Intelligence-Detecting outbreaks using wastewater-based epidemiology". Join us at 4PM Mar 2.

More info and to register:https://queensu.ca/sps/qccls-mar-2