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Facilitator: James Ikkers | |
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| 8:00 am | Arrival and registration at Natural Resources Canada Booth Street Complex Ottawa, ON |
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| 8:45 am | Welcome remarks from the Government of Canada Natural Resources Canada
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| 9:20 am |
Introduction and Overview of Global Water Futures
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John Pomeroy, Director of Global Water Futures |
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Overview of the Research at the Global Institute for Water Security
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Jay Famiglietti, Director, Global Institute for Water Security |
| 10:00 am | Signing Ceremony for the Memorandum of Understanding Concerning Cooperation in Water Science | NRCan and GWF Co-signatories |
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Scientific Presentations – Objective:
Participants will provide 15-minute thematic presentations summarizing their areas of research, with the aim to identify specific challenges or problems and proposed collaborative solutions to provide tools and technologies for the sustainable development of Canada’s natural resources. |
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| 10:30 am | Presentations – Theme 1: Water scenario modelling, forest management, predictive tools and technologies | Facilitator: Yves Michaud |
| Where is Groundwater and How is it Changing? |
Alfonso Rivera & John Crowle, GSC | |
| Geospatial Intelligence for Continental-domain Hydrologic Modeling and Prediction |
Martyn Clark, GWF/GIWS | |
| Integrated Modelling and Management of Watershed Systems Under Uncertainty |
Saman Razavi, GWF/GIWS | |
| Snow Research for Flood Forecasting |
Richard Fernandes, CCMEO | |
| Hydrology and Forest Management/ Modelling Forest Hydrologic Response to Environmental Change |
Jason Leach, CFS | |
| An ECCC National Coupled Hydrological Prediction System : A Community Model and Ties with GWF |
Al Pietroniro, ECCC | |
| Soil Moisture Monitoring to Enhance Crop Yield Forecasting and Drought Risk Assessment |
Catherine Champagne, AAFC | |
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| 1:00 pm | Discussion | |
| 1:30 pm | Presentations – Theme 2: Surface and groundwater modelling techniques, including flow systems and water accounting | Facilitator: Yves Michaud |
| Deep Groundwater Flow Systems and Connections to Near Surface Fluxes |
Grant Ferguson, GWF | |
| A Renaissance in Regional Hydrogeology: From Data to Modelling |
Dave Rudolph, GWF | |
| Advances and Challenges in Groundwater Research in the Canadian Arctic |
Jeff McKenzie, GWF | |
| Surface Water/Groundwater modeling – the Importance of Groundwater in Water Management |
Daniel Paradis, GSC | |
| Terrestrial Water Cycle and Water Budget: Recent Research Progress |
Shusen Wang, CCMEO | |
| Flood and Cumulative Effects; Dynamic Surface Water Mapping |
Ian Olthof, CCMEO | |
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| 3:30 pm | Presentations – Theme 3: Climate change impacts, including natural hazards, glaciology, permafrost, peatland/wetland hydrology | Facilitator: Paula McLeod |
| Remote Sensing for Urban Flood Monitoring and Risk Mapping |
Ying Zhang, CCMEO | |
| Earth Observation for Peatland Mapping – Optical Monitoring of Wetlands and Inland Waters |
H. Peter White, CCMEO | |
| Characterizing Lake and River Ice using SAR |
Joost van der Sanden, CCMEO | |
| Crowdsourcing Tools for Validating EO-derived Products for Flood Extents and River-ice Jams |
Simon Tolszczuk-Leclerc, CCMEO | |
| Long Penetrating EO Radar for Enhanced Peatland Classification and Monitoring |
Ridha Touzi, CCMEO | |
| Forest Ecosystem Response to Climate Change |
Jennifer Baltzer, GWF | |
| Boreal Water Futures: Ecohydrology, Wetland and Forest Management Research in an era of Transformative Ecosystem Change |
Mike Waddington, GWF | |
| 5:15 pm | Discussion | |
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| 8:00 am | Arrival at Natural Resources Canada Booth Street Complex Ottawa, ON |
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| 8:30 am | Presentations – Theme 3 (continued): Climate change impacts, including natural hazards, glaciology, permafrost, peatland/wetland hydrology | Facilitator: Paula McLeod |
| Overview of Water Related Research at CFS |
Jason Leach, CFS | |
| Climate Change Adaptation for Flooding and Coastal Management |
Monica Harvey, Lands and Minerals Sector | |
| Remote Sensing-based Spatial Modelling for Permafrost Mapping And Projection (PerMAP) |
Yu Zhang, CCMEO | |
| Permafrost Monitoring Network: Geothermal, Geotechnical Data |
Sharon Smith, GSC | |
| Permafrost Mapping |
Stephen Wolfe, GSC | |
| Rockies’ Glaciers and Groundwater in the Plains |
David Burgess & Alfonso Rivera, GSC | |
| Cold Climate Hydrology: Natural and Disturbed Watersheds |
Sean Carey, GWF | |
| Extremes, High Resolution Models and Bias Corrected Datasets |
Ronald Stewart, GWF | |
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| 10:45 am | Presentations - Theme 4: Data Management and Related Analytics (Big Data, Artificial Intelligence) | Facilitator: James Ikkers |
| Data Management and Dissemination in an Open World – The Linked Data Experiment |
Éric Boisvert, GSC | |
| Canada’s water and the Federal Geospatial Platform |
Colleen Fuss & Sébastien Durand, CCMEO | |
| CHyF: Implementing OGC’s HY_Feature standard as services to ease water related analysis |
Marie-Eve Martin & Jean-François Bourgon, CCMEO | |
| A Canadian Forest Watershed Research Network: Opportunities and Challenges |
Jason Leach, CFS | |
| Hydrometric Renewal : Integrating a new vision for Canada |
Al Pietroniro, ECCC | |
| Overview of Global Water Futures Data Management Activities and Framework |
Amber Peterson, GWF | |
| 12:15 pm | Discussion The workshop will conclude with a project-oriented session to determine next steps towards project proposals. Participants will deliberate on the prioritization of such proposals to be developed under the MOU. Suggested Topics to Consider for the final discussion:
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