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September 27-28, 2010
4th International Conference on Natural Channel Systems
Hosted by: Ontario Branch / CWRA ON, SWCS, CO, AFS, OMNR, DFO, TRCA. Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre, Mississauga, Ontario
September 29, 2010
CWRA Luncheon: Tackling Soil Moisture in Agricultural Manitoba
Hosted by: Manitoba Branch Holiday Inn South, Winnipeg, Manitoba
June 27-30, 2011
64th CWRA National Conference
"Our Water - Our Life - The Most Valuable Resource"

Hosted by: Newfoundland and Labrador Branch City of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, CANADA
August 15-19, 2011
(New Dates!)Applied Fluvial Geomorphology Course – Level 1
Hosted by: Alberta Branch / Trout Unlimited Canada / Golder Associates Ltd. Conference facilities at Golder Associates Ltd., 2535 – 3rd Avenue S.E., Calgary, AB

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President
Andrew Szojka
President-Elect
André Saint-Hilaire
Treasurer
Ed Dean
Secretary
Brenda Toth
Past-President
Sonya Meek
President CANCID
David Hill
Russ Boals
Executive Director
Rick Ross

CWRA Scholarship Winners from 2000 - Present

Year Name Institution and Deptment Field of Study
2000 Marc St. Laurent Department of Civil & Geological Engineering, University of Manitoba Distributed Hydrological Modelling in the Northern Boreal Forest.
Paula Caron Department of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia Resevoir drawdown: implications for littoral benthic communities and drinking water
James Roy Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Groundwater contamination with emphasis on organic industrial chemicals in groundwater
Catherine Holt Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario Devise an inexpensive way to monitor lakes so that managers can be alerted when a lake becomes acid enough that biota are adversely affected
2001 Sajjad Ahmad Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Development of an intelligent decision support system (IDSS) for flood management in the Red River basin in Manitoba.
Helen Baulch Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Investigation of how the lake-bottom community of algae, bacteria, and invertebrates changes in response to increased water temperatures
Merrin Macrae Department of Geography, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario Investigation of linkages between temporal and spatial patterns in phosphorus mobility, basin physical characteristics and land use, and antecedent hydrologic conditions (e.g. water table position, soil moisture content, season)
Jeremy Steffler Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario The design, construction, and analysis of subsurface-flow wetland systems for the treatment of storm water runoff
2002 Matthew Alexander
Ken Thompson Scholarship
Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick Impacts of Timber Harvest on the Thermal Regime of a Shallow Aquifer and a Small Stream
Nathalie Bedard Department of Environment and Management, Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia Linking Urban Land-Use to Water Quality: Promoting Stormwater Best management Practices in the Bow River Region.
Nilima Gandhi Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Development of BIOTRANSPEC: a Coupled Metal Speciation, Transport and Biotic Food Web Model.
Sarah Gewurtz Department of Geography, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Dynamics of Persistent Pollutants in Freshwater Ecosystems
2003 Laura Spink
Ken Thomson Scholarship
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Groundwater Remediation in Inorganic and Mining Environments
Andrew Rollo Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Processed Kimberlite - Water Interactions in Diamond Mine Waste, Ekati Diamond Mine, N.W.T., Canada
Craig Murray Watershed Ecosystems Graduate Program, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario The Effect of Buffer Strip Width on Hydrological Flowpaths to Boreal Forest Lakes
Adam Yates Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Agricultural Extension Programs: Effectiveness in Mitigating Agricultural Impacts on Aquatic Communities at a Micro-basin Scale in Southern Ontario, Canada.
2004 Shawn Cleary
Ken Thomson Scholarship
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Sustainable Drinking Water Treatment of High Turbidity Surface Water with Multistage Filtration
Sylvain Jutras Foresterie et de geomatique, Department des sciences du bois et de la foret, Universite Laval, Montreal, Quebec Growth of Tree Species and Hydrology in Managed Forested Peatlands, Quebec
Christine Khandl Environmental Studies / School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Effects of Stormwater Management Pond Effluent on Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Urban Receiving Streams
Anthony David Roche Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia Cause and Consequence of Uncertainty in Hydrologic Modelling and Extreme Event Simulation
2005 Radha Rajagopalan
Ken Thomson Scholarship
University Of Toronto, Department Of Geography, Program In Planning Study of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products In Canadian Waters
Kela Weber University Of Waterloo, Chemical Engineering Evaluation of Constructed Wetlands as a Passive Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage
Caroline Smith University Of Waterloo, Environment and Resources Studies Impact of Waterfowl on Water Quality of Stormwater Management Ponds under Different Vegetation Strategies
Arelia Werner University of Victoria, Department of Geography Impact of Climate Change on the Sooke Lake Reservoir
2006 Edwin Cey Dillon Scholarship University of Waterloo
Department of Earth Sciences
Groundwater Recharge
Anurani Persaud
Ken Thomson Scholarship
Trent University
Watershed Ecosystem Program
Department of Environmental and Resource Studies (ERS)
The effect of varying DOC concentration on zooplankton trophic dynamics in temperate freshwater lakes
Carol Maas University of Waterloo
Department of Chemical Engineering
Modeling solids mass transfer in biological wastewater treatment
Kelly Ann Ross University of British Columbia
Department of Microbiology
The Hyporheic Zone
Sarah Mouneimne University of Calgary
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Stable Isotopes
2007 Jaime Lynn Hood Dillon Scholarship University of Calgary
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Improved understanding and parametrization of groundwater flow and storage in alpine headwaters.
Heather Mustard
Ken Thompson Scholarship
University of Waterloo
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Modeling and uncertainty in the design of an early warning source water monitoring station.
Erin Cullen University of Western Ontario
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Modeling nanoparticles transport for groundwater remediation
Jennifer Ings University of Waterloo
Department of Biology
Rainbow trout and human pharmaceuticals in the environment
Mark John Lee University of Manitoba
Department of Civil Engineering
Climate change in water resources management in the Prairies
2008 Hellen Baulch Dillon Scholarship Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Nitrogen loadings and nitrous oxide emissions from streams.
Mustafa Ahmed
Ken Thompson Scholarship
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Movement of non-aqueous phase liquids in soils.
Alexander Furrest University of British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Under ice survey for ecosystem assessment in the Arctic.
Fraser Kent Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario
Department of Biology
Optimization of membrane filtration for wastewater reuse.
Elizabeth Jamieson University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
Department of Civil Engineering
Hydrodynamics of submerged groynes in rivers.
2009 Michael Nemeth
Dillon Scholarship
University of Lethbridge Simulating hydrological impacts of climate and land use changes in the upper North Saskatchewan River Watershed in central Alberta using the ACRU hydrological modelling system
Ushman Khan
Ken Thompson Scholarship
University of Calgary Bioretention cell efficiency in cold climates
Arthur Zastepa
University of Ottawa The fate and persistence of cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial toxins in lake sediment
Susan Hannan Memorial University Investigating the factors controlling chlorination disinfection byproduct formation in drinking water supplies of Newfoundland and Labrador
Mathieu Beaulieu University of British Columbia Impact of a shifting hydrological regime on late summer streamflow in a sub-alpine coastal watershed