Women Plus Water Conversations

Water Towers: Mountains and Glaciers

In celebration of World Water Day (March 22), the third Women Plus Water 2025 Conversation will focus on mountains and glaciers.

Thursday, March 20, 2025
12:30-1:30 pm CST
Online (Zoom)

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Host

Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace
Executive Director of the Global Institute for Water Security
University of Saskatchewan

Guests

Sunwi Maskey
Cryosphere Research Associate
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Caroline Côté
Adventure Cine Artist
Endurance Athlete
Dr. Laura Thomson
Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair
Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University

More Info

Sunwi Maskey
Sunwi Maskey advances cryosphere science at ICIMOD, specializing in GLOF modelling and monitoring glaciers and permafrost in Nepal. Her research contributes to understanding regional cryosphere changes and managing climate risks. With expertise in glaciology, she is dedicated to addressing climate change impacts on Himalayan glacial systems.

Caroline Côté
Caroline Côté is a Canadian adventure filmmaker and polar guide renowned for her solo expeditions in polar environments.

Her work focuses on capturing images during her journeys to present in documentaries, aiming to inspire and educate audiences about the natural world. Caroline is dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of protecting glaciers, emphasizing their critical role in the planet's freshwater systems.

Laura Thomson
Laura Thomson is interested in the active monitoring and prediction of northern landscape evolution using innovative geospatial, geophysical, and climate-coupled modelling techniques designed to identify and address current challenges facing the rapidly changing Arctic. The Queen’s Glaciology Group supports graduate and undergraduate projects that integrate Remote Sensing, GIScience, and in situ environmental monitoring to understand the processes responsible for observed changes from Arctic ice masses. Their research projects aim to identify the critical spatial and temporal scales of impact, and improve the quality and capacity of environmental monitoring approaches at these scales to determine the governing geomorphological and climate-coupled processes at play. Field-based research projects will be conducted in the Canadian Arctic, with a current focus on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, which hosts a rich historic archive of climate and environmental monitoring records dating back to 1959.

https://www.canadianmountainnetwork.ca/about/directory/dr-laura-thomson

Event Details

When:: March 20, 2025
Time:: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM CST
Location:: Online (Zoom)