8:00 – 8:30 am

Breakfast 

8:30 – 8:45 am  

Welcome Remarks; Peter Stoicheff, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada [website]  (5 min) 

Open Remarks; John Pomeroy, Distinguished Professor, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, and Director, Global Water Futures, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada [website] (5 min) 

Outline Symposium Proceedings; Jeffrey McDonnell, Professor and Associate Director, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada [website] (5 min)

Theme 1: Socio-hydrology dimensions: water as a human-natural cycle, policy, governance and engagement (Session Chair: Jeffrey McDonnell; Session Co-Rapporteurs: Graham Strickert/ Patrick Lloyd-Smith)

8:45 – 9:45 am

Monitoring socio-hydrological systems: from sensor networks to polycentric governance; Wouter Buytaert, Reader in Hydrology and Water Resources, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, UK [website] (15 min)

Integrating the human dimension in water science: Opportunities and Challenges; Patricia Gober, Research Scientist, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University, USA; Professor Emeritus, John-Shoyama School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada [website] (15 min)

Making time for integrated assessment processes and uncertainty management to progress water resource decision making; Anthony Jakeman, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia [website] (15 min)

Governance of transformation towards sustainable water security; Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Professor of Resource Management, University of Osnabrück, Germany [website] (15 min)

9:45 – 10:15 am

Discussion Theme 1: Socio-hydrology dimensions

10:15 – 10:35 am

Coffee and Refreshment Break

Theme 2: Statistical hydrology and stochastic theory (Session Chair: John Pomeroy; Session Rapporteur: Simon Papalexiou)

10:35 am – 11:05 pm

Weather generators past, present and future?; Richard Chandler, Professor and Head, Department of Statistical Science, University College London, UK [website] (15 min)

Stochastic Modelling of Point Rainfall; Christian Onof, Reader in Stochastic Environmental Systems, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, UK [website] (15 min)

11:05 – 11:35 pm

Discussion Theme 2: Statistical hydrology and stochastic theory

11:35 – 11:50 am

John Pomeroy to Introduce Karen Chad

Greetings and Personal Remarks; Karen Chad, Vice-President Research, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada [website] (15 min)

11:50 – 12:50 pm

Lunch break 

Theme 3: Remote sensing and global scale hydrology (Session Chair: Al Pietroniro; Session Rapporteur: Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt)

12:50 – 1:50 pm

The Nexus of Land, Food, Energy and Water: including water management in global scale models; Richard Harding, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK (15 min)

A Climate Data Record for the terrestrial water and energy cycles; Eric Wood, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA [website] (15 min)

Water security for endorheic river basins along the silk road: Implications from the Integrated water-ecosystem-economy study in the Heihe River Basin; Xin Li, Professor, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Beijing, China [website] (15 min)

21^st Century Water Security As Viewed From The NASA GRACE Mission; James Famiglietti, Professor and JPL Senior Water Scientist, California Institute of Technology, California, USA [website] (15 min)

1:50 – 2:20 pm

Discussion Theme 3: Remote sensing and global scale hydrology

Theme 4: Atmospheric systems and high resolution modelling (Session Chair: Soroosh Sorooshian; Session Rapporteur: Yanping Li)

2:20 – 2:50 pm

Is climate modeling at convective permitting scales worth it?; Roy Rasmussen, Senior Scientist and Section Head, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA [website] (15 min)

Water Source: Precipitation from the Atmosphere to the Surface; Ronald Stewart, Professor, Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada [website] (15 min)

2:50 – 3:20 pm

Discussion Theme 4: Atmospheric systems and high resolution modelling

3:20 – 3:40 pm

Coffee and Refreshment Break

Theme 5: International perspectives (Session Chair: James Famiglietti; Session Rapporteur: Colin Whitfield)

3:40 – 4:55 pm

An interdisciplinary approach for transboundary water security; Jose Muñoz, Professor, and Francisco Suarez, Associate Professor, Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile [website-1; website-2] (15 min)

Water Security in India: A Growing Challenge for Hydrological Science; Pradeep Mujumdar, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Chairman, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India [website] (15 min)

First Chinese national key water project on underground water contamination; Cathy Qing Hu, Professor and Director, Engineering Innovation Centre, South University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing, China [website] (15 min)

Global and continental hydro-climatic forecasting services: challenges and information extraction to meet the user needs; Ilias Pechlivanidis, Theme Leader in Forecasts of Water Variables, SMHI / Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden [website] (15 min)

Water, forest and footprints: finding the right scale for sustainability in the Nile River’s Ethiopian “water tower”; Kevin Bishop, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden [website] (15 min)

4:55 – 5:25 pm

Discussion Theme 5: International perspectives

5:25 – 6:15 pm

Wine and cheese reception (located in the foyer outside of the Adam Ballroom)  

8:00 – 8:30 am

Breakfast

Theme 6: Hydrological processes and hydrological modelling (Session Chair: Wouter Buytaert; Session Co-Rapporteurs: Sean Carey/ Saman Razavi)

8:30 – 9:30 am

From hillslopes to watersheds: tracking raindrops for water security; Jeffrey McDonnell, Professor and Associate Director, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada [website] (15 min)

Building, testing and applying minimally parameterized large scale hydrologic models for climate and land use change impact assessment; Thorsten Wagener, Professor, Department of Water and Environmental Engineering, University of Bristol, UK [website] (15 min)

Modeling the impacts of fine-scale landscape configuration and land management changes on hydrological and other ecosystem responses; Bethanna Jackson, Associate Professor and Geography Programme Director, School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria, New Zealand [website] (15 min)

The role of a National Hydrological Service for Water futures and security; Alain Pietroniro, Director National Hydrological Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Saskatoon, Canada [website] (15 min)

9:30 – 10:00 am

Discussion Theme 6: Hydrological processes and hydrological modelling

10:00 – 10:20 am

Coffee & Refreshment Break

Theme 7: Hydrology, Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystems (Session Chair: Karsten Liber; Session Rapporteur: Helen Baulch)

10:20 am – 11:20 pm

Damming of rivers as a driver of global environmental change; Philippe van Cappellen, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ecohydrology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada [website] (15 min)

Future of water quality modelling in the face of climate change and mega urbanization; Steven Chapra, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, USA [website] (15 min)

Lessons from 150 years of Water Quality Monitoring; Nicholas Howden, Reader in Water and Environmental Engineering, University of Bristol, UK [website] (15 min)

Water stewardship in the mining and gas sectors; Neil McIntyre, Professor and Program Leader, Regional Water and Land Resources, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia [website] (15 min)

11:20 – 11:50 pm

Discussion Theme 7: Hydrology, Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystems

11:50 – 12:50 pm

Lunch Break

Theme 8: Integration of surface water and groundwater, pollution and waste management (Session Chair: Lee Barbour; Session Rapporteur: Grant Ferguson)

12:50 – 1:50 pm

The legacy of LOCAR: Long-term outcomes from the UK’s Lowland Catchment Research Programme; Adrian Butler, Reader in Subsurface Hydrology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, UK [website] (15 min)

Towards a vision of integrated models for decision making in water resources management; Denis Peach, Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London; Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham; Honorary Research Associate at the British Geological Survey, London, UK [website] (15 min)

Improving the efficiency of water use in agriculture and the impact of food waste on agricultural water resources; Stephen Smith, Professor, Bioresource Systems, Imperial College London, UK [website] (15 min)

On the Security of Public Supply Wells; David Rudolph, Professor and Head, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada [website] (15 min)

Theme 9: Cold region hydrology and ecosystems (Session Chair: Denis Peach; Session Co-Rapporteurs: Andrew Ireson/ Mukesh Kumar)

2:20 – 3:20 pm

Trekking the history of Canadian cryo-hydrology; Ming-Ko Woo, Professor Emeritus, School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada [website] (15 min)

Discovery and the Grand Adventure of Hydrology in Cold Regions; John Pomeroy, Distinguished Professor, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, and Director, Global Water Futures, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada [website] (15 min)

From hills to holes: how the resource sector is influencing the future of hydrology in Canada; Sean Carey, Professor,  School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada [website] (15 min)

Ecological resilience in northern watersheds; Jennifer Baltzer, Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada [website] (15 min)

3:20 – 3:40 pm

Coffee & Refreshments

3:40 – 4:10 pm

Discussion Theme 9: Cold region hydrology and ecosystems

Theme 10: International Programmes (Session Chair: Eric Wood; Session Co-Rapporteurs: Lawrence Martz/ Corinne Schuster-Wallace)

4:10 – 4:50 pm

The role of UNESCO G-WADI program in providing remotely sensed rainfall information; Soroosh Sorooshian, Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, University of California, Irvine, USA [website] (15 min)

Glimpses of Prof. Howard Wheater’s Contribution to UNESCO-IHP and its global and regional programs to develop hydrology and water resources management in arid regions; Soroosh Sorooshian (on behalf of Prof. Abdin Salih, Elham Ahmed, Department of Civil Engineering, Water Research Center, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan) (10 min)

The future is now - the untapped potential of SAR for monitoring surface hydrology; Eric Kasischke, Professor, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA [website] (15 min)

4:50 – 5:20 pm

Discussion Theme 10: International Programmes

5:20 – 6:00 pm

Closing Remarks & Personal Thank You Note by Howard Wheater

6:00 pm

Adjournment – Opportunity to visit Saskatoon Downtown Restaurants