You can learn about the sustainability of Canada’s natural resources.
The Laurier Milton Lecture Series returns tonight at the FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton. You can join Dr. Ernest Yanful, senior advisor, Laurier Milton and Dr. Heidi Swanson, the inaugural Jarislowsky Chair in Sustainable Water Futures as they discuss how Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) is engaged in sustainability and planetary health research and education. They will share their research and ideas for the future of planetary health. This work informs effective conservation and management strategies across Canada.
According to WLU, Dr. Yanful will share his thoughts on the design of sustainability engineering program on the new Laurier Milton campus to educate conservation professionals.
Dr. Swanson will discuss issues of contaminants (especially mercury) in subsistence food fish in the Dehcho region of the Northwest Territories. She will also discuss how this work supports the sustainability of Canada’s water and natural resources.
Heidi Swanson Biography: Heidi Swanson is the inaugural Jarislowsky Chair in Sustainable Water Futures. Swanson leads an interdisciplinary research program focused on the impacts of climate change and associated disturbances on aquatic ecosystem health that will support the sustainability of Canada’s water and natural resources.
Ernest Yanful Biography: Ernest Yanful, a professor emeritus in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University and the founding provost at the Africa Institute of Sanitation and Waste Management, part of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, has been appointed the senior advisor in the establishment of Laurier’s engineering programs and initiatives on the new Milton campus. At Laurier’s Milton campus, he is developing programs that address current and emerging areas of national and global concerns, such as energy, water, climate change and sustainability, while emphasizing development and production that are circular rather than linear.
Register for the event here.
The lecture is Wednesday, November 16th from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton, located at 1010 Main Street East in Milton.