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Adapting the management of water resources in the Senegal River basin to climate change

Amount :
130000 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Start date :
January 2019
End date :
January 2020
Associated axis :
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 1: Nexus between uses and availability
Reasearchers involved :
Amaury Tilmant, Amaury Tilmant

Améliorer la compréhension et les potentialités des systèmes de prévision hydrologique d'ensemble à court-moyen terme

Amount :
310 000 - Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et Génie du Canada (CRSNG) (Découvertes)
Start date :
April 2020
End date :
March 2025
Associated axes :
  • Axis Water Availability
    Theme 2: Hydrometeorological regime under climate
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
Reasearchers involved :
François Anctil, François Anctil

Analyse coûts-avantages d'un projet d'infrastructure hydraulique : une approche intégrée combinant la gestion des ressources en eau et l'équilibre général calculable

Amount :
4500 - Institut Hydro-Québec en environnement, développement et société (IHQEDS)
Start date :
April 2018
End date :
April 2019
Associated axis :
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 1: Nexus between uses and availability
Reasearchers involved :
Amaury Tilmant, Markus Herrmann, Amaury Tilmant

Analyzing agriculture and biodiversity trade-offs in three sub-Saharan countries at the watershed scale

Amount :
6000 - Mitacs (Mitacs Globalink Research Award)
Start date :
January 2019
End date :
January 2019
Associated axis :
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 1: Nexus between uses and availability
Reasearchers involved :
Jan Adamowski, Jan Adamowski

Approches de séquençage du SRAS-CoV-2 dans les eaux usées pour optimiser la surveillance au niveau de la population et améliorer l'épidémiologie du COVID-19

Amount :
300000 - McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (Mi4 Emergency COVID-19 Research Funding)
Start date :
September 2020
End date :
April 2021
Associated axes :
  • Axis Water Availability
    Theme 1: Integrated quantity and quality simulations
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
Reasearchers involved :
Dominic Frigon, Robert Delatolla, Sarah Dorner, Sarah Dorner, Dominic Frigon

Assessment of approximate dynamic programming in hydropower systems optimization

Amount :
140350 - Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et génie du Canada (CRSNG)
Start date :
January 2013
End date :
January 2016
Associated axis :
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 1: Nexus between uses and availability
Reasearchers involved :
Amaury Tilmant, Amaury Tilmant

Bond2.0 - Deploying light-based sensing technologies to monitor climate active gases in a mutating Arctic

Amount :
674 900 - Sentinelle Nord
Start date :
June 2021
End date :
October 2023
Associated axis :
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
Reasearchers involved :
Warwick Vincent, Daniel Nadeau, , Warwick Vincent, Daniel Nadeau

COVID-19 wastewater-based epidemiology back calculation using hybrid modelling methods

Amount :
50000 - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Alliance Grants)
Start date :
August 2020
End date :
July 2021
Associated axes :
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 3: Governance objectives and tools
Reasearchers involved :
Peter Vanrolleghem, Peter Vanrolleghem

Canada Research Chair in Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements

Amount :
1000000 - Chaires de recherche du Canada (CRC) (Chaires de recherche du Canada (niveau II))
Start date :
June 2011
End date :
May 2016
Associated axes :
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
  • Axis Uses of water
    Theme 1: Water needs and uses of cities
  • Axis Uses of water
    Theme 2: Water uses for primary production
  • Axis Uses of water
    Theme 3: Water use in secondary production
Reasearcher involved :
Claude Fortin
Description :
The rules that govern environmental protection evolve continuously as we acquire new knowledge through research. Many human activities introduce contaminants like metals into aquatic ecosystems—for example, mining and recycling. To evaluate the ecological risks linked to these activities, we need to characterize the ways in which these contaminants are introduced into the environment and how indigenous organisms are exposed to them. We also need to evaluate their impact. Dr. Claude Fortin, Canada Research Chair in Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, is working on understanding and predicting how metals accumulate in our waters. Fortin’s research has three goals: developing analytical techniques that accurately measure trace metals in an ecosystem (such as a lake or river); defining the links between the chemical forms of trace metals (speciation) and the composition of the receiving environment, as well as their accumulation within the indigenous organisms; and gaining a better understanding of what happens to these metals after they are absorbed into the ecosystem. Fortin and his research team have adopted an integrated approach to the extracellular/intracellular continuum, starting from the moment aquatic organisms are exposed to trace metal contamination. For this reason, their research focuses on microscopic algae (phytoplankton). This research will lead to better tools to predict the impact metals can have on waterways. These tools will play an essential role in the work of environmental managers in the public and private sectors who are responsible for ensuring our waterways are adequately protected. They will also lead to more effective environmental protection standards.

Canada Research Chair in Environmental Contaminants and Population Health

Amount :
600000 - Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) (Canada Research Chairs)
Start date :
October 2019
End date :
September 2024
Associated axes :
  • Transversal axis: Governance and management
    Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
  • Axis Uses of water
    Theme 1: Water needs and uses of cities
Reasearchers involved :
Maryse Bouchard,
Description :
The research carried out within the framework of this Chair aims to better understand the risks associated with the presence of pollutants in the air, water, food and certain common consumer products,
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