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44th CENTRAL Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research

• Date: February 23, 2009 - February 24, 2009
• Location: Canada Centre for Inland Waters, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario
• Theme: Science Meets Policy
• Plenary Speaker: Dr. Derek Muir - Presentation
• Chair: Dr. Veronique Hiriart-Baer

• Program Schedule

• Book of Abstracts

• Philip H. Jones Award

• To download the zip file of Symposium photos, please click here

	Monday, Feb 23, 2009 Tuesday, Feb 24, 2009
	Session Themes:	Co-chairs:
	Advances in Water Treatment Technologies and Approaches Presentations: Fractal dimensions and settling properties of chemical coagulation flocs Pilot Tests to Evaluate the Performance of Cationic Activated Silica Polymer as Coagulant Aid Impact of UV/H2 O2 on subsequent chlorine stability and DBP Formation Analysis of Lead in Tap Water Data for the City of Ottawa	Ron Hoffman, Kirsten Exall
	Drinking Water Source Protection Presentations: The Science behind the Clean Water Act, 2006 Assessment of the Potential Impact of Beneficial Management Practices: Case Study in the Thornton Well Field, Woodstock, ON A Simplified Method of Sample Preparation for Drinking Water Organic Analysis	Larry Moore, Simon Gautrey
	Effects of Groundwater - Surface Water Interaction on Water Quality Presentations: Groundwater Discharge to Surface Water in Southern Ontario Modelling E. coli Transport and Persistence at the Groundwater – Lake Interface Quantifying Groundwater Discharge at the Lake- Groundwater-Beach Interface	Jim Roy, Allan Crowe
	Environmental Modeling Presentations: Comprehensive Review and Compilation of Pre-treatments for Anaerobic Digestion in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants Landscape-scale control on carbon budget of Lake Simcoe: a process process-based modelling approach	Ferdous Ahmed, Onita Basu
	Genomics Data in Risk Assessments and Application in Regulatory Policies Presentations: Occurrence of the transgenic corn cry1Ab gene in freshwater mussels (Elliptio complanata) near corn fields: Evidence of exposure by bacterial ingestion	Bin Zhu, Francois Gagne
	Great Lakes Nearshore Water Quality Issues: Nutrient Perspective Presentations: Comprehensive Watershed Management for Control of Cyanobacteria in Small Freshwater Lakes	Todd Howell, Ralph Smith
	Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement: Special Session Presentations: Great Lakes Great Responsibilities Science Meets Policy – and Politics! The Science-Policy Dialogue on Great Lakes at Ontario's Ministry of the Environment	Gail Krantzberg, Chris Marvin
	Linking Policy outcomes to Science objectives Presentations: Where science meets the street: A model for clear communication of water policy research Lake Simcoe: An Ontario Example of Linking Science to Policy Development	Jackie McCall, Catherine Jefferson
	Advances in Aquatic Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Presentations: Are Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) in the Cornwall Area of Concern Exposed to Environmental Estrogens? Bioassessment of wet-weather flow impacts on fine sediments in urban waters: coupling two different approaches Quantifying the factors that influence flow response to storm events in headwater streams Towards an Ontario Flowing Waters Monitoring Network	Chris Jones, Lee Grapentine
	Advances in Wastewater Treatment Technologies and Approaches Presentations: Efficacy of a Hybrid Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetland for the Treatment of Aquaculture Wastewater	Hongde Zhou, Wayne Parker, Jim Higgins
	Applications of Remote Sensing and Geomatics technologies in Watershed Health Presentations: Towards Developing a Spatial Watershed Fabric for Ontario’s Far North using Remotely Sensed Inputs A remote sensing based approach to monitoring watershed ecosystem health and degradation at source and the impacts of changes on watershed primary productivity and water quality	Raul Ponce-Hernandez, Frank Kenny
	Emerging Contaminants Issues Presentations: Glyphosate detection in water by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)	Peter Vanrolleghem and Vimal Balakrishnan
	Water Policy: Engaging Science and the Public Presentations: Policy Research Initiative on Sustainable Grassroots Engagement Ottawa Gatineau Watershed Atlas Bridging the Science- Policy Discourse Integrated Watershed Management: Incorporating Public Input to the Science and Policy Table, Caledon Case Study Gateway Through the Maze of Water Policy Research Local Capacity Building - The Water Guardians Network Experience Science Needs from the Municipal Perspective	Bob Sneyd
	Water Quality, Quantity and Conservation: Agricultural perspective	David Armitage, Tiffany Svensson
	Bisphenol A: Technical Session Presentations: The Canadian Ecological Screening Assessment for the Challenge on Bisphenol A	Sean Backus, Miriam Diamond
	Bisphenol A: Special Session - Open to the Public Presentations: Where is my bisphenol A coming from?	Sean Backus, Miriam Diamond

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