GWFO eNewsletter
August 2025
GWF Director's Message
After nine years of exciting science and knowledge creation and engagement with a vast community across Canada and around the world, the Global Water Futures programme reaches completion on August 30th 2025 with the end of its funding support from the Canada First Excellence Research Fund.
May 2025
GWF Researchers Receive Major Awards & Appointments
Congratulations to several GWFO Researchers for their recent awards and appointments. GWFO welcomes new operations specialist. 2025: Year of the Cryosphere. And more.
March 2025
International Year of Glaciers' Preservation Special Announcement
On the inaugural World Day for Glaciers, we are proud to celebrate the launch of two landmark publications that highlight the urgency of protecting our planet’s water resources.
January 2025
International Year of Glaciers' Preservation Launch
The Launch event will feature a "curtain-raiser" (High Level Plenary Opening) to mark the official launch of the 2025 International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation. This will be followed by the "main program", which includes a series of online Side Events (30+) accessible globally.
January 2025
GWF & GWFO Latest Updates
2025 is already turning out to be a remarkable year, portending fundamental changes to our natural and human environment and how science and knowledge are used by our societies to navigate an uncertain world.
July 2024
Updates and Milestones in Advancing Water Science
These are particularly relevant to Canada’s water security as we have dealt with a year of record drought, early snowmelt, low rivers and lakes, extreme heat, record wildfires, extensive flooding and emergence of harmful algae blooms in several drinking water sources...
March 2024
CFI Signs Off On Major Science Initiative - GWFO
We are very grateful to CFI-MSI for its 40% support of this project which keeps a network of 64 GWF and RAEON instrumented basin, lake, glacier, river and wetland observation sites, 15 deployable water measurement systems and 18 water laboratories operating along with data management, science...
January 2024
GWFO Functional Planning Moves Ahead
Happy New Year to all. We have an exciting year ahead of us in both the GWF program and the new GWF Observatories MSI project. Individual GWF projects are working hard to wrap up their research over the next few months and the GWF Synthesis team is moving ahead with collation of user questions to answer in the...
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