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Real Time Water Quality Monitoring Workshop 2023
November 7th and 8th 2023
Sheraton Newfoundland Hotel, St.John’s
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 7TH
Topics
- Climate Change Adaptation — Carolann Harding (SmartICE) (4.75 MB)
- 23 Years of Newfoundland & Labrador’s Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Network — Annette Tobin (Department of Environment and Climate Change) (7.13 MB)
- Best Pratices for Continuous Water Quality Monitoring — Kerry Caslow (In-situ Inc.) (1.95 MB)
- Drone Usage in Real-Time Monitoring — Leona Hyde (Department of Environment and Climate Change) (439 KB)
- Drone Based Solutions: Bathymetry, Sampling, GPR Over Ice and Other Applications — Taylor Goodfellow and Harrison Pritchard (Altomaxx Technologies) (3.15 MB)
- Operational River Ice Monitoring on the Churchill River — Michael Lynch (C-CORE) (16.20 MB)
- Water Resources Management MET Station Network — Keith Abbott/Randy Parsons (Department of Environment and Climate Change) (2.54 MB)
- Credit Valley Conservation Real-Time Water Monitoring Network — Dr. Amanjot Singh (Credit Valley Conservation) (2.25 MB)
- Rideau Valley Conservation Authority: Hydrometric Monitoring, Flood Forecasting and Warning Program — Brian Stratton (Rideau Valley Conservation Authority) (4.09 MB)
- Use of Autonomous Vehicles for the Real-Time Mapping of Water Quality and Bathymetry — Tim Finegan (YSI Inc.) (5.63 MB)
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8TH
Topics
- Real-Time Monitoring of Construction Site Effluents and Urban Streams: Working Together to Protect the Water Quality of Our Watersheds — Elena Ranyuk (Flowlink Environmental Inc.) (3.90 MB)
- Real-Time Measurements, Monitoring and Data Science for Water and Environmental Monitoring: Frazil Ice, Microplastics and More — Dr. Robert Briggs (OCRE National Research Council Canada) (2.57 MB)
- Use of SAR Satellite Imagery for a River Ice Break-Up Prediction — Maria Yulmetova (C-CORE) (2.88 MB)
- Nutrient Loading on the Winnipeg River: The Benefits and Challenges of High-Frequency Data — Thomas Saleh (International Institute for Sustainable Development) (2.26 MB)
- Real-Time Monitoring of Cyanobacteria in Newfoundland and Labrador — Adrian Rogers (Department of Environment and Climate Change) (2.96 MB)
- Cyanobacteria Predictions and Mitigation: Fairy Lake, ON Case Study — Dr. Amanjot Singh (Credit Valley Conservation) (2.78 MB)
- Real-Time Hydrometric and Water Monitoring Platforms: New and Emerging Technologies — Scott Brown (Hoskin Scientific Ltd.) (6.96 MB)
- Real-Time Hydrometric Monitoring for Environmental Compliance and Community Safety — Jacob Bauer (Stantec Inc.) (3.55 MB)
- Self-diagnosis of Model Suitability for Continuous Measures of Stream DOC Derived from In-situ UV-Vis. Spectroscopy — Christian Gaviria (Memorial University of Newfoundland) (3.27 MB)
- Regional Climate and Geomorphology Interaction Influences Headwater Stream Water Sources — Helia Kamel (Memorial University of Newfoundland) (6.18 MB)
Real Time Water Quality Monitoring Workshop 2018
November 7th and 8th 2018
Holiday Inn Express & Suites St. John’s Airport
Wednesday November 7th
Topics
- How Technology Innovations Shaped the Development and Delivery of 21st Century Real-Time Water Quality Data – Donna Myers (U.S. Geological Survey Scientist Emeritus and Affiliate) (4.9 MB)
- Newfoundland and Labrador’s Real-Time Water QualityMonitoring Network – Ryan Pugh (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (3.6 MB)
- Wetland Inventory System for NL using satellite Data (What hasBeen Done and What is the Next Step) – Meisam Amani (Wood) (5.8 MB)
- New Technology in Water Quality Monitoring – Derek McKeown (Hoskin Scientific)(14.9 MB)
- Oil Sands Monitoring – Kerry Pippy (ECCC) (1.9 MB)
- Atlantic Datastream Current and Potential Opportunities – Emma Wattie (Atlantic Water Network) (2.7 MB)
- USGS Techniques for CWQ Data Collection, Processing and Dissemination – Patrick Rasmussen (US Geological Survey) (3.5 MB)
- UV Nitrate Sensor – New Generation – Chris Barteaux (OTT Hydromet) (1.9 MB)
- Advantages of underwater wireless sensors for real‐time monitoring applications – Matthew Holland (Real Time Aquaculture) (3.2 MB)
Thursday November 8th
Topics
- Multi-Agency Integration of Remote Sensed GOES DCS Telemetered Hydro-Meteorological Data – LySanias Broyles (United States Army Corps of Engineers) (8.6 MB)
- Collaborative Innovation for Remote, Real-Time Monitoring in Mining – Michael Flynn (Environment Canada Mining Innovation Council) (540 KB)
- Automated Freshwater Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Network – Quebec Status – Loubna Benyahya (ECCC) (571 KB)
- Atmospheric Monitoring Network in NL and the Collaborative Monitoring Initiative – Serge Deschamps (Meteorological Service of Canada) (1 MB)
- ECCC Automated Monitoring Network – Christine Garron (ECCC) (2.1 MB)
- Case Study: United Nations GEMS water quality portal and data management system – Stephen Elgie (KISTERS) (2.1 MB)
- Overview of USGS CWQ Network – Patrick Rasmussen (US Geological Survey) (2.7 MB)
- What you need to know about IoT as it relates to environmental monitoring – Christina Dymond (Campbell Scientific) (3.9 MB)
- Optimizing Water Quality Sampling Through Application of Real‐Time Ionic Concentration Regression Models – Shibly Rahman (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (1.6 MB)
- Using CWQ as surrogates to compute concentrations of other parameters (turbidity to sediment) – Patrick Rasmussen (US Geological Survey) (1.6 MB)
2011
Admirals Green Clubhouse – Pippy Park
St. John’s NL
June 7th and 8th, 2011
Tuesday June 7th
Topics
- Continuous Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring- Yesterday, Today and a Vision for Tomorrow – Andrew Ziegler (USGS Kansas Water Science Center) (9 MB)
- 10 Years of Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring in Newfoundland and Labrador – Grace Gillis (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (2 MB)
- Issues with Water Quality Monitoring in Nunavut – Ian Parsons (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada – Nunavut Regional Office) (2 MB)
- Satellite Monitoring for Select Water Quality Parameters Dave Allan (Allan Environmental Services Ltd) (3 MB)
- Accuracy and Precision in Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring – How Good is My Data? – Robert Wight (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (1 MB)
- Mobile Environmental Monitoring Platform – On the Road to Environmental Monitoring – Ryan Pugh (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (2 MB)
Wednesday June 8th
Topics
- Real Time Water Monitoring and the Shift to a Digital Water Archive Jeff Simpson (Aquatic Life) (1.6 MB)
- SUNA Nitrate Probe – Jon Matheson (Hoskin Scientific) (1.1 MB)
- Challenges and Approaches for Real-Time Data Quality Evaluation in Continuous Water Quality Monitoring Networks – John Copp (Primodal Systems Ltd) (3.1 MB)
- Modelling Water Quality in NL Rivers from Data obtained from the Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Network. – Dr. Leonard Lye (Memorial University) (2.4 MB)
- Establishing relationship between Turbidity & Total Suspended Solid – A Student Project Shibly Rahman (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (1.9 MB)
- Computation of Time-Series Suspended-Sediment Concentrations and Loads using In-Stream Turbidity & Stream flow – Andrew Ziegler (USGS Kansas Water Science Center) (3.7 MB)
- Quality Assurance / Quality Control – Dave Allan (Allan Environmental Services Ltd) (1 MB)
2009
The Capital Hotel
St. John’s NL
June 16th and 17th, 2009
Tuesday June 16th
Topics
- Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring learning from the Past – Moving to the Future – Haseen Khan (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (1 MB)
- Towards a National Automated Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Network – Geneviève Tardif (Environment Canada) (814 KB)
- A Video Field Trip: Working with a Multi-Parameter Sonde – Renée Paterson (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (916 KB)
- Real-Time Really Works! – Grace Gillis (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (2.4 MB)
- Developing Regression Models and Control Charts for the Newfoundland Real Time Water Quality Monitoring Network – Dr. Leonard Lye (Memorial University) (3.9 MB)
- RTWQ and Remote Sensing – Thomas Puestow (C-CORE) (4.3 MB)
- A Mobile Environmental Monitoring Platforms – Current Status – Dave Benoit / Donald Bourgeois (Environment Canada) (1.4 MB)
Wednesday June 17th
Applications
- Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring: Data Errors and Comparability – Richard Wagner (United States Geological Survey) (2.4 MB)
- Utilization of Continuous Water Quality Monitoring for Assessing and Modeling Pollutant Export from Agricultural Catchments – Colin Ragush (Dalhousie University) (5.9 MB)
- Scan – A Newfoundland and Labrador perspective – Michael Colbert (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (1.2 MB)
- An investigation on the accuracy of Spectro::lyser, YSI 6-Series and Hydrolab Sondes – Ryan Pugh (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (787 KB)
Quality Assurance / Quality Control
- Building a Data and Hardware Management System for the National Automated Network – Denis Parent / Daniel Bastarache (Environment Canada) (1.1 MB)
- Quality Assurance and Quality Control of Real-Time Measurement – Update from June 2007 – Donald Bourgeois (Environment Canada) (1.1 MB)
New Technology
- New Sensor and Software Concepts for Reliable Operation of Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Systems – Andreas Weingartner (s::can Messtechnik GmbH) (2.3 MB)
- In-vivoMonitoring of Blue-Green Algae Using Hydrolab Multi-Parameter Sondes – Patrick Sanders (Hach Hydromet) (1.1 MB)
- Cost-Effective Automated Water Quality Monitoring Systems Providing High-Resolution Data in Near Real-Time – Kevin McClurg (YSI Integrated Systems and Services) (4 MB)
- Microfluidic Technology for Rapid on-line and/or in situ Monitoring of Environmental Contaminants/Indicators – Dr. Christina Bottaro, Dr. Erika F. Merschrod and Dr. Kelly Hawboldt (Memorial University) (380 KB)
- Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Systems: The Vienna Experience – Andreas Weingartner (s::can Messtechnik GmbH) (3.2 MB)
- Closing Remarks – Renée Paterson (Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment) (691 KB)
2007
The Capital Hotel
St. John’s NL
June 4th and 5th, 2007
Monday, June 4th
AM Session I – Welcome and Key Note Address
- Key Note Address – Guidelines and Standard Procedures for Continuous Water-Quality Monitors – Richard Wagner (USGS) – US Perspective (2.7 MB)
- Key Note Address: Environment Canada’s Water Quality Monitoring Programs and the National Automated Monitoring Network – Rob Phillips (EC) (1.6 MB)
AM Session II – Regional Perspectives I
- Presentation I – Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Network in Newfoundland and Labrador – Renée Paterson (NL DOEC)(1.7 MB)
- Presentation II – Nova Scotia Environment and Labour Automated Surface Water Quality Monitoring Network – Alan Tattrie (NS Env.& Lab.) (198 KB)
- Presentation III – Continuous Water Quality Monitoring in Lakes: A New Brunswick Perspective – Don Fox (NB Env.) (2.9 MB)
PM Session I – Regional Perspectives II
- Presentation I – Northern Perspectives – Lana van Veen (Yukon Env.) (3.7 MB)
- Presentation II – The Province of British Columbia’s Approach to Continuous Water-Quality Sampling Programs – Part 1 Field and Lab Methods – George Butcher (BC MOE) (2.1 MB)
- Presentation III – Atlantic Canada’s Automated Water Quality Monitoring Network – Update on Activities – Denis Parent/Donald Bourgeois (EC Atlantic Region) (518 KB)
PM Session II – Industry / Other Perspectives
- Presentation I –Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring in the Fraser River Estuary – Development of a real-time water quality buoy – Jennifer MacDonald/Phil Chau (EC PYR) (1.6 MB)
- Presentation I – Voisey’s Bay Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring Program – Paul Hounsell/Perry Blanchard (1.3 MB)
- Presentation II — Overview of Miawpukek (Conne River), NFLD & Lab. – Rob Phillips (EC)/Cyrus Lambert (Conne River) (1.4 MB)
Tuesday, June 5th
AM Session I – Instrumentation
- Presentation I – YSI EcoNet: A Web-enabled Data Acquisition and Control System – Jennie Gouthro/Kevin McClurg (10 MB)
- Presentation II – Monitoring the Environment in the 21st Century -An update from an equipment user and supplier. – Claude Labine (2.5 MB)
- Presentation III – Luminescence based measurement of dissolved oxygen in natural waters – Eli Scott (Hach Company) (1.4 MB)
AM Session II – Data Management, Analysis & Reporting
Presentation IV – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to AQUARIUS Time Series and Rating Curve Software – Peter Hudson (Aquatic Informatics Inc.) Product Demonstration Only.
- Presentation V – Real Time Data Management: Challenges and Solutions – Paul Neary (NL DOEC) (1.5 MB)
PM Session I – Quality Assurance / Quality Control
- Presentation I – QA/QC Practice for RTWQ Monitoring – Paula Dawe (NL DOEC) (1.7 MB)
- Presentation II – Performance of a Hydrolab, YSI and Horiba multiprobes: A preliminary Assessment – Lien Chow (AAFC) (5.4 MB)
- Presentation III – The Province of British Columbia’s Approach to Continuous Water-Quality Sampling Programs Part 2 – Quality Assessment – George Butcher (BC MOE) (967 KB)
PM Session II – International Applications
- Presentation I – Application of Innovative Technologies for Water Monitoring – International Perspective – Haseen Khan (NL DOEC) (6.4 MB)
PM Session III – Brainstorming and Workshop Wrap Up
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