• Type: None
• Series organiser: Karis McLaughlin (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
• Web Address: http://www.water.ox.ac.uk/

Monday 2 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Urbanising Water World in Africa
  Dr Samuel Godfrey (Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), UNICEF Ethiopia)

Thursday 12 March 2015 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Considering the human right to water in the context of transboundary river basins
  Dr Christina Leb (Senior Water Resources Specialist, World Bank)

Thursday 14 May 2015 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Benefits of Integrated Planning and Modelling
  Ed Byers (Environmental Change Institute), Adam Cambridge (Atkins)

Monday 8 June 2015 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Hydrology, Remote Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure – Case Studies from South East Asia
  Dr James Lau (Imperial College London, University of Exeter)

Sunday 28 June 2015 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - The Water, Food and Energy Nexus: the 5th Oxford Water and Membranes Research Event
  TBA

Tuesday 8 September 2015 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Drought Risk and Decision Making
  TBA

Wednesday 9 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Water Security 2015
  TBA

Monday 8 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reducing regional water supply vulnerabilities and multi-city robustness conflicts when confronting a deeply uncertain future
  TBA

Wednesday 17 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Disgust and desire: how to Improve Global WASH
  Dr Val Curtis (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Global hydrodynamic modelling of flood inundation in continental rivers
  Dr Dai Yamazaki (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))

Monday 14 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Organics and plastics in rivers and oceans
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Luca Nizzetto ( NIVA (The Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo))

Friday 15 April 2016 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Promoting Transboundary Water Management: Opportunity for Change and Stability
  Munqueth Mehyar ((Jordanian Director, Ecopeace)), Nader Al-Khateeb ( (Palestinian Director, Ecopeace)), Gidon Bromberg ((Israeli Director, Ecopeace))

Friday 29 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Mitigating Risks and Vulnerabilities in the Energy-Food-Water Nexus in Developing Countries – Report Launch
  Dr Jeremy Wakeford (Sustainability Institute (Stellenbosch, RSA))

Tuesday 24 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:15 - Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme: Option Choice and Standards
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Macronutrient Cycles
  TBA

Saturday 17 September 2016 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:45 - Improving water security for the poor
  Following the talk, there will be an opportunity for SoGE alumni to meet and mingle at an informal lunch, from 1pm-2pm, in the School’s Herbertson Room. You do not need to attend the talk to go to the lunch, but please book a place for the lunch (capacity 60 places, £5 donations at the door).
  Dr Katrina Charles (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 September 2016 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Adaptation to Climate Change
  Dr Mike SImpson (Environmental Change Institute), Dr Julian Cottee (Environmental Change Institute)

Monday 10 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Water Security, Migration, and Infrastructural Conflicts in the Middle East
  Prof Erika Weinthal (Duke University)

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Climate extremes, floods and modelling approaches
  Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute)

Monday 17 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why is there a handpump in the car park?
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Just adding water? The Water Act, sustainable diversion limits and environmental health in the Murray-Darling Basin
  Stefanie Schulte (Policy Manager at the New South Wales Irrigators’ Council)

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Water, politics, and the “art of hydro-diplomacy”: how the US government came to care about water across the world.
  Dr Aaron Salzberg ( US Department of State)

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - W. Mike Edmunds Memorial Lecture
  Prof Alan MacDonald (British Geological Survey and University of Dundee)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Flood recovery and resilience from the perspectives of children and young people
  Prof Maggie Mort (Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University)

Thursday 24 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Global flood risk and adaptation
  Prof Philip Ward (Institute for Environmental Studies)

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Impact of shoreline morphological change in West Africa: Ghana DECCMA project.
  Prof Kwasi Appeaning Addo (University of Ghana)

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Water, the economy and development: a high-level panel with the World Bank
  Various Speakers

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Water Network seminar with Prof Philippe Cullet, SOAS.
  Prof Philippe Cullet (SOAS)

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond technology: the role of innovation in achieving universal access to drinking water
  Peter Harvey (UNICEF)

Monday 13 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - International development financing: current priorities, policies and practices on water resources, environmental and social issues.
  Prof Stephen Lintner (King’s College London)

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From Flint to the Rio Grande: water insecurity in the United States.
  Prof Wendy Jepson (University of Texas A&M)

Wednesday 1 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Hydrological prediction for drought and flood early warning in sub-Saharan Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Justin Sheffield (University of Southampton)

Monday 6 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The resilience of Britain’s water supplies in an uncertain future
  Professor Jim Hall (Director, Environmental Change Institute)

Monday 13 March 2017 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Evidence-based policy in an age of alternative facts: the life of a chief science advisor in New Zealand
  Prof Ken Hughey (Department of Conservation, New Zealand & Professor of Environmental Management at Lincoln University, Christchurch.)

Friday 12 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Fear, disgust and loathing: the emotional qualities of public policies
  Dr Leong Ching (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.)

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Stepping out of the ‘water-box’: re-thinking transboundary water cooperation
  TBA

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - The dynamics of vulnerability: what droughts and flooding can teach us about adapting to climate change
  Professor Lisa Dilling (University of Colorado)

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Vectors, rasters and voxels: how to simulate evolving digital terrain models of the coast
  Dr Dave Favis-Mortlock (University of Oxford), Dr Andres Payo (British Geological Survey)

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Decoupling national water needs for national water supplies: insights and potential for countries in the Jordan Basin
  Dr Michael Gilmont (Environmental Change Institute)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Limits of predictability: forecasting weather driven natural hazards
  Prof Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Basin Futures: a tool for simplifying basin planning and the assessment of water SDGs using global and local datasets
  Dr Carmel Pollino (CSIRO)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Estimating the benefits of environmental protection and sustainable water resources infrastructure development on the economic growth of Uganda
  Prof Kenneth M. Strzepek (MIT-KACST Center for Complex Engineering Systems)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - W. Mike Edmunds Memorial Lecture
  Dr Abigail Stone (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 08:30 - Valuing Water for Sustainable Development
  Dr Fred Boltz (Rockefeller Foundation), Dr Nicholas Brozovic (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Dr Richard Damania (World Bank), Kathleen Dominique (OECD), Prof Michael Hanemann (University of California - Berkeley), Prof Cameron Hepburn (University of Oxford), Dr Guy Hutton (UNICEF), Ambika Jindal (ING ), Dr Xavier Laflaive (OECD), Dr Xavier Laflaive (Global Resilience Partnership), Stuart Orr (WWF-International), Henk Ovink (Government of the Netherlands), Jennifer Sara (World Bank)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - NEWS FROM A SCIENTIFIC FRONTIER: THE COMPLEXITY OF FIELD-TO-RIVER CONNECTIVITY IN THE ROTHER CATCHMENT
  Professor John Boardman (University of Oxford), Dr Dave Favis-Mortlock (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Clearing our thinking about water and health
  Dr Jamie Bartram (Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Beyond inclusion: identifying and addressing the gender dimensions of water projects.
  Speaker: Professor Margreet Zwarteveen (UNESCO-IHE)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Drought: from local to continental scales
  Prof Justin Sheffield (University of Southampton), Dr Anne Van Loon (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Natural flood risk management
  Prof Louise Heathwaite (Lancaster University ), Prof Enda O'Connell (Newcastle University)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Under and over the aquifer: interdisciplinary exploration of sinkholes in the Yucatan
  Nathalie Richards (King's College London)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Performance based contracting in the water sector – managing risks and rewards
  Various Speakers

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Water quality: from source to tap.
  TBA

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - New methods and challenges in flood and drought research
  Dr Hans de Moel (VU Amsterdam)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Water sensing - knowledge exchange evening
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:30 - Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development: What About the People?
  Dr Cathy Baldwin (University of Oxford), Dr Robin King (World Resources Institute), Prof Steve Rayner (University of Oxford), Dr Vlad Mykhnenko (University of Oxford), Dr Bridget Durning (Oxford Brookes University), Ben Cave (Ben Cave Associates & Liverpool University), Prof Prof Marcus Banks (University of Oxford), Prof Michael Keith (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 July 2018 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Legal Rights for Rivers: More Power, Less Protection?
  Dr Erin O’Donnell (University of Melbourne Law School)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Irrigation in India: building farms of the future
  Dr Radhika Khosla (Centre for Policy Research, Delhi), Shri Radheshyam Julaniya (Water Resources Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh, India. ), Joop Stoutjesdijk (World Bank), Ranu Sinha (University of Oxford), Dr Simon Dadson (University of Oxford), Dr Robert Hope (University of Oxford), Dr Dustin Garrick (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Can more data reduce poverty?
  Professor David Clifton (Department of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford), Patrick Thomson (University of Oxford), Heloise Greeff (Institute of Biomedical Engineering), Professor Rob Hope (University of Oxford), Tom Wildman (Oxfam)

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Closing the gap: informal water markets in Kathmandu
  Jane Zhao (Oxford Water Network seminar with Jane Zhao, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Groundwater replenishment in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from multi-decadal observations - W.M. Edmunds Memorial Lecture.
  Prof Richard Taylor (University College London)

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Digital disruption and water management
  This event will be followed by refreshments at Christ Church
  Dr David Lloyd Owen (Envisager)