Research Projects

A watershed-scale approach is essential for managing increasing erosion risk in urban watersheds and mitigating its negative impacts on infrastructure and river systems. Stream power, the rate of energy expenditure by flowing water per unit length, is strongly linked to erosion, channel instability, and morphologic change.

This project develops the Campus Stormwater Management Living Lab at the University of Waterloo as a hands-on research and data sharing platform focused on environmental monitoring. The work connects (but is not limited to) hydrology, geotechnical engineering, and urban water systems theory to real-world infrastructure by monitoring existing features on campus.

Residential development Impact Scorecard for the Environment: An assessment tool for carbon stock and greenhouse gas impacts of residential developments (RISE) is a 5-year interdisciplinary research project at the University of Waterloo funded through Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Climate Action and Awareness Fund. RISE aims to answer the question: “How can losses of C stocks and increases of GHG emissions from residential developments be slowed or reversed?”