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Brace Trainee Fall Welcome Social - McGill Macdonald Campus
Date: September 18th, 2026 | Time: 3:00pm
Location: Macdonald Campus - Brace Water Centre Building: Stewart Park 3, 21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne de Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9
Get together with fellow trainees at our Brace Trainee Welcome Back Social
Brace Trainee Coffee Meet‑Up - McGill Downtown Campus
Date: September 24th 2026 | Time: 12:00pm -1:00pm | Location: McGill Engine Centre FD3- 3450 Rue University
Join the Brace Trainee Committee for a relaxed coffee and light refreshment meet up at McGill Engine on the Downtown Campus.
Brace Spring Social Event
Date: May 29th 2026 | Time: 12:30 -3:00pm | Location: Brace Building, Macdonald Campus
Join Brace on the Macdonald Campus for the Brace Spring Social — open to all members, trainees, and friends of the Brace community.
Brace Lunch Meetup- MacDonald Campus
Date: March 17th | Time: 12-1pm | Location: Faculty Lounge in the MacDonald Stewart Building
Join Brace for lunch and meet others passionate about water research. Whether you're part of the community or just curious, you’re invited. Food and drinks provided—see you there!
MIXCHEM CREATE x Brace: Science Careers Panel Discussion
Date: October 2nd, 2026 | Time: 11am – 1pm Location: McGill Engine Centre: 3450 Rue University | Bilingual Event
MIXCHEM CREATE and the Brace Water Centre invite you to a career panel featuring professionals working across scientific fields connected to water, environment, and resource management
2026 Brace Water Day
Date: October 6, 2026 | Time: 12:00 | Location: McGill Faculty Club: 3450 Rue McTavish
Join us for an inspiring afternoon celebrating water research, collaboration and shared learning at Brace Water Day 2026.
AMR Seminar + Social Series
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 3:00pm - 5:00 pm | Hybrid event - registration required
Modeling the risk of antibiotics in river systems" Jim A. Nicell, PhD, PEng (Engineering), Bernhard Lehner, PhD and Heloisa Ehalt Macedo, PhD (Geography) McGill University
Brace WaterTalk: Influence of historic and current land use practices on PCB contamination of stormwater sediments in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and potential treatment solutions.
Presented by Prof. Birthe Kjellerup
Brace WaterTalk: Building a Flood Resilience Framework for the Caribbean Region
Presented by Prof. Chandra A. Madramootoo
Towards a nanocircular economy: developing analytical tools to quantify the release of nanomaterials from commercial products
Date: November 25th, 2025 | Time: 1:00 PM | Location: Macdonald Engineering Building- MD 267| Hosted by TISED & Brace Water Centre
Unconventional Water Resources
Date: May 1st, 2024 | Time: 2:30 PM | Location: Macdonald Engineering Building Room: 497 | Free Hyrbid Event
Speaker: Manzoor Qadir
Safeguarding the Provision of Drinking Water in a Changing Climate with Integrated Green and Grey Infrastructure: Advances in Treatability Assessment and Source Water Protection
Presented by Prof. Monica Emelko
Water quality, wastewater and toxicity research in the Czech Republic
Presenter: Katerina Sovova & Pavla Fojtikova
Equipment Talks Workshop
Join us to learn more about the about our research capabilities and the work being conducted in our laboratory!
Brace Water Centre Skill Workshop
"The evolving role of analytical chemistry in solving the PFAS environmental problem" presented by Dr. Chuck Powley
Date: April 19th, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Location: Macdonald Building MD 497
Plastic pollution as an emerging environmental contaminant
This talk will review the state of knowledge of plastic pollution and additives in the Canadian Arctic and discuss how future sampling will help expand our understanding of plastic pollution
Nature Water: a journal for all water-related research
Join us as Dr. Pulizzi presents his vision of the journal, placing it in the context of other Nature publications and other journals in the water sphere.
COVID-19 Surveillance in Wastewater
Watch our speakers present their research findings of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance in Ottawa and Montreal wastewaters.
High-throughput AMR surveillance in a One Health Context
Co-hosted with McGill's AMR Centre
Dr. Nicole Ricker discussed the methods we have employed to date and the insights we have gained on the utility of these methods for large-scale surveillance programs.
TISED/BRACE Seminar: Environmental and health impacts of COVID-19 related plastic waste
Plastic has helped us prevent the spread of Covid-19 but how has that affected the environment?
