National Water and Wastewater Conference:
The Canadian Water and Wastewater Association's National Water and Wastewater Conference webinar series will take place every Tuesday and Thursday from January 11 – February 3, 2022. Topics will be varied, allowing delegates to tune in to just the events they are interested in. 

Indigenous Partnerships in Aquatic Habitat Management and Restoration:
This event is hosted by Aquatic Habitat Canada, a national network supporting aquatic habitat protection and restoration. This event will have expert speakers from multiple sectors to present their knowledge on the topic, Indigenous Perspectives in Aquatic Habitat Management & Restoration, and illustrate examples of Indigenous involvement and relationship-building to ensure impactful outcomes in aquatic habitat management and restoration. Presentations will highlight Indigenous-led and co-led initiatives in aquatic habitat management and explore how Indigenous values are incorporated in aquatic habitat science. The webinar will also include an open panel discussion and a Q&A period.

2022 Environmental Summit - Climate Change:
The Conservation Foundation (based out of Illinois) is hosting an Environmental Summit about climate change on January 25th. The talks will focus on building resilience and actionable steps for dealing with current and future climate-caused pressures.

Attachment Scars of uncinate processes indicate an early origin of avian-like breathing mechanisms in dinosaurs:
Yan-yin Wang, a PhD candidate in the Sullivan Lab at the University of Alberta, will be giving a talk for Science Outreach Athabasca. How did dinosaurs breathe? Yan-yin's research may help to answer that question. He studies Archosauria, a group that originated in the Triassic (around 250 million years ago!), and whose modern representatives include birds and crocodilians. The ribs of archosaurs have a special feature, the uncinate process. This uncinate process has muscles that have been found to be associated with respiratory function in Canada geese and American alligators. The problem with looking at the uncinate process in dinosaurs, however, is that the uncinates are sometimes only made of cartilage, which doesn't often preserve well. Yan-yin has found that the uncinate processes leave a mark on the ribs, which means that even when the processes aren't preserved, they'll be able to tell if they were there! This has allowed Yan-yin to see that uncinate-assisted respiration may have been around since archosaurs first appeared!

Being Good Stewards of the Land:
The Lesser Slave Watershed Council and the Land Stewardship Centre are partnering to bring you this webinar about land stewardship and best practices, the importance of riparian areas, and how humans impact the landscape.