WATER Program
Training courses within the Aquatic Field Science Certificate and Professional Science Certificate are available to any interested student, professional, NGO, or First Nation participant across Canada on a certificate, or course-by-course basis. The Integrated Forum and Research and Skills Exchange will be limited to accepted WATER students and post-doctoral fellows.
NSERC stipends within WATER are available to undergraduate students (summer only, ~ 16 weeks), Masters and PhD Students (non-science stipends also available), and Post-doctoral Fellows working under any of the WATER researchers. WATER stipends will be awarded on a semi-annual competition basis (see Admissions above). Non-WATER stipend graduate students and post-docs that would like to participate in the full WATER program may do so after applying to, and being accepted into, the WATER program (some course fees may apply).
Below is a brief description of the training components available to accepted WATER participants.
Undergraduate/International students
The undergraduate WATER participants and international stipend recipients will be able to complete courses within the Aquatic Field Techniques Certificate, but this training will provide these motivated undergraduate and international students with incredible technical skills development. Future WATER graduate students will be recruited from among the WATER undergraduate students who show a significant level of interest and aptitude for aquatic and environmental research.
Masters and PhD
MSc and PhD science and non-science students will complete the entire WATER training program (Aquatic Field Techniques Certificate, Professional Science Certificate, Integrated Forum, and Skills Interchange), and graduate with an innovative and comprehensive technical and professional research degree that does not exist anywhere else in the world.
Post-doctoral Fellows
Post-doctoral fellows will be able to participate as students in any of the modular courses, but more importantly be involved in the teaching and delivery of courses and gain valuable teaching experience and student mentoring, while conducting their own research.
