Opportunities

The Canadian Water Network is your source for opportunities in the water sector — new research grant competitions, partnership and consortia development, student scholarships and exchange programs, career opportunities, contracts, internship placements, and more.

To learn about CWN specific funding announcements and opportunities please click here.

Request for proposals — Canada-wide knowledge mobilization project on water resource adaptation to climate change

Request for proposals deadline: February 1, 2012 at 2 p.m. EST
(Note: This deadline has been revised.)
Also note the addendum, available for download as a PDF, at the bottom of the page.

Funds up to $130,000 are available.
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, in partnership with the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, is working on [...]

ACADEMIC POSITION: Assistant Professor in Urban Sustainability, Department of Civil Engineering, U of T

The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment in the field of sustainable engineering. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will begin July 1, 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter.
The Department of Civil Engineering seeks candidates with research expertise in the [...]

Master’s and postdoctoral research opportunities in aquatic ecology

Master’s opportunity
Developing nutrient criteria to protect the ecological integrity of Lower Great Lakes Tributaries in southern Ontario, Canada
A motivated MSc student is being sought for a unique opportunity in the Department of Geography at the University of Western Ontario to conduct research as part of a joint initiative with Environment Canada to develop nutrient criteria [...]

Become a partner in CWN research

CWN is looking for partners from water policy and management organizations to become involved and co-invest in research projects. Our partner-to-research matching forum will be open between Nov. 1 and 14.

The Circle is hiring

Apply by Friday, September 9, 2011
The Circle on Philanthropy and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada — a young and rapidly evolving organization — is looking for its first coordinator, an individual who will have the chance to shape the future of a new network committed to strengthening the level, innovation and community reach of financial and [...]

BC CDC seeks postdoc with experience in microbial genomics or bioinformatics

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of British Columbia, in partnership with the BC CDC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, is seeking a postdoctoral scientist with experience in microbial genomics or bioinformatics.
The successful applicant will perform metagenomics on environmental water samples to identify novel indicators for water quality and microbial [...]

Call for preliminary proposals: 1.4 million reasons to improve the environment in North America

Do you have an idea for an innovative environmental project? Do you know someone who already has an environmental project and requires funding to keep it going? If so, CEC would like to hear from you.
The Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has established a new grant program, known as the North American [...]

Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity — water footprint: University of Twente, the Netherlands

Application deadline: September 1, 2011
The challenge
The Water Management Group at the University of Twente carries out multidisciplinary research and provides education in water systems and management. The aim is to increase our understanding of the natural processes in water systems and the socio-economic processes that affect these systems, and to develop tools that can be used [...]

Bridging the gap between science and decision-making

Internship available at CWN through Environment Canada’s Science Horizons Youth Internship Program
Apply by Monday, July 25 at 4:30 p.m. EDT

Global Institute for Water Security seeks postdoc

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Socio-Hydrology: Defining Water Security in the Saskatchewan River Basin
Position
A postdoctoral fellowship is available immediately for a highly motivated and organized individual interested in the consideration contemporary water security issues by physical and biological sciences with social science perspectives, including governance, institutions, human behaviours, perceptions and public policy.
With financial support from the University of [...]