Dr. Wheater: Canada Excellence Research Chair In Water Security

1977 PhD, University of Bristol

1974 MA, University of Cambridge

1971 BA, 1st Class Honours, Engineering Sciences, University of Cambridge

2010-Present Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security, University of Saskatchewan (UofS) 2010-Present Full-time, tenured Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability (SENS), UofS

2011-Present Director, Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS), UofS

2008-09 Director, Imperial College Environmental Forum, Imperial College London, UK

1995-2008 Head, Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Imperial College London, UK 1993-2010 Professor of Hydrology, Imperial College London, UK

Since 2013, Dr. Wheater has been responsible for nearly $116M in

GLOBAL INSTITUTE FOR WATER SECURITY: Dr. Wheater is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security and a global expert in hydrological science and sustainable water resource management. Building on his over 40 years of experience in the theory and application of hydrological models, Dr. Wheater proposed a new paradigm for transdisciplinary research to address water security under environmental change and established the GIWS in 2011. Dr. Wheater developed the Saskatchewan River Basin (406,000 km2) and Mackenzie River Basin (1.8 million km2) as large-scale observatories, endorsed by the World Climate Research Programme as a Regional Hydroclimate Projects, the only ones in North America. Observatories in the key biomes, including collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency and NASA, support improved process understanding and modelling across multiple scales. His research has developed new methods of vulnerability analysis for complex water resource systems, and systems dynamic simulation tools for scenario-based economic analysis of water futures, supported by new downscaling tools for climate model outputs. New algorithms have been developed to support large scale hydrological modelling and fine resolution atmospheric modelling is providing new insights into fine scale precipitation, extreme events and the impacts of future

GLOBALLY SOUGHT AFTER EXPERT: In the UK, Dr. Wheater led national research programs, was a member of the Foresight Future Flooding teams (2004, 2008) a member of 2008 Cabinet Office flood enquiry, and chair of a government review panel on siting criteria for nuclear waste disposal. In Canada he chaired the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel on Water and Agriculture in Canada. Dr. Wheater has advised governments and international agencies in the Middle East, Far East, Africa and South America, as well as Europe and the USA. He represented Hungary and Argentina at the International Court of Justice, and was recently a member of a Court of Arbitration in The Hague in a dispute between Pakistan and India concerning the Indus Waters Treaty. He is Chair of UNESCO's G-WADI Steering Committee and past Vice-Chair of the World Climate Research Program’s (WCRP) Global Energy and Water Experiment