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International Advisory Council

An international research advisory council will provide strategic advice and bring an international perspective to the Water Institute

Dr. David Schindler, a Killam Memorial Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta, has been named chair of the Water Institute's international research advisory council, which will help provide strategic advice and bring an international perspective to the Institute. A search for the other members of the international committee is currently underway. Schindler will also serve as scientific advisor to the management board.

David Schindler, Chair

David Schindler is the Killam Memorial Chair and Professor of Ecology at the University of Alberta. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in England, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. From 1968 to 1989, he founded and directed the Experimental Lakes Project of the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans near Kenora, Ontario conducting interdisciplinary research on the effects of eutrophication, acid rain, climate change and other human insults on boreal aquatic ecosystems.  Schindler has served as head of the International Joint Commission's Expert Committee on Ecology and Geochemistry, and the US Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Atmosphere and the Biosphere. He has also served as President of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and as a Canadian National Representative to the International Limnological Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and London (UK), a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and an Officer of the Order of Canada. Schindler has received numerous awards, including an Outstanding Achievement Award of the American Institute of Fisheries Biologists, a Frank Rigler Award of the Canadian Limnological Society, the Manning Award of Distinction for Innovation in Science, and the NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal for Science and Engineering. He has ten honorary doctorates from universities within Canada and the United States and he has authored over 250 scientific publications.