Keynote Speakers

David McCarthy is a civil engineer working in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph and has adjunct appointments at both Queensland University of Technology and Monash University. He currently holds a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) from NSERC. His research area is the biosurveillance of pathogens in urban water systems and the subsequent methodologies required to manage these to protect human health. He has specialised skills in health-related water microbiology, risk assessments, pathogen fate and transport, urban hydrology, stormwater management, green water treatment technologies, and water quality processes.

He is the founder of the BoSL Water Monitoring and Control lab where he and his team are exploring new methods for monitoring and controlling environmental pollution.

Ryan Winston is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering and Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering and a Core Faculty of the Sustainability Institute at Ohio State University. Ryan leads the Ohio State University Stormwater Management Program, which provides stormwater and stream management services and technical assistance related to urban water to federal and state agencies, local governments, and watershed groups.  We conduct applied research at the practice, site, and small watershed scale to help understand the cost, benefits and ecosystem services provided by stormwater control measures.  Ryan has led more than 50 projects focused on urban/suburban stormwater monitoring and subsequent development and calibration of models based on these data.  Ryan has particular interest in applying lessons learned in field-based research projects to inform design of new stormwater controls.