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John Pomeroy PhD Director, Global Water Futures Program

Dr. John Pomeroy is Director of the Global Water Futures Program – the largest university-led freshwater research project in the world. At the University of Saskatchewan he is the Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Director of the Centre for Hydrology, Director of the Coldwater Laboratory, Canmore, AB and Associate Director of the Global Institute for Water Security.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Geophysical Union and the Royal Geographical Society, is the 2019 recipient of the Miroslaw Romanowski Medal from the Royal Society of Canada, was the 2017 recipient of the J Tuzo Wilson Medal from the Canadian Geophysical Union and serves as Institute Professor of the Biogeoscience Institute of the University of Calgary and Adjunct Professor of the University of Waterloo.  He leads the International Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology project of the World Climate Research Programme.  Dr. Pomeroy has authored over 350 research articles and several books that have been cited over 15,000 times on the impact of land use and climate change on hydrology and water resources.