Part 1 of a 3-part lunchtime film and speaker series hosted by Future Rivers. Each session will start with a one-hour screening of an episode of the PBS docuseries H2O The Molecule That Made Us, followed by a facilitated conversation and open Q&A with an expert panel focused on main themes of that episode (e.g. big data, history and civilization, and the intersection of health and global water politics). 

Episode 1: Pulse
How did water become the essential force behind all life? Dive in!, Directed by Alex Tate  /  Produced by Catherine Watling

Moderator: Josh Lawler, UW School of Environmental Forest Sciences professor
Magda Balazinska, UW School of Computer Science & Engineering director, Paul Fleming, Microsoft Water Program manager, Sapna Sharma, chair in Global Change Biology at York University