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The Ontario Geological Survey, the Geological Survey of Canada, and Conservation Ontario hosted the 2023 Open House for the southern Ontario Groundwater Community on February 21 and 23. The open house objective was to update groundwater researchers, practitioners and water managers on the activities of the respective agencies and collaborators.

The following posters were presented on February 23 by our ERG members

The Ecohydrology Research Group hosted a successful 11th Annual World Wetlands Day Research Symposium at the University of Waterloo on Wednesday February 1, thanks to the efforts not only of our group but also that of wetland researchers across the University.

Selenium (Se) is an essential micronutrient but becomes toxic when people are exposed to excess levels. A new paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology presents a detailed analysis of the Se distribution in the cold region mollisol agroecosystems of northeastern China. The results indicate that the Se can be sourced back to chemical weathering of oil shales from the watershed source area and deposited along with organic matter during the fluvial deposition.

An article co-authored by Zahra Akbarzadeh, former ERG PhD student Taylor Maavara, Stephanie Slowinski and Philippe Van Cappellen, titled “Effects of Damming on River Nitrogen Fluxes: A Global Analysis” published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles in 2019 was in the top 10 cited articles in Global Biogeochemical Cycles in the 2017-2021 5-year publication period.

Wanfa Wang, a former ERG International Visiting Graduate Student from Tianjin University, published a new paper in the Journal of Hydrology describing his PhD research on carbon cycling in dam reservoirs in karst regions. Co-authors from ERG include Steph Slowinski, Shuhuan Li and Philippe Van Cappellen. Chemical and physical carbonate rock weathering in karst regions supply large quantities of particulate and dissolved inorganic carbon (PIC and DIC) to rivers and, ultimately, to the ocean.

Ecohydrology Research Group Attend AGU 2022

ERG group members gathered for our annual holiday party! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Call for manuscripts for the upcoming Special Issue in the Journal of Hydrology on “Groundwater flow and reactive solute transport processes in hyporheic zone”.

Danielle Green, a first year MSc student in ERG, was awarded the Davis Memorial Scholarship in Ecology. The scholarship will help support her research project on Impacts of Permafrost Thaw on Water Quality of Groundwater Discharge to Northern Lakes.

Ecohydrology ProfessorsPhilippe Van Cappellen and Fereidoun Rezanezhad are co-Investigators on two new research projects on building sustainable net-zero emissions in Canada by 2050, funded by the Government of Canada's Environmental Damages Fund through the Climate Action and Awareness Fund (CAAF).

Philippe and Fereidoun are co-Investigators on Can-Peat: Canada's peatlands as nature-based solutions to climate