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Members of ecohydrology research group attended the 2021 GWF virtual confernce on May 17-19 2021! 

Day 1 Poster Session:

Bowen Zhou: Climatic controls on phosphorus fluxes from a bioretention facility in a heavily urbanized catchment using a process-based eco-hydrological model –Poster ID: 13

Ecohydrology researchers presented virtually at this year's European Geosciences Union (EGU), which was held from April 19^th to 30^th. The following works have been presented:

A. Rafat, F. Rezanezhad, W. L. Quinton, E. R. Humphreys4, K. Webster, P. Van Cappellen.  Predicting Non-growing Season Net Ecosystem Exchanges of CO₂ from a Canadian Peatlands. Geophysical Research Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, EGU21-3348, Gather Online, 19-30 April, 2021.

Innovation News Network has published a special report about our work on using spectral induced polarization, a geophysical method, to monitor microbial activity and nanoparticles in real-time in earth's subsurface. Read the special report by clicking here. The report summarizes the research led by Dr.

The latest version of ERG’s eBook is now available. It was produced in partnership with Innovation News Network and summarizes ERG’s ongoing multidisciplinary water research activities.

To access and download the eBook, click here.

Ecohydrology group MSc student Heather Townsend successfully defended her thesis on January 21, 2021 in a virtual defence. Heather's thesis is titled "Environmental sensitivities of coupled biogeochemical cycles in anoxic conditions: from soil batch experiments to a bioenergetics approach." 

Ecohydrology Research Group members Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, and Dr. Adrian Mellage co-authored a new paper that was recently published in Science of the Total Environment. The paper presents the results from flow-through experiments where Spectral Induced Polarization (SIP) was successfully implemented to monitor transport of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles (CoFe-NPs) coated with Pluronic, anamphiphilic polymer through natural aquifer sand-packed columns.

A new paper co-authored by Ecohydrology Research Group member Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Dr. Thai Phan from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has been published in Environmental Advances. The study assessed the alternative use of the lepidolite extraction solid blended residue, containing elevated level of thallium (Tl), as fill material in post-mining land reclamation.

The Ecohydrology Research Group is collaborating with scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, in Richland, Washington) to study the transport and degradation of Particulate Organic Matter (POM) in hyporheic zones.