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Join Dr. William Blomquist, from Indiana University - Purdue University Idianapolis, as he presents "Notes from Underground: A Groundwater Perspective on Water Resource Governance and Management," as part of the Water Institute's WaterTalk lecture series.

For more information about the speaker and the presentation, visit the Water Institute's page.

Thursday, October 18, 2018 10:30 am - 11:30 am GMT (GMT +00:00)

Ecohydrology Seminar Series: Dr. Lakshika Girihagama

Join Dr. Lakshika Girihagama from the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough, as she presents "Physical circulation in the coastal zone of a large lake controls the benthic biological distribution".

The first international joint conference between the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) and the European Large Lakes Symposium (ELLS-IAGLR 2018), entitled "Big Lakes, Small World", is being held in Evian, France from September 23 to 28, 2018. The conference featured five days of plenaries, workshops, posters, and keynote presentations focused on Large Lakes’ research.

Thursday, September 20, 2018

Bingjie defends her thesis!

Bingjie Shi has successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled "Tracing Redox cycles during Microbe Clay Interactions Using Stables Iron Isotopes". Bingjie completed her PhD with the Ecohydrology Research Group, at the University of Waterloo. The members of her examination committee were Dr. Eric Roden, Dr. Laura Hug, Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Dr. Paul Schroeder, and Dr. David Blowes.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

2018 Canadian Rivers Institute Hynes Lecture

The Water Institute and Canadian Rivers Institute are co-hosting the 2018 Hynes Lecturer, Dr. Margaret A. Palmer (University of Maryland), who will be presenting, "Restoration, watershed context, and biogeochemical processes: from streams to wetlands."

For more information about the speaker and the presentation, visit the Water Institute's page.

Please register for the event.

Join Dr. Ng How Yong, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore, as he presents "Research Activities at the National University of Singapore Environmental Research Institute," as part of the Water Institute's WaterTalk lecture series.

For more information about the speaker and the presentation, visit the Water Institute's page.

Wednesday, September 19, 2018 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm GMT (GMT +00:00)

Science Graduate Open House 2018

Interested in learning more about graduate studies at the University of Waterloo? Attend the Faculty of Science Graduate Open House to hear from professors and current graduate students, and check out booths from research centres, resources and clubs on campus!

For more information, visit the event posting on the Science Faculty website.

Please register for the event.

Thursday, September 20, 2018 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Ecohydrology Seminar Series: Dr. Eric Roden

Join Dr. Eric Roden, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as he presents "Rust Never Sleeps: Biogeochemical and Genomic Aspects of Microbial Fe Redox Cycling".

A new paper, co-authored by Drs. Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Philippe Van Cappellen has been published in Science of the Total Environment. The article, titled "Effects of freezing and thawing on water infiltration, soil structure, and nutrient removal", was written in collaboration with Brenden Ding, Behrad Gharedaghloo, and Dr. Elodie Passeport. The paper assesses the effects of freezing and thawing cycles on bioretention processes, which has implications for how bioretention cells can be used to mitigate nutrient pollution in cold climates.

A new paper, co-authored by Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, has been published in Journal of Environmental Management. The article, titled "Retention modes of manure-fecal coliforms in soil under saturated hydraulic condition", investigated fecal coliform retention mode for three soil textures. Highlights of the work include:

  • Soil texture and manure types controlled bacteria deposition;