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From June 10th to 14th, the 2018 Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU), Canadian Soil Science Society (CSSS), and Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (CIG) Joint Annual Meeting was held in Niagara Falls. The multidisciplinary conference featured presentations, lectures, and posters on topics from hydrology to geodynamics. More information about the conference can be found on the conference website.

Ecohydrology group members were involved in the following sessions presented at the conference:

On June 17-20, the 1^stInternational Conference on Water Security took place in Toronto. The conference brought together water experts from around the world to discuss new platforms and tools to move scientific knowledge and data into solutions that mitigate the impacts of human activities on the availability and quality of freshwater resources.

Vice-President, Academic and Provost George Dixon announced the winners of the 2017 Outstanding Performance Awards, among them Philippe Van Cappellen.

Linden Fairbairn, a Master's student working with the Ecohydrology Research Group, has been awarded a rare Scholarship in Graduate Research for 2018. The scholarship is awarded annually to graduate students in any discipline who are conducting research on the rare Charitable Research Reserve property.

For more information about the scholarship, please see rare's website.

Congratulations, Linden!

Linden Fairbairn, a Master's student working with the Ecohydrology Research Group, was recently awarded the Canadian Water Resources Association Scholarship Award for 2018. The scholarship is awarded annually to five graduate students across Canada whose research centers around water research. Congratulations, Linden!

For more information about the scholarship, please visit the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) website.

SciTech Europa recently published a Partner Profile for the Ecohydrology Research Group.

Check out the article, titled "Elucidating water quality controls across scales", on SciTech Europa's website.

Last Thursday, the recipients of the Winter 2018 Water Institute Seed Grants were announced. The winners of the grants include two projects led by Ecohydrology group members:

• Homa Kheyrollah Pour, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Philippe Van Cappellen, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Roland Hall, Biology; Andrea Scott, Systems Design Engineering; Georgiy Kitillin, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

  Seasonal patterns of chlorophyll and temperature in lakes: Detection and attribution of climate change signal

A paper published this week in Nature Communications by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute presents new findings on the distribution of microplastics in Arctic sea ice. The paper is featured in an article in the magazine Popular Science and includes comments by Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen.

The full article, titled "Good job: Arctic sea ice is full of our junk plastic", is available on Popular Science's website.