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Philippe visits the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) in Oslo to discuss ongoing and future collaborations on lake biogeochemical modeling with Raoul-Marie Couture. Philippe also gave a seminar summarizing the results of the work of Taylor Maavara on the impacts of damming on riverine nutrient fluxes.

Philippe Van Cappellen and Kim Van Meter visited the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig on March 13-15. They held a series of high-level discussions to explore potential collaborations on the topic of coupled biogeochemistry-hydrology modelling. Central to the discussions were the challenges and opportunities in scale-dependent watershed modelling. A promising area of collaboration that emerged was the merging of biogeochemical functions into UFZ’s mesoscale hydrological model - stay tuned! 

Adrian Mellage, a PhD student in the Ecohydrology Research Group, has completed a successful two-month research exchange at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. The exchange was part of an ongoing research collaboration between the Ecohydrology Research Group at the University of Waterloo and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Technion.

In a new paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Ecohydrology group members, Helen Powley and Philippe Van Cappellen, and collaborator Michael Krom, report on the sensitivity of dissolved oxygen distributions within the Mediterranean Sea to future climate driven changes in its thermohaline circulation. The results indicate that the oxygenation of the Mediterranean Sea is quite resilient to the projected changes in circulation.

The Water Institute has awarded Seed Grant Program funding to five research proposals. Members of the Ecohydrology Research Group are involved in two of funded projects:

Philippe Van Cappellen joined a delegation of the Water Institute to China. The delegation held talks with researchers and officials from Wuhan University, China University of Geosciences, Southwest University, Chongqing University, China Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES) and Hohai University.