Future students

Camille Vautier successfully defended her PhD thesis at Université de Rennes 1 on Monday December 16. Ms. Vautier visited the Ecohydrology Research Group in July 2019 as an International Visiting Graduate Student in order to discuss her research on the water quality impacts of agricultural nitrogen legacies.

A new paper in Water Resources Research, co-authored by ERG members Serghei Bocaniov and Philippe Van Cappellen, assesses the fate of phosphorus loads to Lake St. Clair. The outflow of this fairly large but shallow lake enters Lake Erie, which has been experiencing re-eutrophication since the mid-1990s.

A paper by ERG researchers in the journal Environmental Science & Technology reports the results of an experimental study of the oxidation of arsenic (As) as aqueous As(III) to As(V) in the presence of flavins.

Ecohydrology group PhD candidate Igor Markelov successfully defended his PhD thesis today titled: "Modelling biogeochemical cycles across scales: From whole-lake phosphorus dynamics to microbial reaction systems".

Ecohydrology PhD student Igor Markelov was part of a team that participated in the ETHWaterloo hackaton that took place in Waterloo on November 8-10, 2019. His team was selected as 1 of 5 winners out of over 60 submissions at the event.

Ecohydrology Research Group member Tamara Van Staden successfully defended her MSc thesis today titled "Phosphorus Legacies and Water Quality Risks: A Vulnerability-Based Framework in Southern Ontario". Tamara completed her MSc research under the supervision of Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen and her advisory committee included Dr. Chris Parsons and Dr. Nandita Basu.

Congratulations, Tamara!

A new publication entitled, “Sulfate Mobility in Fen Peat and Its Impact on the Release of Solutes”, considers the effects of subsidence and seawater intrusion on the decomposition of organic matter in coastal peatlands.

The 11^th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference was held on November 13-15 in Ottawa and was attended by former Ecohydrology Research Group member Homa Kheyrollah Pour, now an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change at Wilfred Laurier University and Linden Fairbairn, current Ecohydrology MSc student.

On October 7 & 8, researchers and policymakers from across the Great Lakes basin came together in Waterloo to discuss the current state and future approaches to integrated lake-watershed models, and how these models can inform science policy.

The Ontario Certified Crop Advisors (CCAs) Association held its Soil and Water Information Day in Guelph on November 20.