Events

Effect of Atmospheric Processes on the Bioavailability of Phosphorus Supplied by Dust to the Surface Ocean. How Globally Important is this Process?

Presented by Professor Mike Krom

School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK

Presented by: Dr. Nigel Roulet 

Water Quality in the Great Lakes: A Guided Tour 

Join the Ecohydrology Research Group on Friday, February 2nd, 2018 for the research symposium and public lecture held in celebration of World Wetlands Day!

Research Symposium 

• Presentations from local researchers 

• Three minute student research presentations

• Poster session (registration deadline extended to January 26th)

Sustainably producing enough food for the world's growing population is one of this century’s defining challenges. Innovative solutions are needed to increase productivity without further degrading agricultural lands or adversely affecting local and global ecosystems. One promising avenue lies in understanding and managing the soil microbiome, which collectively provides critical ecosystem services that underpin both productivity and sustainability. Management practices that alter the soil environment also alter the soil microbiome.

The re-emergence of large blooms of benthic filamentous algae in the lower Great Lakes during the late 1990s and early 2000s seemed to run counter to evidence of ecosystem recovery from eutrophication after point-source phosphorus controls were enacted under the Great Lakes under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

Postponed until further notice

Dr. Adam Gordon Yates from Western University will be presenting a talk as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series on May 1st, 2018, titled "Understanding the Effects of Phosphorus Concentration Dynamics on Benthic Primary Production using Artificial Stream Experiments".

Dr. Claudia Wagner-Riddle from the University of Guelph will be presenting a talk as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series on May 29th.

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".

Microbe-mineral-fluid interactions: Case studies from natural environments, industrial problems and arctic biogeochemical processes 

Presented by Dr. Jenine McCutcheon, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds

Abstract: Microbial processes influence geochemical reaction pathways in a range of natural and engineered environments. These processes often result in the precipitation, alteration, or dissolution of mineral phases, thereby also altering the chemistry of the surrounding fluid.