From June 3rd to 6th, over 400 researchers from across the globe met at McMaster University, in partnership with the Six Nations of the Grand River, for the 2018 Global Water Futures (GWF) Annual Science Meeting, with the goal of sharing information and collaborating with fellow scientists. More information about the meeting can be found on the conference website.
At the conference, Philippe Van Cappellen and Nandita Basu presented a plenary talk about water quality issues in the Great Lakes.
Additionally, during the meeting's parallel sessions, Kim Van Meter presented a talk titled "Biogeochemical Asynchrony", and Mahyar Shafii presented a talk titled "Spatio-temporal variations of landscape nitrate fluxes in agricultural catchments driven by flow pathways and nutrient transport mechanisms". Kim and Mahyar won the first and second place awards, respectively, for presentations given by postdoctoral fellows at the conference. For more information, please see the news item written about the awards. Congratulations!
The following posters were also presented at the meeting:
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Homa Kheyrollah Pour: Seasonal Patterns of Chlorophyll and Temperature in Lakes: Detection and Attribution of Climate Change Signal
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Fereidoun Rezanezhad: Winter Soil Processes in Transition
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Serghei Bocaniov: Understanding the role of large-scale physical processes in algal bloom formation in a large shallow lake (Lake St. Clair, U.S.A. – Canada)
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Igor Markelov: Dynamic modelling of geochemical (C, N, P, Fe, O, S) fluxes in lakes using a coupled water-column and sediment diagenesis model
Thank you to everyone who organized the first GWF Annual Science Meeting!