The University of Waterloo President's office had put up a display during the month of January in recognition of the water-related research conducted at UW.
Check out this new publication in the Journal of Hazardous Materials by researchers from Wageningen University, together with Philippe Van Cappellen. The paper describes a new method for the removal of selenium from water. Even at low levels selenium is a toxic element. It has, however, many technological applications. Thus, the extraction of selenium from wastewater streams not only prevents its release to the environment, but also helps recover a valuable resource.
Philippe joined the 2nd Mini Conference From Land to Sea: Processes and Budgets of the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) C-Cascades. The Conference was held at ETH Zürich, January 24-26. Philippe presented a talk entitled Pools and Cascades: Dams and Ponds. He also participated in the ITN’s Mid-term Review (January 27-28) as a member of the External Advisory Committee.
A new paper by Kim Van Meter, Nandita Basu and Philippe Van Cappellen provides a historical reconstruction of nitrate yields of two major U.S. watersheds, the Mississippi River and Susquehanna River basins. The paper was published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles and was selected as an Editor’s Highlight – “The manuscript assembles a model to track the 214-year record of N inputs, storage and outputs for two important river basins (Mississippi and Susquehana).
The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Area is hosting Philippe Van Cappellen in their Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series. The Series features eminent individuals from various disciplines in the scientific community whose research is outstanding, interdisciplinary, and of broad interest to strategic initiatives in the earth sciences. Philippe will discuss “Rivers in the Anthropocene: Global Scale Modifications of Nutrient Cycles by River Damming.”
