This week, Ecohydrology Group Members are presenting their research at the 2017 EGU Conference (April 23-28, 2017) in Vienna, Austria, with nearly 15,000 attendees.
Helen Powley has successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Phosphorus and Nitrogen Cycling in the Mediterranean Sea: circulation, biogeochemistry and anthropogenic forcing”. Helen completed her PhD with the Ecohydrology Research Group, at the University of Waterloo.
The Lake Workshop focuses on improving weather forecasting models using satellite data assimilation. The workshop is being organized by Dr. Homa Kheyrollah Pour and Dr. Claude Duguay, and is attended by several members of the Ecohydrology Research Group. Philippe briefly presented the Global Water Futures project to the attendees. The workshop is supported by the Water Institute.
The kick-off meeting of the 21 projects funded through the 2016 Water JPI Joint call takes place in Stockholm. The call is supported by funding agencies from 22 countries, including Canada, and the European Commission. The Water JPI projects focus on the sustainable management of water resources in agriculture, forestry and freshwater aquaculture.
Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) announced its best papers of 2016. The journal published around 1600 papers last year. In each of the following four categories a top paper and three runner-ups were selected: Environmental Science, Environmental Technology, Environmental Policy and Feature. The first runner-up in the category Environmental Science is a paper by Bingjie Shi, PhD student in the Ecohydrology Research Group.
