The International Society of Environmental Biogeochemistry is organizing its 23rd biannual Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB23) in northern Queensland. This is the first time the Symposium is being held in Australia. Philippe Van Cappellen is presenting a talk on anthropogenic perturbations of nutrient cycles in river systems. This coming January, Philippe is taking over as President of the Society.
The Water Institute hosted the Sino-Canada Water Environment Workshop at the University of Waterloo (UW), from September 18th to 20th. The workshop featured a series of research presentations, including one by Ecohydrology Research Group member, Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, who gave a presentation titled Nutrient dynamics, transfer and retention across scales: Integration of hydrological and biogeochemical processes.
Water researchers from Baden-Württemberg, Germany and from various Ontario universities (University of Waterloo, University of Guelph, and University of Toronto), were at the University of Waterloo on September 18th -19th to take part in the Joint Ontario and Baden-Württemberg Water Workshop.
Nutrient pollution has contributed to degraded water quality across many lakes in Canada, and billions of dollars have been invested in helping address this problem. In this critical review, we examined the recycling of phosphorus from sediment to water, known as internal phosphorus loading – a within-lake process that can delay ecosystem recovery from nutrient pollution.
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced this year's new Fellows. We are very pleased that our colleague, Dr. David Blowes, is among them. Here is RSC's citation:
"BLOWES, David – Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo
