News archive - March 2023

Philippe attended a side event at the UN Water Conference on Committing to Action for Global Freshwater Lakes was held at the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations. The event focused on actions that accelerate positive change for large, global, transboundary freshwater lakes. Speakers from the African and North American Great Lakes organizations shared their experiences and plans for advancing the integrated management of their large lakes.

Cold regions are warming much faster than the global average, resulting in more frequent and intense freeze thaw cycles (FTCs) in soils. A new paper published in the journal Chemosphere investigated the effects of FTCs on toluene biodegradation using a combined experimental and model approach. The paper is authored by Mehdi Ramezanzadeh, a recent Masters graduate and current research assistant in the Ecohydrology Research Group.