Ecohydrology Group Members set to present research in Montreal, May 3-7

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Thirteen members of the Ecohydrology Research Group will be presenting their research at the Joint cgu-agu-gac-mac Assembly May 3-7 in Montreal. 

Philippe Van Cappellen will deliver the M. K. Woo Lecture of the Canadian Geophysical Union at the upcoming Joint AGU-Gac-MAC-CGU Assembly in Montréal. The Lecture will be presented on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, 3:00-4:00 pm, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in room 514A-C.  

Oral Presentations

Time Presentation

Monday

May 4

9:45-10:00am

Mahyar Shafii

Title: Assessment of Hydrological Behaviour of Snowmelt-Dominated Catchment at Different Scales

Co-Authors: Nandita Basu, James Craig, Sherry Schiff, Philippe Van Cappellen, Hans Durr

Tuesday

May 5

11:00-11:15am

Tariz Aziz

Title: Valuation of Five Water-related Ecosystem Services in the Grand River Watershed

Co-Authors: Philippe Van Cappellen

Tuesday

May 5

11:15-11:30am

Raoul-Marie Couture

Title: Modelling the impact of increasing dissolved organic carbon load on seasonal anoxia in a boreal humic lake

Co-Authors: Heleen De Wit, Koji Tominaga, Petri Kiuri, Igor Markelov

Wednesday May 6

3:00-4:00pm

Philippe Van Cappellen

M. K. Woo Lecture of the Canadian Geophysical Union
 

Wednesday 

May 6

3:45-4:00pm

Christina Smeaton

Title: Bioenergetic Limitations on Slow Microbial Growth in the Subsurface: What is the Burden of Maintenance on the Overall Energy Budget?

Co-Authors: Bijendra Man Bajracharya, Christine Ridenour, Chris Parsons, Philippe Van Cappellen

Thursday

May 7

2:00-2:15pm

Geertje Pronk

Title: Using Artificial Soils as Simplified Model Systems to gain insight into the effect of Mineral Composition on Microbial Community Development and Soil Organic Matter Formation

Co-Authors: Doreen Babin, Franziska Ditterich, Julia Giebler, Katja Heister, Michael Hemkemeyer, Ellen Kandeler, Ingrid Kogel-Knabner, Yamuna Kunhi Mouvenchery, Christian Poll, Anja Mitner, Gabriele Schaumann, Michael Schloter, Kornelia Smalla, Annelie Steinbach, Christoph Tebbe, Kai Totsche, Susanne Woche, Cordula Vogel, Lukas Wick

Thursday 

May 7

2:15-2:30pm

Tatjana Milojevic

Title: Soil Oxygen Dynamics under Freeze-Thaw Cycles 

Co-Authors: Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Philippe Van Cappellen

Thursday 

May 7

3:15-3:30pm

Hans Durr

Title: Impact of Direct Nutrient Inputs via Groundwater on Near-shore Zones of Large Water Bodies: Regional Scale Approaches

Co-Authors: Nils Moosdorf, Philippe Van Cappellen

Poster Presentations

Day Poster
Tuesday

Gabriel Bacca-Cortes

Title: Coupling of spatially distributed 1D travel time approach to reactive transport to evaluate subsurface nitrogen dynamics at the catchment scale

Co-Authors: Hans Durr, Philippe Van Cappellen

Tuesday

Taylor Maavara

Title: A Long-term sink for nutrient silicon in Canada’s most threatened river system

Co-Authors: Jennifer Hood, Rebecca North, Lorne Doig, Chris Parsons, Jessica Johansson, Karsten Liber, Jeff Hudson, Brett Lucas, David Vandergucht, Philippe Van Cappellen

Wednesday

Bijendra Bajracharya

Title: Modelling optimized allocation of energy by microbes and their physiological state

Co-Authors: Christina Smeaton, Olaf Cirpka, Chuanhe Lu, Igor Markelov, Ekaterina Markelova, Philippe Van Cappellen

Thursday

Avid Banihashemi

Title: Effect of Water Table Fluctuations on the Fate and Disctribution of Escherichia coli in a Freshwater Beach Environment: An Experimental Study

Co-Authors: Radmila Kovac, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Danny Oh, Christina Smeaton, Maria Mesquita, Claire Robinson, Philippe Van Cappellen

Thursday

Chris Parsons

Title: Temporal Redox Fluctuations in Sediments: Pulsed Phosphorus Loadings in Freshwater Marsh Systems?

Co-Authors: Fereidoun Rezanezhad, David O’Connell, Philippe Van Cappellen

Thursday

Fereidoun Fezanezhad

Title: Impact of soil freezing and thawing dynamics on greenhouse gas emission and nutrient fluxes

Co-Authors: Chris Parsons, Christina Smeaton, Radmila Kovac, Tatjana Milojevic, Philippe Van Cappellen

Session Chairs

Name Session
Philippe Van Cappellen

B33B: Life on the Fringe: The Starving Majority

B43A: Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions l

B44B: Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions ll

​B43B:  The Dynamic World of Soil and Sediment Biogeochemistry: Drivers, Responses and Implications l

B44C: The Dynamic World of Soil and Sediment Biogeochemistry: Drivers, Responses and Implications ll

Fereidoun Rezenezhad

B43A: Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions l

B44B: Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions ll

Hans Durr B24F: What We Leave Behind: Biogeochemical Legacies and Time Lags in Intensively Managed Catchment
Christina Smeaton B33B: Life on the Fringe: The Starving Majority
Chris Parsons

B43B:  The Dynamic World of Soil and Sediment Biogeochemistry: Drivers, Responses and Implications l

B44C: The Dynamic World of Soil and Sediment Biogeochemistry: Drivers, Responses and Implications ll