Tuesday, May 10, 2016
The Water Institute announced the recipients of its 2016 Seed Grant competition. The seed grants aim to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration, facilitate interaction with national or international authorities, encourage new areas of research and foster the development of research proposals. Six applications were awarded including two projects with Ecohydrology Research Group applicants:
| Project Title | Primary and Co-Applicants |
|---|---|
|
Reactive
interfaces
in
agroecosystems: Meta‐analysis and uncertainty analysis of biogeochemical functions in agricultural landscapes |
Philippe
Van
Cappellen
(Earth
and
Environmental
Sciences) Nandita Basu (Earth and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering) Roy Brouwer (Economics) Merrin Macrae (Geography and Environmental Management) Mohamed Mohamed (Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change) Chris Parsons (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Fereidoun Rezanezhad (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Christopher Wellen (Earth and Environmental Sciences) |
|
Improving
weather
forecasting
models with satellite data assimilation: A new initiative at University of Waterloo |
Homa
Kheyrollah
Pour
(Geography
and
Environmental
Management) Stéphane Bélair (Environment and Climate Change Canada) Claude Duguay (Geography and Environmental Management) Fereidoun Rezanezhad (Earth and Environmental Sciences) Andrea Scott (Systems Design Engineering) |