Vice-President, Academic and Provost George Dixon announced the winners of the 2017 Outstanding Performance Awards, among them Philippe Van Cappellen.
A delegation of the Water Institute (WI) comprising Roy Brouwer, Neil Thomson and Philippe Van Cappellen visited São Paulo State on May 7-10, hosted by the Secretariat of the Environment of the São Paulo State government. The Secretariat integrates several agencies and institutes within the Environmental System of São Paulo (SAP), including the São Paulo State Environmental Agency (CETESB), the Forestry Foundation and the Geological Institute. The visit was facilitated by the Canadian Consulate in São Paulo, in particular thanks to the efforts of Mr. Patrick Courcelles.
Last week, Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad visited Beijing, China to meet with members of the Soil and Solid Waste Institute from the China Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES), to discuss future collaborations between CRAES and the Water Institute.
Read the article posted by the Water Institute for more information about the visit.
This year's European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly was held in Vienna from April 9th to 13th. At the conference, Dr. Hans Durr presented a poster titled 'Regional-scale nutrient levels in groundwaters around the Laurentian Great Lakes'.
SciTech Europa recently published a Partner Profile for the Ecohydrology Research Group.
Check out the article, titled "Elucidating water quality controls across scales", on SciTech Europa's website.
In Changchun, Philippe Van Cappellen and Shuhuan Li attended the ceremony marking the release of the book Groundwater Science, which summarizes hydrogeological research in China. The book was edited by Professor Xueyu Lin (5th from the left) and Professor Yanxin Wang (6th from the left). Following the ceremony, Philippe participated in the first workshop on the Development Strategy of the Discipline of Hydrogeology in China, sponsored by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Today, Philippe was conferred as one of the Honorary Professors of the Tianjin University. This conferring ceremony was held at the beginning of the International Workshop on Surface-Earth System Science this morning in Tianjin (China).
Philippe will be giving a speech on Wednesday, titled "Damming profoundly changes riverine nutrient delivery to the global coastal zone".
Philippe Van Cappellen and Shuhuan Li participated in the first International Workshop on Earth-Surface System Science organized by the Institute for Earth-Surface System Science (IESS) in Tianjin on March 27-28, 2018. During the opening ceremony, Philippe and 6 other prominent scientists were made Honorary Professors of Tianjin University. During the workshop, Philippe delivered a seminar on changes in riverine nutrient fluxes due to damming.
The 2018 Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (ARC'18) was held on March 19th and 20th, 2018, at the Qatar National Convention Centre. Dr. Stephane Ngueleu presented a poster, titled: "Groundwater Pollution by Psetroleum-Derived Contaminants in Coastal (Semi)-Arid Environment” with co-authors Dr. Riyadh Ibrahim Al-Raoush (Qatar University) and Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen from the Ecohydrology Research Group.
Additional information about ARC'18 can be found at their website.
This afternoon, we hosted another seminar as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series, this time featuring Dr. David Depew from Environment Canada.
Thank you to Dr. Depew for the excellent talk on coastal eutrophication in the Great Lakes. We had a great time!
For more information about the speaker and the presentation, take a look at the event page.