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The International Society of Environmental Biogeochemistry is organizing its 23^rd 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.  

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. 

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. 

Matthias Kreuzburg (PhD student from Baltic TRANSCOAST Research Training Group at University of Rostock, Germany) is visiting the Ecohydrology Research Group from September to December, 2017.

This week, Ecohydrology Group members are presenting their research at the 2017 Goldschmidt conference (August 13-18, 2017) in Paris, France. With more than 4,000 attendees, the Goldschmidt conference is the largest geochemistry meeting in the world.

Linden Fairbairn, a current research assistant and future MSc student with the Ecohydrology Research Group, is the recipient of this year’s J.R. Matthews Memorial Prize in Biology! The prize is awarded to the student who graduates from Honours Biology or Biochemistry with the highest overall average in third- and fourth-year courses.

The award will be presented at the Biology Awards Ceremony on Wednesday June 14th. The event will begin at 1:30 pm in the Science Teaching Complex, STC 2002, and refreshments will be served after the award presentations.

Researchers of the Legacies of Agricultural Pollutants (LEAP) project, established through the Water JPI WaterWorks2015 programme, attended the project kick-off meeting at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal.

The meeting took place over two days (June 12 -13) and brought together researchers from the University of Coimbra, University of Waterloo, University of Copenhagen, and Stockholm University to discuss the upcoming work for the 3-year project.

Visit the LEAP project website for more information.

University of Waterloo (UW) researchers ran a full-day stakeholder workshop, held at the Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA) office in Cambridge, Ontario on June 7th, 2017.

The aim of the workshop was to promote collaborations between stakeholders in the Great Lakes Region and UW researchers, working on various aspects of protecting and improving water quality in streams, lakes and groundwater in the Great Lakes Region.

Researchers will be presenting their work in various concurrent sessions and in the poster session. This year’s theme is From Cities to Farms: Shaping Great Lakes Ecosystems.