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In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers of the Ecohydrology Research Group and colleagues from the Université Libre de Bruxelles report that dam reservoirs trap nearly 20% of the organic carbon moving from land to ocean via the world’s rivers. The research is part of Taylor Maavara’s PhD research. Taylor is the lead author of the paper, co-authors are Philippe Van Cappellen, Ronny Lauerwald and Pierre Regnier.

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This week, Ecohydrology Group Members are presenting their research at the 2017 EGU Conference (April 23-28, 2017) in Vienna, Austria, with nearly 15,000 attendees.

The Lake Workshop focuses on improving weather forecasting models using satellite data assimilation. The workshop is being organized by Dr. Homa Kheyrollah Pour and Dr. Claude Duguay, and is attended by several members of the Ecohydrology Research Group. Philippe briefly presented the Global Water Futures project to the attendees. The workshop is supported by the Water Institute.

The kick-off meeting of the 21 projects funded through the 2016 Water JPI Joint call takes place in Stockholm. The call is supported by funding agencies from 22 countries, including Canada, and the European Commission. The Water JPI projects focus on the sustainable management of water resources in agriculture, forestry and freshwater aquaculture.

Philippe visits the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) in Oslo to discuss ongoing and future collaborations on lake biogeochemical modeling with Raoul-Marie Couture. Philippe also gave a seminar summarizing the results of the work of Taylor Maavara on the impacts of damming on riverine nutrient fluxes.

Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) announced its best papers of 2016. The journal published around 1600 papers last year. In each of the following four categories a top paper and three runner-ups were selected: Environmental Science, Environmental Technology, Environmental Policy and Feature. The first runner-up in the category Environmental Science is a paper by Bingjie Shi, PhD student in the Ecohydrology Research Group.

Adrian Mellage, a PhD student in the Ecohydrology Research Group, has completed a successful two-month research exchange at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. The exchange was part of an ongoing research collaboration between the Ecohydrology Research Group at the University of Waterloo and the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Technion.

The Water Institute has awarded Seed Grant Program funding to five research proposals. Members of the Ecohydrology Research Group are involved in two of funded projects: