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The latest edition of CSA News, the magazine of the Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, and American Society of Agronomy, features the recent publication “Impact of hydrofluoric acid on humic acid extracted from organic soils and amendments”, co-authored by Ecohydrology Research Group members Yuki Audette, Chris Parsons, Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Philippe Van Cappellen, together with colleagues from the University of Guelph, and published in Soil Science Society of America Journal.

Yuki Audette, Chris Parsons, Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Philippe Van Cappellen of the Ecohydrology Research Group and the Water Institute co-authored a paper titled “Impact of hydrofluoric acid treatment on humic acid properties extracted from organic soils and an organic amendment: A technical evaluation”, which was recently published in Soil Science Society of America Journal.

Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad (member of the Ecohydrology Research Group and the Water Institute) co-authored a paper titled "Transport, retention, and release of Escherichia coli and Rhodococcus erythropolis through dry natural soils as affected by water repellency", which was recently published in Science of the Total Environment.

Near Surface Geophysics now features an open access publication (OnlineOpen: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nsg.12058)

Ecohydrology Research Group member, Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, is leading one of nine projects have been awarded funding under the highly competitive “Advancing Climate Change Science in Canada” initiative.

In a new paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Policy, authors Tariq Aziz and Philippe Van Cappellen compare the spatial distribution and use intensity across Southern Ontario of a bundle of six ecosystem services

Dr. Homa Kheyrollah Pour, a member of Ecohydrology research group, has been named the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change

Stephanie Slowinski, has successfully defended her MSc thesis titled: "Bioenergetics of Mixotrophic Metabolisms: A Theoretical Analysis"

A new paper in Astrobiology, co-authored by ERG member Philippe Van Cappellen and colleagues from Nara’s Women University in Japan, explores the possibility that aerobic methanotrophic microorganisms similar to those found on Earth may be surviving and growing under conditions of Martian surface temperature, pressure, and atmospheric composition.

Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Assistant Professor of the University of Waterloo's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Water Institute member and member of the Ecohydrology Research Group, chaired a workshop between Water Institute Members and delegates from the China Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES).