Ecohydrology Research Group members hosted researchers and collaborators from the University of Waterloo (UW), Wilfrid Laurier University, Laurentian University, and the Canadian Forest Service for a project kick-off meeting at UW.
Philippe attended the Mid-Term Evaluation meeting of the R&D projects funded under the ERA-NET Cofund WaterWorks2015 Joint Call to support research on the sustainable management of water resources in agriculture, forestry and freshwater aquaculture sectors. The meeting was held in Madrid, Spain on March 27-28. In total 21 projects were evaluated.
On February 26th, Ecohydrology researchers hosted a successful kick-off meeting for the Cold Regions Ecohydrogeology (COREH) project, supported through the University of Waterloo's International Research Partnership Grants.
Ecohydrology researchers hosted a workshop for University of Waterloo researchers and researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany, on Thursday February 21st.
The geochemistry community is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Wallace S. Broecker on 18 February 2019 at the age of 87.
Known affectionately as the "Grandfather of Climate Science", Wally was an amazing force for scientific innovation.
Philippe visited the Laboratoire the Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associées (SUBATECH) in Nantes on January 28-29. He met with members of the Radiochemistry group, including Dr. Catherine Landesman and Dr. Abdesselam Abdelouas, to discuss joint research projects using environmental radioisotopes. He presented a talk entitled “What’s in a Name: Ecohydrology – Waterloo Style”.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from inland waters remain a major source of uncertainty in global greenhouse gas budgets. In the paper published in the journal Global Change Biology a novel mechanistic modeling approach is presented to explicitly predict the N2O production and emissions via nitrification and denitrification in rivers, reservoirs, and estuaries. The global inland water N2O emissions estimated with this approach are 10-20 Gmol per year, with reservoirs releasing the most N2O per unit surface area.
The Ecohydrology Research Group (ERG) and Qatar University are collaborating on a project to study the fate of petroleum-derived hydrocarbons in coastal aquifers of arid regions.
Adrian Mellage has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Hydrobiogeophysics: Linking geo-electrical Properties and Biogeochemical Processes in Shallow Subsurface Environments". Adrian completed his PhD with the Ecohydrology Research Group, at the University of Waterloo.