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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.

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.

Read the entire open-access article.

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.