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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.

Philippe Van Cappellen and Kim Van Meter visited the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig on March 13-15. They held a series of high-level discussions to explore potential collaborations on the topic of coupled biogeochemistry-hydrology modelling. Central to the discussions were the challenges and opportunities in scale-dependent watershed modelling. A promising area of collaboration that emerged was the merging of biogeochemical functions into UFZ’s mesoscale hydrological model - stay tuned! 

The 2017 Director's review of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) took place on February 21-22. Philippe participated in the review as a member of the Expert Assessment Committee. The two days were filled with presentations of the science being carried out by EESA researchers, plus discussions with research staff.

Visit the EESA website for more information on their activities.

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:

In a new paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Ecohydrology group members, Helen Powley and Philippe Van Cappellen, and collaborator Michael Krom, report on the sensitivity of dissolved oxygen distributions within the Mediterranean Sea to future climate driven changes in its thermohaline circulation. The results indicate that the oxygenation of the Mediterranean Sea is quite resilient to the projected changes in circulation.

Philippe Van Cappellen joined a delegation of the Water Institute to China. The delegation held talks with researchers and officials from Wuhan University, China University of Geosciences, Southwest University, Chongqing University, China Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES) and Hohai University.

Ecohydrology group member, Helen Powley, will present her Ph.D. thesis proposal entitled, 

Dynamic modelling of water and nutrient fluxes in the Mediterranean basin: linking land processes and marine ecosystems at the regional scale.

New Publication from the Ecohydrology research group

Global hydrobelts and hydroregions: improved reporting scale for water-related issues?

Rachele Fischer, previously a co-op student with the Ecohydrology research group, has been awarded a research internship to the University of Tuebingen, Germany. This twelve week internship is fully funded through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). While there Rachel will be working on hydrological and geochemical controls on microbial activity in groundwater systems. Congratulations Rachele!