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Ecohydrology Research Group member Tamara Van Staden successfully defended her MSc thesis today titled "Phosphorus Legacies and Water Quality Risks: A Vulnerability-Based Framework in Southern Ontario". Tamara completed her MSc research under the supervision of Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen and her advisory committee included Dr. Chris Parsons and Dr. Nandita Basu.

Congratulations, Tamara!

The Ontario Certified Crop Advisors (CCAs) Association held its Soil and Water Information Day in Guelph on November 20.

A perspective paper published in the journal Freshwater Science, co-authored by ERG members Chris Parsons and Philippe Van Cappellen, delineates the main knowledge gaps and uncertainties facing the remediation of eutrophication and associated harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.

The 11^th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference was held on November 13-15 in Ottawa and was attended by former Ecohydrology Research Group member Homa Kheyrollah Pour, now an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change at Wilfred Laurier University and Linden Fairbairn, current Ecohydrology MSc student.

A new paper by Ecohydrology group researchers titled "Effects of damming on river nitrogen fluxes: A global analysis" was published this week in Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Sensor technologies developed by researchers in the Ecohydrology Research Group were pitched by Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen at the Global WaterTech Challenge earlier this month and were awarded the 3^rd place prize. 

Ecohydrology group researcher Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad has co-authored a new paper on winter CO₂ losses from northern permafrost regions which was published today in Nature Climate Change.

On October 7 & 8, researchers and policymakers from across the Great Lakes basin came together in Waterloo to discuss the current state and future approaches to integrated lake-watershed models, and how these models can inform science policy.

Ecohydrology Research Group members presented research at the 24th International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry in Potsdam, Germany from 23-27 September, 2019.

The Cold Regions Ecohydrogeology (COREH) consortium's second workshop was held on September 28, 29 and 30, hosted by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden.