Members of the Ecohydrology Research Group travelled to present research at this year’s Goldschmidt conference in Barcelona (18-23 August 2019).
Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad (member of the Ecohydrology Research Group and the Water Institute) co-authored a paper titled "Soil degradation determines release of nitrous oxide and dissolved organic carbon from peatlands", which was recently published in Environmental Research Letters.
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.
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.
Stephanie Slowinski, has successfully defended her MSc thesis titled: "Bioenergetics of Mixotrophic Metabolisms: A Theoretical Analysis"
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 first Technion-Waterloo Research Symposium was held on the campus of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, 21-22 November, 2018. Ecohydrology researchers Philippe Van Cappellen and Adrian Mellage attended the symposium. Philippe presented a talk entitled “Exploring the Subsurface – Or how spectral induced polarization (SIP) can be used to monitor below-ground colloid fate and transport”.
Philippe Van Cappellen (Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology) participated as a panellist on Thursday, November 8th, in a session on "Water at the science-policy interface: Challenges and opportunities for Canada" at the 10th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC). The panel was put together by Global Water Futures and Ecohydrology Research group members, Homa Kheyrollah Pour (also conference co-chair and panel moderator), Tatjana Milojevic and Nancy Goucher (panel co-organizers).
Bingjie Shi has successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled "Tracing Redox cycles during Microbe Clay Interactions Using Stables Iron Isotopes". Bingjie completed her PhD with the Ecohydrology Research Group, at the University of Waterloo. The members of her examination committee were Dr. Eric Roden, Dr. Laura Hug, Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Dr. Paul Schroeder, and Dr. David Blowes.