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A study by ecohydrology members Arash Rafat, Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Philippe Van Cappellen was published in Nature’s Communications Earth & Environment journal! This study explores how carbon emissons of Candaian Peatlands are projected to increase by 103% by 2100. The news has also been published by the UW press and Water Insitute News.

Ecohydrology's Philippe Van Cappellen and team have received a $1 Million dollar grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s (NSERC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) joint funding initiative on Plastics science for a cleaner future for their project: Microplastics Fingerprinting at the Watershed Scale: From Sources to Receivers.

Ecohydrology researchers presented virtually at this year's European Geosciences Union (EGU), which was held from April 19^th to 30^th. The following works have been presented:

A. Rafat, F. Rezanezhad, W. L. Quinton, E. R. Humphreys4, K. Webster, P. Van Cappellen.  Predicting Non-growing Season Net Ecosystem Exchanges of CO₂ from a Canadian Peatlands. Geophysical Research Abstracts, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, EGU21-3348, Gather Online, 19-30 April, 2021.

Members of ecohydrology research group attended the 2021 GWF virtual confernce on May 17-19 2021! 

Day 1 Poster Session:

Bowen Zhou: Climatic controls on phosphorus fluxes from a bioretention facility in a heavily urbanized catchment using a process-based eco-hydrological model –Poster ID: 13

Innovation News Network has published a special report about our work on using spectral induced polarization, a geophysical method, to monitor microbial activity and nanoparticles in real-time in earth's subsurface. Read the special report by clicking here. The report summarizes the research led by Dr.

A new paper in Science of the Total Environment co-authored by Ecohydrology Research Group members Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Dr. Colin McCarter presents the understanding of how wildfires can alter the flux and storage of water within a peat plateau, and how these hydrological changes in addition to other fire-induced physical changes affect the flux of water and solute from the plateau to downslope ecosystems. 

Two current Ecohydrology Research Group undergraduate students have been awarded NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships for their upcoming Masters research. Research Assistant Arash Rafat and Undergraduate Thesis Student Jane Ye are currently in the final year of their undergraduate programs and have been awarded the scholarships for their Masters starting in September 2021.

As part of Global Water Futures Core Modeling and Forecasting Team’s webinar series, Philippe presented an overview of water quality modeling activities within the team.

The latest version of ERG’s eBook is now available. It was produced in partnership with Innovation News Network and summarizes ERG’s ongoing multidisciplinary water research activities.

To access and download the eBook, click here.

Ecohydrology group MSc student Konrad Krogstad successfully defended his thesis on February 19, 2021 in a virtual defence. Konrad's thesis is titled "Impact of Winter Soil Processes on Nutrient Leaching in Cold Region Agroecosystems." His research was supported by the GWF-funded project Winter Soil Process in Transition. Konrad was supervised by Drs. Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Philippe Van Cappellen (both from Earth and Environmental Sciences), and the committee included Drs. Laura Hug (Department of Biology) and Dave Rudolph (Earth and Environmental Sciences).