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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.

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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).

Ecohydrology Research Group members Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, and Dr. Adrian Mellage co-authored a new paper that was recently published in Science of the Total Environment. The paper presents the results from flow-through experiments where Spectral Induced Polarization (SIP) was successfully implemented to monitor transport of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles (CoFe-NPs) coated with Pluronic, anamphiphilic polymer through natural aquifer sand-packed columns.

Ecohydrology group MSc student Heather Townsend successfully defended her thesis on January 21, 2021 in a virtual defence. Heather's thesis is titled "Environmental sensitivities of coupled biogeochemical cycles in anoxic conditions: from soil batch experiments to a bioenergetics approach." 

A new paper co-authored by Ecohydrology Research Group member Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Dr. Thai Phan from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has been published in Environmental Advances. The study assessed the alternative use of the lepidolite extraction solid blended residue, containing elevated level of thallium (Tl), as fill material in post-mining land reclamation.

The Ecohydrology Research Group is collaborating with scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL, in Richland, Washington) to study the transport and degradation of Particulate Organic Matter (POM) in hyporheic zones.

Ecohydrology Research Group postdoctoral fellow Eunji Byun published a new article in Nature Geoscience titled "Extensive wetland development in mid-latitude North America during the Bølling–Allerød".

During Fall 2020, the School of Environmental Studies at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan organized the Environmental Hydrogeology Frontier Lecture Series as part of the International Forum on Environmental Hydrogeology.