News

A new publication entitled Production and significance of Reactive Oxygen Species in the subsurface by ERGmembers Xiaochuang Bu and Philippe Van Cappellen provides a comprehensive update on recent work on ROS detection, footprint mapping, mechanisms and cycling, and reactive transport modeling.

ERG members are attending the 2025 Goldschmidt Conference held in Prague from July 6-11, 2025. Goldschmidt is the largest international conference dedicated to geochemistry, organized by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.  

Marianne Vandergriendt is being recognized for her exemplary service to the University of Waterloo with the title of “Honorary Member of the University”.

From May 25th to 29th, Ecohydrology Research Group members attended the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) at TCU Place in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 

On Tuesday May 27th, 2025, Ecohydrology Research Group members Christina Lam, Katie Hettinga, Tamiris Lopez Ferreira, Tia Jenkins and Stephanie Slowinski attended the 2025 Waterloo Wellington Children’s Groundwater Festival. 

From May 12 to 23, 2025, Philippe Van Cappellen and Fereidoun Rezanezhad offered EARTH 652: Reactive Transport Modelling at the University of Waterloo.

Bhaleka Persaud, Research Data Management Specialist in the ERG, earned 3rd place at the 2025 World Data System Data Stewardship Awards. 

Tara Ferguson has been awarded the Senior Undergraduate Science Research Award from the Faculty of Science Foundation. 

In a paper published in the journal Chemical Geology, Wenkai Qiu and co-authors present new geochemical data on porewaters extracted from unconsolidated argillaceous sediments collected in the Jianghan Plain, central China.

Ecohydrology Research Group MSc student Christina Lam successfully defended her thesis on April 29, 2025 in a virtual defence.