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A new paper, co-authored by Ecohydrology Research Group member Fereidoun Rezanezhad, has been published in Environmental Technology & Innovation. The article, titled "Effects of solid manure particle fractionation on transport, retention, and release of Escherichia coli”, investigated the effect of manure fraction sizes on bacteria transport and retention and the effect of manure heterogeneity on bacteria release through the soils.

Rute Pinto details how vital it is to optimise our aquatic ecosystem services, ensuring a sustainable and healthy future for our planet’s natural environment. 

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The Innovation News Network has featured the ecohydrology research groups work on northern peatlands and climate change in their Special Issue 8. 

You can check out the profile here: LINK 

The NSERC Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Water Treatment at Waterloo held its annual partner information days on November 3-4. The information days started off with a keynote presentation entitled “Microplastics and nanoplastics: Knowns and unknowns” given by Philippe. The talk covered the key issues related to microplastic pollution of aquatic environments and the recent progress in sampling, characterizing and identifying environmental micro- and nano-plastic particles.

Since October 31 through to November 12, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) has been taking place.

Fereidoun and the Water Institute will be representing UW to present the University at a Peatlands Pavilion virtual side event, "Canada’s Peatlands as a Nature-based Solution to Climate Change" on November 11th 

Flavins and siderophores are organic molecules exuded by plant roots, fungi and bacteria under iron-deficient conditions. In a new paper published in the journal Fundamental Research, a team of ERG researchers and colleagues from the China University of Geosciences (CUG) analyze the catalytic effects of two representative compounds, riboflavin (also known as vitamin B2) and desferrioxamine B, on the oxidation of aqueous ferrous Fe(II) by molecular oxygen (O₂).

ERG leads, Fereidoun and Philippe, will be launching a new Research Topic “The Cold Regions in Transition: Impacts on Soil and Groundwater Biochemistry”, hosted by Frontiers in Environmental Science.This is a unique opportunity for collaborations between an expect team from University of Waterloo, University of New Hampshire, and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

The paper entitled “The Cold Region Critical Zone in Transition: Responses to Climate Warming and Land Use Change” in the journal Annual Review of Environment and Resources has now been published open access. The paper is the outcome of a collaboration between ERG researchers and colleagues from China, Sweden, France and Russia. The paper can be downloaded by following this LINK.

A new paper in Geoderma, co-authored by Ecohydrology Research Group member Fereidoun Rezanezhad assesses the impact of peatland management on available water capacity and water storage of peatlands. This study illustrates how these water-related soil functions are linked to peat properties such as bulk density and how the peatland drainage causes the land subsidence and peat degradation, which reduce the water storage.

Philippe Van Cappellen and Steph Slowinski discuss how nutrient legacies affect cultural eutrophication in the new Innovation News Network Special Report. 

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