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A new paper in Astrobiology, co-authored by ERG member Philippe Van Cappellen and colleagues from Nara’s Women University in Japan, explores the possibility that aerobic methanotrophic microorganisms similar to those found on Earth may be surviving and growing under conditions of Martian surface temperature, pressure, and atmospheric composition.

Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Assistant Professor of the University of Waterloo's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Water Institute member and member of the Ecohydrology Research Group, chaired a workshop between Water Institute Members and delegates from the China Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES). 

Former doctoral students from the Ecohydrology Research Group participated in the University of Waterloo's convocation ceremony on Thursday, June 13th.

A new paper, co-authored by Drs. Colin McCarter, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Behrad Gharedaghloo, Jonathan Price and Philippe Van Cappellen, has been published in the Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (Volume 225, August 2019).

The Ecohydrology Research Group is thrilled to announce the successful funding of $630,769 for a new Collaborative Research and Development project on “Elucidating the biogeochemical processes controlling natural source zone depletion (NSZD) of petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated soils under dynamic redox conditions”.

Members of the Ecohydrology Research Group (ERG) attended the Global Water Futures (GWF) 2^nd Annual Open Science Meeting.

On May 13, Philippe gave a plenary talk at the 2^ndInternational Workshop on Surface-Earth System Science organized by the Institute of Surface-Earth System Science of Tianjin University, China.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded $676,569 in the form of a Stragetic Partnership Grant (SPG) for a new project on "Assessing risks of eutrophication by urban stormwater runoff under climate change" led by Prof. Philippe Van Cappellen.

The Ecohydrology Research Group (ERG) and China University of Geosciences (CUG) are coordinating the International Research Partnership on Cold Regions Ecohydrogeology (COREH)