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The first Technion-Waterloo Research Symposium was held on the campus of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, 21-22 November, 2018. Ecohydrology researchers Philippe Van Cappellen and Adrian Mellage attended the symposium. Philippe presented a talk entitled “Exploring the Subsurface – Or how spectral induced polarization (SIP) can be used to monitor below-ground colloid fate and transport”.

Philippe Van Cappellen (Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology) participated as a panellist on Thursday, November 8th, in a session on "Water at the science-policy interface: Challenges and opportunities for Canada" at the 10^th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC). The panel was put together by Global Water Futures and Ecohydrology Research group members, Homa Kheyrollah Pour (also conference co-chair and panel moderator), Tatjana Milojevic and Nancy Goucher (panel co-organizers).

The 3^rd Singapore-Nanjing Eco Hi-Tech International Water Environment Management Summit was held on October 22-23, 2018, in Nanjing China. On Monday, October 22nd, Philippe Van Cappellen gave a plenary lecture entitled "From Integrated Water Management to Adaptive Water Management". Philippe also chaired the "Smart Water Environment Workshop" on Tuesday, October 23rd.

This morning, Dr. Lakshika Girihagama from the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough, presented a talk titled "Physical circulation in the coastal zone of a large lake controls the benthic biological distribution" as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series. Thank you to Dr. Girihagama for the excellent talk!

The 5th International Workshop on Induced Polarization was held at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, from October 3rd to 5th, 2018.

Group member, Adrian Mellage, attended the conference, where he presented a posted titled "Inferring microbial abundance and metabolic state from spectral induced polarization (SIP) signals". Adrian also won the Best Student Paper Award at the conference.

The first international joint conference between the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) and the European Large Lakes Symposium (ELLS-IAGLR 2018), entitled "Big Lakes, Small World", is being held in Evian, France from September 23 to 28, 2018. The conference featured five days of plenaries, workshops, posters, and keynote presentations focused on Large Lakes’ research.

A new paper, co-authored by Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, has been published in Frontiers in Marine Science. The article, titled "Understanding the Coastal Ecocline: Assessing Sea–Land Interactions at Non-tidal, Low-Lying Coasts Through Interdisciplinary Research", was written in collaboration with Baltic TRANSCOAST research group in Germany.

This afternoon, Dr. Eric Roden, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presented a talk titled "Rust Never Sleeps: Biogeochemical and Genomic Aspects of Microbial Fe Redox Cycling" as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series. Thank you to Dr. Roden for the excellent talk!

For more information about the presentation, please see the event listing.

Bingjie Shi has successfully defended her PhD thesis, titled "Tracing Redox cycles during Microbe Clay Interactions Using Stables Iron Isotopes". Bingjie completed her PhD with the Ecohydrology Research Group, at the University of Waterloo. The members of her examination committee were Dr. Eric Roden, Dr. Laura Hug, Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Dr. Paul Schroeder, and Dr. David Blowes.

In a new open access article published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, ERG group members Christina Smeaton and Philippe Van Cappellen derive and validate a new bioenergetics-based method to predict microbial growth yields.