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The Baltic TRANSCOAST Research Training Group in Rostock, Germany, is seeking applications for thirteen PhD positions in biology, ecology, geochemistry, biogeochemistry, hydro(geo)logy, and engineering. The program will start on January 1st, 2019.

For more information, see the announcement post on the University of Rostock website, and the list of PhD topics.

Bingjie Shi, a PhD student working with the Ecohydrology Research Group, has received a University of Waterloo Doctoral Thesis Completion Award for the Spring 2018 term! The scholarship is awarded to highly qualified doctoral students at the University. More information about the award can be found on the University of Waterloo's Graduate Studies webpage.

Congratulations, Bingjie!

On June 25th, members of the University of Waterloo faculty and staff who have received awards, or have newly joined the Science faculty in the past year, were honoured at the annual Dean's Reception.

Among those acknowledged at the reception, Philippe Van Cappellen was honoured for becoming a 2018 Honorary Professor at Tianjin University (see our news item for more information), and Chris Parsons and Fereidoun Rezanezhad were both acknowledged for joining the Faculty of Science in the past year.

Congratulations to everyone honoured at the Dean's Reception!

From June 18th to 22nd, the 61st International Association of Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research was held in Toronto. The conference featured five days of plenaries, workshops, posters, and keynote presentations focused around Great Lakes Research. More information about the conference can be found on the conference website.

The following sessions were chaired by Ecohydrology group members at the conference:

On June 17-20, the 1^stInternational Conference on Water Security took place in Toronto. The conference brought together water experts from around the world to discuss new platforms and tools to move scientific knowledge and data into solutions that mitigate the impacts of human activities on the availability and quality of freshwater resources.

Linden Fairbairn, a Master's student working with the Ecohydrology Research Group, has been awarded a rare Scholarship in Graduate Research for 2018. The scholarship is awarded annually to graduate students in any discipline who are conducting research on the rare Charitable Research Reserve property.

For more information about the scholarship, please see rare's website.

Congratulations, Linden!

From June 10th to 14th, the 2018 Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU), Canadian Soil Science Society (CSSS), and Computational Infrastructure in Geodynamics (CIG) Joint Annual Meeting was held in Niagara Falls. The multidisciplinary conference featured presentations, lectures, and posters on topics from hydrology to geodynamics. More information about the conference can be found on the conference website.

Ecohydrology group members were involved in the following sessions presented at the conference:

Heather Townsend and Nady Kao, both members of the Ecohydrology Research Group, graduated at the 2018 Waterloo Science Convocation this morning. Congratulations to our newest graduates!

This morning, the Ecohydrology Research Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dajiang Environment Corporation (DEC), China. This MOU will facilitate research activities that are expected to support sustainable watershed management strategies for two watersheds in China (Nanjing Eco Hi-Tech Island and Luoyang Town, Wujin District).

Kim Van Meter, and Mahyar Shafii, both postdoctoral fellows working with the Ecohydrology Research Group, won the first and second place awards, respectively, for the best presentations given by postdoctoral students at the Global Water Futures 2018 Annual Science Meeting at McMaster University.

Kim, who is working on the Lake Futures project, gave a talk titled "Biogeochemical Asynchrony", which was presented as part of the Watershed Management and Disturbance session.