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Nutrient pollution has contributed to degraded water quality across many lakes in Canada, and billions of dollars have been invested in helping address this problem. In this critical review, we examined the recycling of phosphorus from sediment to water, known as internal phosphorus loading  – a within-lake process that can delay ecosystem recovery from nutrient pollution.

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced this year's new Fellows. We are very pleased that our colleague, Dr. David Blowes, is among them. Here is RSC's citation:

"BLOWES, David – Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo

Matthias Kreuzburg (PhD student from Baltic TRANSCOAST Research Training Group at University of Rostock, Germany) is visiting the Ecohydrology Research Group from September to December, 2017.

This week, Ecohydrology Group members are presenting their research at the 2017 Goldschmidt conference (August 13-18, 2017) in Paris, France. With more than 4,000 attendees, the Goldschmidt conference is the largest geochemistry meeting in the world.

Learn more about the Waterloo-led, international project, LEAP (Legacies of Agricultural Pollutants: Integrated Assessment of Biophysical and Socioeconomic Controls on Water Quality in Agroecosystems) by visiting the special report on Pan European Networks' website.

The Ecohydrology Research Group hosted researchers from the Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A.C. (CICY) of Quintana Roo, Mexico, for a 4-day workshop this week, from July 24^th to 27^th. The purpose of the event was to facilitate collaborative research in the area of nutrient cycling and contaminant transport in the groundwater of Southern Ontario and Quintana Roo. 

University of Waterloo (UW) researchers, Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen (Ecohydrology Research Group), Dr. Shuhuan Li (Ecohydrology Research Group), and Dr. Roy Brouwer (Water Institute) met with researchers from the China University of Geosciences (CUG) in Wuhan, China to take part in the CUG-UW Workshop on Ecohydrology.

Linden Fairbairn, a current research assistant and future MSc student with the Ecohydrology Research Group, is the recipient of this year’s J.R. Matthews Memorial Prize in Biology! The prize is awarded to the student who graduates from Honours Biology or Biochemistry with the highest overall average in third- and fourth-year courses.

The award will be presented at the Biology Awards Ceremony on Wednesday June 14th. The event will begin at 1:30 pm in the Science Teaching Complex, STC 2002, and refreshments will be served after the award presentations.