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Check out this new publication in the Journal of Hazardous Materials by researchers from Wageningen University, together with Philippe Van Cappellen. The paper describes a new method for the removal of selenium from water. Even at low levels selenium is a toxic element. It has, however, many technological applications. Thus, the extraction of selenium from wastewater streams not only prevents its release to the environment, but also helps recover a valuable resource.

The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Area is hosting Philippe Van Cappellen in their Distinguished Scientist Seminar Series. The Series features eminent individuals from various disciplines in the scientific community whose research is outstanding, interdisciplinary, and of broad interest to strategic initiatives in the earth sciences. Philippe will discuss “Rivers in the Anthropocene: Global Scale Modifications of Nutrient Cycles by River Damming.”

A new paper by Kim Van Meter, Nandita Basu and Philippe Van Cappellen provides a historical reconstruction of nitrate yields of two major U.S. watersheds, the Mississippi River and Susquehanna River basins. The paper was published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles and was selected as an Editor’s Highlight – “The manuscript assembles a model to track the 214-year record of N inputs, storage and outputs for two important river basins (Mississippi and Susquehana).

Fereidoun gave an invited talk entitled “Freeze-Thaw Cycles and Soil Biogeochemistry: Implications for Greenhouse Gas Emission, with co-authors T. Milojevic, D. Oh, C. T. Parsons, C. Smeaton and P. Van Cappellen from the Ecohydrology Research Group. Fereidoun was also co-author in an invited talk by Dr. Susan Natali (Woods Hole Research Center) entitled “A Pan-Arctic Synthesis of Cold Season Carbon Emissions” with 38 other co-authors.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Ekaterina defends her PhD!

Ekaterina Markelova and her examination committee
Ekaterina Markelova successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “Interpretation of redox potential and assessment of oxyanion (As, Sb, Cr) mobility during oxic-anoxic oscillations”. Ekaterina completed a cotutelle PhD between the University of Waterloo and the Université Grenoble Alpes. She was supervised by Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Dr. Raoul-Marie Couture, and Dr.

Thursday, December 8, 2016

Tatjana defends her MSc!

Tatjana Milojevic
Tatjana Milojevic successfully defended her MSc thesis entitled “Soil Oxygen Monitoring with Fibre Optode Sensors: Experimental Verification in Soil Columns under Fluctuating Water Table and Freeze Thaw Conditions”. Tatjana was supervised by Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen and Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad. The committee members in her MSc defence were Drs. Elodie Passeport, Scott Smith and Lingling Wu.

Philippe spent two days at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) as a member of the external Review Committee (December 5-6, 2016). The site visit included tours of the facilities and meetings with university administrators, GLIER faculty members, graduate students and staff. GLIER is a graduate research and training institute at the the University of Windsor.

Philippe gave the inaugural seminar of the Laurier Institute for Water Science (LIWS) Seminar Series. LIWS is a multidisciplinary, collaborative undertaking focusing on both Canadian and global water issues, including the effects of climate change, the sustainability of healthy aquatic and coastal ecosystems, and the development of regulations and policy related to water use.

Contact: Professor Jim McGeer, LIWS Director