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The 2018 Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (ARC'18) was held on March 19th and 20th, 2018, at the Qatar National Convention Centre. Dr. Stephane Ngueleu presented a poster, titled: "Groundwater Pollution by Psetroleum-Derived Contaminants in Coastal (Semi)-Arid Environment” with co-authors Dr. Riyadh Ibrahim Al-Raoush (Qatar University) and Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen from the Ecohydrology Research Group.

Additional information about ARC'18 can be found at their website.

This afternoon, we hosted another seminar as part of the Ecohydrology Seminar Series, this time featuring Dr. David Depew from Environment Canada. 

Thank you to Dr. Depew for the excellent talk on coastal eutrophication in the Great Lakes. We had a great time!

For more information about the speaker and the presentation, take a look at the event page.

This afternoon, Dr. Lori Phillips from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada presented a seminar, titled "Linking agricultural management to microbial ecosystem processes". There was a great turnout for the event, and we had a great time learning about the relationships between agriculture and microbes.

A big thank you to Dr. Phillips for the excellent presentation!

Please see the event page for more details about the seminar.

An article outlining the research done by the Ecohydrology Research Group has been published on Scitech Europa's website. The article, titled "Ecohydrology across scales", is penned by Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen.

Read the full article on the Scitech Europa website.

The 53rd Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research, organized by Canadian Association on Water Quality (CAWQ), is taking place in Toronto, on February 22 2018. Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad is presenting an invited talk, titled: "Wetlands hydrogeochemical processes under changing winter conditions”.

Additional information about CAWQ can be found at their website.

The July 2018 edition of Science of the Total Environment includes a new publication by researchers of the Ecohydrology Research Group!

This week, Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen and Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad from the Ecohydrology Research Group are presenting their research at the 2018 Ocean Science Meeting (February 11-16, 2018) in Portland, Oregon. Philippe will give an invited talk on "Global Modifications of Nutrient Delivery to the Coastal Zone by River Damming" in session CD53A: Land-Ocean Linkages Along Shallow Coastlines Under Human Impact, organized by Fereidoun and his colleagues of the Baltic TRANSCOAST program in Germany.

Global Water Futures (GWF) announced the recipients of the Pillar 1 & 2 projects that recently received funding from the GWF initiative. Six new University of Waterloo-led research projects, among a total of 21 awards, are led by Waterloo researchers, including the project entitled "Winter Soil Processes in Transition".

The April 2018 issue of Applied Geochemistry includes a publication by Ekaterina Markelova, Raoul-Marie Couture, Chris Parsons, Igor Markelov, Benoit Madé, Philippe Van Cappellen, and Laurent Charlet. The publication, titled "Speciation dynamics of oxyanion contaminants (As, Sb, Cr) in argillaceous suspensions during oxic-anoxic cycles" is an experimental and modelling study assessing contaminant migration from the argillaceous waste repositories.