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In a new paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Ecohydrology group members, Helen Powley and Philippe Van Cappellen, and collaborator Michael Krom, report on the sensitivity of dissolved oxygen distributions within the Mediterranean Sea to future climate driven changes in its thermohaline circulation. The results indicate that the oxygenation of the Mediterranean Sea is quite resilient to the projected changes in circulation.

Dr. Christina Smeaton and Dr. Nandita Basu were invited to give talks at this year's annual Farvolden seminar series. Dr. Smeaton's talk was entitled: "Living on the energetic edge: Predicting microbial growth in low energy environments" and Dr. Basu presented "Down Under: The Critical Role of the Subsurface in Controlling Surface Water Pollution". 

Master's students Elaine Secord and Christine Ridenour presented their 3-minute theses.

The 54th Meeting of the University Consortium for Field Focused Groundwater Research was held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, October 12-13, 2016.Fereidoun gave a talk entitled “Groundwater table fluctuation zone: A hot-spot for biogeochemical activities, with co-authors Tatjana Milojevic, Adrian Mellage, Geertje Pronk and Philippe Van Cappellen.

Tweets about water
PhD student, Igor Markelov, analysed trends of conversations and news articles about water online. He used a machine learning method to analyze Twitter data and included a direct Google Trends report to show the popularity of searches related to the Grand River.

The findings were summarized on the Water Institute's blog.

The 5th International EcoSummit Congress, EcoSummit 2016 - Ecological Sustainability: Engineering Change, was held in Montpellier, France from August 29 to September 1, 2016.Fereidoun gave a talk entitled “Structure of peatland soils and implications for water storage, flow and solute transport”, with co-authors J. S. Price (University of Waterloo), W. L. Quinton (Wilfrid Laurier University), B. Lennartz (Rostock University), T. Milojevic, P. Van Cappellen.

Philippe Van Cappellen attended the 2nd Sino-Canada Workshop on Plateau Lakes Research, which was held August 14-16 at Yunnan University, Kunming, China.  The workshop focused on the challenges facing the protection and management of water resources in the Plateau Lakes region of Yunnan. Issues ranged from non-point source pollution to invasive species and ecological risk assessment. Break-out sessions allowed the participants to formulate joint research projects between Chinese and Canadian partners.

Fereidoun visited (June 20th to July 28th, 2016) the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at Rostock University in Germany as part of a Mercator Fellowship awarded to him to collaborate with new Baltic TRANSCOAST Research Training Group funded by German Research Foundation (DFG) (2015-2020). Baltic TRANSCOAST group studies the hydrodynamic, (bio)geochemical and biological processes at the interface between land and sea.

In a new paper published in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, Ecohydrology Research Group members describe how electrokinetics can be used to transport known contaminant degrading bacteria into low-permeability soils. The work opens the way to apply electrokinetic techniques to deliver non-native bacteria into contaminated soils for bioremediation purposes.

The paper is available electronically by visiting:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11270-016-2991-z