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The Global Water Futures (GWF) Inception Meeting was hosted byWilfird Laurier Univeristy at the Balsillie School of international Affairs from January 22 to January 23. The meeting brought together core team leads and the primary investigators (PI's) of the GWF-funded projects from the 2017 Pillar 1 - 3 calls for the first time. The aim of the meeting was to allow attendees to gain a broad overview the GWF program, identify strategic needs and discuss opportunities for collaboration.

Fereidoun Rezanezhad has been invited and has accepted to be an Associate Editor of Canadian Journal of Soil Science and Mires and Peat Journal. Congratulations!

Fereidoun is also an Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology since 2013.

The May 2018 issue of Science of The Total Environment will feature a publication by Taylor Maavara, Stephanie Slowinski, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Kim Van Meter, and Philippe Van Cappellen. The paper is titled "The role of groundwater discharge fluxes on Si:P ratios in a major tributary to Lake Erie". Focusing on groundwater and surface water throughout the lower Grand River in Ontario, the researchers constructed silicon (Si) and phosphorus (P) budgets to quantify drivers of riverine Si:P ratios.

The 2nd International Summit on Water Environmental Management is taking place in Nanjing, China on November 27, 2017. The Summit brings together international participants from academia, government, and industry and serves as a forum to exchange insights and generate knowledge on sustainable water management and promote international technology cooperation in water.

The latest Ecohydrology Seminar presentation was given by  Alice Dove, an Environmental Scientist from Environment and Climate Change Canada. Ms. Dove's talk, titled Water Quality in the Great Lakes: A Guided Tour, provided an overview of monitoring programs and water quality trends and issues.  

Additional information about the water quality of the Great Lakes can be found in the State of the Great Lakes 2017 reports.

A chapter written by Ecohydrology Research Group members Helen Powley and Philippe Van Cappellen and their colleague Michael Krom, from the University of Haifa and University of Leeds, reviews the unique biogeochemistry of the Mediterranean Sea. In particular, the authors address why the Mediterranean Sea, a nearly entirely landlocked marine basin, has remained oligotrophic despite large anthropogenic inputs of the nutrient elements phosphorus and nitrogen.

Elaine Secord has successfully defended her MSc thesis titled “Assessing Microbial Viability and Biodegradation Capabilities in Sandstone”. She completed her MSc with the Ecohydrology Research Group, at the University of Waterloo.