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Six members of the Ecohydrology Research Group (Philippe, Raoul, Christina, Taylor, Igor and Ekatarina) attended the 2016 Goldschmidt Conference in Yokohama, Japan, from June 26 to July 1. They presented a total of 8 papers under Theme 14 (Biogeochemistry: sessions 14f, 14 j, 14k) and Theme 15 (Environmental Geochemistry and Anthropogenic Impacts: sessions 15c, 15i).

The 21^st International Conference on Computational Methods in Water Resources 2016 is being held at the University of Toronto, June 20-24. Philippe presented an invited paper entitled Predictive Modeling of Changes in Riverine Nutrient Fluxes due to Damming, with co-author Taylor Maavara. The presentation was part of the session Novel Developments and Data-Integration in Complex Biogeochemical and Hydrological Process Models, organized by Christof Meile (University of Georgia) and Li Li (University of Pennsylvania).

Ten members of the Ecohydrology Research Group are presenting their research at the 59^th Annual International Association of Great Lakes Research conference this week at the University of Guelph.  The theme of the conference this year is “Integrating Across Disciplines and Scales”.  Members of the group have organised three thematic sessions and are presenting six oral presentations and two poster presentations during the meeting.

Ecohydrology group members attending:

Congratulations to Christine Ridenour, MSc student in the Ecohydrology Research Group, on being awarded her second Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship! 

Thirteen graduate students and researchers attended the Fifth iCP workshop at University of Waterloo, from May 16 to May 18. Drs. Jorge Molinero and Babak Shafei from Amphos 21 were the instructors of the workshop organized by the Ecohydrology Research Group. Amphos 21 is a company located in Barcelona, Spain that offers scientific, technical and strategic consulting services in five main market sectors: Nuclear, Mining, Water, Sustainability and Climate Change.

The Water Institute announced the recipients of its 2016 Seed Grant competition. The seed grants aim to stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration, facilitate interaction with national or international authorities, encourage new areas of research and foster the development of research proposals. Six applications were awarded including two projects with Ecohydrology Research Group applicants: