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Philippe Van Cappellen and Shuhuan Li participated in the first International Workshop on Earth-Surface System Science organized by the Institute for Earth-Surface System Science (IESS) in Tianjin on March 27-28, 2018. During the opening ceremony, Philippe and 6 other prominent scientists were made Honorary Professors of Tianjin University. During the workshop, Philippe delivered a seminar on changes in riverine nutrient fluxes due to damming.

A paper by Kim Van Meter, Philippe Van Cappellen and Nandita Basu published in the journal Science shows that even under the most favourable management scenarios reducing the hypoxic zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico may take many decades, because of the accumulation of large amounts of nitrogen in rural soils due to years of intensive agriculture in the Mississippi River basin.The slow release of this legacy nitrogen creates long lag times between the implementation of conservation practices and measurable improvements in water quality.

A new publication, co-authored by Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad, has been published in Water! The article, titled "Nitrate Attenuation in Degraded Peat Soil-Based Constructed Wetlands", was written in collaboration with Christian Kleimeier, Dr. Haojie Liu, and Dr. Bernd Lennartz from the University of Rostock.

You can read the full open-access publication on Water's webpage.

On March 22nd, the Ecohydrology Research Group took part in the World Water Day 2018 celebrations. The event, organized collaboratively by the Univeristy of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, was held in the Science Teaching Complex at UWaterloo this year. The event comprised of a keynote speech by TVO's The Water Boys, a panel discussion, a poster session, and a water-themed photo competition.

The following members of the ERG presented their research at the poster session:

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.