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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.

Environmental Science & Technology articles ASAP (as soon as publishable) now features a publication by Adrian Mellage, Christina Smeaton, Alex Furman, Estella Atekwana, Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Philippe Van Cappellen. The paper titled "Linking spectral induced polarization (SIP) and subsurface microbial processes: Results from sand column incubation experiments" focuses on the monitoring of microbial growth in porous media using spectral induced polarization (SIP).

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.