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Philippe is one of four professors from the University of Waterloo among the new fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced today. The fellowship of the RSC consists of individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the arts, the humanities, science, and Canadian public life. The RSC names about 80 new fellows annually.

Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad has been accepted to be a Mercator Fellow in the new Baltic TRANSCOAST Research Training Group funded by German Research Foundation (DFG) (2015-2020). Baltic TRANSCOAST studies the physical, biogeochemical, and biological processes at the land-ocean interface. The Mercator Fellowship facilitates long-term project-based cooperation between German and international researchers. Congratulations!

Philippe Van Cappellen receives the 2015 Science Innovation Medal of the European Geochemical Association (EAG) at the 25th Goldschmidt Conference in Prague. The Award is named after the late Werner Stumm and is given to Philippe for his contributions to the field of geochemistry. Philippe also becomes a Geochemical Fellow, an honorary title established jointly by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. 

Philippe attends the 1st Sino-Canada Workshop on Plateau Lakes Research in Kunming, China, July 18-24, 2015. The Plateau Lakes in Yunnan Province represent one of China’s main freshwater resources. They are, however, experiencing rising anthropogenic pressures, including rapid urbanization, invasive species and non-point source pollution.

Philippe attends the Non-Point Source Pollution and Water Management Workshop in Chongqing, China, July 14-17, 2015. The workshop brings together researchers from the China-Canada Three Gorges Water Science Centre (CCTW) collaborating on nutrient and contaminant sources, fate and impacts in the Three Gorges Reservoir. The collaboration was initiated through the financial support of the Ontario-China Research and Innovation Fund (OCRIF).

Congratulations to PhD student, Ekaterina Markelova, who was awarded the Best Presentation at the 2015 Petrus PhD Conference at Université de Lorraine in France. Ekaterina's presentation was entitled, "Retardation capacity of argillaceous substrate towards aqueous N, Cr, As and Sb under fluctuating redox conditions Université Grenoble Alpes and CNRS - France". Well done, Ekaterina! 

Congratulations to Alex Driedger, who successfully defended his MSc. thesis entitled, “Plastic Debris in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Classification, Distribution and Environmental Drivers”. Alex was co-supervised by Ecohydrology Group members Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen and Dr. Hans Dürr. Dr. Kristen Mitchell and Dr. Andrea Vander Woude made up the committee. Well done, Alex!