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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 delivers the 2015 Science Innovation Medal lecture. Michael Krom is the citationist. The medal lecture is entitled “Are Microbes Better at Thermodynamics than Geochemists?”, with Christina Smeaton as co-author.

Philippe Van Cappellen receives the 2015 Science Innovation Medal of the European Geochemical Association (EAG) at the 25^th 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. 

PhD student Helen Powley discusses her research on Domestic Wastewater Inputs of Phosphorus and Nitrogen to the Mediterranean Sea in an oral presentation at the 25^th Goldschmidt Conference in Prague. Her co-authors are Hans Dürr, Ana Lima, Michael Krom and Philippe Van Cappellen.

Philippe attends the 1^st 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).

Philippe presents a keynote lecture at the Nutrient Cycling on the Modern and Ancient Earth Symposium, 6-7 July at the University of Leeds, UK (LINK). The symposium is being organized in honour of the retirement of Professor Michael D. Krom from the University of Leeds. Dr.

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!

Congratulations to Dr. Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Dr. Hans Dürr, who were each awarded 5-year Discovery Grants by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council  (NSERC) of Canada. Dr. Rezanezhad's project is entitled “Response of soil biogeochemistry to freeze-thaw cycles and implications for the soil respiration-climate feedback: A process-oriented experimental approach”, and Dr. Dürr's project is “Groundwater-lake interactions on water quality in the nearshore zone of the Great Lakes: A regional scale modeling approach”.