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Jolanta Kazmierczak successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of Groundwater-Dominated Lakes: From Catchment to the Groundwater-Lake Interface”, at the University of Copenhagen. Her supervisors were Peter Engesgaard, Bertil Nillson and Dieke Postma. As part of her graduate research, Jolanta spent 3 months in the Ecohydrology Research Group. Philippe was one of the external examiners at the thesis defence. Well done Jolanta!

A new review paper, Submarine groundwater discharge from tropical islands, has been published in Grundwasser by Hans Dürr in collaboration with international colleagues Dr. Nils Moosdorf (University of Hamburg), Dr. Thomas Stieglitz (Bernstein Center Freiburg), Dr. Hannelore Waska (University of Oldenburg) and Dr. Jens Hartmann (University of Hamburg).

Welcome to our new Coordinator, Maren Pauly.

As of today, Maren Pauly is assuming the role of Coordinator of our research group. Maren is replacing Erin Jones, who will be on parental leave until next October. Maren has a degree in Environmental Science. She plans to return to graduate school next fall, but in the mean time will provide much needed support to the group. Welcome Maren!

The 2015 Science Innovation Award is named after the late Prof. Werner Stumm, who was Philippe's postdoctoral advisor at the Swiss Institute for Aquatic Sciences in the early 1990s.

The Ecohydrology Research group is organizing the four sessions listed below at the 2015 Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The conference will be held May 3–7 2015 in Montreal, Canada. 

We encourage you to submit an abstract to these sessions. The deadline for abstract submission is January 14, 2015. 

Philippe Van Cappellen, Abdus Sabur, Tatjana Milojevic and Kassandra Ma of the Ecohydrology Research Group attended the International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB) Short Course on Interfacial Phenomena in Biogeochemistry, held 16-20 November in Cancún, Mexico. As part of the short course, Philippe gave a lecture entitled “Soil Respiration – Bioenergetic Musings”. Tatjana and Kassandra played hosts during a world café centered on future directions for biofilm research. Overall this was an exciting and instructive week, together with old and new friends.

Congratulations to Tatjana Milojevic and Kassandra Ma of the Ecohydrology Research Group: each student received an ISEB Discovery Award from the International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry (ISEB). The awards will allow Tatjana and Kassandra to attend ISEB’s Short Course and Research Colloquium on “Interfacial Phenomena in Environmental Biogeochemistry”, which will be held next month in Cancun, Mexico.

In a set of two companion papers published in the Journal of Marine Systems, Helen Powley and Philippe Van Cappellen of the Ecohydrology Research Group, and their collaborators Mike Krom (University of Leeds) and Kay-Christian Emeis (University of Hamburg), explore the unique biogeochemistry of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS). In their first paper, they develop and calibrate a dynamic mass balance model for the coupled cycles of phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) in the EMS.