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Amanda Niederkorn, an MSc student in the Ecohydrology Research Group, won the best poster prize at the 2013 Farvolden Research Symposium on October 25. Her poster was entitled "The influence of riparian and hyporheic zones on the hydrology and biogeochemical responses in a stream" and was co-authored by Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Joseph Salerno and Philippe Van Cappellen. Congratulations!

Erin Jones has joined the Ecohydrology Research Group as the new Administrative Coordinator. Erin holds a Bachelors degree in Environmental Engineering and a Master's degree in Biology and Environmental Engineering from the University of Waterloo. She returns to the research world after working for two years in environmental engineering consulting.

Dr. Hans Dürr, Research Assistant Professor, and Alex Driedger, MSc Student in Ecohydrology, attended the 13th annual Great Lakes Beach Association and 8th biennial State of Lake Michigan Conference, held October 15-18 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The joint conference brings together resource managers, scientists, planners, elected officials, and interested citizens -- all working to improve and protect Lake Michigan and Great Lakes beaches.

A new publication is out by Philippe Van Cappellen and colleagues from the Netherlands and Australia: "Model-Based Integration and Analysis of Biogeochemical and Isotopic Dynamics in Nitrate-Polluted Pyritic Aquifer" was published in Environmental Science and Technology on August 10, 2013.

This year the Ecohydrology Group sent six researchers to present their work at the annual Goldschmidt Conference (Aug 25-30, 2013) in Florence, Italy, organized by the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society. Since 1994, the Goldschmidt has become the leading forum for presenting the latest geochemical research, attracting more than 3000 delegates from more than 60 countries worldwide.

Taylor Maavara and Severin Stojanovic, PhD students in the Ecohydrology Research Group, were both awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year. Congratulations!

"Arsenic binding to organic and inorganic sulfur species during microbial sulfate reduction: a sediment flow-through reactor experiment."

by R.M. Couture, D. Wallschläger, J. Rose, and P. Van Cappellen

Environmental Chemistry, 10, 285-294. doi: 10.1071/EN13010. 

Philippe Van Cappellen attended the opening ceremony of the China-Canada Three Gorges Reservoir Water Center in Chongqing, China. During the following “International Workshop on Innovative Monitoring and Prediction of Non-Point Source Pollution and Water Quality in the Three Gorges Reservoir”, he delivered an invited lecture entitled “Modeling nutrients and water quality in large dam reservoirs, with emphasis on the Three Gorges Reservoir”. The presentation is co-authored by Dr. Hans Duerr, Mr. Severin Stojanovic, Ms. Taylor Maavara and Mr. Hexin Wang.  Dr. William D.

Several article have appeared recently about plastics in the oceans and Great Lakes including this one by Maryse Jobin for Radio-Canada:

Des chercheurs alarmés par la quantité de plastique dans les Grands Lacs [Scientists alarmed by quantity of plastics in the Great Lakes]

The article highlighted the alarming quantity of "micro-plastics", small filaments and beads invisible to the naked eye, which have been found accumulating in major water bodies and oceans.