World Wetlands Day symposium at University of Waterloo featured on Radio Canada International (RCI). To read the article and listen to the interview of Philippe Van Cappellen, go to
http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/02/04/20569understanding-the-importance-of-wetlands/
Our World Wetlands Day Symposium is happening today in DC 1301 and 1302. The talks can also be streamed live online!
Congratulations to Helen Powley on being awarded a Water Institute 2013-14 Scholarship. Helen's scholarship is sponsored by Golder Associates. This year 32 applications were submitted and 5 scholarships awarded. Well done Helen!
Philippe Van Cappellen attended the International Workshop on Water Quality Protection and Management of the Three Gorges Reservoir, held on December 17-18, 2013 in Chongqing, China. The workshop brought together specialists from China and Canada working on water quality issues in natural and managed aquatic ecosystems. As part of the workshop he presented an invited talk entitled “Three Gorges Reservoir: Collaborative Research Opportunities”.
Fereidoun Rezanezhad has been invited and has accepted to be an Associate Editor of Journal of Hydrology. Congratulations!
“Water table fluctuations and soil biogeochemistry: An experimental approach using an automated soil column system”
by F. Rezanezhad, R.-M. Couture, R. Kovac, D. O’Connell, P. Van Cappellen
Journal of Hydrology 509 (2014) 245–256
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!