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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!

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.