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In a series of two papers, Kunfu Pi, a former ERG postdoctoral fellow, and his colleagues explore the regional and depth-dependent distributions and chemical speciation of the micronutrient selenium (Se) in organic-rich soils of NE China known as mollisols. The results highlight that fluvial transport and deposition, as well as land use change, are the main drivers of the spatial variability and speciation of Se in the mollisols.

On June 22, ERG PhD students Jovana Radosavljevic and Bowen Zhou were invited to present seminars about their research at the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) Science & Technology Branch under the Water Science and Technology Directorate Seminar Series. The seminar series is hosted by Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division (WHERD) at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW), Burlington, ON, one of the world’s leading freshwater research centers.

From June 6^th to 9^th the Waterloo-Wellington Children’s Groundwater Festival took place at the Guelph Lake Conservation Area. The festival aims to help educate children on the importance and diversity of water use in historical and modern times. This year they hosted over 500 attendees and brought together over 125 volunteers in the field to help educate the students. ERG members, Christina Lam, Jane Ye, Danielle Green, Xiaochuang Bu, Qiwei Huang, Lewis Alcott, and Katie Hettinga all volunteered to help with festival activities.

In 2021, the Faculty of Science at the University of Waterloo introduced an internal awards program entitled the ‘Excellence in Science Research Awards’ to recognize outstanding research accomplishments by faculty members.  This is an annual competition where each academic unit in the Faculty is invited to submit three nominees: one recently tenured, one mid-career and one senior tenured faculty (10+ years post tenure).

Members of Ecohydrology Research Group attended the Global Water Futures 2023 Annual Open Science Meeting (GWF ASM) virtual conference on May 15th – 17th 2023!

Panel Presentation:

Presentation given by Philippe Van Cappellen titled "Lake eutrophication: Major GWF research outcomes" given in the panel "Changing Lakes, Ponds, and Wetlands" convened by Nandita Basu and Philippe Van Cappellen.

From May 7^th to 10^th, Ecohydrology Research Group members attended the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU) in Banff, Alberta. The multidisciplinary conference featured public and plenary lectures and oral and poster presentations on hydrology, biogeosciences, geodesy, and solid earth. More information about the conference can be found on the conference website.

A recent paper presents new insights into the relationship between soil CO2 fluxes and soil moisture

Ecohydrology Research Group members attended the 2023 International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) conference held in Toronto, Ontario, on May 8-12. This year’s conference theme was ‘Adapting to Climate Change’. More information about the conference can be found on the conference website.

ERG members organized the following two sessions at the conference:

Philippe Van Cappellen received the prestigious 2022 J. Tuzo Wilson Medal at this year’s meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union in Banff. The J. Tuzo Wilson Medal is given annually to recognize scientists who make outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge in any research area of the Union (i.e., Solid Earth, Biogeosciences, Geodesy or Hydrology).

The International Society for Ecological Modeling is holding its Global Conference 2023 at the University of Toronto – Scarborough on 2-6 May. Two ERG talks are highlighting the work on phosphorus cycling in the Lake St. Clair – Lake Erie system and the implications for managing re-eutrophication:

"Predicting lake responses to climate change in terms of its thermal structure and bottom water" presented by Serghei Bocaniov, with co-authors Kevin Lamb, Rao Yerubandi, and Philippe Van Cappellen;