Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology
My research focuses on the biogeochemistry of soils, sediments and aquatic ecosystems, the cycles of water, carbon, nutrients and metals, global change, geobiology, chemical hydrology, water-rock interactions and environmental modeling. At the University of Waterloo, I lead the research program in ecohydrology.
Geomicrobiology:
microbial
degradation
of
organic
matter, redox and
acid-base dynamics
of
natural
waters, geomicrobiology of
metals,
interfacial
chemistry
of microorganisms.
Mineral-water
interactions:
surface
chemistry
of
minerals,
kinetics
of
mineral
nucleation, growth
and
dissolution, biomineralization.
Reactive
transport
modeling:
numerical
models
of multicomponent reactive
transport
in sediments,
soils,
surface
waters, hydrothermal systems
and
aquifers.
Water
and
elemental
cycles,
global
change,
sustainability:
carbon
and
nutrient
cycles, land-ocean
transition,
coastal
ecosystems,
groundwater-surface
water
interactions.
Biogeochemical complexity:
dynamics
of
coupled geomicrobial reaction
networks, competition
and feedbacks among
metabolic
and abiotic reaction
pathways.
Contact
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E-mail: pvc@uwaterloo.ca