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LEAP researchers from the University of Copenhagen have released a new working paper titled ‘Assessing the value of surface water and groundwater quality improvements when time lags and outcome uncertainty exist: Results from a choice experiment survey across four different countries’. The report is authored by Tobias Holmsgaard Larsen, Thomas Lundhede, and Søren Bøye Olsen.

LEAP researchers Nandita Basu and Philippe Van Cappellen were part of a delegation of 24 water scientists to participate in Water Day on the Hill. This event brought together top water scientists from 14 institutions across Canada to discuss key water challenges and solutions with federal officials on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Recently, João Vieira and Maria Cunha co-authored a congress publication titled ‘Modified budget of net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs to large watersheds: application in Lower Mondego (Portugal)’ in Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Water Resources and Environment (EWRA 2019).

LEAP graduate students, Tamara Van Staden and Joy Liu, attended the 27^th Internation Union of Geodesy and Geophysical (IUGG) General Assembly in Montréal.  2019 marks the 100^th anniversary for IUGG.

The Water Joint Programming Initiative, Water JPI for short, was launched in 2011. As of June 2019, the Water JPI membership included 23 member countries and three observer countries. Water JPI aims to tackle the challenge of achieving “sustainable water systems for a sustainable economy in Europe and abroad”.

The third annual LEAP researcher meeting was hosted by University of Copenhgan researchers, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The meeting was held from June 19^th-21^st and featured presentations from participating researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University, the University of Coimbra, and the University of Waterloo.

University of Waterloo M.Sc. student, Tamara Van Staden, is visiting Stockholm University (SU) for one month to work with SU researchers, Jerker Jarsjö and Benoît Dessirier. Tamara's academic exchange is part of the researcher mobility plan of the LEAP project.

Benoît Dessirier, a Postdoctoral Fellow from Stockholm Univeristy, was visiting the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) from March 4th to 29th, 2019 to work on a nitrogen (N) model for the LEAP project with Dr. Kim Van Meter

Tamara Van Staden, a current Master's student working on the LEAP project, has been awarded an NSERC Scholarship, starting in the fall. The NSERC award is one of the Tri-Agency scholarships awarded to master's students based on academic achievement, research potential, and extra-curricular activity. Congratulations, Tamara!

Legacies of Agricultural Pollutants (LEAP) researcher, Dr. Roy Brouwer, presented the preliminary results from the economics work in LEAP at a meeting of the Lake Erie Conservation Authorities at the Upper Thames Conservation Authority on December 15, 2017 in London, Ontario.