LEAP graduate students, Tamara Van Staden and Joy Liu, attended the 27th Internation Union of Geodesy and Geophysical (IUGG) General Assembly in Montréal. 2019 marks the 100th 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 19th-21st and featured presentations from participating researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Stockholm University, the University of Coimbra, and the University of Waterloo.
University of Coimbra Postdoctoral researcher, João Marques, visted the University of Waterloo for one month to work with University of Waterloo researchers, Philippe Van Cappellen, Nandita Basu
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
The second annual LEAP researcher meeting was hosted by University of Waterloo researchers, in Niagara Falls, Canada. The 2-day (June 11-12) meeting brought together researchers the work package leads, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from the University of Coimbra, University of Waterloo, University of Copenhagen, and Stockholm University.
Summary
Achieving water quality goals for the Gulf of Mexico may take decades, according to findings by Water Institute researchers at the University of Waterloo.
The results, published in Science, suggest that policy goals for reducing the size of the northern Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone may be unrealistic, and that major changes in agricultural and river management practices may be necessary to achieve the desired improvements in water quality.
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.