PP Ecohydrology Research Group | Innovation News Network Science, Research & Innovation News Sun, 14 Aug 2022 11:04:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Road salt: The silent threat to urban lakes /road-salt-silent-threat-urban-lakes/23643/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=road-salt-silent-threat-urban-lakes /road-salt-silent-threat-urban-lakes/23643/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:17:39 +0000 /?p=23643 The use of de-icing salts to clear roads and sidewalks in winter is a stressor of lake ecosystems. New research from the Ecohydrology Research Group at Waterloo University has shown that increasing lake salinisation linked to urban growth exacerbates water quality deterioration usually ascribed to the proliferation of algae driven by nutrient enrichment. Eutrophication is […]

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]]> /road-salt-silent-threat-urban-lakes/23643/feed/ 0 Developing innovative techniques to investigate winter soil processes /developing-techniques-investigate-winter-soil-processes/23392/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=developing-techniques-investigate-winter-soil-processes /developing-techniques-investigate-winter-soil-processes/23392/#respond Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:09:32 +0000 /?p=23392 Professors Philippe Van Cappellen and Fereidoun Rezanezhad from the Ecohydrology Research Group and Water Institute at the University of Waterloo discuss how they are developing methods to better understand winter soil processes. High latitude cold regions, including Arctic and subarctic regions, are warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet, with […]

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]]> /developing-techniques-investigate-winter-soil-processes/23392/feed/ 0 Aquatic ecosystem services: From concept to economic valuation /aquatic-ecosystem-services-from-concept-to-economic-valuation/15909/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aquatic-ecosystem-services-from-concept-to-economic-valuation /aquatic-ecosystem-services-from-concept-to-economic-valuation/15909/#respond Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:33:25 +0000 /?p=15909 The University of Waterloo’s Ecohydrology Research Group and Water Resources Economics Research Group detail how vital it is to optimise our aquatic ecosystem services, ensuring a sustainable and healthy future for our planet’s natural environment. Aquatic systems provide various ecosystem services, often free of charge, that benefits human well-being. These include provisioning services such as drinking […]

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]]> /aquatic-ecosystem-services-from-concept-to-economic-valuation/15909/feed/ 0 Investigating the impacts of climate change on northern peatlands /investigating-the-impacts-of-climate-change-on-northern-peatlands/15478/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=investigating-the-impacts-of-climate-change-on-northern-peatlands /investigating-the-impacts-of-climate-change-on-northern-peatlands/15478/#respond Mon, 08 Nov 2021 14:45:28 +0000 /?p=15478 The ERG are investigating how northern peatlands respond to anthropogenic disturbances, land-use changes, and climate warming.

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]]> /investigating-the-impacts-of-climate-change-on-northern-peatlands/15478/feed/ 0 Exploring the impacts of nutrient legacies on cultural eutrophication /exploring-the-impacts-of-nutrient-legacies-on-cultural-eutrophication/14872/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exploring-the-impacts-of-nutrient-legacies-on-cultural-eutrophication /exploring-the-impacts-of-nutrient-legacies-on-cultural-eutrophication/14872/#respond Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:11:51 +0000 /?p=14872 Professor Phillippe Van Cappellen and Stephanie Slowinski from the Ecohydrology Research Group, University of Waterloo, discuss how nutrient legacies affect cultural eutrophication, a process that threatens aquatic ecosystems and water quality worldwide. The nutrient elements nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are essential to all life forms on Earth. Hence, more N and P would seem […]

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]]> /exploring-the-impacts-of-nutrient-legacies-on-cultural-eutrophication/14872/feed/ 0 Peatlands and climate change: from threat to cure /peatlands-and-climate-change-from-threat-to-cure/12156/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peatlands-and-climate-change-from-threat-to-cure /peatlands-and-climate-change-from-threat-to-cure/12156/#respond Thu, 03 Jun 2021 08:57:01 +0000 /?p=12156 Sustainable management of peatlands and mitigating climate change: Waterloo’s Ecohydrology Research Group helps close key knowledge gaps. Peatlands are a valuable but vulnerable natural resource. Peat forms through the slow accumulation of partially decomposed plant biomass in water-saturated soils of wetlands across the boreal and taiga ecoregions, as well as in cool temperate and tropical […]

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]]> /peatlands-and-climate-change-from-threat-to-cure/12156/feed/ 0 Biogeophysics: exploring the Earth’s subsurface biosphere /biogeophysics-exploring-the-earths-subsurface-biosphere/10865/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biogeophysics-exploring-the-earths-subsurface-biosphere /biogeophysics-exploring-the-earths-subsurface-biosphere/10865/#respond Tue, 20 Apr 2021 14:31:48 +0000 /?p=10865 The Ecohydrology Research Group and Water Institute are using their research in biogeophysics to develop tools to observe the Earth’s subsurface biosphere. The Earth’s shallow subsurface provides many key services. Soils are the foundation of agriculture and, therefore, the world’s food production, while much of our infrastructure extends underground (foundations of buildings and bridges, subway […]

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]]> /biogeophysics-exploring-the-earths-subsurface-biosphere/10865/feed/ 0 The University of Waterloo reconciles agriculture and water quality /reconciling-agriculture-and-water-quality-2/6651/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reconciling-agriculture-and-water-quality-2 /reconciling-agriculture-and-water-quality-2/6651/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:25:27 +0000 /?p=6651 Agricultural nutrient legacies delay the recovery of healthy aquatic ecosystems, according to researchers from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Agriculture is a dominant source of nutrient emissions to the environment due to the widespread use of fertilisers as well as intensive livestock production. Research shows that excess nutrients applied to the landscape accumulate in soils, […]

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