Are you, or someone you know, interested in pursuing a MSc or PhD in hydrogeochemistry? A graduate student position is available starting May 2026, to work on a groundwater knowledge acquisition project (PACES) of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. If interested, email the following to Dr. Violaine Ponsin at ponsin.violaine@uqam.ca 1) a statement of interest2) a … Continue reading MSc or PhD Position Available – Hydrogeochemistry
Join us! Groundwater at the Science-Policy Interface Workshop
We are very excited to be hosting a 3-day interactive and intensive workshop focused on the critical role of groundwater in agriculture and community health, by bringing together world leading researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community members across disciplines to highlight the interdisciplinary connections of groundwater. When: November 12-14, 2025 Where: Morwick Groundwater Research Centre, 360 … Continue reading Join us! Groundwater at the Science-Policy Interface Workshop
Urgent need for new regulations on “forever” chemicals
University Consortium Director, Dr. Beth Parker, along with Dr. Charlotte Sparrenbom, Associate Professor, Geosciences, Lund University, and Dr. Anna Thomasson, Associate Professor, Public Management, Copenhagen Business School, are urging changes to be made to regulations regarding "forever" chemicals, such as per- and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS). Read the article here
New Group Photo!
That's a wrap for our 2024 Annual University Consortium for Field Focused Groundwater Research. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us this year, online and in-person. We had a great turnout, filled with fruitful and valuable discussions.
Call for papers!
NGWA has announced a call for papers for a special issue of Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation on “Contamination and Characterization of the Vadose Zone”. If interested, a brief synopsis of proposed manuscript is due July 16th, 2023 and final paper submission is due October 27, 2023. Please see here for more information.
Seeking postdoctoral applicants for Wisconsin Water Resources Science-Policy Research Associate
See job posting below, application deadline has been extended! Please contact David Hart at djhart@wisc.edu or (608) 262-2307 with any questions, and/or your application.
Congratulations to Consortium PI, Dr. Erica Pensini, on her feature in Media release “Modifying water’s structure as low-energy method for removing pollutants”
Dr. Pensini and her team of UofG researchers, along with scientists from the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) are developing low-energy strategies to purify polluted water. Check out the article for more information! https://www.lightsource.ca/public/news/2022-23-q3-oct-dec/modifying-waters-structure-as-low-energy-method-for-removing-pollutants.php
The 2022 Farvolden Lecture
Come out to the University of Waterloo's Farvolden Lecture on Thursday, October 20th at 2 pm in the Theatre of the Arts, Modern Languages Building! The University Consortium's PI, Dr. J.F. (Rick) Devlin will be presenting "The Tools of Understanding (because to solve a problem you must first understand it)." Admission is free, and no … Continue reading The 2022 Farvolden Lecture
Check out this recently published, Fall Focus Meeting related paper: “A mechanistic derivation of the Monod bioreaction equation for a limiting nutrient”
This publication ties into our Fall Focus Meeting topic of quantitative microbial tools. Access it below: Enouy, R.W., Walton, K.M., Malton, I.I., Sra, K.S., Sihota, N.N., Daniels, E.J., Unger, A.J.A. (2022). A mechanistic derivation of the Monod bioreaction equation for a limiting nutrient. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 84, 62. DOI: 10.1007/s00285-022-01760-0
24 Guelph Women Scientists, including 3 Consortium PIs, recognized in Iron Willed: Women in STEM exhibit!
Congratulations to Drs. Beth Parker, Kari Dunfield and Emmanuelle Arnaud on being featured in the travelling exhibition, Iron Willed: Women in STEM! The exhibition will be featured in Guelph Museums starting from September 17th. Go check it out!
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