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Philippe Van Cappellen
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Research
Latest papers
Yields and stormwater loads of microplastics in five urban stormwater catchments (City of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada).
Water research · 2026 · senior author
Machine Learning-Assisted Microwave-Microfluidic Platform for Microplastic Detection.
Environmental science & technology · 2026
Field-derived phosphorus accumulation rates and solid phase speciation in the filter medium of an urban bioretention system.
Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026
Latest funding
- $471,520
CLAWAVE - Chemical load assessments for watersheds: automation and visualization experience
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $942,520
Adaptive management of green stormwater infrastructure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from urban watersheds
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $1,000,000
Microplastics fingerprinting at the watershed scale: from sources to receivers
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
51 publications.
Yields and stormwater loads of microplastics in five urban stormwater catchments (City of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada).
Reshadi MAM, Rezanezhad F, Kaykhosravi S, Nguyen TH, Slowinski S, Shahvaran AR, Alcott L, Puopolo M, Lam B, Van Cappellen P
Machine Learning-Assisted Microwave-Microfluidic Platform for Microplastic Detection.
ShafieiDarabi M, YazdaniCherati A, Giri NV, Bhatti S, Li S, Van Cappellen P, Abbasi Z, Ren CL
Field-derived phosphorus accumulation rates and solid phase speciation in the filter medium of an urban bioretention system.
Lisogorsky A, Zhou B, Van Cappellen P, Parsons C, Shafii M, Slowinski S, Bhusal Y, Passeport E, Rezanezhad F
Unique Coevolution of Organic Matter and Selenium Enrichment in Cold Region Mollisols.
Pi K, Gan Y, Li H, Van Cappellen P, Zhong X, Liang Q, Wang Y
Reactive Oxygen Species Production in Riparian Zones Governed by a Flow-Induced Chromatographic Separation Process.
Bu X, Tong M, Zhang C, Dai H, Zhang P, Van Cappellen P, Yuan S
Mapping satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentrations from 2013 to 2023 in Western Lake Ontario using Landsat 8 and 9 imagery.
Shahvaran AR, Kheyrollah Pour H, Binding C, Van Cappellen P
Assessment of environmental and socioeconomic drivers of urban stormwater microplastics using machine learning.
Reshadi MAM, Rezanezhad F, Shahvaran AR, Ghajari A, Kaykhosravi S, Slowinski S, Van Cappellen P
Arsenic redox disequilibrium in geogenic contaminated groundwater: Bioenergetic insights from organic molecular characterization and gene-informed modeling.
Pi K, Xie X, Sun S, Van Cappellen P, Xiao Z, Zhang D, Wang Y
A global dataset of gross nitrogen transformation rates across terrestrial ecosystems.
Byun E, Müller C, Parisse B, Napoli R, Zhang JB, Rezanezhad F, Van Cappellen P, Moser G, Jansen-Willems AB, Yang WH, Urakawa R, Arroyo JI, Neri U, Elrys AS, Nardi P
Urban Stormwater Phosphorus Export Control: Comparing Traditional and Low-impact Development Best Management Practices.
Zhou B, Parsons C, Van Cappellen P
CLAWAVE - Chemical load assessments for watersheds: automation and visualization experience
Principal investigators: Van Cappellen, Philippe PSJ
Keywords: Citizen science; Climate change; Data management systems; Eutrophication; Interactive data visualization; Water quality; Watershed chemical load estimation
Adaptive management of green stormwater infrastructure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from urban watersheds
Principal investigators: Van Cappellen, Philippe PSJ
Keywords: Carbon Sequestration; Citizen Science; Climate Change; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Green Infrastructure; Nutrient Cycles; Stormwater Management; Urbanization; Urban Watersheds; Water Quality
Microplastics fingerprinting at the watershed scale: from sources to receivers
Principal investigators: Van Cappellen, Philippe PSJ
Keywords: Drinking water exposure; Economics of plastic pollution; Enzymatic degradation; Extreme hydrological events; Imaging, spectroscopy and sensing; Microplastics; Real-time detection; Sedimentary plastics archives; Sources and transport pathways; Structural & chemical fingerprinting
Isothermal Micro-Calorimetry: Applications in Environmental Science
Principal investigators: VanCappellen, Philippe
Assessing risks of eutrophication by urban stormwater runoff under climate change_x000d_ _x000d_
Principal investigators: Van Cappellen, Philippe
Elucidating the biogeochemical processes controlling natural source zone depletion (NSZD) of petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated soils under dynamic redox conditions
Principal investigators: Van Cappellen, Philippe
Winter carbon losses in wetland ecosystem under current and future climates
Principal investigators: Rezanezhad, Fereidoun
DNA-gated stimuli-responsive nanostructures for metal sensing and smart remediation
Principal investigators: Liu, Juewen
Legacies of agricultural pollutants: Integrated assessment of biophysical and socioeconomic controls on water quality in agroecosystems (LEAP)
Principal investigators: VanCappellen, Philippe
Reactive interfaces in agroecosystems: quantifying coupled biogeochemical dynamics across scales using a comprehensive lab-field-modeling approach
Principal investigators: VanCappellen, Philippe
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Philippe Van Cappellen and Fereidoun Rezanezhad: 19 shared papers
- Juewen Liu and Philippe Van Cappellen: 3 shared papers
- Elodie Passeport and Philippe Van Cappellen: 3 shared papers
- Elodie Passeport and Fereidoun Rezanezhad: 3 shared papers
- Andrew Doxey and Philippe Van Cappellen: 1 shared paper
- Juewen Liu and Fereidoun Rezanezhad: 1 shared paper
- Juewen Liu and John Honek: 1 shared paper
- Neil Thomson and Philippe Van Cappellen: 1 shared paper
- Neil Thomson and Fereidoun Rezanezhad: 1 shared paper
- Zahra Abbasi and Philippe Van Cappellen: 1 shared paper
- Homa Kheyrollah Pour and Philippe Van Cappellen: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Van Cappellen and Nathan Basiliko: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Van Cappellen and John Honek: 1 shared paper
- Philippe Van Cappellen and Christina Smeaton: 1 shared paper
- Nathan Basiliko and Fereidoun Rezanezhad: 1 shared paper
- Fereidoun Rezanezhad and John Honek: 1 shared paper
- Fereidoun Rezanezhad and Christina Smeaton: 1 shared paper
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Chemistry
- Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
- Medicine
- Environmental Science- Grenfell
- Geography and Environmnetal Studies
- Biology - Biologie
- Other
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Fereidoun Rezanezhad
Earth & Environmental Sciences
19 shared papers, latest 2026
Juewen Liu
Chemistry
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Elodie Passeport
Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
3 shared papers, latest 2026
John Honek
Chemistry
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Christina Smeaton
Environmental Science- Grenfell
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Nathan Basiliko
Biology - Biologie
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Andrew Doxey
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Neil Thomson
Civil and Environmental Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Zahra Abbasi
Department of Electrical and Software Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Homa Kheyrollah Pour
Geography and Environmnetal Studies
1 shared papers, latest 2025
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