Linklater awarded a 2016 GRIT award

NatalieLinklater was awarded one of six Graduate Research and Innovative Thinking (GRIT) awards. The Faculty Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs created these awards for outstanding Carleton PhD students at the ABD stage of their research (all comprehensive exams have been completed and the dissertation proposal has been successfully defended). These awards provide funding to support excellence and involvement in academic research activities. Each student will receive up to $5,000.

Linklater is looking at methods, other than chlorine, to disinfect wastewater. She notes that her research is timely, “as the Government of Canada has signaled its desire to limit the release of chlorine residuals into the environment.” She will use her GRIT funds to travel to and stay in Waterloo for two months while she continues to work on her research. “This is an excellent opportunity to expand and compliment work already completed in the lab and evaluate if treatments remain effective in conditions that better simulate a wastewater treatment plant.” Linklater has won several other awards. Here she is talking about one of them.