{"id":482,"date":"2017-03-03T14:06:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/?p=482"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:05:55","slug":"dr-richard-amos-receives-university-research-achievement-award-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/2017\/dr-richard-amos-receives-university-research-achievement-award-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Richard Amos receives University Research Achievement Award 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Dr. Richard Amos receives University Research Achievement Award 2017\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h2 id=\"richard-amos\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Richard Amos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor,&nbsp;Department of Environmental Science\/Earth Science,&nbsp;Faculty of Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Project: Effects of Heating on Contaminant Release in Aquifers Affected by Oil Sands Operations<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In situ extraction from deep oil sands reservoirs involves the injection of steam to reduce the viscosity of the bitumen and facilitate pumping. An unintended consequence of steam injection is the heating of aquifers that and are penetrated by the steam wells, potentially releasing contaminants. This project will investigate the mechanisms of contaminant release and attenuation in an effort to inform industry and government and lead to appropriate mitigation strategies and regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"V2IupYmK3Q\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/distinctions\/cu-research-achievement-awards\/\">CU Research Achievement Awards<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;CU Research Achievement Awards&#8221; &#8212; Research\" src=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/distinctions\/cu-research-achievement-awards\/embed\/#?secret=V2IupYmK3Q\" data-secret=\"V2IupYmK3Q\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Amos Professor,&nbsp;Department of Environmental Science\/Earth Science,&nbsp;Faculty of Science Project: Effects of Heating on Contaminant Release in Aquifers Affected by Oil Sands Operations In situ extraction from deep oil sands reservoirs involves the injection of steam to reduce the viscosity of the bitumen and facilitate pumping. An unintended consequence of steam injection is the heating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}