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Banu Örmeci

Professor and Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Global Health, and Canada Research Professor. Development of innovative technologies for wastewater and biosolids treatment and optimization; fate and removal of pathogens, emerging contaminants and nanoparticles; real-time monitoring; bioenergy from wastewater and sludge; disinfection; public health engineering; water and sanitation in indigenous communities and developing countries.

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Paul Van Geel

Professor of Environmental Engineering. Hydrogeology and solid waste management. Flow and transport in the saturated and unsaturated zone. Impacts of real world soil/NAPL wettability on migration, distribution and remediation of NAPL-contaminated sites.

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Paul Simms

Professor in Environmental Engineering. Mine waste management; thickened tailings disposal on surface and as mine backfill; fundamental unsaturated soil mechanics; evolution of soil microstructure due to drying.

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Anh Le-Tuan Pham

Assistant professor in Environmental Engineering. Aquatic chemistry and geochemistry; contaminant fate in natural and engineered systems; remediation of hazardous waste sites; treatment of mine wastes; environmental implications of nanotechnology.

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Onita Basu

Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering. Water and wastewater. Impact of integrated processes in dynamic systems; filtration/membrane-bioreactor systems, treatment of high ammonia loadings on plant performance and biological versus physical removal of recalcitrant organics, including personal care products and pharmaceuticals, in wastewater.

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Syed Abdus Sattar

Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa. Environmental and medical microbiology as it pertains to public health: how human pathogens survive in the environment; what factors affect their fate and transport and the potential for human exposure; how the spread of infections can be interrupted through environmental control measures.

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Steven Cooke

Professor of Environmental Science, Canada Research Chair. Aquatic ecology and conservation physiology. Physiological responses in fish to natural and human impacts. Understanding the mechanisms underlying conservation problems.

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Jesse Vermaire

Assistant professor in Geography and Environmental Studies, cross appointed to Environmental Science. How environmental change, particularly land-use and climate change, are impacting freshwater ecosystems; impact of climate warming and nutrient enrichment on lakes and streams; ecosystem resilience, regime shifts, and recovery in freshwater systems; the importance of extreme events (e.g. droughts, storm surges, permafrost slumps) in altering aquatic ecosystems.

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Susan Aitken

Professor. Enzymology and sulfur amino acid metabolism. Agricultural, medical and biotech applications, including: phytoremediation of contaminated soil, biosynthesis of methionine in plants, metabolism of homocysteine, and biotech applications and enzyme engineering.

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Joseph Bennett

Assistant Professor. Conservation prioritization, invasion ecology, biogeography and spatial statistics. Coexistence in fluctuating environments, methods for quantifying biodiversity, determinants of community assembly. Polar regions, temperate grasslands and lakes, and tropical forests.

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Grégory Bulté

Instructor. Ecology, evolutions and conservation of animals. Most recently, the impact of invasive zebra mussels on native fish and turtles, and the natural history of native reptiles.

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Robert Burk

Professor. Analytical chemistry method development.

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