Water management and treatment of mineral tailings and oil sands tailings are becoming critical challenges for the sustainable development of natural resources exploration. Reclamation of these tailings is challenging due to a solid phase composed mainly by very fine particles and many other chemicals. With these characteristics, the tailings form a very stable colloidal system […]

En se déplaçant, les animaux, et autres organismes vivants, laissent des traces de leur matériel génétique dans l’environnement. Cette précieuse information est l’ADN environnemental (ADNe) et son analyse permet de détecter indirectement la présence d’une espèce et d’estimer son abondance relative dans un milieu. Ce matériel génétique peut se retrouver sous forme de cellules mortes […]

Although evolution is considered a gradual process recent evidence suggests that adaptation can be rapid, particularly when there is genetic variation and selection is strong. Determining whether rapid evolution happens predictably in nature, both at the phenotypic and genomic levels, is crucial to understanding the origins and maintenance of biodiversity. Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose […]

The project consists in counting species abundances data of microplankton fossils in approximately 100 samples of a sediment core that was recovered in the near the Del Cano Rise located in the Southern Indian Ocean. Complex statistical methods, transfer functions, will be applied to this data in order to estimate water temperatures at the core […]

Canada’s marine ecosystems are biologically rich and provide essential goods and services to about seven million people living along the longest coastline in the world. Facing significant challenges to conciliate economic development, human well-being, social equity and ecological stability, Canada developed an ambitious “Blue Economy” framework, in which this project falls. In the face of […]

The issue of removal of CO2 from diluted streams is challenging due its low concentration which makes the cost of capture significantly high. The development of material that has high CO2 capacity at low concentrations can help to decrease the overall cost of CO2 capture. The novel approach in the design of solid sorbents proposed […]

The North Atlantic right whale (NARW) population, Eubalaena glacialis, is highly endangered. Reproduction success is thought to depend on availability of their main prey, energy-rich copepods. Thus, abiotic and biotic environmental conditions might be of high importance to determine suitable habitats of the NARW. In the framework of the smartwhales program (Canadian Space Agency), we […]

Sequestration of atmospheric and industrial CO2 through carbonation of reactive waste minerals is a proven method for curbing emissions from the mining sector. Carbonation technologies have also been shown to be effective at reducing potentially toxic metal mobility in alkaline mine wastes. However, the molecular scale mechanisms of metal cycling associated with mineral transformation reactions […]

Plasmonic catalysis is an emerging technology which holds the promise of utilizing light to facilitate a chemical transformation. Plasmonic materials interact with incident light through the excitation of localized surface plasmon resonance producing highly energetic electron-hole pairs. These hot electrons and holes are very active and get adsorbed to the materials in their surroundings through […]

This internship will contribute to the market research and go-to-market strategy development of the Marine Way app, a citizen science mapping mobile application that will help combat the global ghost gear problem. The resultant outcome of the internship is expected to contribute to the establishment of a company and the future publication of the mobile […]

Marine biofouling, which is the growth of organisms on ocean infrastructure, is a widespread problem with substantial economic and environmental costs. This project undertaken by the intern will develop dynamic tests of a novel graphene-based antifouling coating designed by Graphite Innovation & Technologies (GIT). The dynamic tests involve generating water flow over the coating surface, […]

Agricultural soils in the humid temperate regions (Ontario and Quebec) of Canada are the major source of non-point pollution from Phosphorus in freshwater rivers and lakes. The incidence of cyanobacterial blooms has increased dramatically in the last decade, which has been linked to P and N enrichment by subsurface drain effluent. Agricultural soils, treated with […]