Les sites miniers en exploitation génèrent de grands volumes d’eaux contaminées. Si es eaux se déversent dans sans traitement adéquat elles peuvent devenir la source de nombreux problèmes environnementaux. La mise en place de procédées d’enlèvement économiquement acceptable et respectant les normes de rejet visant à préserver les milieux récepteurs, représentent l’un des plus importants […]

L’industrie minière présente un secteur économique très important au Canada, cependant, les différentes opérations dans la mine entrainent des impacts d’une ampleur importante sur l’environnement. Parmi les étapes de l’activité minière est le sautage en utilisant des dynamites pour excaver et extraire le minerai du gisement. Certains ne réagissent pas complétement et libèrent des éléments […]

Le stage de collaboration du programme Globalink de Mitacs se déroulera au Centre national de la recherche scientifique-Paris8 (CNRS), un organisme public de recherche pluridisciplinaire gouverné par le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation en France. Le stage s’effectuera plus précisément auprès de M. Carlo Cecchetto, directeur de recherche du CNRS, […]

Electric power is almost entirely transmitted through polymer insulated cables or wires in every home, factory, plant, or apparatus. If the temperature of a cable increases, it would be an indication that some accidents or malfunctions such as inflow of excess electric current occur in the cable. The generated heat, indeed, degrades the polymer insulations […]

Salmon stock in BC have declined substantially since the 1990’s. A US/Canada Coded Wire Tag (CWT) fishery monitoring program was implemented in the 1980s with the intention of helping managers understand salmon stocks in order to make decisions about harvesting. The program relies on the fishing community return salmon heads so managers can retrieve CWT […]

Predicting future wood supply is critical for stakeholders in the forest product sector to sustainably manage their activities. Such predictions are subject to various bio-physical factors. Several NB forest companies have made a priority to focus on the management of and adaptation to two of these environmental factors: climate change and, to a lesser extent, […]

Golder Associates Ltd., teaming with the Seyem’ Qwantlen Business Group (Kwantlen First Nation), was retained by the Township of Langley to develop a model to predict the location of unrecorded archaeological sites on a 10,000 year-old landscape located in the Fraser River Valley, British Columbia. Conventional predictive modelling techniques are common practice however with the […]

Plasmonic catalysis is an emerging technology which holds the promise of utilizing light to facilitate a chemical transformation. Antenna nanoreactor is comprised of a plasmonic core and a transition metal shell in which the plasmonic core can absorb the light and generate the highly energetic electrons (hot electrons) and the transition metal shell receives these […]

Water in the United States is a valuable resource. It is used from everything from drinking water to tourism. However, by the 1970s, many rivers and coastal areas were severely degraded from decades of using water to assimilate pollution. After billions of dollars spent and decades of effort on all levels of government, the increasing […]

This research will focus on using lakes sediments to determine the amount of marine derived nutrients and contaminants that Alewife (Gaspereau) transfer into Gaspereau Lake, Kings County, Nova Scotia. Lake sediment records form an archive that preserves environmental change that has occurred in lakes. In this project lake sediment cores will be collected and analyzed […]

La gestion des sédiments contaminés et des risques qu’ils peuvent poser pour l’environnement est un enjeu important au Canada. Les administrations portuaires doivent couramment draguer et transporter des sédiments contaminés. Ce transfert vers le milieu terrestre complexifie la gestion des sédiments contaminés. Ce projet vise à proposer une approche qui permettra, dans certains cas, d’éliminer […]

Since the 1960s, the lands of several indigenous communities such as the Fort McKay Métis have been largely impacted by open mines and steam assisted gravity drainages (SAGDs). Such oil sands operations have disturbed large areas, changed geology, hydrogeology, hydrology, aquatic and terrestrial environment, and created a linear disturbance. This research project will map and […]