Mine waste rock drainage is one of the most challenging and lasting global environmental issues facing the entire mining industry, regulatory agencies and society as a whole. Mine drainage can be alkaline, neutral, moderately or extremely acidic and contains significant levels of sulfate, dissolved iron, and frequently a variety of heavy metals and metalloids. As […]

I am a member of ArcTrain project, which is an international collaborative research and training experience program between Canadian and German scientists funded by NSERC CREATE. I am offered the opportunity to study for four to twelve months at a partner institution in Germany, to develop a better model for my research on Greenland Ice […]

Municipalities in Quebec lack tools to effectively anticipate and manage the consequences of beaver dam outburst flooding. When beaver dams fail the resulting flooding can pose a major threat to public safety and public and private infrastructure. A research project lead by Dr. Jan Franssen in partership with OBV RPNS and its Municipal partners is […]

This project will develop practical workflows, algorithms and programming codes for inferring unknown reservoir properties from distributed temperature and acoustic sensing data. In-situ pressure and flow conditions can be interpreted from downhole fiber signals gathered in real time, which are used to estimate unknown heterogeneous reservoir parameters continuously. Machine learning methods will be incorporated to […]

The purpose of this project is to assess the impact of forest land clearing practices for agricultural production on boreal soil health, using the soil health assessment developed at Cornell University. Using soil samples collected in Northern Ontario, a soil health assessment will be conducted to determine soil function under both relatively undisturbed soil forest […]

Wetlands can store carbon 30-40 times faster, and for longer periods of time, than terrestrial ecosystems. As a result, coastal wetland ecosystems are known to play a crucial role in combating climate change. Activities such as dredging and shoreline erosion have potential negative impacts on these coastal environments, hindering their capacity to store carbon. Not […]

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 […]

Les forêts urbaines d’aujourd’hui sont confrontés aux changements globaux, notamment l’augmentation de la fréquence des événements climatiques extrêmes (sécheresses, inondations, etc.) et l’arrivée d’espèces exotiques (maladie de l’orme, agrile du frêne, etc.), et subissent donc de lourdes pertes associées à ces stress. Les conséquences de la réduction de la canopée peuvent être dramatiques d’un point […]

Le rétablissement de la forêt boréale sur les sites miniers après leur fermeture est indispensable pour que les services associés à cet écosystème soient rétablis (puit de carbone, chasse, industrie sylvicole, etc.). Les essences forestières font face à des contraintes d’établissement et de développement sur un substrat rocheux (stériles miniers) sans dépôt de matière organique. […]

Le socle rocheux de l’île de Montréal est constitué de calcaires déposés sur la marge continentale de Laurentia, il y a 450 millions d’années, qui bordait alors un océan où existait une intense activité volcanique. La stratigraphie de ces formations rocheuses est bien documentée, mais il est encore difficile de déterminer précisément la position stratigraphique […]

Champion Iron Mines est une société de développement et d’exploration québécoise effectuant de l’exploration régionale dans la plus importante région de production de minerai de fer du Canada. Le minerai se trouve dans des formations de fer plissées en une géométrie complexe lors de la formation de la chaîne de montagne « Grenville » il […]