Oral Sessions
RENEW Meeting - November 7, 2019
To be held in the Amit Chakma Engineering Building, Faculty of Engineering, Western University
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome
9:10 - 10:00 Keynote: Phil Dennis (SiREM Labs, Guelph)
Commercialization of Transformative Environmental Technologies, a Canadian Success Story
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break - Poster session
10:30 - 10:50 Georgina Kalogerakis (U of T) - Gas Formation During ISCO
10:50 - 11:10 Alexandra Duchesne (Western) - Smouldering Combustion Treatment of PFAS
11:10 - 11:30 Ariel Nunez Garcia (PDF, Western) - Iron-Based Materials for Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents
11:30 - 11:50 Joshua Brown (Western) - Hydrogen Production from STAR
11:50 - 12:10 Sabina Rakhimbekova (Western) - The Role of Groundwater-lake Interactions on the Delivery
of Pollutants to Nearshore Waters of the Great Lakes
12:10 - 12:30 Taryn Fournie (Western) - Resource Recovery from the Smouldering Treatment of Sewage Sludge
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch - RENEW Board Meeting in parallel
13:30 - 14:30 Discussion Panel - Career Planning
14:30 ˗15:20 Keynote: Professor Erica Pensini (University of Guelph) - Novel Materials for
Subsurface Remediation: Gels, Emulsions and Colloidal Particles
15:20 ˗ 15:50 Coffee Break - Poster session
15:50 ˗ 16:10 Jiahao Wang (Western) - The Influence of Heterogeneity on Smouldering Remediation
16:10 ˗ 16:30 M. Ivy Yang (PDF, U of T) - Using Culture Enrichment and Molecular Biology
Techniques to Identify Inoculum Candidates Capable of Pre-degrading Pyrite Ores
16:30 ˗ 16:50 Marco Zanoni (PDF, Western) - Numerical Modelling of STAR Technology
16:50 ˗ 17:00 Closing Remarks and Reminders
19:00 - 22:00 Dinner and Social at Union Ten Distillery
SyNRGS Meeting - November 8, 2019
To be held in the Amit Chakma Engineering Building, Faculty of Engineering, Western University
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome
9:10 - 10:00 Keynote: Professor Anh Pham (University of Waterloo) - Challenges and
Opportunities for Research on PFAS Remediation in Canada
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break - Poster session
10:30 - 10:50 Archana Tamang (Western) Evaluation of the Percentage of Septic System Effluent
reaching Tributaries in the Lake Simcoe Watershed
10:50 -11:10 Claire Elliott (McMaster University) Surfactant Induced Mobilization of Entrapped Gas
in Groundwater Systems
11:10 - 11:30 Tarek Rashwan (Western) Smouldering Sewage Sludge
11:30 - 11:50 Md Abdullah Asad (York University) - Using Statistical Analysis to Identify Factors
Affecting Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron (nZVI) Travel Distance
11:50 - 12:10 Jaeleah Goor (Western) Field Assessment of the Performance of Bioretention Systems
for the Removal of Nutrients in Urban Stormwater
12:10 - 12:30 Yi Liu (PDF, Western) - Evaluation of Processes in Bioretention Systems that Affect
Phosphorus Removal from Urban Storm Water
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and tour to RESTORE Labs
13:30 - 14:00 Chris Kocur (PDF, OHSU) - Developing an Improved Measurement of Reduction Potential
with Electron Shuttles: Applications for Estimating Abiotic Degradation Rates
14:00 - 14:20 Daniel Noble (University of Guelph) Nutrient Retention Potential of Tallgrass Prairies
on Marginal Lands within Conventional Farms
14:20 - 14:40 David Patch (Royal Military College) - Release of Silver Nanomaterials From Commercial
Products: Development of a Simulated Human Weathering Method
14:40 - 15:00 Elizabeth Phillips (U of T) - Sources of Uncertainty in Mechanistic Interpretations Using
Dual-isotope Plots
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break - Poster session
15:20 - 15:40 Victoria Propp (McMaster University) - Emerging Contaminants in Old Closed
Landfills: Leachate Survey and Impacted Stream Study
15:40 - 16:00 Ashkan Talebi (PhD, Golder Associates) - Modelling Evapotranspiration and Flow Processes
in the Shallow Subsurface with Application to Green Roof Technology
16:00 - 16:20 Langping Wu (PDF, U of T) - Characterizing the Natural Attenuation of Organophosphorus
Pesticide by Hydrolysis at a Contaminated Aquifer using Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis
16:20 - 16:40 Yanyan Zhang (PDF, McGill) - Degradation Efficiency of Chlorinated Solvent Contaminants
by a Novel Functionalized Iron Nanoparticle for Improved Remediation of Contaminated Sites
16:40 - 17:00 Courtney Toth (PDF, U of T) - Biotechnology Advancements in Groundwater BTEX Remediation
17:00 - 17:05 Closing remarks
