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Water, Environment & Clean Energy
The focus of this cluster is identifying the most serious threats to environments in semi-arid regions in Saskatchewan and elsewhere, providing information to decision makers on how to alleviate negative impacts of climate, land-use and pollution on hydrology, water quality and food-web integrity, and developing adaptive management strategies and policies for the impacts of anticipated climate change, population growth and increased development of natural resources. Researchers in this cluster evaluate the impacts of natural and anthropogenic effects on grassland, forest and aquatic habitats, develop environmental low carbon technologies to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions associated with climate change, and study other aspects of clean energy such as smart grids, intelligent transportation systems, and lean and agile manufacturing.
Water, Environment & Clean Energy Research Cluster Brochure.
Researchers
Name |
Position |
College/Faculty/Department |
Research interests/Keywords |
ContactInformation |
Professor |
Department of Psychology, |
Pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) including personal characteristics and values (e.g., nature connection, place attachment) and situational influences (e.g., natural history museums, outdoor scenes). | Arbuthnott@uregina.ca | |
Professor | Environmental Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering | Flow through porous media with applications in civil infrastructure, mining wastes, and clean energy | Azam@uregina.ca | |
Professor | Department of Biology, Faculty of Science |
Zoology, behaviour, bats, energetics | Brigham@uregina.ca | |
Professor | Department of Geology, Faculty of Science |
Fluid geochemistry & hydrodynamics ,metallic mineralization,hydrocarbon accumulation, fluid-inclusion, stable isotope, and numerical modeling techniques. | ||
Professor | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science |
Cellular Response to Xenobiotics, Physical Biochemistry, Microscopy, Microbiology | ||
Assistant Professor |
Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts
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Climate change policy, energy-environment-economy modelling
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Professor | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science |
Petroleum refining, chemical mechanisms, alternative catalysts, electrolyte conductivity | East@uregina.ca | |
Associate Professor | Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts |
Natural resource economies, agriculture, oil, political economy and ecology | Eaton@uregina.ca | |
Assistant Professor | Department of Biology, Faculty of Science |
Water quality, Carbon Biogeochemistry, Urea fertilization in lakes | Finlay@uregina.ca | |
Fletcher, Amber | Assistant Professor | Department of Sociology and Social Studies, Faculty of Arts |
Social impacts of climate change; gender and climate change; gender and water | Fletcher@uregina.ca |
Gacek, James | Assistant Professor |
Justice Studies
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Incarceration; genocidal carcerality; critical issues in media, justice, and security studies; the exploitation of human-animal relations; sex work, indecency and obscenity jurisprudence; and the broader politics of judicial reasoning. | |
Associate Professor
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Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts |
Energy efficiency; Valuation of a clean energy project; Estimation of marginal abatement costs for CO2 emissions (a shadow cost approach); and Economic effects of greening Saskatchewan’s Electricity Generation |
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Associate Professor | Department of Biology, Faculty of Science |
Mercury, contaminants, aquatic systems | Hall@uregina.ca | |
Associate Dean (Research & Graduate Studies), Professor |
Industrial and Process Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science |
Acid gas removal from natural and flue gases, Calorimetry Mass transfer with chemical reactions, Solubility of gases in liquids, Vapor-liquid-equilibria and PVT studies, Pressure swing and temperature swing adsorptions, Physical and transport properties measurements, Process plant simulation, Renewable energy (wind and solar), Water desalination, Biotechnology (proteins and cells), Polymer Engineering (thermodynamics and heat transfer), Chemical education | ||
Professor | Environmental Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science | Water resources and environmental systems engineering, simulation of hydrological and environmental systems, planning of energy and environmental management systems | ||
Margot | Associate Professor | Department of Justice Studies, Faculty of Arts |
Climate change and energy policy; water governance; water, energy and food nexus | |
Ibrahim, Hussameldin | Associate Professor | Industrial and Process Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science |
Biofuels and biochemicals production from agricultural residues, biomass conversion and utilization, synthesis gas production and hydrogen purification, heterogeneous catalysis and reaction kinetics, solid sorbents and catalytic methods for CO2 capture and utilization, conceptual design, economic evaluation, feasibility studies, and project planning and management. | |
Idem, Raphael | Director, Clean Energy Technologies Institute (CETI) |
Industrial and Process Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science |
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation; Carbon Dioxide Capture from Flue Gases from Industrial Sources; Reformer Technology/Fuel Processing for Fuel Cell Application/Hydrogen Energy; Reaction Kinetics, Reaction Mechanisms, and Heterogeneous Catalyst Development; Fossil and Bio-fuels Processing | |
Kulczycki, Cory | Assistant Professor | Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies | Place meaning, outdoor recreation, sport tourism | Kulczycki@uregina.ca |
Leavitt, Peter |
Professor, Director, Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution and Institute of Environmental Change and Society |
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science |
Landscape Effects of Nitrogen on Lake | Leavitt@uregina.ca |
Ng, Kelvin | Associate Professor | Faculty of Engineering | Sustainable solid waste management, disposal site design and operation, reuse of waste materials | Kelvin. Ng@uregina.ca |
Pickard, Garth | Professor Emeritus |
Faculty of Education | Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinary, Place Based; and Experiential. | Pickard@uregina.ca |
Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Undergraduate) |
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Arts |
Climate impacts, grasslands, remote sensing, temporal image analysis | Piwowar@uregina.ca | |
Professor | Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science | Online electricity auctions, integration services, renewable energy,
variable energy, smart power grid
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sadaouis@cs.uregina.ca | |
Associate Professor | Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science |
Applied mathematics, semiconductor physics | asardarli@fnuniv.ca | |
Simpson, Gavin | Quantitative Environmental Scientist | Institute of Environmental Change and Society Department of Biology, Faculty of Science |
Freshwater ecology, Limnology, Palaeoecology, Palaeolimnology, Statistical Ecology |
Simpson@uregina.ca |
Mark | Assistant Professor |
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science |
Tree demography, forest dynamics, global change | Vanderwel@uregina.ca |
Associate Professor | Department of Geology, Faculty of Science |
Diatom and sediment analyses, paleolimnological and paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Holocene climate variability | Velez@uregina.ca | |
Andrew | Professor | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Science |
Organic synthesis, molecular design, green chemistry | Wee@uregina.ca |
Associate Director of IECS (Institute of Environmental Change and Society) | Department of Biology, Faculty of Science |
Aquatic Ecology,Stable Isotope | ||
Assistant Professor | Environmental Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering |
Sustainable water and wastewater treatment; membrane technology; biological treatment; membrane bioreactors; removal of microplastics from water and wastewater. | ||
Professor | Environmental Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science |
Hybrid membrane bioreactor, membrane bioreactor, dissolved air flotation, biofilm, biomass, microorganism, activated sludge, greywater, wastewater, restaurant dishwasher effluent, effluent from amine CO2 capture process, toilet flushing, and irrigation | ||
Assistant Professor | Economics | Environmental and resource economics, behavioral and experimental economics, development economics, and applied econometrics, with specific emphasis in the economics of water and climate change. |