News
October 21st, 2024:
RESTORE co-director Clare Robinson delivers 2024 Farvolden Lecture at University of Waterloo. Fantastic opportunity to share RESTORE’s leading work that highlights the significant impact of groundwater on surface water quality and the sustainability of water resources in Canada.
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May 7th, 2021:
Congratulations to Deanna Hersey for finishing in 3rd place in the Student Poster Competition at the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) 2021 Convention.
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April 21th, 2021:
Congratulations to PhD candidate Angelos Almpanis for being awarded the 2020-2021 Ross and Jean Clark Scholarship. Well done Angelos!
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April 4th, 2021:
RESTORE MESc student Meghan Vissers won second place in the Civil Engineering 3-minute thesis competition
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October 8th, 2020:
Happy to share our latest research published in the industry-leading magazine: Water Association of Ontario (WEAO)‘s INFLUENT. ‘Smouldering Biosolids and Woodchips: Co-Waste Management’ is on pg. 33 (free). Congrats to great academic-industry team.
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September 9th, 2020:
Exciting breakthrough in remediating soil and GAC containing PFAS. Alex Duchesne’s paper in ES&T shows that STAR smouldering treatment eliminates PFAS from both with minimal energy input. Substantial PFAS destroyed in the process.
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September 2nd, 2020:
Great work to our prior PhD student (now post-doc) Sabina on publishing a multi-year field study investigating transport of nutrients from septic systems to large lakes.
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August 31st, 2020:
Check out this new STAR remediation paper led by RESTORE graduate Marco. Novel modelling of STAR under challenging conditions.
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July 22nd, 2020:
4 RESTORE authors part of an international team just published a comprehensive review of smouldering science and engineering applications. Published in the top journal in the field (IF=29).
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May 15th, 2020:
New paper by RESTORE MESc Rebecca Solinger on a new application of STAR technology to destroy waste oil sludge and to clean contaminated soil. Exciting to see this already being applied at several sites in Canada and worldwide.
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May 15th, 2020:
Check out new paper by RESTORE MESc Hayley Wallace investigating regional scale groundwater discharge into large lakes.
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May 5th, 2020:
New paper led by RESTORE MESc student Lauren Oldfield examining septic system effluent inputs to streams by tracking artificial sweeteners
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May 4th, 2020:
Congratulations to RESTORE student Jiahao Wang on his second place prize in the 11th Annual Geosyntec Student Paper Competition! Great work Jiahao!
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April 30th, 2020:
RESTORE PhD student Taryn Fournie wins Western 3MT. Looking forward to Ontario 3MT competition.
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April 8th, 2020:
RESTORE Director Clare Robinson awarded a Western Faculty Scholar. She was recognized for her significant achievements in research and teaching. The recipients are considered all-around scholars and will hold the title for two years.
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March 29th, 2020:
Congratulations to Archana Tamang and Alex Duchesne for both successfully defending their MESc theses this week via remote zoom defenses. Excellent work!!
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March 10th, 2020:
RESTORE Director Clare Robinson leads successful Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships program to develop a partnership between Western and Cuban institutions on natural disaster management.
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February 28th, 2020:
Congratulations to RESTORE masters student Alex Duchesne and RESTORE collaborator David Patch of RMC for winning best presentation awards at Central Canadian Association of Water Quality Symposium!!
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December 23rd, 2019:
Congratulation to RESTORE student Sabina Rakhimbekova for successfully defending her PhD. Exciting work on groundwater chemical inputs to large lakes. Thanks also to Holly Michael for braving the winter travel to come to Western for the exam.
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December 13th, 2019:
New RESTORE Prof Chris Power made a big impact At #AGU2019 with a lightening session as well as a poster focused on integrating geoelectrical and geochemical data for understanding and preventing acid mine drainage at mining sites. Well done Chris!
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November 15th, 2019:
Congratulations to Jaeleah Goor for recognition of excellence in graduate research with the GRC Quigley Award - RESTORE is very proud
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June 19th, 2019:
Congratulations to new RESTORE student Patrick Merritt for winning The J.P. Bickell Foundation Mining Scholarship. Patrick is spending the summer in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia doing mine water field work.
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June 17th, 2019:
Congratulations to James Gale for winning the Gold Medal in Civil Engineering at Western. We look to you joining the RESTORE team in September.
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June 14th, 2019:
Marco Zanoni presented his talk entitled “STAR Remediation of Contaminated Soil: the Energy Balance that Underpins Applied Smouldering” at the I2T2 2019 Symposium on thermal processes in Banff. Well done Marco and good idea to enjoy the beautiful outdoors while there!
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June 14th, 2019:
RESTORIAN Cody Murray succesfully defended his Master thesis on field applications of smouldering remediation of waste oil sludge using the STARx Hottpad. Congrats Cody!!
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June 13th, 2019:
Congratulations to RESTORIAN Ariel Garcia for successfully defending his PhD on sulfidation of nZVI for groundwater remediation. Time to celebrate.
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April 25th, 2019:
Congratulations to RESTORE MESc students Archana and Jaeleah for winning Environment & Sustainability Awards of Excellence!
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April 22nd, 2019:
RESTORE PhD student Sabina wins Western’s Ideas for Sustainability and Environment Competition. Awesome work!!!
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March 20th, 2019:
Congratulations to our RESTORE student Lauren Oldfield who did a fantastic job defending her MESc thesis today. Onwards and upwards to a new chapter of work.
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January 16th, 2019:
Excited to have Dr. Chris Power join the RESTORE team as a new assistant professor with expertise in environment geophysics and contaminant transport.
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August 29th, 2018:
Congratulations to Nicholas Head on a successful defense of his Masters thesis examining a Field Test of Electrokinetically-Delivered Thermally Activated Persulfate for Remediation of Chlorinated Solvents in Clay!
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August 29th, 2018:
Congratulations to Ainsley Inglis on a successful defense of her Masters thesis examining the use of Electrokinetically-Enhanced Emplacement of Lactate in a Chlorinated Solvent Contaminated Clay Site to Promote Bioremediation!
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June 25th, 2018:
The 2018 STAR Summit was a huge success! Savron employees and STAR researchers, 12 of which were from RESTORE, presented STAR work around the world and the latest discoveries about new applications and improving the process, showing RESTOREs strong industrial-academic link!
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