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Fall 2020

van Klaveren, Nikki

Streams provide important ecosystem services, such as the transformation of organic matter and water purification, while transporting water from headwaters to larger receiving waterbodies downstream. Excess nutrients introduced through anthropogenic land use put stress on aquatic ecosystems and...

Fall 2019

Akbari, Maryam

Canada is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to mitigate the effects of global warming. A major source of GHG emissions is coal-based power generation. Replacing (fossil) coal with biomass-based feedstocks for the generation of electricity could help reduce these emissions....

Spring 2019

Vargas Sepulveda, Hector Mauricio

There has been an increasing interest in the use of biorefining feedstocks for the production of value-added products. Seaweeds are of special interest, due to the fact that they do not compete for land use with food crops, have low to no lignin content, and can be grown in waste water or at sea,...

Spring 2023

Hua, Xiaotian

Coral reefs are essential to the marine ecosystem, and provide some of the most diverse habitats in the world. Coral reef fisheries contribute 6.8 billion to the economy a year globally. However, coral reefs are under significant threat because of human activities such as overfishing, ocean...

Fall 2018

Xu, Yue

Surface colonization is ubiquitous in marine environments, and bacteria are one of the first, or primary colonizers, to attach to newly formed surfaces. Marine algae are host to a plethora of such bacterial colonizers, one of the most abundant being roseobacters. Most of known pathogenic or...

Fall 2020

Gill, Manjot Kaur

The depletion of fossil fuels as well as the greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel use have led to growing interest in biofuel production from biomass. A new technology, thermo-catalytic reforming (TCR), is one of the contributing interests. TCR technology integrates intermediate pyrolysis...