Member publications

April 2024 

Justice and moral economies in “Modular, Adaptive, and Decentralized” (MAD) water systems – co-authored by Dustin Garrick 

A methodology to estimate postdisaster unmet housing needs using limited data: Application to the 2017 California wildfires – co-authored by Rodrigo Costa 

Achieving China's ‘double carbon goals’, an analysis of the potential and cost of carbon capture in the resource-based area: Northwestern China – co-authored by Jeffrey Wilson  

Principles for the consideration of intersectionality in place-based disaster risk governance in islands – co-authored by Derek Armitage 

Automated nanofibre sizing by multi-image processing and deep learning with revised UNet model – co-authored by Zhongchao Tan 

Validating part of the social media infodemic listening conceptual framework using structural equation modelling – co-authored by Zahid A Butt 

Antiviral discovery in toxic cyanobacteria: Low hanging fruit in the age of pandemics – co-authored by Jozef I Nissimov 

Characterizing Subglacial Hydrology Within the Amery Ice Shelf Catchment Using Numerical Modeling and Satellite Altimetry – co-authored by Christine F. Dow 

Dynamic clustering transformer network for point cloud segmentation – co-authored by Jonathan Li 

Achieving rapid decarbonisation of Canada's residential sector requires a strategic approach – co-authored by Paul Parker 

A gap-filling method for satellite-derived chlorophyll-a time series based on neighborhood spatiotemporal information – co-authored by Linlin Xu 

A semi-analytical solution for laterally loaded non-circular piles in elastic soil – co-authored by Dipanjan Basu 

Health trends in Canada 1990–2019: An analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study – co-authored by Zahid A. Butt 

Toxic and Environmental Effects of Neonicotinoid Based Insecticides – co-authored by Ali Elkamel 

Impact of freeze-thaw cycles on greenhouse gas emissions in marginally productive agricultural land under different perennial bioenergy crops – co-authored by Augustine K Osei, Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Maren Oelbermann 

MMSeaIce: a collection of techniques for improving sea ice mapping with a multi-task model – co-authored by Muhammed Patel, Linlin Xu, K. Andrea Scott, and David A. Clausi 

Mineral formation explains the high retention efficiency of dissolved reactive phosphorus in a residential stormwater pond – co-authored by Mahyar Shafii, Philippe Van Cappellen   

Partial Thermal Condensation Mediated Synthesis of High-Density Nickel Single Atom Sites on Carbon Nitride for Selective Photooxidation of Methane into Methanol – co-authored by Xiyang Wang, Yimin A. Wu 

Hydrology Predominates Over Harvest History and Landscape Variation to Control Water Quality and Disinfection Byproduct Formation Potentials in Forested Pacific Coast Watersheds – co-authored by Monica B. Emelko, Fariba Amiri 

Thermally coupled catalytic hydrogen combustion-reverse water gas shift reactor: Model-based feasibility study and parametric analysis – co-authored by Guanjie Sun, David S.A. Simakov 

Understanding the Mechanism of Urea Oxidation from First-Principles Calculations – co-authored by Jury Medvedev, Anna Klinkova 

Validation of pan-Arctic soil temperatures in modern reanalysis and data assimilation systems – co-authored by Tyler C. Herrington, Christopher G. Fletcher 

Framework to Quantify Uncertainty in Microplastic Concentrations in Wastewaters and Sludges Incorporating Analytical Recovery Information into Data Analysis – co-authored by Monica B. Emelko 

March 2024 

Climate science, modelling and observation 

Frequency Selective Surface Structures-Based RF Energy Harvesting Systems and Applications: FSS-Based RF Energy Harvesting Systems - co-authored by Omar M. Ramahi 

Revealing the Mysteries of Population Mobility Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: Comparative Analysis With Internet of Things-Based Thermostat Data and Google Mobility Insights - co-authored by Plinio Morita 

Residual wave vision U-Net for flood mapping using dual polarization Sentinel-1 SAR imagery - co-authored by Jonathan Li 

EPDet: Enhancing point clouds features with effective representation for 3D object detection – co-authored by Jonathan Li 

Evolution of the dynamics of Airdrop Glacier, western Axel Heiberg Island, over a seven-decade-long advance – co-authored by Wesley Van Wychen 

Challenges in measuring fine sediment ingress in gravel-bed rivers using retrievable sediment trap samplers – co-authored by Mike Stone 

GRU–Transformer: A Novel Hybrid Model for Predicting Soil Moisture Content in Root Zones – co-authored by Linlin Xu 

Valuation of carbon emission allowance options under an open trading phase - co-authored by Tony Wirjanto 

The complex basal morphology and ice dynamics of the Nansen Ice Shelf, East Antarctica – co-authored by Christine Dow 

A feature perturbation weakly supervised learning network for airborne multispectral LiDAR pointcloud classification – co-authored by Jonathan Li 

Environmental and Management Drivers of Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions From Actively-Extracted Peatlands in Alberta, Canada – co-authored by Maria Strack 

The apparent temperature sensitivity (Q10) of peat soil respiration: A synthesis study – co-authored by Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Philippe Van Cappellen 

A Self-Packaging Comb Spectrum Generator Based on Substrate Integrated Suspension Line – co-authored by Omar Ramahi 

Deep decarbonization and sustainability transitions 

Near-field electrospinning for 2D and 3D structuring: Fundamentals, methods, and applications - co-authored by Chao Tan 

Development of explicit models to predict methane hydrate equilibrium conditions in pure water and brine solutions: A machine learning approach - co-authored by Yuri Leonenko 

Hydrogen fuel cell electric trains: Technologies, current status, and future - co-authored by XiaoYu Wu 

Prediction of hydrogen−brine interfacial tension at subsurface conditions: Implications for hydrogen geo-storage – co-authored by Yuri Leonenko 

Spatially and Temporally Resolved Dynamic Response of Co-Based Composite Interface during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction - co-authored by Yimin Wu 

Levelized-cost optimal design of long-distance CO2 transportation facilities – co-authored by Ali Elkamel, Yuri Leonenko 

Household energy systems based on biomass: Tracing material flows from source to service in rural Ethiopia - co-authored by Simron Singh 

A Novel Tiled Amplicon Sequencing Assay Targeting the Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV) Genome Reveals Widespread Distribution in Municipal Wastewater Treatment Systems in the Province of Ontario, Canada – co-authored by Trevor Charles 

Equity and modeling in sustainability science: Examples and opportunities throughout the process – co-authored by Rebecca Saari 

Valuation of carbon emission allowance options under an open trading phase - co-authored by Tony Wirjanto 

Numerical analysis on hydrate production performance with multi-well systems: Synergistic effect of adjacent wells and implications on field exploitation – co-authored by Yuri Leonenko 

New bottle or new label? Distinguishing impact investing from responsible and ethical investing – co-authored by Olaf Weber 

New insights on social finance research in the sustainable development context – co-authored by Olaf Weber 

Climate risks, resilience and adaptation 

Thermal analysis of borehole thermal energy storage in unsaturated soil – co-authored by Dipanjan Basu 

How Exposure to Personal Distress With and Without Self-compassion Affects Distress Tolerance: Results from a Two-Sample Randomized Trial – co-authored by Allison Kelly  

Conceptualizing and evaluating the role of a data platform as an entry-point for strengthening flood risk governance in Canada – co-authored by Daniel Henstra  

Municipal perspectives on managed retreat and flood mitigation: A case analysis of Merritt, Canada after the 2021 British Columbia flood disaster – co-authored by Johanna Wandel  

Household energy systems based on biomass: Tracing material flows from source to service in rural Ethiopia - co-authored by Simron Singh 

“It is not just about my work, my identities count”: the Influence of Intersectional Identities on the Employment Experiences of Black African Immigrant Women in Ontario, Canada – co-authored by Warren Dodd 

Valuation of carbon emission allowance options under an open trading phase - co-authored by Tony Wirjanto 

Sporadic diurnal fluctuations of cyanobacterial populations in oligotrophic temperate systems can prevent accurate characterization of change and risk in aquatic systems – co-authored by Monica Emelko 

Attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control factors influencing Canadian secondary school students' milk and milk alternatives consumption – co-authored by Susan Elliott 

Direct topsoil transfer to already planted reforestation sites increases native plant understory and not ruderals – co-authored by Derek Robinson 

Hexachlorobenzene and omega-3 fatty acid intake from traditional foods in the northern Yukon: A risk and benefit analysis – co-authored by Kelly Skinner 

Climate Change and the Future of Ski Tourism in Canada’s Western Mountains – co-authored by Daniel Scott 

The apparent temperature sensitivity (Q10) of peat soil respiration: A synthesis study – co-authored by Fereidoun Rezanezhad, Philippe Van Cappellen 

Mapping current and future flood exposure using a 5 m flood model and climate change projections – co-authored by Daniel Henstra 

Skiers’ perception of climate change in China: The role of activity involvement and place loyalty – co-authored by Daniel Scott 

New bottle or new label? Distinguishing impact investing from responsible and ethical investing – co-authored by Olaf Weber 

Assessing the impact of the sustainable development goals on corporate philanthropy: A study of Canada's leading private sector companies – co-authored by Jeffrey Wilson 

New insights on social finance research in the sustainable development context – co-authored by Olaf Weber 

Life cycle assessment of medical oxygen – co-authored by Steven Young 

Gender identities, water insecurity, and risk: Re-theorizing the connections for a gender-inclusive toolkit for water insecurity research – co-authored by Susan Elliott 

February 2024 

Climate science, modelling and observation 

• Noniterative Reference-Plane-Invariant Material Parameter Retrieval Method for Low-Loss Solid Samples Using One-Port Waveguide Measurements - co-authored by Omar Ramahi  
• Assessing the impact of distributed snow water equivalent calibration and assimilation of Copernicus snow water equivalent on modelled snow and streamflow performance - co-authored by Bryan Tolson  
• Predicting Covid-19 pandemic waves with biologically and behaviorally informed universal differential equations - co-authored by Chris Bauch 
• Simulating net ecosystem exchange under seasonal snow cover at an Arctic tundra site - co-authored by Richard Kelly 
• Solute depletion and reduced hydrological connectivity in subarctic patterned peatlands disturbed by mine dewatering - co-authored by Jonathan Price 
• A Microwave Differential Dielectric Sensor Based on Mode Splitting of Coupled Resonators - co-authored by Omar Ramahi 
• Road salt-induced salinization impacts water geochemistry and mixing regime of a Canadian urban lake - co-authored by Philippe Van Cappellen 
• Paleofloodscapes: Application of sediment source fingerprinting to track flood regime change over space and time at the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada – co-authored by Roland Hall  
• A rapid high-resolution multi-sensory urban flood mapping framework via DEM upscaling– co-authored by Jonathan Li 
• Machine Learning for UAV Classification Employing Mechanical Control Information - co-authored by Omar Ramahi 
• Evaluating Effective Particle Size Distributions of Cohesive Sediment under Varying Shear Stress and Bed Configurations in a Rotating Annular Flume – co-authored by Mike Stone 
• Advancement and perspectives of hyporheic zone hydrology: Technology,  theory and environmental implication – co-authored by Fereidoun Rezanezhad 
• Correction: The Causes and Effects of Preannealed Radiative Property Variations Across Full-Hard Advanced High-Strength Steel Coils (steel research int., (2023) - co-authored by Kyle Daun 
• Co-precipitation of iron and silicon: Reaction kinetics, elemental ratios and the influence of phosphorus – co-authored by Philippe Van Cappellen 

Deep decarbonization and sustainability transitions 

• Probing the effect of distance between sediment microbial fuel cells and sediment storage on electricity generation and organic matter removal in open channels - co-authored by Ali Elkamel 
• Real-time evaluation of signal accuracy in wastewater surveillance of pathogens with high rates of mutation - co-authored by Trevor Charles 
• Investigation of the evolved pyrolytic products and energy potential of Bagasse: experimental, kinetic, thermodynamic and boosted regression trees analysis– co-authored by Ali Elkamel 
• Waterdrop-assisted efficient fog collection on micro-fiber grids – co-authored by Chao Tan 
• Experimental and computational study on removal of nitric oxide using NH2-MIL-125: Revisiting removal mechanism– co-authored by Chao Tan 
• Erratum: Textile waste in Ontario, Canada: Opportunities for reuse and recycling (Resources, Conservation & Recycling (2023) - co-authored by Olaf Weber 
• Causal identification of transit-induced property value uplift in Canada's Waterloo Region: A spatio-temporal difference-in-differences method application – co-authored by Dawn Parker 
• Estimating household demand for transit-oriented development: A two-stage hedonic analysis in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada – co-authored by Dawn Parker 

Climate risks, resilience and adaptation 

• Periconceptional Dietary Patterns and Adverse Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes – co-authored by Sharon Kirkpatrick 
• Temporal patterns of cancer burden in Asia, 1990–2019: a systematic examination for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study - co-authored by Zahid Butt  
• Road salt-induced salinization impacts water geochemistry and mixing regime of a Canadian urban lake - co-authored by Philippe Van Cappellen 
• Disconnected active layers and unfrozen permafrost: A discussion of permafrost-related terms and definitions - co-authored by James Craig 
• Advancement and perspectives of hyporheic zone hydrology: Technology,  theory and environmental implication – co-authored by Fereidoun Rezanezhad 
• Erratum: Textile waste in Ontario, Canada: Opportunities for reuse and recycling (Resources, Conservation & Recycling (2023) - co-authored by Olaf Weber 
• Co-precipitation of iron and silicon: Reaction kinetics, elemental ratios and the influence of phosphorus – co-authored by Philippe Van Cappellen 
• Causal identification of transit-induced property value uplift in Canada's Waterloo Region: A spatio-temporal difference-in-differences method application – co-authored by Dawn Parker 
• Estimating household demand for transit-oriented development: A two-stage hedonic analysis in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada – co-authored by Dawn Parker 

January 2024

Deep decarbonization and sustainability transitions 

• Enhancing mechanical strength of electrospun nanofibers by coaxial electrospinning and thermal treatment - co-authored by Chao Tan 
• Enhancing coal-gangue object detection using GAN-based data augmentation strategy with dual attention mechanism – co-authored by Chao Tan 
• A machine learning approach for modelling and optimization of complex systems: Application to condensate stabilizer plants - co-authored by Ali Elkamel 
• High accuracy key feature extraction approach for the non-stationary signals measurement based on NGO-VMD noise reduction and CNN-LSTM - co-authored by Yimin Wu 
• Hindering nanoparticle growth in reverse microemulsion synthesized CeO2/γ-Al2O3 reverse water gas shift catalyst - co-authored by David Simakov 
• Health and equity implications of individual adaptation to air pollution in a changing climate - co-authored by Rebecca Saari, Chris Bauch 
• Food without agriculture - co-authored by Juan Moreno-Cruz 

Climate science, modelling and observation 

• Potential of GNSS-R for the Monitoring of Lake Ice Phenology - co-authored by Claude Duguay 
• A Novel Weighted Ensemble Transferred U-Net based Model (WETUM) for Post-Earthquake Building Damage Assessment from UAV Data: A Comparison of Deep Learning- and Machine Learning-based Approaches - co-authored by Jonathan Li 
• Point Transformer-based Salient Object Detection Network for 3D Measurement Point Clouds - co-authored by Jonathan Li 
• Neighborhood Attention Makes the Encoder of ResUNet Stronger for Accurate Road Extraction - co-authored by Jonathan Li 
• Weakly Supervised Learning for Pixel-Level Sea Ice Concentration Extraction Using AI4Arctic Sea Ice Challenge Dataset - co-authored by David Clausi, Andrea Scott, Linlin Xu. 
• Applied Geochemistry Presents its 2023 Excellence-in-Review Awards - co-authored by Philippe Van Cappellen 
• On the use of an In-Package Dielectric Lens Antenna for Radar-based Applications - co-authored by Plinio Morita 
• Direct topsoil transfer to already planted reforestation sites increases native plant understory and not ruderals - co-authored by Derek Robinson, Andrew Trant 
• Experimental artefacts affecting characterization of the evolving interfacial heat transfer coefficient in hot stamping of Al-Si coated 22MnB5 steel - co-authored by Kyle Daun 
• High strain rate constitutive and fracture characterization of AA7075-T6 sheet under various stress states - co-authored by Kyle Daun 
• Declining Geoengineering Efficacy Caused by Cloud Feedbacks in Transient Solar Dimming Experiments - co-authored by Chris Fletcher 
• Health and equity implications of individual adaptation to air pollution in a changing climate - co-authored by Rebecca Saari, Chris Bauch 
• Biobased residues sustain crop productivity and soil health in a maize–soybean rotation - co-authored by Maren Oelbermann 
• Interactions Between Internal Solitary Waves and Sea Ice - co-authored by Marek Stastna 

Climate risks, resilience and adaptation 

• News media coverage of hurricane events and Caribbean tourism: a critical analysis of the last 40 years - co-authored by Michelle Rutty, Daniel Scott 
• Multi-level analysis on determinants of sustainability disclosure: a survey of academic literature - co-authored by Jeffrey Wilson 
• Periconceptional Dietary Patterns and Adverse Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes - co-authored by Sharon Kirkpatrick 
• Temporal patterns of cancer burden in Asia, 1990–2019: a systematic examination for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study - co-authored by Zahid Butt 
• Impact of hepatitis B birth dose on immune response in Pakistani children: an open-label, non-inferiority randomized controlled trial, implications for achieving SDG target - co-authored by Zahid Butt 
• National burden of rheumatoid arthritis in Canada, 1990-2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 - a GBD collaborator-led study - co-authored by Zahid Butt 
• Antiviral discovery in toxic cyanobacteria: Low hanging fruit in the age of pandemics - co-authored by Jozef Nissimov 
• Global Polycrisis: The Causal Mechanisms of Crisis Entanglement - co-authored by Thomas Homer-Dixon 
• Exotic pet trade in Canada: The influence of social media on public sentiment and behaviour - co-authored by Brent Doberstein 
• Modeling post-disaster recovery: Accounting for rental and multi-family housing - co-authored by Rodrigo Costa 
• Simplified Continuum Model for Laterally Loaded Rigid Piles and Poles Considering Vertical and Horizontal Soil Displacements - co-authored by Dipanjan Basu 
• Applied Geochemistry Presents its 2023 Excellence-in-Review Awards - co-authored by Philippe Van Cappellen 
• Correlation of Pressuremeter Test Results with SPT N Values and Liquidity Index for Cohesive Soil of Normal Calcutta Deposit  - co-authored by Dipanjan Basu 
• Direct topsoil transfer to already planted reforestation sites increases native plant understory and not ruderals - co-authored by Derek Robinson, Andrew Trant 
• Social psychological factors drive farmers' adoption of environmental best management practices - co-authored by Michael Drescher 
• Reddit and Engaged Science Communication Online: An Examination of Reddit’s R/Science Ask-Me-Anythings and Science Discussion Series - co-authored by Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher 

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