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Virtual Industry Partner Information Day 2021

Monday, December 20, 2021 by

This year Information Day for our partners was held virtually as well and was comprised of two different webinars. The first webinar was held on November 3rd and was facilitated by UW NSERC Chair Dr. Peter Huck. Guest speaker was Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Canada Excellence Research Chair Laureate in Ecohydrology, Ph.D.

Chair team secured NSERC funding for microplastics research and published a manuscript on the removal of polystyrene microplastic spheres from surface waters

Friday, October 15, 2021 by

NSERC Alliance Grant: Microplastics fingerprinting at the watershed scale: From sources to receivers

Chair team collaboration with Montreal researchers on natural organic matter results in several manuscripts

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 by

Operating Bicarbonate-Form versus Chloride-Form Ion Exchange Resins without Regeneration for Natural Organic Matter Removal. Liu, ZH., I. Papineau, M. Mohseni, S. Peldszus, P.R. Bérubé , S. Sauvé, and B. Barbeau , 2021. ACS ES&T Water, 1, 6, 1456–1463

NSERC Chair group presenting research at virtual conference

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 by

The NSERC Chair group will attend the 2021 Ontario’s Water Conference & Trade Show (https://pheedloop.com/owwa20/site/home), which is organized by OWWA and will be held virtually from April 19th to May 5th. Chair members will deliver four oral presentations at this conference. See below for titles and short abstracts of the presentations:

University Research Session

Paper on the comparison of different corrosion control treatments for lead co-authored by the Chair team is available as open access

Wednesday, April 7, 2021 by

Pilot-scale comparison of sodium silicates, orthophosphate and pH adjustment to reduce lead release from lead service lines