Research

The main research activities of the group, developed with the long-term objective of protecting our water resources, span four main research areas:

Wastewater deposit

Treating Wastewaters

Developing and improving treatment technologies for wastewaters to mitigate the release and impacts of contaminants of emerging concerns. 

Wastewater surveillance

Wastewater-Based Epidemiology

Using wastewater as a complementary source of information on illicit drugs consumption providing data in quasi-real time for population of various sizes.

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Assessing Fate & Exposure

Monitoring presence and fate of contaminants of emerging concerns in the environment and engineered systems and exposure through drinking water.

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Assessing Effects

Studying the nature and toxicity of transformation products of contaminants of emerging concerns and of treated wastewaters.


Main Ongoing Projects

Water ozonation

NSERC Discovery

2020-2025

Ozone-based wastewater treatment for disinfection and removal of micropollutants

Principle Investigator

V. Yargeau


 

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NSERC Create

2019-2025

Persistent, Emerging, and Oil Pollution in cold marine Environments
(People Create)

Principle Investigator

B. Chen, Memorial University


 

Agricultural Field

AgriRisk Initiatives Program

2021-2024

Optimizing methods to monitor pesticides in agriculture-adjacent streams

Principle Instigator

V. Yargeau


 

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Regional Municipality of York 

2022-2024

Prioritization of emerging substances of concern (ESOC) in water and wastewater

Principle Investigator

V. Yargeau


 

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NSERC 

2023-2024

Fish Forever

Principle Investigator

M-C. Buell, Trent University


 

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FRQNT

2023-2026

Nouveaux materiaux d'electrode pour le traitement electrochimique des PFAS

Principle Investigator

S. Omanovic


 

Types of Contaminants

  • PFAS

  • Pesticides

  • Flame Retardants

  • Plasticizers

  • Drugs of Abuse

  • Endocrine Disruptors

  • Antibiotics

  • Transformation Products

 

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