This series of five events聽brought聽together faculty from across 91社区 in order to highlight the myriad of ways sustainability聽challenges are being tackled by researches on our two campuses.聽Sixty-three聽faculty members聽from across 8 faculties delivered 4-minute "lightning talks" framing their research in the context of sustainability. The series showcased the diversity of perspectives, pathways and聽efforts across聽the many disciplines and highlighted the many possible connections between projects.
The series was hosted by the 91社区 Sustainability Systems Initiative (formerly the Sustainability Sciences and Technologies Initiative). You can view the presenters, affiliations, and talk titles below.
| Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| CJ Li | Chemistry | SCI | Inventing New Chemistry for Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resources |
| Subhasis Ghoshal | Civil Eng & Applied Mechanics | ENG | Environmental Implications and Applications of Nanomaterials |
| Daniel Varro | Electrical & Computer Eng | ENG | Live models for virtual analysis of sustainability |
| Elena Bennett | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Working with communities to design multifunctional landscapes |
| Anila Asghar | Education | EDU | Making sustainability sciences central to our pedagogical practice |
| Catherine Potvin | Biology | SCI | Climate action in Canada |
| Jill Baumgartner | Epidemiology | MED | Measuring environmental exposures and their impacts on health and the environment |
| Larry Lessard | Mechanical Eng | ENG | The Waste for Life Project |
| J枚rg Kienzle | Computer Science | SCI | Model-Driven Software Engineering and Sustainability |
| Tony Ricciardi | Biology | SCI | The sustainability of globally accelerating rates of biological invasion |
| Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Grutter | Physics | SCI | Characterization of Energy Materials at the Nanoscale |
| Audrey Moores | Chemistry | SCI | Sustainable design of nanoparticles |
| Raynald Gauvin | Mining and Materials Engineering | ENG | New Revolutionary Electron Microscopy to Characterize critical metals and Lithium based materials for a greener future. |
| Nigel Roulet | Geography | SCI | Carbon stewardship and northern development |
| Jeff Bergthorson | Mechanical Engineering | ENG | Burning metals for zero-carbon power |
| Vedat Verter | Operations Management | MGMT | The Impact of Regulation on Product Recovery |
| Chris Barrington-Leigh | Economics | ARTS | Irreversible choices in the urban built environment |
| Madhav Badami | Urban Planning/MSE | ENG | Urban Transport Research in India and North America |
| Gregor Fussman Mathieu Blanchette Melania Cristescu |
Biology Computer Science Biology |
SCI | Multiple stressors on aquatic ecosystems: solutions from experimental ecology and genomics |
| Sylvie de Blois | Plant Science | FAES | Sustaining biodiversity and ecological flows |
| Brian Robinson | Geography | SCI | Ecosystem services, development, and livelihoods |
| Brian Leung | Biology | SCI | Socio-ecological forecasting and integrative modeling |
| Benjamin Fung | Information Studies | ARTS | Data Mining for Sustainable Smart Cities |
| Michael Jemtrud | Architecture | ENG | Practices of Urban Resiliency |
| George Demopoulos | Materials Engineering | ENG | Nanostructured electrodes for next generation solar energy conversion and storage cells via sustainable and scalable solution processing |
| Dror Etzion | Strategy and Organizations/MSE | MGMT | How to manage grand challenges |
| Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamid Akbarzadeh | Bioresource Engineering | FAES | Bioinspired Multifunctional and Multiphysical Materials for Sustainable Energy Production |
| Joann Whalen | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Soil as a resource for sustaining future food and fuel demands |
| Don Smith | Plant Science | FAES | Opportunities in the Phytomicrobiome (N2 fixation and beyond) |
| Olivia Wilkins | Plant Science | FAES | Reprogramming regulatory networks in cereal crops to improve stress tolerance |
| Timothy Geary | Institute of Parasitology | FAES | Sustainable parasite control in animal agriculture |
| Elsa Vasseur | Animal Science | FAES | Systems Biology for Sustainable Agriculture |
| Benoit Boulet | Electrical and Computer Engineering | ENG | Transport Electrification: CFI Autonomous EV Lab and Mac Campus Electric Shuttle Bus Project |
| Paul J. Thomassin | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Integrating Bio-Physical and Economic Models to address Questions of Climate Change and Natural Capital |
| Mark Lefsrud | Bioresource Engineering | FAES | Food Security in Northern Canada (FoodSINC) |
| Vikram Bhatt | Architecture | ENG | Sustainability and Food Security: From projects to practice. |
| Murray Humphries | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Northern Canada鈥檚 largest and least recognized sustainable development project. |
| Kyle Elliott | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES |
Sustainability in a Changing Arctic Ocean |
| Nicoleta Uzea | Natural Resource Sciences | FAES | Fostering聽Multi-Stakeholder Co-operation and Coordination for a Sustainable Food System |
| Richard Janda | Law | LAW | Transforming Social Norms in the Anthropocene |
| Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Regan | Economics | ARTS | How channeling both Adam Smith and Bob Barker can improve the environment |
| Graham Macdonald | Geography | SCI | Cross-scale perspectives on agriculture and sustainability |
| Nii Addy | Strategy & Organization | MGMT | Food convergent innovation for sustainable health and wealth |
| Susan Gaskin | Civil Engineering | ENG | Sustainability of water resources and the hydrosocial cycle |
| Adrian Vetta | Mathematics and Statistics | SCI | Mechanism design for environmental sustainability |
| Parisa Ariya | Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | SCI | Natural airborne particles: understanding and implications in climate and health sciences |
| Nate Quitoriano | Mining | ENG | Power generation with semi-conductors and thermal electrics |
| Tomislav Friscic | Chemistry | SCI | Chemistry 2.0 or a new system of chemical synthesis |
| Sylvain Coulombe | Chemical Engineering | ENG | Sustainable ammonia (NH3) synthesis |
| Sasha Omanovic | Chemical Engineering | ENG | Sustainable and green production of hydrogen and ammonia. |
| Kevin Manaugh | Geography | SCI | Cities, sustainability, and well-being |
| Jaye Ellis | Law / MSE | LAW | Governance for sustainability: the science-policy interface |
| Name | Department | Faculty | Lightning Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dominic Frigon | Civil Engineering | ENG | Beyond wastewater treatment: engineering microbial communities for resource recovery |
| Nathalie Tufenkji | Chemical Engineering | ENG | Nano and biotechnologies for sustainability |
| Hans Larsson | Biology/Redpath Museum | SCI | Novel ecotoxicology partnerships and 91社区's northern reaches |
| Margaret Kalacksa | Geography | SCI | Sustainability of water resources and diversity - a remote sensing approach |
| Gail Chmura | Geography | SCI | Blue Carbon increases sustainability of coastlines and our climate while helping fund ecological restoration |
| Bernhard Lehner Jim Nicell |
Geography Civil Engineering |
SCI ENG |
Large-scale river and lake modeling to screen for water contamination and other eco-hydrological risks |
| Andy Gonzalez | Biology | SCI | Evolutionary rescue and the sustainability of biodiversity |
| Andrew Hendry | Biology / Redpath Museum |
SCI |
Rapid evolution shapes ecosystem services and sustainability |
| David Wachsmuth | Urban Planning | ENG | Can cities save the planet? The global politics of local sustainability |
| Peter Brown | Natural Resource Sciences / MSE | FAES | Leadership for Planetary Survival: Toward Earth Economics |
| Philippe St-Jean | Design Services | Facilities | 91社区 as a Living Campus |
| Camille Ouellet Dallaire | Geography | SCI | Creating space for sustainability literacy outside the classroom |
