McGill Symposium on Environmental Research
Thursday, May 22, 2003 & Friday, May 23, 2003
Program (Revised May 20)
Thursday, May 22nd
8:30-9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15am
Welcome
9:15-10:30am Session 1
1- Lovejoy, Shaun (Department of Physics) “Scale, Resolution and our Multifractal
Environment.”
2- Cairns, Robert (Department of Economics) “Value and Income.”
3- De Blois, Sylvie (Department of Plant Science and School of Environment) “Marginal
Habitats for Conservation: The Missing Link?”
4- Kosatsky, Tom (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics & Montreal Public Health
Department) with A.Smargiassi & M-C. Boivin. “Preliminary Investigation of Excess
Respitory Disease Hospitalisations Downwind of an Urban Petrochemical Complex.”
10:30-11:00am Coffee and Posters
11:00-12:20pm Session 2
1- Lin, Charles (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science) with L. Wei, D.
Chaumont & M. Beland. “An Atmospheric-hydrological Model for Flash Flood
Forecasting.”
2- Thomassin, Paul (Department of Agricultural Economics) “A Domestic Emission Carbon
Trading System for Canada: The Potential for Agricultural Soils in an Offset Program.”
3- Nicell, Jim (Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics) “Industrial Waste
Treatment Using Peroxidase Enzymes.”
4- Badami, Madhav (School of Urban Planning & School of Environment) “Transport,
Energy and Environment in the Global Context.”
5- Derome, Jacques (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science) “ The Canadian
Climate Variability Research Network: Some of McGill’s Contributions.”
6- Roulet, Nigel (Department of Geography & Centre for Climate and Global Change
Research) with T. Moore. “The Carbon Budget of Peatlands and the Effect of
Disturbance.”
7- Almazan, Guillermina (Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics) with S.Hossain,
S. Liu & G. Fragoso. “Cadmium Exposure Causes Apoptosis in Oligodendrocyte
Progenitors.”
8- Brown, David (School of Urban Planning) “Mergers and De-mergers: The Implications
for Environmental Planning and Management in Montreal.”
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch and Posters
2:00-2:45 pm Panel Discussion: Environment-related Centres at McGill
1. Lawrence Mysak, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
McGill Centre for Climate and Global Change Research (C2GCR)
2. Harriet Kuhnlein, School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment (CINE)
3. Edward (Ted) McKyes, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems
Engineering, Brace Research Centre for Water Resource Management
2:45-3:30 pm Session 3
1- Mikkelson, Greg (Department of Philosophy and School of Environment) “A Critique of
Reductionist ‘Environmental’ Science.”
2- Brown, Wayne (Department of Chemical Engineering) with E.Heath. “Quantifying the
Biodegradation Potential of Commercial Polychlorinated Alkanes (PCAs).”
3- Scott, Colin (Department of Anthropology) “Fisheries management, Anthropology and
Native Title Law.”
4- Bera, Pubalee (Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering) with S.Prasher,
A. Madani, R. Lacroix, J.D. Gaynor & C.S. Tan. “Application of Mars in Simulating
Pesticide Concentrations in Soil.”
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee and Posters
4:00-5:30 pm Session 4
1- Roper, Peter (Department of Psychiatry) “Terrorism, Neuropsychiatric Aspects.”
2- Butler, Ian (Department of Chemistry) with S. Warner & J-P Farant. “Photodegradation of
Nitropolycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Solution and Adsorbed onto a Surface.”
3- Ellis, Jaye (Faculty of Law & School of Environment) “Governing the Global Commons:
International Law for the High Seas and Antarctica.”
4- Gaskin, Susan (Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics)
“Environmental Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering.”
5- Kuhnlein, Harriet (Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment) with L.
Chan & O. Receveur. “Studies on Benefits and Risks of Traditional Arctic Food.”
6- Bornstein, Lisa (School of Urban Planning & Energy and Environmental Research
Laboratory) “Conflict Assessments and Mapping in Researching Environmental
Management.”
5:30-7:00 pm
Wine and Cheese
Friday, May 23rd
8:30-9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 am Session 1
1- Lechowicz, Martin (Department of Biology) “Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of
Forest Diversity.”
2- Ziegler, Rafael (Department of Philosophy) “Theory and Practice: Environmental
Research, Environmental Thought and Political Practice.”
3- Lau, Peter (Department of Microbiology and Immunology) “ Micro-organisms and
Biocatalysts as Environmental and Sustainability Tools: A Tale of Three
Pseudomonads…”
4- Ghoshal, Subhasis (Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics) with A.
Keane & P. Lau. “Assessing the Bioavailability of Organic Pollutants Using a Novel
Bioluminescent Biosensor.”
5- Thakur, Manohar (Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering) with S. Prasher, P. Goel &
S. Ehsan. “Remediation Technology for Environment Research: Water, Soil, and Food
Safety from Pesticide Residues and Heavy Metals.”
6- Ooi, Boon Teck (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) “Power Electronic
System for Off-shore Wind Farms.”
7- Gyorkos, Theresa (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics) with R. Larocque, S.
Shenker & E. Gotuzzo. “Research on Anemia in Pregnant Women in Peru.”
8- Verma, Manish (Faculty of Management) with V. Verter. “ A Risk Assessment Model for
Rail Transport of Hazardous Materials.”
10:30-11:00 am Coffee and Posters
11:00-11:45 am
Panel Discussion: Opportunities and challenges of cross-discipline collaborations
1. Paul Thomassin (Department of Agricultural Economics)
“Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Policy: Experiences with Cross-disclipainary Collaboration in
a Public Policy Setting.”
2. Chris Green (Department of Economics)
“A Social Scientist in the Climate Mix”
3. Jim Nicell (Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics)
“The Green Chemistry Experience”
11:45-12:30 pm Session 2
1- Case, Bruce (Departments of Pathology & Epidemology (Occupational Heath) & School
of Environment) “Interdisciplinary Research in Environmental Regulation: A Personal
Experience on Four Continents.”
2- Ricciardi, Anthony (School of Environment & Redpath Museum) “Biological Invasions:
Causes, Consequences & Risk Assessment.”
3- Harris, Ralph (Department of Mining, Metals and Minerals Engineering) with W.J.
Rankin. “The Contribution of Pyrometallurgy to Sustainable Development.”
4- Sarigollu, Emine (Institute of Marketing and Faculty of Management) “ A Cross-country
Investigation of Environmental Attitudes.”
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch and Posters
2:00-3:30 pm
Session 3
1- Finch, Jim (Department of Mining, Metals and Materials Engineering) with R. Rao.
“Resource Recovery from Mining Industry Wastes.”
2- Mucci, Alfonso (Department of Earth and Planetary Science) with C. Guignard & G.
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Bernier. “ Trace Metal Mobility in Sediments Following a Catastrophic Depositional
Event.”
Clarke, Amelia (Faculty of Management) with Steve Maguire. “Integrating the
Precautionary Principle into a National Innovation Policy.”
Fortin, Steve (Faculty of Management) with L. Eckel & K. Fisher. “ Accounting for Asset
Retirement Obligations- ARO’s in Canada and the USA.”
Brown, Peter (School of Environment & Departments of Geography and Natural
Resource Sciences) “Institutions for Global Stewardship.”
Vali, Hojatollah (Faculty of Electron Microscopy Research) “ The Environmental Impact
of Mineral Precipitation in Biological Systems.”
Chmura, Gail (Department of Geography) “Returning Tides on the Bay of Fundy.”
Medhi, Bano (BRACE Centre for Water Resource Management) “Monitoring Water and
Soil Quality as Related to Different Agricultural Practices.”
3:30-4:00 pm
Coffee and Posters
4:00-5:30 pm
Brainstorming: How can McGill best facilitate environmental research?
5:30-5:45 pm
Closing Remarks
5:45-7:00 pm
Wine and Cheese
Poster Presentations
1- Benoit, Philippe (Earth and Planetary Science) “Modeling the Development of Hypoxic
Waters in the Lower St-Lawrence Estuary”.
2- Raofie, Farhad (Departments of Chemistry) with P. Ariya. “ Kinetics and Products Study of the
Reaction of BrO Radicals with Gaseous Mercury.”
3- Pal, Biswajit (Departments of Chemistry and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) with P.
Ariya. “Studies of Ozone and Hydroxyl Radical Initiated Reactions of Gaseous Mercury: Kinetics,
Product Studies, and Atmospheric Implication.”
4- Musclow, Sandy (Earth and Planetary Science) with A. Mucci. “Impact of Salmon farming on
the Geochemistry of the Sediments in the southwestern Bay of Fundy.”
5- Litvinsky, Y (Institute of Parasitology) “Cryptosporidium- Possible Routes of Transmission and
Viability.”
6- Fang, Zhen (Department of Mining, Metals and Materials Engineering) with Xu, S. & J.
Kozinski. “Phase Behavior and Oxidation of Organic Wastes in Supercritical Water.”
7- Yuan, Tao (Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry) with W. D. Marshall.
“Hydrogenation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons.”
8- Burchard, Javier (Department of Animal Science) with H. Monardes. “Effects of Electric and
Magnetic Field on Dairy Cattle.”
9- Kawada, Junpei (Department of Chemistry) with R. H. Marchessault. “ Bioplastic and
Themoplastic for the Environment.”
10- Bajcsy, Jan (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) with B. Xu & I.
Deslauriers. “Data Compression and Transmission for Wireless Sensor Networks with Potential
Environmental Applications.”
11- Fadai, Gholamreza ( Faculty of Psychology and Education) “Changing Attitude: A Way for
the Protection of the Environment.”
12- Eldabbagh, Fadi (Energy and Environmental Research Laboratory) with R. Appadurai, W.
Hutny, M. Groves, J. Hawari, E. Rosen & J. Kozinski. “ Multi-zone Combustion of De-Inking
Sludge.”
13- Kunjikutty, Sobhalatha ( Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering) with S.
Prasher, K. Seung-Hyun, P. Dutilleul, D. Ahmad. “ Nitrogen Removal of Municipal Wastewaters
using a Floodplain Filtration Technique.”
14- Crampton, Angela (Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Studies) with T. GlavicicTheberge. “ Environment and Industry- Making the Links Through McGill’s Office of Technology
Transfer.”
15- Suerich-Gulick, France ( Department of Mechanical Engineering) with W. Taha & Prof W.
G. Habashi. “ Applications of Multi-disciplinary CFD to Environmental Research.”
16- Wardell, Lois J. (Department of Earth and Planetary Science) with J. Stix. “Remote Sensing
of Volcanic Gas Emissions.”
17- Goldberg, Mark (Department of Medicine) “A Research Program into the Acute Health
Effects from Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution.”
18- Fabry, Frederic (McGill School of Environment & Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic
Science) with I. Zawadzki. “The McGill Weather observatories: Records of the Past and of the
Present.”
19- Downey, Bruce (Bellairs Research Institute, McGill University) with R. Haynes. “
Opportunities for Teaching and Research in the Tropics.”
20- Maguire, Steve (Faculty of Management) with A. Clarke. “Integrating the Precautionary
Principle into National Innovation Policy: A framework of analysis and an assessment of
Canada’s 2002 Innovation Strategy.”
21- Chong, How-Sen (Environmental Liaison) “Credit for Change: Linking undergraduate
education with university policy initiatives.”