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GREEN ENVIRONMENT

University research that is contributing to a greener planet

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> Million dollar battery boost
  • Ryerson researcher gathers batteries for large-scale energy storage project

> Taking the temperature of our environment
  • McMaster scientists enlist citizens, students to study effects of urbanization on environment.

> Enterprising with energy
  • An engineering researcher and his colleagues are working with a Toronto firm on a plan that could see hundreds of marine salvage bags anchored at the bottom of Lake Ontario to store excess energy.

> Biosphere reserves: Earth to Waterloo
  • George Francis doesn’t have enough fingers to count how many of Canada’s 15 biosphere reserves he’s explored and analyzed over the years. But he knows how many more there are to go.

> An ‘anything but textbook’ experience in Antarctica
  • Seven Carleton University students will be earning course credits next month while conducting research on the Earth’s southernmost continent.

> Award-winning water research
  • Water, water everywhere. An associate professor will use a $150,000 Early Researcher Award to ensure contaminants left behind from mines don't get into our water.

> Marching to a different tune
  • Ontario is under attack – wood-boring beetles are eating their way through our forests. A Carleton University professor studies how their response to sounds can shed light on ways to control them.

> Heavy snow – slow melt better for the environment
  • A quick snow melt is normally welcomed by Canadians. But a study at McMaster University shows that it can trickle into our waterways and result in increased water and stream contamination.

> LEEDing by Design
  • A new centre at Laurentian University has incorporated sustainability into both its design and mandate. A sustainable construction project, the centre has researchers who will study damaged freshwater lakes and climate change.

> Bioterrorism: a pile of crops?
  • To help prepare for bioterrorist attacks on water systems and crops, a Trent University researcher finds clues from studying past famine and crop disasters.

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