Saint-Lawrence estuary. Cold conversion.

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• MSN actualités reprises a Radio-Canada.ca piece about the departure, yesterday, of the Université du Québec à Rimouski research vessel, 'Le Coriolis II', for a nine-day research mission to examine acidification of surface water in the St-Lawrence estuary. It quotes Yves Gélinas, professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Environmental Chemistry, in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who has joined the research mission.
• Manitoba Co-operator picks up news of research on bacteria that thrive in colder temperatures that can be used to convert solid food waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer. The study, published in Process Safety and Environmental Protection, was led by Mohammad Saifur Rahaman, associate professor in Concordia’s Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE), and researchers at Bio-Terre Systems Inc.

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