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Saint-Lawrence estuary. Cold conversion.

Concordia in the news
Posted on June 14, 2017

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  • 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, appears throughout a TVA Nouvelles report (with accompanying text) about a research mission aboard the Université du Québec à Rimouski research vessel, 'Le Coriolis II'. Gélinas and several other researchers boarded the vessel earlier this week for a nine-day mission to examine acidification of surface water in the St-Lawrence estuary.
  • Biomass Magazine joins coverage of new research by Mohammad Saifur Rahaman, associate professor in Concordia’s Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE), and researchers at Bio-Terre Systems Inc., into cold-temperature conversion of solid food waste into renewable energy and organic fertilizer. The study was published in Process Safety and Environmental Protection.