CE 990 Graduate Research Seminar Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering University of Saskatchewan
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CE 990 Graduate Research Seminar Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering University of Saskatchewan Monday and Tuesday January 27 and 28, 2020 1:00 pm to 5:45 pm Peter MacKinnon Building – Convocation Hall (PMB 120) 107 Administration Place, University of Saskatchewan Presentations will be made by 32 graduate students This event is an excellent opportunity to learn about research in Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering All are welcome! January 27 & 28, 2020 Program Schedule – Day 1: Monday, January 27 1:00 – 1:05 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks Time Presentation Presenter, Title, Supervisor(s) No. 1:05 pm M1 Mohsen Asadibagolee – Odour Emissions and Dispersion from a Cold Region Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant. Program: Ph.D., Supervisor: Kerry McPhedran 1:20 pm M2 Mohamad Elrafihi – Assessing Indoor Exposure to radon gas and related health impacts at Red Earth Cree Nation, Saskatchewan Phase I. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Kerry McPhedran 1:35 pm M3 Connor Theoret – An Introduction to First Nations Water and Wastewater Infrastructure and Economic Development. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Kerry McPhedran 1:50 pm M4 Harrison Bull – Evaluation of the Arsenic and Iron Removal from Residual Wastewaters of a Drinking Water Treatment Plant. Program: M.Sc., Supervisors: Kerry McPhedran, Terry Fonstad 2:05 pm M5 Hayley Popick – Assessment of Stormwater Quality Discharging from the City of Saskatoon into the South Saskatchewan River during the Ice-free Season. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Kerry McPhedran 2:20 pm M6 Ali Ekhlasinia – Evaluation of Arsenic and Iron in Sediments of a Drinking Water Treatment Plant. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Kerry McPhedran 2:35 – 2:50 pm Coffee Break 2:50 pm M7 Mohanad Zaghloul – New Preference: Pan-Canadian Probability Distribution for Streamflow. Program: Ph.D., Supervisors: Amin Elshorbagy, Simon Papalexiou 3:05 pm M8 Lina Wu – Trade-offs and Synergies of Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Saskatchewan, Canada. Program: Ph.D., Supervisor: Amin Elshorbagy 3:20 pm M9 Ershad Ostadzadeh – Modeling the Global Energy and Virtual Water Trade Networks. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Amin Elshorbagy 3:35 pm M10 Mohamed Abdelhamed – Hydrologic-land Surface Modelling of Sporadic Permafrost: A Case Study of Jean Marie River Watershed. Program: Ph.D., Supervisors: Saman Razavi, Howard Wheater 3:50 pm M11 Lijie Guo – Quantifying the Hydrological Effects of Climate Change and Agricultural Landuse Change in the Canadian Prairies. Program: Ph.D., Supervisor: Warren Helgason 4:05 – 4:25 pm Snack Break 4:25 pm M12 Mohammad Hasan – Study on Regimes of Flow below a Weir and their Behaviors. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Kerry Mazurek 4:40 pm M13 Pouya Sabokruhie – Scour of Cohesive Soils by Submerged Turbulent Jets. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Kerry Mazurek Page 2 of 5 January 27 & 28, 2020 4:55 pm M14 Claudia Vesga Rodriguez – Assessing the Stormwater Collection System in the City of Saskatoon in Light of Climate Change and the Uncertainty in the Associated Rainfall Intensity Estimates. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Kerry Mazurek 5:10 pm M15 Eliza Meldrum – Soil Hydraulic Properties and Implications at the LFCE Research Center. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Terry Fonstad 5:25 pm M16 Nadin Boegelsack – Utilising Retention Indices to Map Ignitable Liquids in Comprehensive Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography with Application to Forensic Analysis. Program: Ph.D., Supervisors: Dena McMartin, Gwen O’Sullivan 5:40 – 5:45 pm Day 1 Concluding Remarks Page 3 of 5 January 27 & 28, 2020 Program Schedule – Day 2: Tuesday, January 28 1:00 – 1:05 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks Time Presentation Presenter, Title, Supervisor(s) No. 1:05 pm T1 Hassan Hamad – Development of an Operating Speed Prediction Model and Investigation of the Relationship between Speed Variation and Crash Frequency: a Case Study of Residential Urban Streets in the City of Saskatoon. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Emanuele Sacchi 1:20 pm T2 Mai Alawneh – Investigating the Impact of Freeze and Thaw Cycles of Asphalt Concrete Using Imaging Methods. Program: Ph.D., Supervisor: Haithem Soliman 1:35 pm T3 Ahmed Tolba – Evaluating the Performance of Unbound Granular Base/Subbase Materials in Saskatchewan. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Haithem Soliman 1:50 pm T4 Abu Siddique – Evaluation of Interaction Forces between the Conveyance and Guide in a Modern Mine Shaft. Program: Ph.D., Supervisors: Bruce Sparling, Leon Wegner 2:05 pm T5 Tasnim Nayeema – Soil Treatment Towards Stress-Tolerant Bioremediation Strategy for Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soils in Cold Climates using Zeolite as a Remediation Agent. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Wonaje Chang 2:20 pm T6 Daniel Hamilton – Investigation of Environmentally-Friendly Gold Beneficiation. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Kerry McPhedran 2:35 – 2:50 pm Coffee Break 2:50 pm T7 Keegan Jellicoe – Quantifying Produced and Injected Water in South Eastern Saskatchewan. Program: M.Sc., Supervisors: Grant Ferguson, Jennifer McIntosh 3:05 pm T8 Chris Perra – Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells and their Spatial Relationships with Modern Oil and Gas Production in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Program: M.Sc., Supervisors: Grant Ferguson, Jennifer McIntosh 3:20 pm T9 Joel Steeves – Characterizing Hydrogeological Change from Oil and Gas Development in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin Area of Study. Program: Ph.D., Supervisor: Grant Ferguson 3:35 pm T10 Rima Bouslama – Spills from the oil and gas industry in Saskatchewan. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Grant Ferguson 3:50 pm T11 Shahin Layeghpour – Physical Modeling of Sand Production from Heavy Oil Reservoirs using a Geotechnical Centrifuge. Program: M.Sc., Supervisors: Chris Hawkes, Gonzalo Zambrano Narvez 4:05 – 4:25 pm Snack Break 4:25 pm T12 Bryce Marcotte – Evaluation of "True" Geomembrane Strain. Program: Ph.D., Supervisor: Ian Fleming Page 4 of 5 January 27 & 28, 2020 4:40 pm T13 Adam Leik – Evaluating the Feasibility of Using Guanidinium Salts as a Means of In-situ Soil Strengthening. Program: M.Sc., Supervisor: Ian Fleming 4:55 pm T14 Tyler Casavant – Correlating Thermographic Analysis Testing with Biochemical Methane Potential for Municipal Solid Waste. Program: M.Sc., Supervisors: Ian Fleming, Kerry McPhedran 5:10 pm T15 Brody Smith – Deriving Waste Heat Generation Function and Thermal Properties for Municipal Solid Waste Fill at a Saskatchewan Landfill. Program: M.Sc., Supervisors: Ian Fleming, Grant Ferguson 5:25 pm T16 Vladimir Buelvas – Thermo hydro-mechanics model in Landfill. Program: Ph.D. (Student exchange program), Supervisor: Ian Fleming 5:40 – 5:45 pm Day 2 Concluding Remarks Page 5 of 5 .