The Environment Division (EN) of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) is collaborating with the Working Towards Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (WIDE) Member Resource Group of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) to promote work that enhances the diversity of ideas and people in Canadian environmental research.
This month they are happy to feature a video submitted by Dr. Paolo Mussone group at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT).
This video highlights the work carried out by cohorts of students from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology since April 2020 when we initiated a project aiming to establish a correlation between microplastics occurrence, polymer type, physical shape and size and: 1) freshwater quality parameters, and 2) urban, rural, and industrial inputs along the North Saskatchewan River (NSR) within the Edmonton Municipal Region (EMR). The region has the highest population density in the Saskatchewan rivers watershed and hosts the largest petrochemical complex and plastics manufacturing facilities west of the Great Lakes. This project, the largest microplastics science watershed study in western Canada and one of the largest in a river system in North America, is ongoing and will carry on until March 2025. The principal investigator is Dr. Paolo Mussone, Ovintiv Research Chair in Energy at NAIT.
Publications: Paolo Mussone – Bio – NAIT Applied Research