Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

Environmental and Water Resources Engineering includes areas of study such as hydraulics, hydrology, hydrogeology, liquid and solid waste disposal, treatment of drinking water and wastewater, remote sensing, and water resources, planning and management. Current activities include environmental engineering research into industrial waste treatment problems, remediation of groundwater contamination due to waste disposal and spills, solid waste management disposal, risk assessment/management optimization techniques for water quality management (non-point and point-source pollution abatement), thermal discharge modelling, acid rain, open-channel hydraulics, channel stabilization (with vegetation), sediment transport, stochastic hydraulics, water resources system planning, statistical and deterministic hydrologic modelling, and mass transport in porous media. Research into the treatment of drinking water (disinfection by-products, ozonation, biological treatment and bacterial re-growth) is a major initiative of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair Program.

Research Websites

Centre For Control of Emerging Contaminants - Dr. Wayne J. Parker, Professor
Environmental Modelling and Analysis Group - James R. Craig, Assistant Professor
Hydrology Research Group - Dr. Ric Soulis, Associate Professor
NSERC Chair in Drinking Water Treatment - Dr. Peter M. Huck, Professor and Chairholder
The Weather Station