Pascale Champagne

Research Interests

Solid waste management; minimizing the impact of municipal, agricultural and industrial activities on surface water and grounwater contamination. Specifically: the extraction of commodity chemicals from livestock manure, municipal and industrial sludges, as well as other organic residues; composting and biostabilization of municipal, agricultural and industrial biosolids. Passive treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters and leachates. Specific areas of interest: acid mine drainage (AMD) mitigation using passive strategies including anoxic limestone drains (ALD), contained biological systems (bioreactors), biosorption and wetland systems; biofilter and biosorbent applications in municipal and industrial wastewater treatment; characterization of physical, chemical and biological removal mechanisms; effects of low temperature and seasonal variability on pasive system performance; modelling flow and contaminant transport through passive systems.

Graduate Students

Md. Khalekuzzaman

M.A.Sc. (2005) A Bench-Scale Sequential Aerated Peat Biofilter System Treating Landfill Leachate Under Varied Loading Rates

Sean Speer

M.A.Sc. (2005) Hydrodynamic Pathways in a Mature Constructed Wetland

Trisha Westman

M.A.Sc. (2005) From Waste to Product: developing pulp and paper mill biosolids into a marketable resource

Caijian Li

M.A.Sc. (2004) Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose from Various Waste Wources and their Feasibility as Feedstocks for Ethanol Production

Thomas Levy

M.A.Sc. (2003) Feasibility Study on the Recovery of Commodity Chemicals and Agri-Products from Hog Manure

Peyman Rouhani

M.A.Sc. (2003) Impacts of Hydraulic and Constituent Loading on a Combined Passive System for the Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage.