Paul J. Van Geel

Professor in Environmental Engineering and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Teaching Assignment 2011-2012

ENVE3003 Water Resources Engineering

Research Interests

Hydrogeology and solid waste management. Flow and transport in the saturated and unsaturated zone; applications vary from gasoline spills to biological clogging of biofilters to natural attenuation and redox-dependent biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons and solvents.  Impacts of real world soil/NAPL wettability on migration, distribution and remediation of NAPL-contaminated sites. Waste Management issues including optimization of bioreactor landfills operating in northern climates to waste-to-energy alternatives to life cycle assessment of different waste management strategies.

Honours and Awards

  • 2005-2006 Research Achievement Award
  • 1998-1999 Teaching Achievement Award
  • 1998-1999 Petrocanada Young Innovator Award

Graduate Students

Hassan Alfaifi
Ph.D. (In Prog)
Jamal Alshaikhali
M.Eng. (Coursework) (In Prog.)
James Bonany
M.A.Sc. (In Prog.)
Bhavana Chaudhary
M.Eng. (Coursework) (In Prog.)
Michelle Roberge
Ph.D. (In Prog.)
Luz Adriana Puentes Jacome
M.A.Sc. (2012) An Investigation on the Influence of Wettability on the Recovery of Entrapped LNAPLs Via Surfactant Flushing
Maysra Shams Eldin
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2012)
Harpreet Sran
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2012)
Ecaterina Russu
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2011)
Emily Vingerhoeds
M.A.Sc. (2011) Instrument Installation and Preliminary Data in a Full-scale Anaerobic Bioreactor Landfill, Sainte-Sophie, Quebec, Canada
Athanase Mugenzi
M.Eng. (2010)
Mostafa Said
M.A.Sc. (2010)
Shelley Wilkinson
M.Eng. (Project) (2010)
Mustafa Elkhedr Ahmed
Ph.D. (2009) Experimental Investigation and Conceptual Model Development for Multiphase Flow in a Water-Wet Porous Medium with NAPL-Wet Soil Lenses
Taryn Glancy
M.A.Sc. (2009)
Mohamed Aboelkhair Mostafa
Ph.D. (2009) Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Conceptual Models for Biological Clogging of Unsaturated Soils
Jonathan Schmidt
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2009)
Qiaochun Wang
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2008)
Salem Khalfan Al-Kaabi
Ph.D. (2007) Effect of Salinity on Biodegradation of MSW in Bioreactor Landfills
Andrea Catley
M.A.Sc. (2007) Seismic Velocity Analysis to Determine Moisture Distribution in a Bioreactor Landfill
Shermin Negari Namaghi
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2007)
Sahar Soleimani
M.A.Sc. (2007) Numerical Simulation of Biological Clogging in Biofilters
Bradley Murray Carew
M.Eng. (2006) Fate of Chlorinated Solvents
Quanchang Fei
M.Eng. (2006) Visual Analysis of Contaminant Transport in Porous Media when Violating the REV Concept
Andrew Mark Harwood
M.Eng. (Coursework) (2006)
Brian J. Henderson
M.A.Sc. (2006) Environmental Engineering Impacts of Aggregate Quarry Dewatering on Groundwater Management in Ontario
Hamidreza Salsali
(Academic) Ph.D. (2006) Producing Enhanced Quality Biosolids Through Anaerobic Digerster Optimization
Balasubramanian Shanchayan
(Academic) Ph.D. (2006) Dynamic Analysis of a Biofilter Treating ATAD Off Gases and Dynamic Model Development
Amgad Salama
Ph.D. (2005) Theoretical, Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Flow and Solute Transport in Saturated Porous Media Subjected to Violation to the Continuum Hypothesis
Xiaoyang Zhang
M.A.Sc. (2005) Development of a Vertical TDR Probe to Measure the Moisture Content Profile with Depth in Peat Columns
Amir Abd El Halim
M.A.Sc. (2004) Development of Cost-Effectiveness of New and Improved Design Guidelines for 3D Reverse Horizontal Curves with Intermediate Tangents
Mohamed Abo El-Khair B. Mostafa
M.A.Sc. (2004) Conceptual Models for Biological Clogging of Unsaturated Soils
Karina Lange
M.A.Sc. (2003) Physical and Numerical Modelling of a Dual Porosity Fractured Rock Surrounding an In-Pit Uranium Tailings Management Facility
Peyman Rouhani
M.A.Sc. (2003) Impacts of Hydraulic and Constituent Loading on a Combined Passive System for the Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage.
Grant Russell Carey
M.Eng. (2001) Development and Validation of a Three-dimensional Model for Predicting Redox-dependent Intrinsic Remediation.
Pascale Champagne-Hartley
Ph.D. (2001) A Combined Passive System for the Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage
Norman Meyer
M.Eng. (2001) A Study of the Treatment of Nitrate-Contaminated Water by Electrodeionization.
Anushka Shibchurn
M.Eng. (2001) Water Content Measurement in Peat Using Time Domain Reflectometry.
Anthony C.F. West
M.Eng. (2001) Physical and Numerical Modelling of an In-Pit Tailings Management Facility
Sandra Bayne
M.Eng. (2000) Hydrologic Modelling of a Peat Filter Treating Septic Tank Effluent.
Anne-Marie Thompson
M.Eng. (2000) Evaluation Of The Impact Of The Source Term On Natural Attenuation Of Jet Fuel Contamination.
Su-Kim Roy
M.Eng. (1999) Development and Incorporation of a NAPL Residual into the Lenhard-Parker Pressure-Saturation Hysteretic Model.
Paula Lynn Kennedy
M.Eng. (1998) Investigation of Flow Through Peat Filters.
Pascale Champagne
M.Eng. (1996) Intracellular Reducing Power Applications to Dual Substrate Cometabolic Degradation Modelling.

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