Graduate Students

Dr. Tariq Siddique – Soil Chemistry -Environmental Microbiology

Graduate students (current and past)

DOCTORATE

  1. Pablo Venegas Garcia. Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences. Modeling greenhouse gas emissions from tailings ponds. Co-supervised 2018/09 to date.
  2. Irum Zahara. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Development of biopolymers for removal of metals from industrial wastewater. Supervised 2018/01 to date (co-supervised by Aman Ullah)
  3. Mark Donner. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Metal speciation in lower Athabasca River watershed. Supervised 2014/5 – 2018/12 (co-supervised by William Shotyk)..
  4. Victoria Collins. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Anaerobic biodegradation of hydrocarbons under nitrogen depleted conditions. Supervised 2012/9 to date.
  5. Faidz Mohammad Shahimin. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Anaerobic biodegradation of hydrocarbons in different oil sands tailings ponds: key microbial players and main activation pathway of hydrocarbon biodegradation. Supervised 2011/1 – 2016/6.
  6. Muhammad Babar Javed. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Distribution of arsenic in surficial deposits in the Cold Lake area of Alberta, Canada. Supervised 2009/9 – 2015/3.
  7. Saidul Alam. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. Co-supervised 2009-2013.

MASTER (THESIS)

  1. Luke Gjini. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta. Biodegradation of cycloalkanes under different redox conditions. Co-supervised. 2017/04 to date.
  2. Jorge Daniel Grock. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Application of biopolymers for consolidation of oil sands tailings. Supervised 2016/1 to date.
  3. Najmeh Samadi. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Investigating contaminants’ partitioning between fluid fine tailings and cap water under end-pit lake scenario. Supervised 2015/6 to date.
  4. Elizabeth Domreis. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Hydrocarbon biodegradation under different redox conditions. Supervised 2013/9 to date.
  5. Shirin Zahraei. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Microbial community development and function at a newly reclaimed oil sands site. Supervised 2011/9 – 2015/3.
  6. Sanjay Gupta. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Life cycle assessment of arsenic from poultry feed to agricultural crops. Supervised 2011/5 – 2013/12.
  7. C.E. Victoria Collins. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Methane production in oil sands tailings under nitrogen-depleted conditions. Supervised 2010/9 – 2013/6.
  8. Nicholas Arkell. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Accelerated dewatering of oil sands tailings by microbially induced chemical changes. Supervised 2010/1 – 2012/8.

MASTER (NON-THESIS)

  1. Deeba Shamim. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta. Remediation strategies for contaminated sites in Alberta. Supervised 2012/1 – 2014/4.