Dr. Tariq Siddique – Soil Chemistry -Environmental Microbiology
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Future Energy System, University of Alberta Grant ($550,000), Low cost bio-based sorbents for simultaneous removal of various contaminants from wastewaters generated during energy production (2017/06 – 2023/03).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CRD Grant ($200000), Biodegradation of cycloalkanes under different redox conditions (2017/03 – 2019/05).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant ($110,000), Investigate pathways of hydrocarbon biodegradation and metals’ release in anaerobic environment (2015/4 – 2020/3).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant ($25000), Demetallization of bitumen using supercritical carbon dioxide and water (2017/11 – 2018/04).
Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative, University of Alberta and Government of Alberta ($539,000), Microbial community development and function (2010/1 – 2015/3).
Institute for Oil Sands Innovation (Imperial Oil and Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment Solution; AIEES) ($217,250), Microbiological fates of aliphatic solvents used for non-aqueous extraction of oil sands ores (2013/4 – 2015/3).
Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative, University of Alberta and Government of Alberta ($123,000), Clay mineral transformation and porewater quality affected by microbial activity in oil sands tailings (2012/4 – 2014/3).
Alberta Advanced Education and Technology, Small Equipment Grant ($216,460), Advanced Analytical Facility for Environmental Research (2010/4 – 2014/3).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant ($100,000), Understanding biogeochemical processes that control transformation of heavy metals and petroleum hydrocarbons under different redox conditions (2009/4 – 2014/3).
Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) ($216,458), Advanced Analytical Facility for Environmental Research (2012/2 – 2013/12).
Canada School of Energy and Environment (CSEE) ($48,000), Support for Natural Resources Analytical Laboratory (2011/4 – 2012/3).
CO-INVESTIGATOR
Future Energy System, University of Alberta Grant ($126000), Solvent recovery and removal from NAE extraction gangue (2017/06 – 2019/06).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) RTI Grant ($97891). Soil particle size analyzer for terrestrial ecosystem management (2016).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CRD Grant ($1,107,050), Laboratory studies investigating chemical flux across tailings-cap water zones, simulating an End-Pit Lake in the Athabasca oil sands region (2015/6 – 2018/07).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CREAT Grant ($1,650,000), Land Reclamation International Graduate School (2011/4 – 2017/3).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) CRD Grant ($282,015), Biopolymer-based nanocomposites from poultry byproducts for packaging applications (2013/9 – 2016/8).
Alberta Innovates Bio Solution ($300,000), Environmental CWD infectivity (2013/9 – 2016/8).
Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment; and Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) ($2,095,000), Resolving natural and anthropogenic influences of groundwater and surface water environments of the Lower Athabasca region (2014/1 – 2017/6).
Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) (200,000), Biodensification processes in mature fine tailings (2011/11 – 2013/12).
Alberta Prion Research Institute – Alberta Ingenuity ($1,928,547), Soil as a reservoir of CWD infectivity (2009/6 – 2013/5).
Alberta Water Research Institute (AWRI) ($1,054,000), Accelerated de-watering of oil sands tailings through biological densification (2009/10 – 2012/6).
Canada School of Energy and Environment (CSEE) ($21,000), Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer Shared Facility (2009/4 – 2010/3).
Shell Albian Sands and Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility ($156,400), Methanogenesis in oil sands tailings (2006/9 – 2009/12).