On October 25-26, group members attended 33rd Eastern Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research at Montreal, Canada. Rezvan Iravani, Mohammadmehdi Raznahan, and Azar Vahabisani made the presentations entitled “Impact of Nano-clay on the Oil Behaviors in A Water-Sand System”, “An Investigation into the Nearshore Oil Behaviors using CFD Simulation”, and “Effect of Microalgae on the Removal of Oil from Contaminated Sand in the Shoreline Environment”, respectively. They also discussed the research and collaboration with other symposium participants.
On October 4, 2019, Ms. Xiaohan Yang from Beijing Normal University arrived in Montreal to start her three-month visit to Concordia University and Dr. An’s research group. Ms. Yang is currently a MASc student at the Beijing Normal University. During her stay, she will conduct a number of research collaborations with Dr. An’s research group.