Extended Deadline & Call for Abstracts – PEOPLE 2025 International Conference

Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce that the Call for Proposals deadline for the PEOPLE 2025 International Conference has been extended to February 17, 2025. Call for Proposals We invite you to propose and organize workshops (Day 1) or technical/special sessions (Days 2–4). These sessions will support professionals, particularly students and early-career researchers, in…

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Thanks and Winners List from PEOPLE 2024 Virtual Symposium Organizing Committee

Dear Scholars, Judges (Session Co-Chairs) and Participants, Cheers for our successful PEOPLE 2024 Virtual Symposium — We brought together 114 students and young professionals who gave 79 oral presentations in 16 technical sessions. This year’s event provided a unique opportunity for them to exchange ideas and findings, practise communication skills and grow collaboration and networks….

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NRPOP Lab Hosts X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Training Workshops with Dr. Ning Chen from Canadian Light Source

In the past two weeks, NRPOP Lab had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Ning Chen, a distinguished research scientist from the Canadian Light Source, to lead two insightful workshops titled “X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAFS): A Molecular Scale Approach in Geoscience, Materials Science, and Energy Study.” Image: Dr. Ning Chen (NRPOP Lab, 2024) Dr. Chen, with…

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2024 Fall Online Symposium – Call for Abstract

Dear Colleagues, We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Fall Online Symposium of the Network on Persistent, Emerging, and Organic Pollution in the Environment (PEOPLE Network). This symposium is dedicated to student researchers and young professionals and focuses on “Emerging Contaminants and Hazardous & Noxious Substances: Seeking Solutions for a Climate-Challenged World”. We invite you…

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Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Yiqi Cao’s novel research in ES&T, offers fresh insights into the overlooked biofragmentaion process of plastics in marine environments.

This study, led by Dr. Yiqi Cao, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Dr. Baiyu (Helen) Zhang and Dr. Bing Chen, elaborates on the unequal marine biofragmentation processes between petroleum-based polyethylene (PE) and bio-based polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) plastics. The team found PE plastic rarely releases fragments, while PHB disintegrates quickly, gradually forming fragments resembling…

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