Research Team
NSERC IRC Theme 2 Lead
Influence of Bio-geo-chemical Interactions on the Geotechnical Behaviour of Soft Tailings
NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Oil Sands Tailings Management (NAIT)
Dr. Peter Kuznetsov
Theme 2 Research Associate
Theme 2 Project: Comparison of consolidation methods over a range of materials
Research interests: tailings remediation and reclamation, tailings dewatering and geotechnical behaviour, geosynthetic reinforced earth structures (walls, slopes, embankments, foundations, pavements, etc.), buried structures, soil-structure interactions
Ralph Burden
Theme 1 Project: Developing appropriate mixtures of FFT with alternative solids for dry stacking
Theme 2 Project: Geotechnical optimization of treated tailings systems for aqueous covers
Research interests: oil sands tailings remediation and reclamation, mine waste management and reclamation, contaminant transport and remediation, and interactions and interplay between geotechnical properties and biogeochemistry
Theme 1 Project: Developing appropriate mixtures of FFT with alternative solids for dry stacking
Theme 1 Project: Investigating the properties of transition zone materials
Research interests: tailings characterisation, mine waste dumps design and reclamation, soil mechanics
Theme 1 Project: Progressive deposition of co-mixtures on deep deposits
Theme 3 Project: Deformation behaviour of crusted tailings
Research interests: oil sands tailings management, permafrost engineering, advanced soil and tailings testing, thermal modelling, numerical simulation of large strain consolidation
Theme 3 Project: Optimization of capping soft tailings deposits
Research interests: whole-of-life physical modelling of geostructures, mining geotechnics, sustainable tailings management, static liquefaction assessment of mine waste materials, development of low cost, open-source IoT data acquisition systems for geotechnical applications