People 

Principal Investigator:

Oliver Warr

Assistant Professor

Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Ottawa

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Erin Flannigan

Postdoctoral Fellow since January 2024

Research focus: 

Developing and applying 36Cl analytical techniques to low-temperature hydrochemical and hydrochronological settings. 

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Graduate Students

Tanuj Mahajan

PhD. Candidate (Fall 2023)

Research focus: 

Understanding the origin, migration, release, and potential flux of fluids from abandoned oil and gas wells 

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Harry Barnes

MSc. Candidate (Winter 2024)

Research focus: 

Developing novel techniques for extracting and measuring the in situ production of noble gases from rock cores


Xuanqi Wang

MSc. Candidate (Fall 2024)

Research focus: 

This MSc is part of an IAEA Coordinated Research Project with UQAM collaboration to improve the monitoring, measurement, and mitigation of potential contaminants in groundwater, utilizing advanced technologies such as the portable mass spectrometer miniRUEDI and incorporating geochemical and geochronologic approaches, including noble gases. 

Undergraduate Students

Ashlyn Loucks

Honours BSc student (Fall 2023)

Research focus: 

Evaluating methane fluxes from anthropogenic sources in the Ottawa area

Affiliated Personnel

Anthony Lapp

Anthony Lapp is the Noble Gas and Tritium Laboratory Manager at the André E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory based at uOttawa. He received his B.Sc. in Environmental Science and M.Sc. in Earth Sciences from the University of Ottawa. For all enquiries and more information please click here.