Principal Investigator:
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Ottawa
PI of the André E. Lalonde National Facility in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)
Graduate Students
Research focus:
Understanding the origin, migration, release, and potential flux of fluids from abandoned oil and gas wells using a combination of geochemical techniques including noble gases and stable isotopes.
Research focus:
Resolving the phylogenetics, ecology, and extinction chronology of Late Pleistocene horses from eastern Beringia through a multidisciplinary approach using morphological, genomic, stable isotope, and radiocarbon data.
Cosupervised with Profs Clement Bataille and Danielle Frasier
Research focus:
Developing novel techniques for extracting and measuring the in situ production of noble gases from rock cores
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.
Research focus:
Enhanced 36Cl analytics for application as a natural groundwater tracer
This project is supported and funded by the André E. Lalonde National Facility in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)
Research focus:
Building on her Honours project, Matilda will be assessing methane emissions of landfill sites in Ottawa, and evaluating the interplay between biology, hydrology, and greenhouse gas emissions
Daisy Butera
Research focus:
Enhanced tritium analytics for natural groundwater tracers.
This project is supported and funded by the André E. Lalonde National Facility in Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS)
Undergraduate Students
Medina Jones
Research focus:
Modelling hydrogen and helium geographic variability based on radiogenic production rates.
Affiliated Personnel
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.
Former Personnel
(co-supervised w/ Dr. Kyra St. Pierre)
Research focus:
My honours research focuses on evaluating real-time carbon dioxide fluxes in the Rideau River Watershed using a portable mass spectrometer, in affiliation with the L2O Laboratory.
(co-supervised w/ Dr. Kyra St. Pierre)
Research focus:
My honours research focuses on evaluating real-time methane fluxes in the Rideau River Watershed using a portable mass spectrometer, in affiliation with the L2O Laboratory.
Research focus:
Evaluating methane fluxes from anthropogenic sources in the Ottawa area
Research focus:
Developing and applying 36Cl analytical techniques to low-temperature hydrochemical and hydrochronological settings.