Coastal Environmental Engineering

拟议的研究计划将继续发展独特而充满活力的沿海环境工程计划，重点是纪念大学的石油污染控制。通过微生物学和环境工程的整合，在过去五年中，已经产生了一系列生物产品，并将其与用于在恶劣的海洋和沿海环境中减轻石油污染的补救技术相结合。已开发的生物产品和技术已通过多规模试验证明是有效的溢油应急方案。它们能够在泄漏之后，在石油进一步进入敏感的生态系统和长期风化之前，控制、清除和补救石油。主席提议的第二学期研究计划将继续探索海洋石油污染，以研究在实施溢油应急行动后减轻石油污染的措施。它将有助于回答关键问题，例如（i）微生物如何进一步帮助处理倾析水，倾析水是机械海洋溢油响应操作（例如，撇油）和油响应操作的技术瓶颈;以及（ii）在化学油响应操作之后，天然海洋生态系统，特别是微生物，如何与残余油反应（例如，分散剂的应用）。该项目旨在通过以下任务实现海洋溢油减缓：（1）产生创新方法和绿色生物产品（例如，这些研究包括：（1）利用微生物去除倾析水中的石油;（2）研究海洋生态系统中生物分散油的缓解措施;（3）探索存在微塑料等共污染物的自然海洋生态系统中生物分散油的缓解措施和影响。拟议的研究将提高加拿大的竞争力，并通过促进沿海环境工程知识和产生有前途的产品和方法来支持北极和北方大西洋海岸沿着可持续发展和环境保护，在研究领域产生国际影响。

The proposed research program will continue the development of the unique and vibrant program in coastal environmental engineering with a focus on oil pollution control at Memorial University. Through the integration of microbiology and environmental engineering, a series of bio-products have been generated and integrated with remediation technologies for oil mitigation in harsh marine and coastal environments in the past five years. The developed bio-products and technologies have been demonstrated through multi-scale tests as effective oil spill response options. They are able to contain, remove, and remediate the oil right after a spill and prior to its further transport into sensitive ecosystems and long-term weathering. The Chair's proposed Term 2 research program will continue to explore marine oil pollution towards the investigation of oil mitigation after the application of oil spill response operations. It will help to answer critical questions such as (i) how the microbes would further help to treat decanted water, which is the waste stream generated after mechanical marine oil spill response operations (e.g., skimming) and a technical bottleneck for oil response operations; and (ii) how the natural marine ecosystems, especially the microbes, react with the residue oil after the chemical oil response operations (e.g., application of dispersants). The program will aim to achieve the marine spilled-oil mitigation through entailing the following tasks: (1) generating innovative methodologies and green bio-products (e.g., bio-demulsifers) by microbes for oil removal from decanted water; (2) investigating bio-dispersed oil mitigation in marine ecosystems; and (3) exploring mitigation and impact of bio-dispersed oil in natural marine ecosystems with the existence of co-contaminants such as microplastics. The proposed research will enhance Canada's competitiveness, and create international impacts in the research field by contributing to the knowledge of coastal environmental engineering and generating promising products and methodologies in support of sustainable development and environmental protection along the coastline of the Arctic and Northern Atlantic oceans.