2020 Paul G. Complin Scholarship Recipients

AWMA Ontario Section presents the three winners of the 2019/2020 Paul G. Complin memorial scholarship. Unfortunately due to COVID, an in-person awards presentation to the winners was not possible. Below are brief bios about the recipients in no particular order.

Luckrezia Awuor, ryerson university

Luckrezia is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Applied Science and Management at Ryerson University. She is an environmental health professional, a public health inspector, and a researcher dedicated to protecting and promoting healthy environments by targeting the geographical, social, and economic disparities that hinder people in achieving good health. Under the climate change research portfolio, her research integrates environmental science, public health science and practice, and healthy public policy to address opportunities and gaps for public health inclusion and participation in climate change policy processes, decisions, and discourse. Her research also addresses recognized gaps in air quality, food and water quality, and vector-borne and zoonotic diseases resulting from climate change. Through her research, Luckrezia has meaningfully engaged policymakers and program managers across Canada’s 10 provinces, 3 territories and collaborated with more than 10 ministries, 35 public health units and 12 NGOs in Ontario to address gaps in climate change research and develop a vision for including public health in the climate change deliberative processes and participative structures while also advocating for the role of public health in the climate change discourse.

Luckrezia previously completed B.A.Sc. in Occupational and Public Health (Honors) from Ryerson University and was promoted from M.A.Sc. in Environmental Applied Science and Management into a Ph.D. in the same program in 2016.

Adewale Aromolaran, University of Ottawa

Adewale Aromolaran is a current PhD Candidate in Environmental Engineering at the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Majid Sartaj. Adewale has a strong interest in sustainable waste management, bioenergy generation and environmental modelling. He is currently investigating alternative pathways to mitigate process inhibitions and strategies to enhance biogas production from anaerobic systems, specifically bioreactor landfills and anaerobic digesters during the treatment of organic wastes.  After completing a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Chemistry at the Federal University of Technology, Akure Nigeria, Adewale moved to Leeds, United Kingdom where he obtained his master’s degree in Environmental Engineering & Project Management at the University of Leeds. 

Charles Cadieux, University of Ottawa

Charles has recently graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science. During his final year, he did an honours research project in collaboration with the Nuclear Waste Management Organization that focused on developing a method to measure solute transport in low permeability rocks using X-ray radiography. The results of this research, which were presented at the Goldschmidt 2020 geochemistry conference, could provide a way to collect valuable information on potential host rock formations for a deep geological repository that would store Canada’s nuclear fuel wastes. Charles is now pursuing graduate studies at the University of Ottawa under Dr. Tom Al’s supervision and will continue working on molecular diffusion and reactive transport properties of solutes in crystalline rocks.