• Ice Flow Shift, Drumlin, and Bedrock Topography Effects on Glacial Dispersal from Kimberlites in the Lac de Gras Region, Northwest Territories, Canada 

  Stirling, Rebecca Abigail (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)

  Glaciations of the Quaternary Period have had a profound impact on the Canadian landscape and surficial sediments. Understanding glacial landforms and sediments has thus helped develop fundamental knowledge of past glaciations ...

• Source and Fate of Contaminants in a Pit Lake and Water Treatment at the Faro Mine Complex 

  Larrea, Esteban (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)

  The Faro Mine Complex (FMC) is an abandoned zinc-lead mine in Yukon, Canada that requires extensive remediation efforts to manage the environmental liabilities associated with mine wastes stockpiled at the site. Active ...

• Feasibility of Testing the Event Formalism with Refractive Materials 

  Li, Xiaoran (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)

  In this thesis, we evaluate the feasibility of verifying the effect of gravity on the quantum entanglement by simulating gravity’s effects with other physical systems. Specifically, we work in the framework of the Event ...

• Advancing Techniques for Detecting Dwarf Satellite Populations Beyond the Local Group 

  Xi, Chengyu (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)

  This thesis includes material from three papers that develop techniques for quantifying faint dwarf satellite populations outside the Local Group. Dwarf satellites are important for our understanding of small-scale structure ...

• Native Wetland Plant Recovery Following Phragmites australis Invasion 

  Jordan, Megan Ashleen (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)

  Invasive common reed (Phragmites australis ssp. australis) has negatively affected 25% of all Species at Risk in Ontario since its arrival in the twentieth century. This is of particular concern at Long Point and Rondeau, ...

• Local and landscape drivers of aquatic biodiversity in urban stormwater management facilities 

  McIsaac, Daniel (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)

  Stormwater management facilities (SWMFs) are often constructed in urban areas to provide flood mitigation and runoff control, and thus replace some wetland functions. Yet, their suitability as habitat for wetland biota is ...

• Diabetic retinopathy grading with respect to the segmented lesions 

  Kheradfallah, Hoda (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)

  One of the leading causes of irreversible vision loss is Diabetic Retinopathy (DR). The International Clinical Diabetic Retinopathy scale (ICDRS) provides grading criteria for DR. Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) ...

• Investigating the effects of synthetic peptides on aquatic pathogens and rainbow trout immunity 

  Varga, Joseph (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-19)

  The demand for fish and seafood has increased exponentially over the past decade and continues to increase. Feeding fish has also become problematic as currently, the industry is dependent on fish meal which is not ...

• The therapeutic application of Pituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide and double stranded (ds)RNA as immunostimulants and antiviral agents in crustaceans 

  Monod, Emma (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)

  Currently valued at 28 billion USD per year, the global shrimp market is growing faster than any other aquaculture industry. The initial fast-paced global industry expansion led to many catastrophic viral shrimp pandemics. ...

• Design and Implementation of an Entanglement Harvesting Experiment With Superconducting Flux Qubits 

  Ren, Shaun (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)

  Recent studies in relativistic quantum information have predicted that it is possible to entangle two qubits tunably coupled to the same quantum field in its vacuum state, by allowing the qubits to couple to the field ...

• Endocannabinoids as Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) Aggregation Inhibitors 

  Khavandi, Marzie (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-13)

  The endocannabinoid system, including endogenous cannabinoids and their corresponding receptors, has received extensive attention in the last few years for their neuroprotective effect in the central nervous system. The ...

• Antioxidant Defence Response in Non-Target Fishes Following Pharmaceutical Wastewater Effluent Exposure 

  Gauvreau, Nicole (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-05)

  The Grand River watershed extends throughout the majority of Southern Ontario with its final outlet at Lake Erie and accommodates thirty wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) with varying types and degrees of treatment. ...

• Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Biohybrid Based Wearable Sensor 

  Ausri, Irfani Rahmi (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-04)

  Continuous real-time surveillance of biological markers can have significant implications on disease prognosis. To date, most commercially available continuous monitoring health systems are physical sensors due to the ease ...

• Towards Quantifying Groundwater Resources of the Paloluoma Buried Bedrock Valley in Western Finland with Groundwater Modelling 

  Rashid, Ameerah Binte (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-03)

  Groundwater provides about 60 percent of drinking water in Finland. In western Finland, drinking water for the town of Kurikka (pop. ~21 700) comes from glaciofluvial aquifers confined underneath thick glaciomarine aquitards ...

• Gallium isotope fractionation during adsorption on clay and oxide minerals: implications for using gallium isotopes as a geochemical tracer 

  Ulkem, John (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-02)

  Increasing climate change leads to the imbalance between silicate, sulfide, and carbonate weathering fluxes, influencing the global carbon budget. Thus, understanding this balance is critical for understanding future global ...

• Demonstration of a Tunable Coupler Suitable for Investigating Ultra-strong Coupling Light-matter Interactions in Superconducting Devices 

  Janzen, Noah (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-02)

  One of the most ubiquitous processes in nature is the interaction of matter and an electromagnetic field which is well described using the spin-boson model. These light- matter interactions are specified by an interaction ...

• Structural and Enzymatic Comparison of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii GH31 α-Glycosidases 

  Jewczynko, Anna (University of Waterloo, 2022-05-02)

  The gut microbiome is home to thousands of species of bacteria, that are essential for human digestion, immunity and physiology. Faecalibacterium prausnitzii makes up about 5% of a healthy human gut microbiome and a lower ...

• Lactate Detection Using Non-Enzymatic Catalytic Materials 

  Okasha, Mohamed (University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)

  An Anastomotic leak (AL) can be defined as the leakage of gastrointestinal fluids into the abdominal cavity at the site of an anastomosis. It is a post-operative complication that affects thousands of patients annually ...

• Quantifying the role of reservoirs in altering phosphorus dynamics using a combination of data analysis and process modeling 

  Grootjen, Tori (University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)

  Excess phosphorus (P) from agricultural watersheds promotes eutrophication in downstream aquatic systems. Reservoirs retain P generated from farm fields and protect downstream waters. Reservoirs also act as hotspots for P ...

• Effects of ML-7 on the Actomyosin Networks of the Avian Crystalline Lens 

  Suko, Adeline (University of Waterloo, 2022-04-29)

  Assemblies of contractile proteins such as actin, myosin and myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) are found on the posterior surface of the lens fibre cells. The mechanical properties of chicken lenses, as well as their focal ...

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