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Dr. Maria Elektorowicz, Professor
Department of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering
E-mail.
Telephone: 514-848-2424 Ext 7805
Fax: 514-848-7965
Mailing address
Dept. of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Concordia University, Rm: EV-6.213
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3G 1M8
Office location
1515 St. Catherine W.
Rm: EV-6.213
Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3G 2W1
(Metro: Guy-Concordia - Guy Exit)
Dr. Maria Elektorowicz obtained her M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Warsaw Technical University, Poland. Her research interests are bio-physico-chemical interaction phenomena in soil/groundwater/contaminant matrix, contaminated site remediation, as well as contaminated sediments and biosolids management. She joined Concordia in 1993.
Biography
Dr. Maria Elektorowicz obtained M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Warsaw Technical University in 1971 and 1977. In 1978, she was awarded a UNESCO postdoctoral fellowship in the groundwater protection domain. Between 1972 and 1981, she conducted research in the Institute of Air Quality and Water Resource Management in Warsaw, Poland.
Dr. Elektorowicz also taught Environmental Engineering at the University of Constantina in Algeria from 1981-1986. After working as a Research Associate for 6 years at the Geotechnical Research Centre at McGill University, she was appointed to Concordia University in 1993. Dr. Elektorowicz is presently the Chair of the Environmental Engineering Division at Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
Consulting Work
- Excessive groundwater uptake
- Site remediation
- Recharge of groundwater table
- Criteria for landfill siting
- Modeling of biogeochemical processes
- Transition to sustainable technologies
- Environmental impact assessment
Memberships and Registrations
- Chair, Environmental Engineering Division of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
- Member, Water Environment Federation
- Member, International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry
- Member, Canadian Association on Water Quality
- Member, Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec (Professional Engineer)
- President, RESOL (Inter-university network of experts for soil contamination)
Research
- Bio-physico-chemical interaction phenomena in soil/groundwater/contaminant matrix
- Biosolids management
- Site remediation - biological, physical and chemical techniques
- Application of electrokinetics to mix contaminated soils, sediment and groundwater
- Bio-electrokinetics
- Pretreatment techniques in clay followed by bioremediation
- Containment: grouting of polymers and silica
- Application of surfactants and biosurfactants
- Supercritical Fluid Extraction of contaminants from soil
- Phytoremediation
- Modelling of contaminant transport in water, sediments and biota
- Performance of constructed wetland components
- Management for Acid Sulfate Soils
- Waste disposal facilities - landfill, recycling, and recovery
- Site assessment methodology
- Biosolids remediation techniques
Teaching
Undergraduate
- CIVI 361-Introduction to Environmental Engineering
- CIVI 466-Engineering Aspects of Chemical and Biological Processes
- CIVI 468-Waste Management
- CIVI 469-Geo-Environmental Engineering
Graduate
- CIVI 6611-Environmental Engineering
- CIVI 6491-Engineering Aspects of Site Remediation
- CIVI 6481-Hazardous Waste Management
- CIVI 6651-Water Pollution and Control
- CIVI 6671-Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the Environment
- ENGR 7971; ENGR 7981, ENGR 7991
Publications
Selected Refereed Publications
- DIEGTIAREVA T., ELEKTOROWICZ M., 2001, Water quality change due to dredging of heavy metals contaminated sediments in the Old Harbor of Montreal, Water Quality Research Journal of Canada, Vol 36, No1, pp1-19
- DIEGTIAREVA T., ELEKTOROWICZ M., 2001. Change in water quality of industrial channels due to resuspension of sediments contaminated with heavy metals, Water Science & Technology, Vol.1 (2), 27-35
- KAOSER S., BARRINGTON S., ELEKTOROWICZ M., 2000, Compartments for the management of MSW, Soil and Sediments Contamination, 9(5):503-522
- ELEKTOROWICZ, M., CHIFRINA R., HASNAWI R., 2000, Effectiveness of grout curtain formation to protect Libyan coastal aquifer, Edition of Environmental Geotech. and Global Sustainable Dev. Boston, 1998
- ELEKTOROWICZ, M., JU L., OLESZKIEWICZ J., 1999, Bioavailability of organic xenobiotics in the environment - practical consequences for environment, Bioavailability limitations related to the presence of clays, Ph. Baveye, J.C. Block, V.V. Goncharuk (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 349-376
- KIAMANESH, H., ELEKTOROWICZ, M., 1997, Optimised Design of High Spillway to Avoid the Cavitation Damage, International Water Power and Dam Construction, Reed Bus. Ltd., Vol. VIII, 345-374
- ELEKTOROWICZ, M., BOEVA, V., 1996, Electrokinetic Supply of Nutrients in soil Bioremediation, Environmental Technology, Vol. 17. 1339-1349
- ELEKTOROWICZ, M., 1994, Bioremediation of Petroleum-Contaminated Clayey Soil with Pretreatment, Environmental Technology, Vol. 15, 373-380
Conferences
- ELEKTOROWICZ, M., HAKIMPOUR M., 2001, Hybrid Electrokinetic Method Applied to mix contamination clayey soil, EREM, 3rd Symposium and status report on electrokinetic remediation, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 2001
- BALAZINSKI, M., ACHICHE, S., BARON, L., ELEKTOROWICZ, M., EL-AGROUDY, A., 2001, Investigation of Constructed Wetlands Efficiency in Mercury Removal Using Genetically Generated Fuzzy Knowledge Bases, CSCE 7th Specialty Conference on Environmental Engineering, Victoria, June 2001
- ELEKTOROWICZ, M., El-HAWARI A., 2001, MFC model as a tool for assessment of the sediment remediation impact on water quality, CSCE 7th Specialty Conference on Environmental Engineering, Victoria, June 2001
- ELEKTOROWICZ M., HATIM.J, 2000, Application of surfactant enhanced electorokinetics for hydrocarbon contaminated soils, 53rd Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Montreal, October, 617-624
- JU L., ELEKTOROWICZ, 2000, In-situ phenanthrene removal provoked by electrokinetic transport of on-site produced biosurfactants, CSCE 6th Conference on Environmental Engineering, May 2000, London, ON
- El-AGROUDY A, ELEKTOROWICZ M., SMOCZYNSKA H., 1998, Potential of wetland's plants to protect downstream surface water from mercury contamination, 3rd Int. Conf on Water Supply and Quality, Poznan, Poland
- NIKKAMI D., ELEKTOROWICZ M., MEHYUS R., 1996, MUSLE interfacing with SPAN-GIS, CSCE 3rd Canadian Conference on computing in Civil Eng., August, Montreal, 678-687
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