Research Area

• Environmental biotechnology for sustainable waste management
• Anaerobic digestion of livestock manure at cold and/or arid conditions
• Nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) management in livestock waste
• On-farm Waste-to-Bioenergy project development, and value-added chemicals
• Fate of manure-laden emerging contaminants (antibiotics, growth promoters, and pharmaceuticals) during waste biological treatment
• Manure odor control through advanced oxidation processes for ventilation exhaust gas and liquid manure treatment (UV and ozonation)
• Molecular biology applications to environmental biotechnologies
• Psychrophilic lignolytic fungal activity for lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysis
• Kinetic, metabolic, and statistical modeling of bioprocesses
• Bioreactor engineering for manure treatment

Funding

• Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, The Memorial University of Newfoundland – Startup fund
• The Canadian Agricultural Partnership - Agriculture Growth and Innovation Program. Department of Fisheries and Land Resources, NL
• NSERC Discovery Grant
• The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development
• Mitacs Global Research Thematic
• Mitacs Accelerate
• Mitacs Lab2Market - Ocean
• Memorial University of Newfoundland Seed, Bridge, and Multidisciplinary Fund (2018, 2022)
• Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) Faculty Travel Award 2023-2024

Media Coverage

• CBC Radio "The Broadcast" interview about using mussel shells to remove arsenic from contaminated groundwater. August 10, 2023.
  Interview Link(CBC)
  
• Efforts ongoing to cut waste from NL gardens and farms (Text Media Interview)
  An interview with The Telegram: The official provincial newspaper of Newfoundland and Labrador. 25 June 2018. Also accessible online at:
  Article Link(saltwire)
  Article Link(pressreader)
• The perspective of Biogas Production at The Lester’s Dairy Farm, St. John’s (Student Research Poster) link
  
• Biogas Production Potential of Dairy Manure and Agricultural Wastes in a Typical Dairy Farm in Newfoundland and Labrador
  The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science Annual Research Day, November 2020.
  Youtube Link


• Lunch and Learn - Dr. Noori Saady
  May 6, 2021
Canadian Biogas: Technology Status, Issues and Opportunities

          https://youtu.be/olKpZzmR0Hc or Youtube Link