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Academic and field projects from the University of Toronto across field ecology, analytical chemistry, remote sensing and GIS, climate science, and experimental physics.
Field Ecology Assessing Aquatic Health in the Frenchman's Bay Watershed
Field ecology assessment of an urbanized Pickering watershed using benthic invertebrates and water chemistry.
- Benthic macroinvertebrate ID
- Biotic & diversity indices
- Hypothesis testing in R
Remote Sensing & GIS Global Warming and Cyclonic Activity
Multi-source GIS StoryMap linking ocean warming to stronger hurricanes and at-risk low-income coasts.
- Geospatial analysis
- Multi-source data integration
- Temporal change mapping
Analytical Chemistry Chemical Additives in Toothbrush Bristles
LC-MS screening of Colgate and Oral-B bristles found four compounds and one suspected carcinogen.
- LC-MS operation
- Solvent extraction & sample prep
- Extracted-ion chromatogram interpretation
Remote Sensing & GIS Remote Sensing of Lake Shrinkage Under Drought
Before-and-after satellite imagery tracing how drought and warming drained major lakes.
- Remote sensing
- Temporal change detection
- Satellite imagery interpretation
Experimental Physics Measuring Solar Irradiance Over the Winter-Spring Transition
Six-week field study tying rising solar irradiance to a shrinking zenith angle.
- Field measurement & calibration
- Pyranometer & multimeter operation
- Linear & polynomial regression
Experimental Physics Modeling Barium-137m Radioactive Decay
Measured Ba-137m decay on a Geiger counter and proved the exponential model beat the linear one.
- Non-linear & linear regression
- Reduced chi-squared validation
- Residual analysis
Climate Science The Role of Tropical Forests in Carbon Sequestration
Literature synthesis showing intact tropical forests as top-tier carbon sinks and what deforestation undoes.
- Scientific literature review
- Carbon-cycle analysis
- Cross-regional comparison
Experimental Physics Current-Voltage Characterization of Two-Terminal Devices
Measured I-V curves for eleven two-terminal devices and tested model fits with residuals and chi-squared.
- I-V curve characterization
- Curve fitting in Python
- Residual analysis