FAST Field Work at Fort William First Nation

FAST Professor Maria Jacome recently led another field work team, that included Civil Engineering Technology students, to the Fort William First Nation community to collect environmental data (GPR and Geoelectrical) on the Reserve lands.

The community, located near Thunder Bay, has noted that children under five who spent time in an area with more than a century of industrial development were most likely to experience an atypically young onset of leukemia. Part of the CCSIF Applied Research project, this research team will identify prevention, management and remediation methods in the polluted sites.

This research project received grants funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), in collaboration with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to address innovation challenges across Canada.