Heather Buckley

Home to Canada’s greenest civil engineering program

Heather Buckley, green chemist and engineering professor, creates tools for better monitoring of drinking water contaminants and safer water treatment.

Learn more about Buckley’s low-cost test strips that immediately identify health-threatening levels of the most common contaminants from mining.

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