Ronald Gehr
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Professor Gehr joined the Department in 1980. He is a specialist in the field of Environmental Engineering, and is Director of the Benedek Integrated Laboratories in Environmental Engineering. He conducts research and teaches in the areas of water and wastewater treatment processes, aquatic chemistry and water and wastewater analysis. As a professional engineer, he has consulted on a variety of projects involving wastewater disinfection and reuse. He has given short courses on these subjects in Canada, South Africa, Mexico, Australia, Israel, and Italy.
Research Interest
Water and wastewater disinfection by UV, ozone, peracetic acid, and bromine. Water reuse
Publications
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Frigon, D., Biswal, B.K., Mazza, A., Masson, L. and Gehr, R. (2014) "Impact of Wastewater Treatment Processes on Antimicrobial Resistance Genes and their Co-occurrence with Virulence Genes in Escherichia coli", Water Research, 50, 245-253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2013.11.047
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Biswal, B.K., Khairallah, R., Bibi, K., Mazza, A., Gehr, R., Masson, L. and Frigon, D. (2014) "UV and PAA Disinfection Reduce the Prevalence of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli in Wastewater Effluents", Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 80, 12, 3656–3666. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00418-14
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Navab-Daneshmand, T., Enayet, S., Gehr, R. and Frigon, F. (2014) "Bacterial Pathogen Indicators Regrowth and Reduced Sulphur Compounds’ Emissions During Storage of Electro-Dewatered Biosolids", Chemosphere, 113, 109-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.04.012
