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Nicholas Beier

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University of Alberta

Biography

Assistant Professor, GeoEnvironmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept Ph.D. in Geoenvironmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 2015 M.Sc. in Geoenvironmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 2006 B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, 2002 Dr. Beier’s research interests encompass various aspects of tailings and mine waste management for surface mining operations, such as the oil sands in northern Alberta, in addition to base and precious metals. Dr. Beier’s research focuses on development and evaluation of new tailings dewatering and management strategies through simulation and subsequent physical testing in the laboratory and field. This research entails further development of a novel analytical tool, TMSim (tailings management simulation), which can be used to evaluate hypothetical or specific operating strategies and design alternatives that will support technology assessment, scenario-analysis and mine planning. Through the Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility, he leads research to investigate the depositional and long-term geotechnical behavior of filtered whole tailings, chemically amended and/or freeze-thaw dewatered fine tailings. Other research includes cold regions engineering and its application to mining in northern climates and permafrost regions including control of acid mine drainage from waste rock piles and behavior of frozen fine grained tailings deposits.

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Towards Environmentally Responsible Resource Extraction: A Program Overview
David Wilson Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo
Arn Keeling Memorial University
Ania Ulrich University of Alberta
Brenda Parlee University of Alberta
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ESG Technical Session
Indigenous and Mitigation Approaches
ICARD 2024
Simulating the differential settlements of a consolidating tailings deposit’s surface
Mohammad Mahdi Badiozamani University of Alberta
Nicholas Beier University of Alberta
Ahlam Abdulnabi University of Alberta
Poster
Poster Hall
Symposium 2021 sur l'environnement et les mines - Mines and the Environment
Stabilization of Giant Mine arsenic trioxide dusts within the cemented paste backfill
Amirhossein Mohammadi Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
Isabelle Demers Research Institute on Mines and the Environment - UQAT
Nicholas Beier University of Alberta
Mostafa Benzaazoua Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique
Poster Video Poster
Poster Hall
Symposium 2021 sur l'environnement et les mines - Mines and the Environment
Incorporating multicomponent kinetic modeling for the upstream geochemical assessment of metallic orebodies
Youssef Toubri UQAT
Denys Vermette Norda Stelo
Isabelle Demers Research Institute on Mines and the Environment - UQAT
Nicholas Beier University of Alberta
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Poster Video Poster
Poster Hall
Symposium 2021 sur l'environnement et les mines - Mines and the Environment