COSIA - Innovative Minds

In recognition of International Women’s Day on March 8th, Samantha Heigl, a coordinator on COSIA’s tailings team and Chair of COSIA’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, discusses the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and discussing her personal efforts to forge closer to a gender equal society.

February 11th is International Day of Women and Girls in Science. In this episode, we’re celebrating Nannette Ho-Covernton, a woman who has made her mark both in her career and in her community and hearing about the challenges she’s overcome in achieving her many successes.

New and improved techniques are being sought to reduce and eliminate land disturbance from exploration activities across Alberta’s boreal forests. 

Christine Daly, Senior Advisor of Reclamation Technology and Megan Boutin, Geotechnical Program Lead from Suncor, describe COSIA’s challenge and share their experience restoring and preserving biodiversity impacted by oil sands production.

The COSIA NRG Carbon XPRIZE challenges the world to reimagine what we can do with CO2 emissions by incentivizing the development of technologies that convert CO2 into valuable products.  On this episode, hear from Marcius Extavour, XPRIZE Lead for Environment, Energy and Climate, and learn about breakthrough efforts being conducted to combat climate change.

Over 1,000 sites are monitoring air quality, water quality and changes in wildlife and plant life in Alberta’s oil sands region as part of North America’s largest environmental monitoring program. In this episode, Ty Veness, COSIA’s Senior Technical Advisor for Monitoring and Ole Mrklas, COSIA’s Monitoring Director, share their involvement in the Oil Sands Monitoring Program (OSM).