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Over 300 attend the Advanced Biofuels Symposium
We thank all the researchers, HQP/students, industry representatives and government officials who attended the Advanced Biofuels Symposium in Montreal, that took place from July 22-24, 2015. It was our best Symposium so far and a great opportunity see you all face-to-face. A huge thanks to all our volunteers and the Project Managers who helped out with the event!
See the Advanced Biofuels Symposium highlights video here!
We had a record number of attendees this year at over 300 participants! Here are some highlights:
- 40 international participants from 10 countries
- 130 HQP/students
- Over 100 speakers
- 40 industry participants; over 25 government representatives
- 200 participants at the Symposium Dinner
- Over 230 participants at the opening cocktail
- 90 participants for the HQP workshop
- 100% carbon neutral event certified by Planetair
You can see the Symposium photo album, the HQP Workshop photo album, and press releases/news stories here. Contact us if you would like us to send you your photobooth pictures from the cocktail. Slides and presentations will be available shortly for the participants by email.
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HQP Workshop on IMPROV-ing communications a roaring success!
On July 22nd, BioFuelNet held a workshop for HQP/grad students combining science communication techniques and improvisational theatre, which was a great kickoff to our Advanced Biofuels Symposium. The workshop was was wildly successful, very interactive and lots of fun. The participants learned some very useful skills The Montreal Gazette spent the day and wrote a fabulous article that was very prominantly featured. They also created a great summary video. Check out what our crazy biofuels scientists were up to!
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BioFuelNet HQP featured in North American Clean Energy Magazine
North American Clean Energy Magazine has published a the BioFuelNet Success Story,“Putting Waste to Work”, which features BioFuelNet HQP Garret Munch. In this story, he explains how he is using microbes to produce biodiesel from waste. A BioFuelNet exchange grant enabled Munch to spend eight weeks in Dr. Rehmann’s lab, where he ramped up his production scale to a 100-L pilot-scale reactor system. Read the full story here.
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BioFuelNet researchers featured in La Presse
Congrats to our researchers Patrice Mangin from Université du Quebec à Trois Rivières and Evelyne Thiffault from Université Laval, who were featured in an article in La Presse. They discuss a unique biorefinery that may be built in La Tuque, Quebec in 2020. It would convert forestry residues and waste into biodiesel. This biorefiney could satisfy between 2.3% and 4.3% of the total consumption of diesel in the province of Quebec. Read the full article here (in French).
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Please complete: BFN renewal survey
BFN was funded for 5 years (2012-2017), and our renewal documents are due in less than year (click here for more information on the renewal). To help get us started, we are seeking preliminary input on our new Phase II structure. Please take a few minutes to complete our 9-question survey. Your input is extremely valuable to us! Deadline: August 21st, 2015.
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Register now for the Advanced Biofuels Course!
Registration is now open for the Advanced Biofuels Course. This is the fourth offering of the course and we expect that it will again be filled to capacity, so hurry while there is still space!
Register here and see the website for more info.
Course start date: September 8th, 2015
The course features 14 lectures by top biofuels researchers and experts in key aspects of the biofuels sector. In the previous semesters, students included industry and government representatives, as well as undergraduate and graduate students from Canada and abroad.
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Biojet short course, Sept. 21. Montreal
Sign up now for this new BioFuelNet short course! Biojet fuel is quickly becoming a reality, driven by both voluntary initiatives and regulatory pressures. Leading biojet fuel experts will describe the primary drivers behind the emergence of biojet fuel, the process for certifying new fuels, and key commercial experiences in this field over the past decade with a view to the future.
Click here for registration and more info.
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New Success Stories booklet released!
We premiered our new Fueling Success booklet at the Advanced Biofuels Symposium. It features 6 new Success Stories from a variety of BioFuelNet researchers, HQP and their industrial partners on everything from growing sustainable feedstock to designing state-of-the-art engines. Fueling Success communicates BioFuelNet's research to the general public in a glossy magazine format. The cover the new booklet is a photo of BioFuelNet HQP Valerie Orr from the University of Western Ontario.
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Winner announced for BioFuelNet Twitter contest
Congratulations to Vijai Sookrah who won the BioFuelNet Twitter contest where biofuels scientists had to describe “So what do you do?” in 140 characters. Vijai had the most likes and retweets. See the top 10 tweets here!
We thank all the students and researchers who participated! The goal of the contest was to get our researchers and grad students thinking about how they communicate science to the general public.
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