Allison Enright Email & Phone Number

Canada

- Monitoring the effectiveness of remediation treatments is expensive, labour intensive, and has high uncertainty. I designed a sensor-based, in situ methods to get better quality, real-time information about critical biogeochemical processes. This technology is expected to reduce the timeline for assessing treatment effectiveness by at least 75%.- Wrote and submitted proposals to federal, provincial, and local grant agencies, and was awarded over $680k in research funding.- Using funds leveraged from successful grants, I renovated an asbestos-filled, unmaintained lab space, purchased all the necessary equipment and instrumentation to carry out my research, and completed the first biosafety certification in my building to undertake microbial experiments.- Directed research carried out by 14 trainees by designing experiments, demonstrating and supervising lab and field techniques, advising on data collection, and collaborating on data analysis and communication of results.- Designed one general geoscience and four specialist geochemistry courses for in-person and virtual delivery to over 300 undergraduate and graduate students.

- Designed and coordinated a five-person team to perform early-Earth analog anaerobic sterilization experiments using a combination of microbial, mineralogical, and geochemical techniques.

- Designed and performed experiments to isolate biological influences on physical and chemical sensor measurements (i.e., biosignatures) contributing to the development of the only reliable agnostic extant-life bio signature discovered to date.

- Designed and performed lab-based geophysical measurements targetting biological processes.

Ph.D, Biogeochemistry, Environmental Electrochemistry

Thesis title: Fluctuation Analysis of Oxidation-Reduction Potential in Circumneutral pH Iron-Oxidizing Microbial Systems

M.Sc., Tectonics, Geodynamics, And Numerical Modelling

Thesis title: Mechanisms of Extension in Eastern Anatolia

B.Sc. Hon. Cum Laude, Geology

Thesis title: Trace element chemistry of Thelon Formation fluroapatite cements