Welcome to our website! Our team, founded by Dr. Stephanie Gora, researches many different topics related to Water Resources Engineering. In the page below, you can learn everything there is to know about who we are and what we do.
The underlying goal of our research group is to create a better future through water resources engineering. With many different initiatives and a world full of opportunity, the Safe and Sustainable Water Research Group aims to create a safer and more sustainable future for as many people as possible.
To learn more about our group and our initiatives, contact Stephanie at stephanie.gora@lassonde.yorku.ca


Recent Activity
June 15-19, 2025 - Yeuhyun (Kevin) Kim will be travelling to Ottawa to present his research at the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition.
June 10, 2025 - Stephanie Gora, Maranath Hormiz, Mohammad Ibraheem, and Dr. Usman T. Khan will tour the Tri-County Water Treatment Plant.
June 1-7, 2025 - Caroline Duncan and Stephanie Gora will be travelling to Cambridge Bay to continue the work established in the community through Caroline's PhD project.
May 28-30, 2025 - Caroline Duncan and Ammar Mahgoub will be travelling to Winnipeg to present their respective research at the CSCE Annual Conference 2025.
May 13, 2025 - Stephanie Gora presented at an event co-hosted by One WATER and York Region. Adedapo Adeola and Mohammad Ibraheem attended the event.
May 12, 2025 - Stephanie Gora was awarded the OWWA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Award. Check out a post about it here.
May 10, 2025 - Yiqian Wu returned from a research trip to the University of Massachusetts Amherst as part of the Alliance International: UV for Biofilm Control in Humanitarian Settings Project.
May 8, 2025 - Noah Mathi has joined our team as a Research Assistant for the duration of the summer under the co-supervision of Stephanie Gora and Shital Desai from The School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design.
April 29, 2025 - Patrick Di Falco was awarded a Teaching Assistant Recognition Award.
April 25, 2025 - Caroline Duncan, Audrey Tam, Ammar Mahgoub, and Patrick Di Falco presented their respective research at Annual Graduate Research Day 2025.
March 27, 2025 - Stephanie Gora provided a presentation entitled "Control of Biofilm with UV Light" as part of the One WATER Seminar Series: In Recognition of World Water Day
February 25, 2025 - Caroline Duncan presented her research as part of the One WATER Seminar Series
February 24, 2025 - Stephanie Gora, Adedapo Adeola, Victoria Carroll, Yiqian Wu, and Patrick Di Falco attended the 60th Central Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research at TMU. Check out some pictures from the event here.
January 24, 2025 - Ammar Mahgoub was awarded the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate School Scholarship.
January 24, 2025 - Elan Chalmers, Caroline Duncan, and Stephanie Gora published their paper entitled "Development of water safety risk matrices to improve water safety in Arctic drinking water systems in Nunavut, Canada." The paper proposes a water safety planning (WSP) framework for Nunavut which has been informed by previous Arctic WSPs and existing risk scoring systems. Check out the paper here.
January 3, 2025 - Victoria Carroll has joined our team as a PhD student.
November 29, 2024 - Adedapo Adeola has joined our team as a postdoctoral fellow.

About Dr. Gora
Take a minute to learn some more about the founder of the Safe and Sustainable Water Research Group


Our Work
In addition to being able to view our published work below, you can also learn more about the outreach of our team's research as well
