Water research in Nova Scotia in the early seventies – a personal perspective

Late in the Fall of 1969, I resigned from my position as a senior research chemical engineer with a US oil company and drove my brand new, yellow Barracuda convertible (Fig 1) from Staten Island, New York up to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I had decided to reside.At that time, employment opportunities for a person with my academic background and industrial research experience were distinctly limited in Halifax.However, through the good offices of Dr. William Bridgeo, the Dean of Science of Saint Mary's University (SMU), I obtained a part-time appointment as a computerization advisor to the University President, Dr. Henry Labelle, S.J., in January, 1970.My subsequent computerization experiences after being made an associate professor in the university's Chemistry Department in 1972, and promoted to full professor in 1980, have been reported elsewhere (Young 2025).What follows here are recollections of my early water related research experiences while at SMU in 1970-73.