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Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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Jennifer McKellar
PhD

Associate Professor

Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science

Contact information

Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre (ERC) - Room 4022
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5

905.721.8668 ext. 5498

jennifer.mckellar@uoit.ca

Education

  • PhD University of Toronto 2012
  • MASc University of Toronto 2005
  • BASc University of Toronto 2003

Courses taught

  • ENGR 3730U Solar Energy Technologies

Research and expertise

Tools for the techno-economic and environmental assessment of energy systems involving:

  • Life cycle assessment
  • Life cycle costing
  • Real options analysis
  • Expert elicitation

To date, work has focused on unconventional fossil fuels (e.g., oil sands by-product coke) and conventional fuels used in unconventional ways (e.g., coal for polygeneration of electricity, steam and hydrogen).

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment & Economy, University of Calgary; Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, 2012
    Research area: Oil sands industry future greenhouse gas emissions
    Supervisors: Dr. Joule Bergerson, Dr. Heather MacLean.
  • Air Quality Engineer-in-Training, Golder Associates, Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario, 2005-2006.

Involvement

  • Selected journal papers
    • McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A., Kettunen, J., and MacLean, H.L., Predicting project environmental performance under market uncertainties: Case study of oil sands coke. Submitted to Environmental Science & Technology (June 2012).
    • McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A., Kettunen, J., and MacLean, H.L., Life cycle-based framework for multi-sectoral energy resource use decisions: Case study of Canada’s oil sands coke. Submitted to Energy Policy (January 2012).
    • McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A., and MacLean, H.L., Replacing natural gas in Alberta’s oil sands: Trade-offs associated with alternative fossil fuels. Energy & Fuels. 24: 1687-1695 (2010).
    • McKellar, J.M., Charpentier, A.D., Bergerson, J.A., and MacLean, H.L., A life cycle greenhouse gas emissions perspective on liquid fuels from unconventional Canadian and U.S. fossil sources. International Journal of Global Warming. 1: 160-178 (2009).
  • Affiliations
    • Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario
    • Member of International Society for Industrial Ecology
    • Member of Chemical Institute of Canada (Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering)
    • Member of International Association for Energy Economics
    • Member of Golden Key International Honour Society
  • Awards
    • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2010-2011
    • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada – Postgraduate Scholarship D2, 2008-2010
    • Government of Ontario/DuPont Canada Scholarship in Science and Technology, 2003-2004
    • Mackay Hewer Memorial Prize, 2003
    • Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Medal, 2002
  • Conference Presentations
    • McKellar, J.M., Sleep, S., Pacheco, D., Chan, J., Bergerson, J.A. and MacLean, H.L., The role of technology in reducing future oil sands industry greenhouse gas emissions. 31st USAEE/IAEE North American Conference; November 4 to 7, 2012; Austin, Texas.
    • McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A., Kettunen, J. and MacLean, H.L., Combined LCA/real options method to capture uncertainty and flexibility in resource project decisions. 62nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference; October 14 to 17, 2012; Vancouver, British Columbia.
    • McKellar, J., Bergerson, J., Kettunen, J. and MacLean, H., Opportunities for utilizing oil sands coke: technological, environmental and financial implications. International Society for Industrial Ecology 2011 Conference, Science, Systems, and Sustainability; June 7 to 10, 2011; Berkeley, California.
    • McKellar, J., Bergerson, J. and MacLean, H., Assessing life cycle costs and benefits of oil sands coke. CYCLE 2010, From Science to Decision-Making; May 4-5, 2010; Montreal, Quebec.
    • McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A. and MacLean, H.L., Investigating the life cycle impacts of replacing natural gas in oil sands operations. Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Technologies Conference & Exhibition; July 14 to 16, 2009; Calgary, Alberta.
    • McKellar, J.M., Bergerson, J.A. and MacLean, H.L., The life cycle greenhouse gas emissions implications of power and hydrogen production for oil sands operations. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference; May 12 to 15, 2009; Hamilton, Ontario.