• MSc in Environmental Chemistry at Queen’s University is offered as a 2-years program.
  • This university ranked #5 among medical-doctoral universities in Canada in Maclean's 2019 University.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on a full-time basis only.
  • Analysis of chemicals, their fates in the environment, and pathways for exposure and effects in plants, animals, and humans, and remediation.
  • This area is a specific sub-cluster under the Environment and Sustainability research cluster of the Queen’s Strategic Plan.
  • Within this area, projects have included: studies of the processes that control biomagnification of chemicals in food webs to levels that are a threat to human consumers of fish and wildlife; the embryo-toxicity of petroleum hydrocarbons such as benzene and alkyl polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons; the sources, transport, fate, and effects of metals and organic compounds released by activities such as gold mines and tar sands extraction; historical trends in contamination reflected in sediments and soils of contaminated ecosystems; environmental risk assessment and bioremediation; and microbial ecology and environmental technology.