Innovation Anthology #289:
After 43 years with the Alberta Research Council, now called Alberta Innovates Technology Futures, Terry Macyk is retiring.
His pioneering work in soil reclamation earned Terry the title of distinguished scientist with ARC along with recognition from all around the world for his contributions to the reclamation science.
As Terry Macyk explains, the most critical factor in evaluating reclamation success is the test of time.
TERRY MACYK: Well I think its just looking more at some of the long term applications in some of the areas that we’ve worked in. Five years is never enough. 25 years gives you a better idea of how successful it is. 40 years even more. But if would really be nice to be looking at some of these areas 50 years later. Because realistically it takes a tree to grow and mature in most parts of Alberta 50, 60, 70 years. We haven’t reached that stage with our initial reclamation yet. It’s a very new science.
Terry Macyk’s research on reclamation has been applied across Alberta in forestry, agriculture, oil sands, oil and gas development and now, carbon capture and storage
Thanks today to Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY, I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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