Engineer who pioneered landfill barrier systems awarded top research prize

Kerry Rowe came to Canada for work, but he stayed because of love. More precisely, because of Love Canal.In the late 1970s, Dr. Rowe was an Australian research engineer newly arrived at the University of Western Ontario for an academic stint. But just across the border, the Love Canal neighbourhood of Niagara Falls, N.Y., was found to be marinating in toxic chemicals from a nearby landfill site, touching off one of the worst environmental health emergencies in U.S. history.