Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Ann Smreciu
Kimberley Gould
Stephanie Wood
Oil sands reclamation guidance documents include lists of potential reclamation species and their characteristics - This report consolidates and updates profiles for 98 of these species
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Both aspen and spruce grew on sites with very high salinity and pH deeper in the soil profile (i.e., 40-100cm), so long as surface soils were not highly saline and had adequate moisture and nutrients.
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Kimberley Murray
Melanie Bird
Bin Xu
This research poster discusses and compares various treatments to well pad sites as well as an overview of temporary and permanent linear features. Presented at the NAIT 7th Seminar on Linear...
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Aerial surveys and ground investigations were conducted in the spring and summer months from 1975 to 1977 on a breeding population of White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) in the Birch Mountains
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Bev Gingras
Chris Smith
Kylie McLeod
Leanne Mingo
This research poster gives an overview of the relationship between roads and wetland flow, discusses tips and tools for planning and outlines a case study of developed crossings. Presented at the NAIT...
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Laura Manchola-Rojas
Brad Pinno
Derek Mackenzie
Sebastian Dietrich
Buried wood is an important yet understudied component of natural and anthropogenic soils. Nutrient immobilization as a response to wood addition during oil sands' reclamation may be a concern since...
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Kelman Wieder
Melanie Vile
Dale Vitt
Kimberli Scott
Bin Xu
James Quinn
Cara Albright
The 140,329 km 2 Athabasca Oil Sands Administrative Area (OSAA), which contains 8982 km 2 of bogs. Since the late 1970s, N emissions from oil sands development in the OSAA have steadily increased...
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Valda Walsh
Charles Hobart
Research concepts, methodologies and data collection instruments and procedures which are appropriate in white communities might not be so in Indian and Metis communities.
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Alberta Forest Service has questioned the use of Caragana arborescens Lam. (caragana) as a high-portion species for afforestation of reclaimed areas associated with oil sands surface mines
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Derek Mackenzie
Simmon Hofstetter
Ido Hatam
Brian Lanoil
Rebuilding native forest soils in reclamation will require the use of biochar to stimulate functional similarity to native ecosystems for nutrient availability and microbial community succession
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B. Zhao
Ron Currie
Haneef Mian
overview of methods currently used for the analysis of NA class of compounds including sampling, sample preservation, sample transport, extraction and clean-up, analytical techniques, and future needs
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Brian Fuhr
Dave Rose
Dave Taplin
A catalogue containing 22 technologies for reducing the environmental impact of fine tailings derived from oil sand processing has been assembled
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Daniel Peters
Dillon Watt
Kevin Devito
Wendy Monk
Rajesh Shrestha
Donald Baird
The goal of this study is to enhance the understanding of the regional role of the lower Athabasca Basin areas in overall runoff delivery to the downstream Peace-Athabasca Delta. The Cold-regions...
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Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
Olena Volik
Jonathan Price
Resource Date:
February
2022
Study Region A channel fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada Study Focus We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road...
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Matthew Elmes
Richard Petrone
O. Volik
Jonathan Price
We assessed the hydrological changes to the hydrology of a moderate-rich fen after the construction of a road (perpendicular to flow) in 2003 and a pipeline (obliquely to flow) in 2011. New...
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Organic constituents of wastewaters discharged from the GCOS plant and Syncrude Canada Ltd. lease No. 17 were characterized and compared to those occurring naturally in the Athabasca River
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K. Kong
J.D. Lindsay
Bill McGill
Physical, chemical, and microbiological properties of stored materials were compared with those of fibric moss peat, mesic moss peat, and mesic fen peat samples from undisturbed sites
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Paul Pickell
David Andison
Nicholas Coops
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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Jean Birks
Yi Yi
Sunny Cho
Emily Taylor
John Gibson
This study was conducted to characterize the composition of polar dissolved organic compounds present in snow and surface waters in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) with the goal of identifying...
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Jean Birks
Yi Yi
Sunny Cho
John Gibson
Rod Hazewinkel
Goal was identifying whether atmospherically-derived organics present in snow are a significant contributor to the organics detected in rivers and lakes in the oil sands region