Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Richard Johnson
Peter Bork
Paul Layte
Oil sands processing operations in northeastern Alberta generate 25 x 106 m3 of water-fines mixtures (sludge) per year. The fines settle in several weeks but will not consolidate to more than 35%...
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W.H. Griffiths
B.D. Walton
Detrimental effects of increased suspended and settled sediments on fish, bottom invertebrates, and primary productivity are documented.
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Organic constituents of wastewaters from the existing Athabasca oil sands extraction plant were characterized and quantified. Twenty-one chemical parameters were determined on a total of ten samples
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N. Kingsbury
A. Lewis-Gibbs
(Fast Tests for Rating and Amelioration of Conifer) – A collaboration among CWFC researchers, academia, government and industry transforms traditional tree breeding programs by improving genetic...
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B.L. Barge
R.G. Humphries
S.L. Olson
The feasibility of a weather radar to map precipitation in the Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Research Program (AOSERP) study area near Fort McMurray, Alberta was investigated
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Syncrude Canada Ltd. Lease 17 is located in the boreal mixedwood forest ecosystem. Twelve terrestrial and aquatic habitat types exist
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Study Focus: Six years of hydrochemical data (2013 – 2018) from the Sandhill Fen Watershed (SFW), a 52-ha upland-peatland catchment that was built upon highly saline soft tailings, were used to...
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Flood frequency prediction for Syncrude Lease 17 is necessary for both mining activities and environmental protection. Flood frequency curves can be derived from one year’s local data
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Tania Garcia Bravo
Line Rochefort
Maria Strack
Resource Date:
January
2018
This study determined the effect of a 7-year-old black spruce (Picea mariana) plantation on the carbon balance of a cutover peatland.
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The impact of saline waters upon freshwater biota, having special reference to the AOSERP study area, is reviewed. Toxicity summaries for individual ions are presented.
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Victoria Donovan
Glen Brown
Frank Mallory
Resource Date:
February
2017
Loss or alteration of forest ecosystems due to anthropogenic activities has prompted the need for mitigation measures aimed at protecting habitat for forest-dependent wildlife. Understanding how...
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Angeline Van Dongen
Caren Jones
Amanda Schoonmaker
Jill Harvey
Dani Degenhardt
Resource Date:
November
2022
Alberta’s forests are becoming increasingly disturbed and fragmented by the cumulative effects of anthropogenic disturbances exacerbated by the enduring footprint of seismic lines on the landscape...
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Registered trappers were 70 percent native; the average age was 46. The majority held other jobs concurrently, and spent less than two months on the trapline in 1975-76 (a low year on the fur cycle).
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A four year study has been carried out to determine the ability of coniferous trees to aid in the reclamation of uranium tailings at Elliot Lake. Five species were planted: white cedar, white spruce...
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Ground water conditions are frequently overlooked when placing surface materials in a mine reclamation scheme. The purpose of this paper is to outline the interaction between the surface materials and...
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Peter Nix
D.W.S. Westlake
R.T. Coutts
F.M. Pasutto
Incubation of samples taken along a transect of the river just downstream from the oil sands plants showed higher rates of microbial degradation on the west bank where effluents and drainage would be
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P.D. Anderson
P. Spear
S. D'Apollinia
S. Perry
J. Deluca
J. Dick
Goal of the project was the establishment of criteria safeguarding fish from toxic effects of mixtures of vanadium, nickel, and phenol to fish; all are associated with oil sands developments
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Guillermo Castilla
Ronald Hall
Rob Skakun
Michelle Filiatrault
André Beaudoin
Michael Gartrell
Lisa Smith
Kathleen Groenewegen
Chris Hopkinson
Jurjen van der Sluijs
Resource Date:
February
2022
Wall-to-wall 30 m raster maps of broad forest type, stand height, crown closure, stand volume, total volume, aboveground biomass, and stand age were created for a ~400,000 km2 area, validated with independent data, and generalized into a polygon GIS layer resembling a traditional FI map. The MVI project showed that a reasonably accurate FI map for large, remote, predominantly non-inventoried boreal regions can be obtained at a low cost by combining limited field data with remote sensing data from multiple sources.
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Teemu Juselius-Rajamäki
Minna Väliranta
Atte Korhola
Resource Date:
October
2023
Peatlands are the most dense terrestrial carbon stock and since the last glacial epoch northern peatlands have accumulated between 400 and 1000 Gt of carbon. Although the horizontal development...
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