Land Management Search Results
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation summarizes the challenges of infrastructure management for water storage and delivery in southern Alberta.
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ABMI is working with the Government of Alberta to develop new methods to estimate caribou numbers, a species that is notoriously hard to count because of their rarity and association with dense forest
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Authors
Ruijun Sun
Ryan Spelay
Jianmin Kan
Alexandre Goldszal
Ruijun Sun is a Senior Research Engineer with the Saskatchewan Research Council, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He reports on consolidation testing of oil sands tailings from Total's Joslyn oil sands mine...
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Dr. Frank Larnery compares soils and crop management in Akmola province, Kazakhstan with cropping in the black soil zone of Alberta.
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Bruce Peachey, president of New Paradigm Engineering Ltd, discusses the complexities of hydraulic fracturing in Alberta.
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This presentation discusses conservation offsets such as wetland replacement. It is a tool to address multiple demands on land, air and watersheds.
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Authors
Catherine Fear
Edward McRoberts
Reza Nik
Gennaro Esposito
Dr. Reza Nik presents the findings of COSIA’s Enhanced Beach Fines Capture Working Group, reviewing the fines capture observed in commercial scale external tailings facilities (ETFs), field scale...
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Jonathan Matthews is Director of Tailings EPA for Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). In his role of chairing presentations at the Oil Sands Tailings 2014 Conference, he provides a concise...
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Ron Currie
B. Zhao
C. Crickmore
L. Asplund
T. Malkova
B. Komishke
J. Clarke
R. Mahood
J. Walker
Dr. Ron Currie was project lead for a study conducted at NAIT Applied Research Centre for Oil Sands Sustainability (NARCOSS) to help develop a standard for Alberta's oil sands producers to measure...
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Dr. Heather Kaminsky is a Research Engineer with Suncor Energy. Her work involves understanding the behaviour of fine clay particles in the fluid fine tailings from Alberta's oil sands open pit mining...
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Feixia Zhang is a Ph.D candidate in Geotechnical Engineering at the Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility, University of Alberta. She reports on her Ph.D thesis research on estimating permeability in...
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This presentation is about understanding how land disturbances impact the diversity, abundance and activity of soil microorganisms, and discusses both CLPP and functional diversity
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Susan Stuver, Research Scientist for Texas A&M Institute of Renewable Natural Resources, discusses the development of advanced analytical methods for open path systems
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Authors
Alex Lanki-Traikovski
Michelle Knaggs
Climate refugia are areas where the impacts of climate change may be slower to materialize, providing either permanent or temporary areas of existing habitat that are more likely to persist than...
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation discusses what watershed education looks like in the Red Deer River watershed.
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Authors
Doug Heard
Mike Gillingham
Robin Steenweg
Resource Date:
September
2012
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop, held in September 2012, Doug Heard presented results of a management action carried out in the Parsnip River area of BC.
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Authors
John Kansas
Mike Charlebois
Hans Skatter
Brady Balicki
Kent England
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop held in September 2012, John Kansas presented results from research related to caribou in the boreal shield of Saskatchewan.
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Barry Adams discusses ecological tools and their core applications to rangeland management.
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This presentation discusses the importance of giving consideration to ecophysiology and silvics when aiming for successful stand rehabilitation after a Mountain Pine Beetle attack.
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Resource Date:
March
2013
This presentation provides a summary of the Plains Pipeline spill in the Red Deer River, June 7, 2012.