Land Management Search Results
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Resource Date:
April
2020
Exploration of resources (i.e. oil and gas, forestry) creates numerous temporary access features, including seismic lines, winter roads, and oil sands exploration (OSE) wells in boreal peatlands...
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Resource Date:
January
2016
The Duck Mountain Provincial Forest in west-central Manitoba is a landbase with a mosaic of uplands and wetlands. The wetlands are both interspersed and interconnected with uplands. Ecosystem Based...
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John Sobkowicz
Jeremy Boswell
Iain Gidley
In a presentation to challenge the tailings research community, the Alberta oil sand industry and regulators, John Sobkowicz asks whether an ingenuity gap exists in the tailings management solutions...
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Resource Date:
January
2016
This presentation provides an overview of the Ducks Unlimited Canada Best Management Practices (BMP) program and the road to and purpose of the 2016 Wetland BMP Workshop.
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Nicole Kimmel provides a history of weed control in Canada and Alberta focusing on invasive weeds and their impact on natural landscapes and agriculture.
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This presentation reviews the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan, what it means for Alberta's international reputation, Canada's Greenhouse Gas policies, and resource development challenges.
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Anne Naeth
Konstantin Dlusskiy
Leonard Leskiw
Chris Powter
Andy Etmanski
Humans impact everything, including our soil. We remove, mix and compact soil horizons. We add amendments, including waste materials, to replace soil or improve its health. Soils that that have been...
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The goal of the program is to develop a set of spatially explicit models that can be used to map the supply and economic value ecosystems goods and services
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Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) created a committee to develop guidelines for testing the load bearing strength of oil sands tailings deposits. The need comes from the Alberta Energy...
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I will introduce ABMI’s Ecological Recovery Monitoring program, which is establishing long-term monitoring protocols to assess ecological recovery at certified reclaimed wellsites across Alberta
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Adam Fenech explains the temperature has been going up in Banff, when looking at records from 1888 to 2012.
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Improving seed emergence and survival is one of the largest potential benefits for native boreal seed enhancement. Seed pelleting can increase seed size by multiple orders of magnitude, resulting in...
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The presentation describes the goals of NatureLynx and provides some demonstrations of the mobile and desktop platforms
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Libby Williamson-Ehlers
Chris Johnson
Dale Seip
Resource Date:
September
2012
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop, held in September 2012, Libby Williamson-Ehlers presented results of research that recorded the landscape change caused by industrial development in the Peace region of north-eastern BC.
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Presentation tracks the evolution in technology used to monitor birds by recording their songs, with examples from different regions of the province.
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Jonah Keim
Samuel Wasser
Philip DeWitt
Mark Taper
Subhash Lele
Resource Date:
September
2012
At the 14th North American Caribou Workshop held in September 2012, Jonah Keim presented results of research looking into the impact of nutrition on caribou in the Alberta oil sands region.
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Alan Fair led the Oil Sands Tailings Consortium before his retirement. Al Hyndman consults on Total's Joslyn oil sands mine, and gave Fair's keynote presentation at the Oil Sands Tailings 2014...
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Alan Fair and Al Hyndman in the second part of their keynote presentation describe the tailings management and reclamation research through the 1970's and 1980's. Dam safety was and continues to be a...
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In the third part of their keynote presentation, Alan Fair and Al Hyndman cover the suite of treatment technologies tested in the 2000's for Alberta's oil sands tailings. From deposition on sand...
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In the final part of their keynote presentation, the wide-spread collaboration among oil sand companies on tailings research and technology is highlighted. COSIA is the latest iteration but early in...