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Establish a research design for a longitudinal study to identify and explain the relationships between social and personal adjustment of people in the oil sands region
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Investigate the feasibility of establishing a set of ''social indicators'' for the Fort McMurray study area. In this background Paper we set out the results of our examination, and our conclusions
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Time-use diary is a data collection instrument intended to furnish a detailed account of daily individual activities by type, sequence, duration and location to show how people spend their time
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Chris Powter
Simone Levy
Several major challenges were identified associated with management of sterilant-impacted sites in Alberta through this literature review, industry consultation and personal communication
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The manual includes information on forty-four grasses, fourteen forbs and thirty-five trees and shrubs. The summary, presented in tabular form, provides, for key reclamation parameters,
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Dev-Cor Technical Services
Conceptual model of employment and occupational structure, proposal for training indigenous people which would facilitate their employment in AOSERP, and a research procedure for evaluating efficacy
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Debra Hopkins
Kaitlyn Wall
Chantale Wilson
The objective of this study is to measure and characterize concentrations of metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in plants, berries and soil predominantly located north of Fort McMurray
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association
The question we are faced with today is: How do we establish a system or systems for measuring success in reclamation?
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Karen Christensen-Dalsgaard
Niloshini Sinnatamby
Mark Poesch
Best predictors for fisheries productivity remain the quantity and quality of available fish habitat combined with abundance, size structure data and species composition within the given habitats
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Jill Costerton
G.G. Geesey
Direct epifluorescence method has been adapted for counting bacteria in the sometimes turbid water of the Athabasca River and this method has been used to quantify planktonic bacteria.
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Jim Davies
Brian Eaton
D. Humphries
microcosm-based experiment conducted to investigate ability of community level physiological profiling to detect changes in an aquatic microbial community from exposure to oil sands process water
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Objectives of the waterfowl surveys are: 1) To monitor waterfowl migrations through the Syncrude Lease 17 and general area during all seasons of use. 2) To establish the locations and intensity of use
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
These are the minimum requirements that the Land Conservation and Reclamation Council will apply in assessing whether the reclamation of lands has been satisfactory
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Land Conservation and Reclamation Council
Minimum reclamation standards that should be followed to ensure proper conservation and reclamation on patented and and land that was the property of the Crown but covered by the Public Lands Act
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Comprehensive assessment of mixing characteristics of the Athabasca River below Fort McMurray under ice-covered flow conditions. Two tracer tests conducted and analysed using recent theoretical models
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G.W. Douglas
A.C. Skorepa
Study to determine the scientific, technical and economic feasibility of establishing air pollution effect gradients using lichenological methods on a radially arranged pattern of observation sites
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Ken Foster
Christine Godwin
Peter Pyle
The MAPS protocol (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship) was applied in a 2011 pilot program in the boreal forest in the oil sands region
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Nadia Rochdi
J. Zhang
Karl Staenz
X. Yang
D. Rolfson
J. Banting
C. King
R. Doherty
Scope of the project is to develop a geomatics-based monitoring system to support the Government of Alberta’s efforts for monitoring reclamation success. Software will support decision making process
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In most years, evaporation exceeds summer rainfall. Using natural aspen stands as a comparison, it is expected that water use from the soil cover will continue to increase as the ecosystem ages.
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Produce mycorrhizal jack pine seedlings in the greenhouse and initiate a field study on the Syncrude dyke on the effect of different ectomycorrhizal fungi on the growth of jack pine