Land Management Search Results
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March
2013
This presentation summarizes strategies Canada can learn from the U.K. about flood risk management.
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Ruijun Sun
Jianmin Kan
Alexandre Goldszal
Ruijun Sun is a Senior Research Engineer with the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Ruijun Sun describes a new way to optimize the capture of oil sands clay fines in sand...
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The resource link will access Part 1 of this presentation. Part 2 can be accessed here. Mark Tibbett's presentation is focused around one question: can we change the amount of carbon in soil through...
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Schaun Goodeve
Jamie Doyle
Ann Aasfrid Holden
Erin O'Neill
Jill Tapp
This presentation discusses recovery efforts for both the Fort McMurray/Wood Buffalo fire in 2016 and the Slave Lake region fire in 2011.
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Uranium mining in the Athabasca Basin region in Northern Saskatchewan was developed in the early 1950s. The mines developed during this period were abandoned, leaving deep holes and mining debris...
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Dianne Allen
Mark Calette
In 1960, the Lorado Mill was abandoned in northern Saskatchewan, leaving an estimated 227,000 cubic meters of radioactive uranium tailings that covered the mill site and flowed into nearby Nero Lake...
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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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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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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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This introductory lecture at the seminar on Resiliency of Reclaimed Boreal Forest Landscapes discusses the two sides of the coin, ecosystem resilience and engineering resilience.
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Barry Adams discusses ecological tools and their core applications to rangeland management.