Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Fisheries and Land Resources
Resource Date:
April
2018
Newfoundland and Labrador is home to several herds of caribou; the island population, the migratory George River caribou (northern Labrador), and perhaps the most sensitive, the boreal herds of...
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Southern mountain caribou are currently distributed across 38 subpopulations, comprising 24 LPUs. Most subpopulations have undergone long-term declines in numbers. The current overall number of...
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Bonnie Drozdowski
Simone Levy
Chris Powter
Discussions in 2018 developed a collective understanding of the number of sites impacted by soil sterilants and the specific challenges associated with their remediation and management
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Accurate assessment for bioremediation feasibility plays a critical role in developing cost-effective and efficient remediation strategies adapted to northern climates, where warm seasons are short...
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Evgeniya Smirnova
Isabelle Demers
Medard Bouda
Mostafa Benzaazoua
Mamert Mbonimpa
Guylaine Bois
The use of the lime neutralization process is a common technique to treat acid mine drainage (AMD) generated by sulphidic mine wastes. The AMD-contaminated water collected on the mine site is...
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The overall objective of this research is to obtain sufficient scientific data relevant to salinity in peatlands in northern climates to allow for the derivation of risk-based assessment and...
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Miles Tindall
David Brand
B. Ludwig
David Hackbarth
Assessment of the Coleman facility found a range of contaminants exceeding Alberta’s default soil guidelines including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) and other hydrocarbon compound
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To assess climatic and soil conditions under which salts will move out of the root zone in a soil disturbed by a pipeline and to determine the rate at which salts will move in disturbed soils.
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
The current document reports specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas of...
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Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
The current document is focussed specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas...
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Anne Naeth
Donna White
David Chanasyk
Terry Macyk
Chris Powter
Don Thacker
To provide coordinated direction for reclamation research in Alberta, the need to review the current understanding and the role of soil physical properties in soil disturbance related activities was...
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Haneef Mian
Neil Fassina
A. Mukherjee
Alan Fair
Chris Powter
There is no single technology solution for tailings disposal – a suite of technologies will be required For a technology to be considered suitable it must provide net environmental benefits
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Survey demonstrated need to better communicate availability of existing information and continue to make efforts to provide easy, timely and transparent access to monitoring and research information
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C. Li
A. Singh
N. Klamerth
K. McPhendran
P. Chelme-Ayala
Milos Bilosevic
Mohamed Gamal El-Din
Review of the adverse effects of individual compounds, or mixtures of compounds, that are present in oil sands process-affected water and/or other oil-related sources.
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Advisory Committee for Cooperation on Wildlife Management
Resource Date:
November
2014
There is no management board for this herd, but there is a management plan. The plan was prepared under the authority of the Advisory Committee for Cooperation on Wildlife Management. This group...
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Jason Fisher
Michelle Hiltz
Luke Nolan
Laurence Roy
Woodland caribou are declining in Alberta’s northeast, and increased predation following elevated wolf densities is implicated. Wolf numbers are increasing in part due to white-tailed deer, which...
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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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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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Reviews what is currently known of fish ecology and production of the Athabasca Basin, and includes discussions of fish production, sport and commercial use of fish populations
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Resource Date:
August
2016
We examined how manipulating operational sex ratio (OSR: the ratio of reproductively active males to fertilizable females), could affect the intensity of competition in reindeer ( Rangifer tarandus)...