Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
presents the summary of water quality in the Athabasca River during six sampling surveys (including a site at Fort McMurray, Tar Island, above G.G.O.S.)
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Alberta Health, Environmental Health Services Division
Water quality in the Athabasca River and tributaries was found to be generally acceptable throughout the winter of 1969/70. However, relatively high odor and colour values were observed on occasions
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Consultants were requested to carry out preliminary studies to determine the technical feasibility and estimated cost of constructing a dam on the Athabasca River in the vicinity of Crooked Rapids.
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Life history information and location data for the 672 fish, of 17 species, collected from rivers lakes are presented in table format
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S.S. Malhotra
Paul Addison
A.A. Khan
A number of coniferous and deciduous species that had been growing on the Suncor tailings sand dike for five to seven years were fumigated with 0.34 ppm SO2 under controlled environmental conditions
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Includes sections outlining the requirements of: Environmental impact to tar sands development, Water Resources Act, Clean Air Act , Clean Water Act and land reclamation
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All reported archaeological finds in the Boreal Mixedwood Ecosystem of Alberta and pertinent ethnohistorical and ethnographic literature concerning Native Groups of the general region are reviewed
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Ecological factors discussed for each species include soil and moisture requirements, reproduction, establishment, growth, successional roles, sensitivity to pollutants, and the associated species
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Runoff from within the study area contributes less than 10% of the average flow in the Athabasca River at the northern boundary of the study area. Snowfall constitutes about 30% of precipitation
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G.R. Dyke
Alan Birdsall
P.L. Sharp
Shorebirds readily landed on the shore of this pond and were observed to pick up bitumen on their feet and legs. Hazard considered small although some shorebirds are known to have died at this pond
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Dennis Cook
Jerald Jacobson
The 1977 moose population of 320 moose was contained in an estimated 196 groups distributed on 23 percent of the square-mile study area quadrats at the time of census (363± 30% estimated in 1976)
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The amounts of sulphate and nitrate deposited in the snow within 25 km of the oil sands plants have increased by 88 and 27% respectively, since the previous study in 1978
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M.A. Giles
J.F. Klaverkamp
S.G. Lawrence
Purpose of this project was to provide detailed information regarding the acute toxicity this mine depressurization water to both fish and invertebrates.
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Energy and Natural Resources
Energy Resources Conservation Board
Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research Authority
Overview of the oil sands, current commercial developments, experimental work, an overview of Fort McMurray and the role of government agencies in development and management of oil sands.
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Alberta Health and Wellness
Study was designed to assess exposure and associated health effects by direct measurement of personal exposure, direct measurement of biomarkers, and daily logs of a participant's activities
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Alberta Health and Wellness
Describes the population and personal distribution of exposure to airborne chemicals and particulates in the city of Fort McMurray,
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Stan Aronoff
G.A. Ross
W.A. Ross
Concluded that false color infrared aerial photography acquired during the period of maximum foliage development is most valuable for vegetation mapping and the detection of environmental disturbance
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Stan Aronoff
G.A. Ross
W.A. Ross
Figures and Tables associated with Volume 1
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P. Wallis
Eric Peake
Melvin Strosher
B. Baker
S. Telang
Provide a problem analysis of the goal to determine the assimilative capacity of the Athabasca River with special regard to organics
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David Olefeldt
Mikael Hovemyr
McKenzie Kuhn
David Bastviken
Theodore Bohn
John Connolly
Patrick Crill
Eugénie Euskirchen
Sarah Finkelstein
Hélène Genet
Guido Grosse
Lorna Harris
Liam Heffernan
Manuel Helbig
Gustaf Hugelius
Ryan Hutchins
Sari Juutinen
Mark Lara
Avni Malhotra
Kristen Manies
David McGuire
Susan Natali
Jonathan O'Donnell
Frans-Jan Parmentier
Aleksi Räsänen
Christina Schädel
Oliver Sonnentag
Maria Strack
Suzanne Tank
Claire Treat
Ruth Varner
Tarmo Virtanen
Rebecca Warren
Jennifer Watts
Here we present the Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD), a land cover dataset based on an expert assessment, extrapolated using random forest modelling from available spatial datasets of...