Land Management Search Results
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Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures
Knowledge Exchange Workshop focused on centralization, collection, distribution and synthesis of knowledge, information and data related to reclamation
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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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Matthew Pyper
Chris Powter
Tim Vinge
For reclaimed lands to be considered self-sustaining they should respond to natural and anthropogenic disturbances in a similar manner to how an analogous undisturbed landscape might respond
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Guide to answer: • Why has there been a shift in how we manage woody materials? • How can woody materials be managed effectively on sites? • What do effective woody material applications look like?
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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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Literature review provides an understanding of ecological resilience as a concept to promote successful land reclamation in Alberta’s mineable oil sands region
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Report focuses on evolution and current state of pertinent federal legislative Acts in the environmental, natural resource, and energy policy sectors that may impact oil sands environmental management
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Model projections of tree regeneration under climate change on actual oil sands reclamation materials, and comprehensive model analysis of the risks to ecosystem productivity from climate change
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Brian Eaton
Tyler Muhly
Jason Fisher
Shauna-Lee Chai
Reclaimed mine sites will consist of engineered landforms (including water bodies and waterways); the long-term hydrological and ecological function of those sites may be vulnerable to beaver activity
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Research Scientist
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Cheryl Johnson
Glenn Sutherland
Erin Neave
Mathieu Leblond
Patrick Kirby
Clara Superbie
Philip McLoughlin
Resource Date:
April
2020
Examination of the effects of human disturbances and fire on variation in boreal caribou recruitment and adult female survival, using data from 58 study areas across Canada.
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Samarth Kaluskara
Cheryl Ann Johnson
Agnes Blukacz-Richards
Félix Ouellet
Dong-Kyun Kim
George Arhonditsis
Resource Date:
March
2020
Study aiming to characterize year-to-year variability of Peary caribou habitat conditions across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago from 2000 to 2013.
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Samarth Kaluskar
Agnes Blukacz‐Richards
Cheryl Ann Johnson
Yuhong He
Alexandre Langlois
Dong‐Kyun Kim
George Arhonditsis
Resource Date:
December
2019
Study of the strength and nature of the relationships of snow density and vegetation with Peary caribou populations using a spatially explicit modelling framework.
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Janice Paskey
Gillian Steward
A. Williams
In the last 10 to 15 years, global issues such as climate change, indigenous rights, pollution of the air and major waterways, and sustainability have become embedded in the oil sands discourse
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Tyler Muhly
Cheryl Johnson
Mark Hebblewhite
Eric Neilson
Daniel Fortin
John Fryxell
Andrew David Latham
Maria Latham
Philip McLoughlin
Evelyn Merrill
Paul Paquet
Brent Patterson
Fiona Schmiegelow
Fiona Scurrah
Marco Musiani
Resource Date:
August
2019
Study testing wolf responses to infrastructure related to natural resources development across Canada's boreal ecosystems.
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Modelling results for the regional watersheds were encouraging and demonstrate that SWATBF has the potential to be utilized as a practical tool for conducting hydrologic assessments in the oil sands
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Jean Birks
Yi Yi
Sunny Cho
John Gibson
Rod Hazewinkel
Goal was identifying whether atmospherically-derived organics present in snow are a significant contributor to the organics detected in rivers and lakes in the oil sands region
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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Current state of knowledge about shrubs and their use in oil sands reclamation noted a number of regulatory requirements and policies that support shrub use but a far larger list of impediments