Land Management Search Results
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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.
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Oil sands industry case study evaluated the economic and ecological performance of alternative offset networks targeting either ecologically equivalent areas or regional conservation priorities
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This presentation discusses the importance of giving consideration to ecophysiology and silvics when aiming for successful stand rehabilitation after a Mountain Pine Beetle attack.
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Resource Date:
March
2012
This presentation discusses ways that LiDAR data can be used in forestry management, including for mapping mountain pine beetle infestations.
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At the 2013 Alberta Soil Science Workshop, Dr. Jim Miller covered the extensive and long term results of riparian protection (streambank fencing and offsite watering for cattle pastures) on stream water quality and biology plus the benefits and costs for cattleman.