Land Management Search Results
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Srboljub Masala is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with Thurber Engineering Ltd. He describes pilot scale tests at Shell Canada's Tailings Testing Facility at their Muskeg River oil sands mine in NE...
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John Sobkowicz
Al Hyndman
Bryan Watts
Richard Dawson
COSIA (Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance) created a committee to develop guidelines for management of fluid fine tailings so that oil sands mines could meet closure requirements. Dr. John...
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Alexey Klyashtorin
Tamara Yankovich
The Gunnar Mine site is part of a cleanup project, Project CLEANS (Cleanup of Abandoned Northern Sites), managed by the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC). Significant progress was made at Gunnar...
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Dr. Roland Kroebel outines where ecosystem modeling for agriculture is moving in a presentation to the 50th Alberta Soil Science Workshop. Starting with a GHG calculator, HOLOS, Dr. Kroebel proposes adding a number of other models, for carbon, soil moisture, nitrogen and environmental footprints to create a "Virtual Farm" concept.
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
This video shows how to properly use the RipPlow to adjust severely disturbed soil. The NAIT Boreal Research Institute in Peace River is using the RipPlow® to test the restoration of soil quality on...
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John Sobkowicz
Jeremy Boswell
Iain Gidley
In a presentation to challenge the tailings research community, the Alberta oil sand industry and regulators, John Sobkowicz asks whether an ingenuity gap exists in the tailings management solutions...
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Nicole Kimmel provides a history of weed control in Canada and Alberta focusing on invasive weeds and their impact on natural landscapes and agriculture.
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Ed Whittingham, Executive Director, Pembina Institute reviews the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan and discusses what it means for Alberta's international reputation, Canada's Greenhouse Gas policies...
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This presentation reviews the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan, what it means for Alberta's international reputation, Canada's Greenhouse Gas policies, and resource development challenges.
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In this presentation, Jessica Hum, Acting Manager, Land Use Planner, Department of Culture and Lands Protection, from the Tłįchǫ Government describes the lands within the Wek’èezhìi Management Area...
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Anne Naeth
Konstantin Dlusskiy
Leonard Leskiw
Chris Powter
Andy Etmanski
Humans impact everything, including our soil. We remove, mix and compact soil horizons. We add amendments, including waste materials, to replace soil or improve its health. Soils that that have been...
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The goal of the program is to develop a set of spatially explicit models that can be used to map the supply and economic value ecosystems goods and services
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Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) created a committee to develop guidelines for testing the load bearing strength of oil sands tailings deposits. The need comes from the Alberta Energy...
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I will introduce ABMI’s Ecological Recovery Monitoring program, which is establishing long-term monitoring protocols to assess ecological recovery at certified reclaimed wellsites across Alberta
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Adam Fenech explains the temperature has been going up in Banff, when looking at records from 1888 to 2012.
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The presentation describes how multi-temporal remote sensing offers a better understanding of landscape changes over time in comparison to the more traditional two-date, before and after comparison.
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Cameron Jefferies
Catherine Shier
Colleen St. Clair
Tune into a conversation with the Alberta Land Institute about the role municipalities play in managing biodiversity in Alberta Featuring presentations by our guest experts: Dr. Cameron Jefferies...
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NAIT Centre for Boreal Research
Improving seed emergence and survival is one of the largest potential benefits for native boreal seed enhancement. Seed pelleting can increase seed size by multiple orders of magnitude, resulting in...
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The presentation describes the goals of NatureLynx and provides some demonstrations of the mobile and desktop platforms
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Presentation tracks the evolution in technology used to monitor birds by recording their songs, with examples from different regions of the province.