Land Management Search Results
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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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Oil Sands Research and Information Network
Mandates: 1. Creating oil sands environmental management knowledge, 2. Sharing oil sands environmental management information, and 3. Networking to link researchers with funders and other researchers
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Lois Boxill is a Senior Geotechnical Engineer with SRK Consulting. She describes the concepts and testing involved in her Ph.D thesis studying how mature fine tailings behave after treatment with...
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Nicholas Beier
Dave Sego
Norbert Morgenstern
Dr. Nicholas Beier is a Research Associate with the Oil Sands Tailings Research Facility, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. He describes his doctoral thesis research using tailings management...
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Ruijun Sun
Jianmin Kan
Alexandre Goldszal
Ruijun Sun is a Senior Research Engineer with the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Ruijun Sun describes a new way to optimize the capture of oil sands clay fines in sand...
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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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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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Dr. Aref Najafi is a Technology Development Engineer with Canadian Natural Resources Limited. He described the tailings research at CNRL as they develop an open-pit oil sands mine in NE Alberta. The...
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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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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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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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Alan Fair led the Oil Sands Tailings Consortium before his retirement. Al Hyndman consults on Total's Joslyn oil sands mine, and gave Fair's keynote presentation at the Oil Sands Tailings 2014...
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Alan Fair and Al Hyndman in the second part of their keynote presentation describe the tailings management and reclamation research through the 1970's and 1980's. Dam safety was and continues to be a...
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In the third part of their keynote presentation, Alan Fair and Al Hyndman cover the suite of treatment technologies tested in the 2000's for Alberta's oil sands tailings. From deposition on sand...