The 2013 Alberta Soil Science Workshop was held from February 19-21 in Lethbridge, with the theme 'Futursol: A New World Order.' Over the course of three days, participants heard from keynote speakers, plenary speakers and poster sessions related to what's happening in Alberta related to soil - from agriculture to forestry to land reclamation. The Alberta Land-use Knowledge Network was pleased to record many of the sessions from ASSW 2013.
At the Alberta Soil Science Workshop 2013, Sascha Bachmann presented research related to reclamation of temporary drilling pads. With Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) wellsites being the predominate technology for oil sands recovery in the future, the oil sands companies have begun to plan reclamation techniques for drilling wellpads that are in operation for only a winter season. A trial of new topsoil and LFH stripping techniques are reported in this presentation.
Sascha Bachmann is a graduate student in the Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta.