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BERA News Fall 2022
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Understanding how birds respond to landscape disturbance is key to effective restoration. Two studies used non-invasive microphone arrays to determine the exact locations of singing individuals in the...
BERA News Spring 2022
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Mounding is a common restoration technique designed to improve microsite conditions for planted seedlings in wetlands. There are a variety of strategies for constructing mounds, though, and how mounds...
Buried Wood Effects on Macronutrient Supply and Microbial Activity and Metabolic Potential in Different Oil Sands Reclamation Soils in Northern Alberta
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Buried wood is an important yet understudied component of natural and anthropogenic soils. Nutrient immobilization as a response to wood addition during oil sands' reclamation may be a concern since...
Denésoliné (Chipewyan) Knowledge of Barren-Ground Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) Movements
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Semi-directed interviews relating to the traditional knowledge (TK) of barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) movements were conducted with elders and hunters from the Denésôliné...
Effects of Elemental Sulfur on Soil pH and Growth of Saskatoon Berry (Amelanchier alnifolia) and Beaked Hazelnut (Corylus cornuta) Seedlings
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The land disturbed by open-pit oil sands mining must be restored to support the survival and growth of native boreal plants. Because tailings sand and sodic shale overburden are commonly used as an...
Monitoring Barren-Ground Caribou Body Condition with Denésǫłıné Traditional Knowledge
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Information from aboriginal elders and hunters on changes in barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) body condition can assist current management systems. Interviews with Denésǫłiné elders and...
Monitoring Barren-Ground Caribou Body Condition with Denésǫłıné Traditional Knowledge
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This study used interviews with Denésǫłiné elders and hunters from Łutsël K'é, Northwest Territories, Canada, to gather information on caribou body condition and environmental conditions.
The Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA)
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The boreal region of Alberta contains extensive disturbances from natural resource extraction. Roads, well pads, seismic lines (petroleum-exploration corridors), forest-harvest areas, and other...
The Edge 2022 (BERA Systhesis)
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The central goal of the Boreal Ecosystem Recovery and Assessment (BERA) program is to understand the effects of industrial disturbance on natural ecosystem dynamics, and to develop strategies for...
The Edge: The BERA Program 2024 Synthesis Report
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The 2024 issue of The Edge summarizes the following key findings: Plan A better understanding of passive recovery trajectories will help guide restoration planning LiDAR is a powerful planning tool...
Thermal In Situ Oil Sands Reclamation – Successes and Challenges
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March 13th, 2023 at 11:30am MST to March 13th, 2023 at 1:30pm MST
Calgary, AB
This is a hybrid seminar (in-person and virtual) sponsored by the Alberta Chapter, Canadian Land Reclamation Association. The presenter is Kira Gerow, a reclamation coordinator with Canadian Natural...
“These Trees Have Stories to Tell” Linking Denésƍliné Knowledge and Dendroecology in the Monitoring of Barren-ground Caribou Movements in the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Grounded in an Indigenous methodological framework and using dendroecology as a scientific assessment tool in combination with oral history analysis, this thesis assesses changes to caribou movement...
“These Trees Have Stories to Tell” Linking Denésƍliné Knowledge and Dendroecology in the Monitoring of Barren-ground Caribou Movements in the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Grounded in an Indigenous methodological framework and using dendroecology as a scientific assessment tool in combination with oral history analysis, this thesis project assessed changes to caribou...
Tracking Change: Traditional Knowledge and Monitoring of Wildlife Health in Northern Canada
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This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
Tracking Change: Traditional Knowledge and Monitoring of Wildlife Health in Northern Canada
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This project considered the role of traditional knowledge in wildlife health monitoring through a 12-year period of research with elders and harvesters.
Translating the Closure Plan into an Operational Reclamation Programme at Canadian Natural’s Horizon Oil Sands Mine
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Horizon Project reclamation goal is to achieve self-sustaining ecosystems with capability equivalent to predevelopment conditions using locally common boreal forest communities as a guide for reveg
Video - COSIA Design of Experimental Study in Support of Development of a Standard for Fines Measurement in Oil Sands
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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...
Video - Flooding of In-line Flocculated Tailings After Thin Lift Drying
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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...