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A Visual Guide to Handling Woody Materials for Forested Land Reclamation
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Guide to answer: • Why has there been a shift in how we manage woody materials? • How can woody materials be managed effectively on sites? • What do effective woody material applications look like?
An Ecological Framework for Wildlife Habitat Design for Oil Sands Mine Reclamation
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Wildlife communities are an important part of the biodiversity of the post-mining landscape, and are crucial elements of the traditional landscape for First Nations and other users of the land.
Application of Federal Legislation to Alberta’s Mineable Oil Sands
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Report focuses on evolution and current state of pertinent federal legislative Acts in the environmental, natural resource, and energy policy sectors that may impact oil sands environmental management
Application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring
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This report presents a comprehensive review of industrial applications of an emerging environmental monitoring technology called Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and a WSN installed at Coal Valley Mine
Boreal Plant Species for Reclamation of Athabasca Oil Sands Disturbances – Updated December 2014
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Oil sands reclamation guidance documents include lists of potential reclamation species and their characteristics - This report consolidates and updates profiles for 98 of these species
Call for Abstracts: RemTech East 2022
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Abstracts are solicited for the RemTech east conference to be held June 1-3, 2022 Fallsview Casino and Resort, Niagara Falls, Ontario
Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization and Microbial Succession in Oil Sands Reclamation Soils Amended with Pyrogenic Carbon
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Rebuilding native forest soils in reclamation will require the use of biochar to stimulate functional similarity to native ecosystems for nutrient availability and microbial community succession
Catalogue of Analytical Methods for Naphthenic Acids Related to Oil Sands Operations
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overview of methods currently used for the analysis of NA class of compounds including sampling, sample preservation, sample transport, extraction and clean-up, analytical techniques, and future needs
Characterizing the Organic Composition of Snow and Surface Water Across the Athabasca Region: Phase 2
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This study was conducted to characterize the composition of polar dissolved organic compounds present in snow and surface waters in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) with the goal of identifying...
Characterizing the Organic Composition of Snow and Surface Water in the Athabasca Region
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Goal was identifying whether atmospherically-derived organics present in snow are a significant contributor to the organics detected in rivers and lakes in the oil sands region
Community Level Physiological Profiling for Monitoring Oil Sands Impacts
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Objective of the project was to better understand and describe the potential for CLPP to provide meaningful assessments of aquatic ecosystems in the oil sands region of Alberta to various stakeholders
Creating a Knowledge Platform for the Reclamation and Restoration Ecology Community: Expanding the OSRIN Model Beyond the Oil Sands
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One of the core mandates for the Oil Sands Research and Information Network (OSRIN) was to enhance access to oil sands environmental management information. With OSRIN’s mandate ending December 31...
Development of a Toxin-Mediated Predator-Prey Model Applicable to Aquatic Environments in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
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Previous work has considered the effect of a toxin on the population dynamics of a single trophic level, such as fish, we focus on the impacts of toxins on the population dynamics of aquatic food webs
EnviroTech 2022
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April 20th, 2022 at 12:00pm MST to April 22nd, 2022 at 2:00pm MST
Calgary, AB
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EnviroTech features water as a key theme, but ESAA is expanding the program to include other key components of the environment industry including: air, alternative energy, climate change, laboratory, regulatory and waste management.
EnviroTech 2022 Call for Abstracts
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ESAA invites you to submit technical abstracts for EnviroTech 2022, April 20-22, 2022 in Calgary. Abstracts are due by Monday, February 7th, 2022.
Equivalent Land Capability Workshop Summary Notes
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opportunity for 60 reclamation specialists to share views about Equivalent Land Capability and how it is applied to oil sands mine reclamation, and to identify research and information needs
ESAA Environmental Summit - 2022
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Event Date and Time
April 12th, 2023 at 1:00pm MST to April 14th, 2023 at 12:00pm MST
Jasper, AB
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The ESAA Environmental Summit is the re-imagining of EnviroTech with a new location and format. The Summit will feature all of the things you expect from an ESAA event: great talks, great location and...
ESAA PFAS Symposium
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Event Date and Time
December 6th, 2023 at 7:30am MST to December 6th, 2023 at 5:00pm MST
Calgary, AB
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PFAS, PFOS and other forever chemicals are widely used, long lasting chemicals, components of which break down very slowly over time. These chemicals are now everywhere in the environment (soil, water...
Establishing a World Class Public Information and Reporting System for Ecosystems in the Oil Sands Region – Report and Appendices
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A vision for a comprehensive and effective Public Information and Reporting System for Ecosystem Effects in the Oil Sands Region that is relevant, credible, durable, transparent, and robust