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2024 Alberta Soils Tour
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Event Date and Time
May 29th, 2024 at 7:00am MST to May 30th, 2024 at 6:00pm MST
Organization
This 2-day event will focus on the Boreal Transition Zone. The Tour will start from Edmonton and travel Northeast, exploring traditional and agricultural land use through soils, stopping overnight in...
Alberta Soil Science Workshop 2023
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Event Date and Time
February 21st, 2023 at 1:00pm MST to February 23rd, 2023 at 6:00pm MST
Calgary, AB
Organization
The Alberta Soil Sciene Workshop 2023 will be held in Calgary, AB. This years theme is: "Challenges for Soil Science in Response to Changing Needs".
Alberta Soil Science Workshop 2023: Challenges for Soil Science in Response to Changing Needs
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Event Date and Time
February 21st, 2023 at 12:00pm MST to February 23rd, 2023 at 1:30pm MST
Calgary, AB
Organization
The 59th Annual Alberta Soil Science Workshop will include sessions on (a) Land Use and Rangelands, (b) Soil Fertility, (c) Land Reclamation, (d) Forest/Wetland/Riparian Soils, and (e) Pedogenesis and...
Alberta Soil Science Workshop 2024: Soil Response to Extreme Events
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Event Date and Time
February 20th, 2024 at 9:00am MST to February 22nd, 2024 at 4:30pm MST
Lethbridge, AB
Organization
Extreme events (including drought, fire, and climate change) may impact soil health and productivity. This conference will focus on these and other soil issues.
Alberta Soil Science Workshop: Soil Science for Sustainable Development
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Event Date and Time
May 23rd, 2022 at 9:00am MST to May 27th, 2022 at 4:00pm MST
Edmonton, AB
Organization
The 2022 CSSS Annual meeting will be jointly held with the Alberta Soil Science Workshop (ASSW) in Edmonton, on the University of Alberta campus.
ASN Webinar: Recent Developments in Anthroposol Classification
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Event Date and Time
January 12th, 2022 at 12:00pm MST to January 12th, 2022 at 12:45pm MST
Organization
This webinar presentation is focused on revisions made to the proposed Anthroposolic soil Order classification in a recently published paper that Konstantin Dlusskiy co-authored. The original...
Assessment of Phytoremediation as an In-Situ Technique for Cleaning Oil-Contaminated Sites: Phase II Final Report
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The cold climate and short growing season characteristic of the major oil and gas producing regions of western Canada make it particularly important to conduct phytoremediation research on plants...
Biochar Application for Revegetation Purposes in Northern Saskatchewan
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Our research was focused on biochar application for revegetation purposes under northern Saskatchewan conditions. The Gunnar Mine Site, located on the northern shore of the Athabasca Lake, was used as...
Biogeochemical Response to Vegetation and Hydrologic Change in an Alaskan Boreal Fen Ecosystem
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Boreal peatlands store approximately one third of the earth’s terrestrial carbon, locked away in currently waterlogged and frozen conditions. Peatlands of boreal and arctic ecosystems are affected...
Canadian System of Soil Classification – 4th Edition Working Group Invitation
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Organization
The Canadian System of Soil Classification Pedology Committee invites interested soil scientists from across Canada to join the Soil Classification Working Group (SCWG) and participate in the...
Peat Loss Collocates with a Threshold in Plant–Mycorrhizal Associations in Drained Peatlands Encroached by Trees
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Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...
Recent Climate Change has Driven Divergent Hydrological Shifts in High-latitude Peatlands
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High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba...
The Third Generation of Pan-Canadian Wetland Map at 10 m Resolution Using Multisource Earth Observation Data on Cloud Computing Platform
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Development of the Canadian Wetland Inventory Map (CWIM) has thus far proceeded over two generations, reporting the extent and location of bog, fen, swamp, marsh, and water wetlands across the country...
Video - A Comparison of Site Preparation Methods on Sub-surface Soil Resistance and Moisture on Reclaimed Industrial Sites in Northwestern Alberta
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This presentation discusses a comparison of site preparation methods on sub-surface soil resistance and moisture on reclaimed industrial sites in northwestern Alberta.
Video - Biodiversity Management Frameworks for Alberta's Land Use Planning Regions
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This presentation discusses Biodiversity Management Frameworks (BMFs), including indicators, triggers, monitoring and management response and reporting.
Video - Capture Sand in Flocculated Fines: A New Approach to optimize the Capture of Oil Sands Fines in Sand Beach
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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...
Video - Cleaning Up Mines in Northern Saskatchewan
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Uranium mining in the Athabasca Basin region in Northern Saskatchewan was developed in the early 1950s. The mines developed during this period were abandoned, leaving deep holes and mining debris...