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Native Prairie Protocol for Salt-Affected Wellsites Scientific Rationale Document
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There are a large number of oil and gas sites with salts in soil that exceed one or more generic guideline values. The nature of generic guidelines is that, by definition, they do not uniquely...
Podcast - Shift talks Sacred Science with Alvin First Rider, Brett Purdy, and Emily Herdman
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Alvin First Rider speaks about his nation's use western science alongside Indigenous Knowledge to bring buffalo back to their historical plains.
Reclamation of the Gregg River Mine, Canada
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Reclamation of 1,362 hectare mine site; recent carnivore activity is one indication of the eventual return of a healthy, balanced and sustainable ecosystem to the reclaimed Gregg River mine site.
Revealing the Hidden Carbon in Forested Wetland Soils
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Inland wetlands are critical carbon reservoirs storing 30% of global soil organic carbon (SOC) within 6% of the land surface. However, forested regions contain SOC-rich wetlands that are not included...
Risk-based Soil Remediation Guidelines in Coal Mine Closure
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Assessment of the Coleman facility found a range of contaminants exceeding Alberta’s default soil guidelines including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) and other hydrocarbon compound
Salt-Affected Wellsite Closure Project Background Document
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The current document reports specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas of...
Salt-Affected Wellsite Closure Project Scientific Rationale Document
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The current document is focussed specifically on issues relating to the ecological direct contact exposure pathway (growth and reproduction of plants and soil invertebrates) in native grasslands areas...
Using Perceptions as Evidence to Improve Conservation and Environmental Management
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The conservation community is increasingly focusing on the monitoring and evaluation of management, governance, ecological, and social considerations as part of a broader move toward adaptive...
Video - Assessing Cumulative Ecological Effects: The Changing Management Landscape
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Jim Schieck discusses how cumulative effects are currently being assessed in Alberta.
Video - Assessment of forest attributes using airborne and terrestrial LiDAR
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This presentation discusses the different ways that LiDAR data can be effectively used in forestry management applications.
Video - Blood Tribe Buffalo Restoration Project
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Members of the Káínawa – or Blood Tribe – are applying training in western science, alongside their Indigenous Knowledge, to bring buffalo back to their historical habitat in southern Alberta, the...
Video - Building a Sustainable Alberta Through Deployment of LiDAR Technologies: Reflections from an SRD perspective
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Barry White discusses the ways LiDAR is being used by departments within the government of Alberta.
Video - Caribou Conservation Project
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The Denesųłiné of Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) are applying both their Indigenous Knowledge and expertise in western science to develop and implement diverse caribou conservation strategies in...
Video - Enhanced Fuel Mapping for Wildfire Management
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This presentation discusses ways that LiDAR data can be used in forestry management, including for mapping mountain pine beetle infestations.
Video - Feature Extraction from Multisensor Airborne Data: Monitoring of large-scaled industrial activity on the natural landscape
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This presentation discusses using airborne LiDAR data on monitoring projects with the federal and provincial government. Data collection and data extraction are reviewed.
Video - From Point Cloud to Supporting Decisions: Making use of your LiDAR data
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This presentation discusses how to use LiDAR data, in particular for forestry, but also for other government and industry applications.
Video - High Resolution Inventories Using LiDAR: Challenges and opportunities
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This presentation discuss a pilot project done with Spray Lakes Sawmill FMA related to doing plot inventories using LiDAR.
Video - LiDAR Data Capture and Analysis Standards
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This presentation discusses some of the issues with data collection and analysis that could lead users to require standards.