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Additive and interactive cumulative effects on boreal landbirds; winners and...
Stressors created by multiple resource industries can result in cumulative effects over time and space. Many studies have evaluated single stressors and assumed that cumulative... -
Non-target profiling of bitumen-influenced waters for the identification of...
The objective of this study was to identify unique chemical tracers of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) to enable definitive discrimination of tailings pond seepage from... -
Erosion of the Alberta badlands produces highly variable and elevated heavy...
Erosion is important in the transport of heavy metals from terrestrial to fluvial environments. In this study, we investigated riverine heavy metal (Cd, Cu, Hg and Pb) dynamics... -
Monitoring heavy metal concentrations in turbid rivers: Can fixed frequency...
The accurate determination of water quality criteria exceedance frequencies, distribution statistics (e.g., mean, median and percentile concentrations) and temporal trends in... -
Impacts of a large boreal wildfire on ground level atmospheric...
During May 2016 a very large boreal wildfire burned throughout the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in central Canada, and in close proximity to an extensive air quality... -
Uncovering traits in recovering grasslands: A functional assessment of oil...
Oil and gas exploration has disturbed extensive areas of grassland in North America. Reclamation of this human footprint is only a first step towards ecological recovery. A... -
Satellite-derived emissions of carbon monoxide, ammonia, and nitrogen...
In May 2016, the Horse River wildfire led to the evacuation of ∼ 88 000 people from Fort McMurray and surrounding areas and consumed ∼ 590 000 ha of land in Northern Alberta and... -
Isotopic tracing of hydrologic drivers including permafrost thaw status for...
Study region Surveys of stable isotopes of water in 50 boreal lakes were conducted during 2002–2017 as a component of Alberta’s Oil Sands acid sensitivity program in... -
Comparison of isotopic mass balance and instrumental techniques as estimates...
Mass-balance models using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen provide useful estimates of the water balance of lakes, particularly in the absence of instrumental data.... -
A novel approach for selecting extreme climate change scenarios for climate...
One of the main challenges in climate change impact assessment studies is selecting climate change scenarios. By focusing on selecting projected extremes in a high dimensional... -
Modelling Interactions between Land Use, Climate, and Hydrology along with...
This paper describes the main functionalities of an integrated framework to model the interactions between land use, climate, and hydrology along with stakeholders’ negotiation.... -
Isotopic Analyses Fingerprint Sources of Polycyclic Aromatic...
Fugitive dust associated with surface mining activities is one of the principal vectors for transport of airborne contaminants in Canada’s Athabasca oil sands region (AOSR).... -
Assessing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Neural...
To evaluate the health effects of wildfire smoke, it is crucial to identify reliable models, at fine spatiotemporal resolution, of exposure to wildfire-generated PM2.5. To this... -
Study of Fuel-Smoke Dynamics in a Prescribed Fire of Boreal Black Spruce...
Understanding the combustion dynamics of fuels, and the generation and propagation of smoke in a wildland fire, can inform short-range and long-range pollutant transport models,... -
Alberta’s River Water Quality Monitoring Programs
Alberta Environment and Parks is dedicated to ensuring healthy, secure and sustainable water supplies for Alberta's communities, environment and economy. Two core river water... -
Monitoring ecological recovery of reclaimed wellsites: Protocols for...
We developed a scientifically robust and financially sustainable monitoring protocol to enable a consistent assessment of ecological recovery of physical, chemical, and... -
Soil quality and land capability of reclaimed oil and gas well pads in...
Since 1963 approximately 100 000 oil and gas well pads have been officially certified as reclaimed in Alberta, yet follow-up monitoring programs have not been established to... -
Assessment of reclaimed soils by unsupervised clustering of proximal sensor data
The application of soil proximal sensors on reclaimed sites presents a novel method for assessing the quality of reclaimed landscapes. This method improves assessment... -
A serious gaming tool: Bow River Sim for communicating integrated water...
Serious games provide a way for stakeholders to become engaged in and understand the issues and constraints on a real-world system. An application of a serious game is explored,... -
Automated SAR Image Thresholds for Water Mask Production in Alberta’s Boreal Region
Mapping and monitoring surface water features is important for sustainably managing this critical natural resource that is in decline due to numerous natural and anthropogenic...