Publications - Groups - Oil Sands Monitoring

Enhanced characterization of oil sands acid-extractable organics fractions...

The open pit oil sands mining operations north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, are accumulating tailings waste at a rate approximately equal to 4.9 million m3/d. Naphthenic...

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Development of Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) for Detection of CO2,...

Rapid expansion of the oil and gas industry in Alberta, including the oil sands, has challenged the Alberta Government to keep pace in its efforts to monitor and mitigate the...

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Delineating and identifying long-term changes in the whooping crane (Grus...

Defining and identifying changes to seasonal ranges of migratory species is required for effective conservation. Historic sightings of migrating whooping cranes (Grus americana)...

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Data and information management for the monitoring of biodiversity in Alberta

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Legacy of a half century of Athabasca oil sands development recorded by lake...

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Recent Warming, Rather than Industrial Emissions of Bioavailable Nutrients,...

Freshwaters in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) are vulnerable to the atmospheric emissions and land disturbances caused by the local oil sands industry; however, they are...

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Aura OMI observations of regional SO2 and NO2 pollution changes from 2005 to 2015

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A hydrologic assessment of a saline-spring fen in the Athabasca oil sands...

Canada's post-mined oil sands will have a higher concentration of salts compared with freshwater peatlands that dominate the landscape. While rare, naturally occurring saline...

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Advances in mass spectrometric characterization of naphthenic acids fraction...

There has been a recent surge in the development of mass spectrometric methods for detailed characterization of naphthenic acid fraction compounds (all CcHhNnOoSs, species,...

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Airborne Lidar Measurements of Aerosol and Ozone above the Canadian Oil Sands Region

Aircraft-based lidar measurements of atmospheric aerosol and ozone were conducted to study air pollution from the oil sands extraction industry in northern Alberta. Significant...