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Fall 2013
The Crowsnest Pass area, located in the Rocky Mountain foothills of the Canadian Cordillera, provides an exceptional example of a thin-skinned thrust belt from which the deformational history can be determined. Use of LiDAR (light detection and ranging) data, acquired by high-resolution remote...
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Life history and ecology of aquatic insects associated with shifting sand areas, with special reference to their contribution to macroinvertebrate biomass and production in rivers
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Masters thesis. Results of a study of macroinvertebrates associated with areas of shifting sand in the Sand River, a major tributary of the Beaver River system, in central Alberta. Examined the life history and ecology of P centralis.
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Life history and microhabitat distribution of midges (diptera: Chironomidae) inhabiting a brown-water stream of central Alberta, Canada
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Doctoral thesis. Study of 112 species of Chironomidae from the Bigoray river, a slow-moving, brown-water stream of central Alberta.
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Fall 2011
Magnetotelluric (MT) data were collected at 67 stations during the 2008, 2009, and 2010 field seasons in southern Alberta. These have been combined with more than 300 MT stations previously collected in Alberta, allowing a three dimensional electrical resistivity model of the lithosphere to be...
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Maintaining the mission: a comparative case study of two youth-serving, nonprofit agencies in Edmonton, Alberta
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This study explores the impact of social, economic, and political environments on social service nonprofit and voluntary organizations in Edmonton and Alberta. Using comparative case-study methodology, the research examines how two youth-serving nonprofit agencies in Edmonton experience and...
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Meeting the Water for Life challenge: Management scenarios to improve irrigation water use efficiency and reduce water demand in the Western Irrigation District, Alberta
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Simulation of two alternative management scenarios - full rehabilitation and implementation of most efficient technologies, and water application restrictions - were investigated with the Irrigation Demand Model (IDM) as potential avenues to improve water use efficiency and reduce water demand in...
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Middle-Aged and Older Adult Walking and Hiking Groups of Cochrane, Alberta: How Outdoor Group Exercise Influences Perceptions of Health, Healing, and Disease
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Middle-aged and older adult walking and hiking groups of Cochrane had unique perceptions of health and healing due to their activities, the equipment they used, the environments they explored, and the relationships they developed. Past anthropological research has focused on aging, ethnomedicine,...
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Fall 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify and describe models of care in Alberta for substance use during pregnancy. This work will inform the development and implementation of a strategy for the care of pregnant patients experiencing problematic substance use, at the Lois Hole...
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Molecular characterization of Tubifex populations in Alberta, Canada, and their role in the spread of whirling disease
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Whirling disease is a parasitic infection caused by Myxobolus cerebralis Hofer (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) and is debilitating to the salmonid fish that act as hosts. As of 2016, this parasite has been confirmed in Alberta, Canada. This thesis focused on estimating how long M. cerebralis has been present...