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- 1Alejandro, Alvarez
- 1Bandara, Sasiri
- 1Beasse, Mark L
- 1Bulger, Cara A
- 1Burd, Katheryn
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1979
Masters thesis. Examines significant aspects of hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry, and evidence of groundwater flow as basis for understanding groundwater distribution and development in permafrost regions. Engineering considerations on development of groundwater resources and prevention of icings...
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1980
Comprehensive, in-situ study of naturally occurring creep in ice-rich permafrost soil on a steep slope on the Great Bear River. A detailed surficial geology mapping along the Great Bear River was carried out in order to determine the most suitable field site. Coincidentally, the slope is situated...
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Soil-vegetation relationships on an involuted hill, Pleistocene Mackenzie Delta area, N.W.T.
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Masters thesis. Provides plant ecological information about an involuted hill located near Tuktoyaktuk, NWT.
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Examining Historical Climate with Respect to Future Permafrost and Engineering Design: An Analysis of Common Assumptions and Calculations
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This paper examines changes in climate with respect to permafrost and engineering design in Arctic regions. Current understanding of climate changes, predictive modeling, and climate data were studied. Inconsistencies and differences were noted, discussed, and evaluated using comparisons of the...
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Active heterotrophic microbial communities from polar desert soils of the Canadian High Arctic
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Polar warming will lead to increased labile organic carbon in Arctic soils, both from the release of organic carbon stored in permafrost and increased plant production. The impact of increasing organic carbon on Arctic soil microbial community composition and activity is of great interest...
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Microbial communities in organic substrates used for oil sands reclamation and their link to boreal seedling growth
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Soil reconstruction in the Athabasca oil sands region utilises forest floor and peat materials as surface organic amendments to help reclaim decommissioned mine sites to upland boreal forests. The objective of this study was to characterize the microbial community in these two organic materials,...
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Spring 2013
This study is a part of a field experiment constructed at the Diavik Diamond Mine in northern Canada to investigate water flow, geochemical reactions, thermal and gas transport within unsaturated piles of mine waste rock in a continuous permafrost permafrost. Diavik waste rock is categorized by...
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Spring 2014
The GeoStudio 2007 convection module a finite element program was used to examine convection in porous embankments and waste rock piles and compared to literature numerical and experimental examples by Goering and Kumar (1996) and Goering (2000) and field data from Diavik waste rock test piles. ...