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Characterization of Soil Spatial Heterogeneity and Improvement of Capping Materials for Oil Sands Mine Reclamation
DownloadFall 2018
Surface mining in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR), Alberta, Canada creates a large-scale ecosystem disturbance requiring ‘land reclamation’. Mining approvals require that land reclamation returns the sites to an equivalent land capability class, but this goal has proven challenging to...
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Fall 2019
Fine fluid tailings (FFT) are a by-product created during the extraction of bitumen from oil sands mining operations. Over 975 million m3 of FFT are currently being stored in tailings ponds in the Athabasca oil sands region (AOSR) of Alberta, Canada. These tailings cause industrial and...
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The influence of soil reconstruction materials and targeted fertilization on the regeneration dynamics in boreal upland forest reclamation
DownloadFall 2019
Soil is an essential component supporting the growth and maintenance of terrestrial ecosystems such as forests, providing anchorage, water, and nutrients. In Canada’s boreal forest landscape, surface soils can differ widely in their chemical and physical conditions, ranging from coarse to fine...
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Spring 2020
Surface mining is an anthropogenic disturbance which significantly alters natural ecosystems, involving the removal of vegetation, top and subsoils, and several metres of overburden material before accessing valuable resources. Forest reclamation efforts following surface mining face several...