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Spring 2021

Zhong, Cheng

The increased development of unconventional resources recovery has dramatically changed the global energy landscape over the past two decades. Hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling, a key technology in recovering these resources, requires large freshwater volumes to fracture the...

Fall 2021

Creaser, Emily C

Anhydrite (CaSO4) is a common gangue mineral in hydrothermal ore-forming systems, though currently there is no robust numerical model for the solubility of anhydrite in H2O-NaCl hydrothermal fluids. Here, we present a thermodynamic model for the solubility of anhydrite in saline aqueous fluids...

Spring 2021

Gillard, Laura C.

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is the largest freshwater reservoir in the Northern Hemisphere and continues to discharge large amounts of meltwater and icebergs into the ocean. The ice sheet has the potential to raise the sea-level by over 7 metres and impact ocean circulations. Greenland’s...

Fall 2021

Harvey, Jordan R

Cryptotephra research is one of the fastest growing subfields of tephrochronology. Here the extraction, processing, and analytical techniques required for cryptotephra studies are reviewed and assessed in detail. A workflow is suggested depending on the site’s characteristics to improve the...

Spring 2021

Askin, Courtney

Little is known about how and why Indigenous peoples are engaged in wildland fire management particularly in the areas of wildfire prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery abilities in the event of a threatening wildfire. This qualitative study explored how and why Indigenous...

Spring 2021

Millar, Ryan

Jurassic-Cretaceous rifting within Arctic North America that eventually resulted in the formation of the Arctic Ocean greatly affected deposition within nearshore terrestrial basins in surrounding areas, such as the Brooks-Mackenzie Basin and the Sverdrup Basin. In this thesis, measured...

Spring 2021

Ross, Cole

The Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Clearwater Formation at Marten Hills and Nipisi in north-central Alberta contain two members (Wabiskaw and the newly proposed Marten Hills Member), which sit disconformably above the sub-Cretaceous unconformity. Both the Marten Hills and Nipisi regions are currently...

Fall 2021

Hernandez Medina, Stephany

The identification and characterization of flow units is as significant in unconventional reservoirs as it is in conventional reservoirs. In both reservoir types, this designation guides production designs by identifying high and low flow reservoir intervals. But in unconventional reservoirs –...

Spring 2021

Reynard, Darcy C

In Canada, federal and provincial governments have implemented carbon pricing to reduce carbon emissions. One effect of a price on carbon is increasing the cost of using private vehicles, which may reduce mobility and increase the risk of social exclusion, especially where car dependence is high....

Fall 2021

Hokanson, Kelly J

The low-relief, sub-humid Boreal Plains (BP) region of Canada, is characterized by pond-peatland-forestland complexes underlain by thick glacial deposits, which result in inter-dependent surface water processes and groundwater flow systems with varying spatiotemporal controls. A fundamental...