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Spring 2021

Ariel MacDonald

This research provides the first comprehensive account of Edmonton’s public art collection. It asks: How is public art understood and practiced, what landscapes do these understandings and practices give rise to, and what is the relationship between such landscapes and broader processes of urban...

Fall 2021

Zhu, Bizhou

Hydraulic fracturing and produced water or FPW has potential use as a feedstock to supply divalent Ca and Mg cations for mineral carbonation at standard temperature and pressure. The carbonation potential of real FPW samples produced by oil and gas companies has not previously been tested in...

Spring 2021

Langlois, Lauren A

Geochemical signatures within an economic deposit are an important indicator used in the exploration of high-grade mineralization. In this study, we aim to identify elements that can act as geochemical indicators for orogenic gold within the Yellowknife greenstone belt that allow the...

Spring 2021

Belosevic, Michael B.K.

The Acasta Gneiss Complex (AGC) is a late Hadean to early Archean terrane in northwestern Canada known to contain the oldest evolved rocks on Earth. However, only a small portion of the AGC has been studied in detail. This study aims to explore one of the poorly explored portions of the AGC, the...

Spring 2021

Dievert, Rylan V.

Functional morphology is an important tool for paleoecology. However, functional interpretations which are based on tenuous logic without a proper test or which rely on circular reasoning can be problematic. Biomechanical tests can help to provide structured and absolute assessments of...

Spring 2021

Barrett, Natasha

This thesis investigates the processes and evolution of the sub-oceanic lithospheric mantle beneath the Southwest (SW) Pacific region via two direct sampling methods: 1) basalt-hosted peridotite xenoliths erupted by volcanic eruptions from Koro Island in eastern Fiji, and 2) tectonically exposed...

Fall 2022

McIntyre, Timothy

Resolving important fundamental questions about the petrogenesis of cratonic lithosphere is difficult in ancient cratons that have long and complex histories. Several properties of cratons are poorly constrained and our understanding of their petrogenesis largely remains ambiguous. In the Archean...

Spring 2022

Elongo, Vanessa M

Tungsten is a critical metal. Critical metals are strategic metals with associated economic, social, energy, geostrategic and environmental issues. As a result, the need to monitor and to secure local supplies of critical elements, including tungsten, has become a strategic priority for many...

Spring 2022

Erland, Broghan

To combat global warming, Canada has committed to reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) 40-45% below 2005 emission levels by 2025. Monitoring emissions and deriving accurate inventories are essential to reaching these goals. GHGs can be measured at a small scale, often using ground measurements which...

Spring 2022

Kepezhinskas, Nikita

This work presents new petrography, mineral major and trace element chemistry, whole rock major and trace element chemistry, whole rock Sr-Nd-Hf isotope composition, and phlogopite Rb-Sr isotope geochronology for the Mel kimberlite, Nunavut and Dharma kimberlite, Northwest Territories. This data...