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- 2Beckers, Justin F.
- 2Buryak, Serhiy D.
- 2Castro de la Guardia, Laura
- 2Davies, Joshua
- 2Funk, Sean P
- 19Gingras, Murray (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 16Stachel, Thomas (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 14Alessi, Daniel (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 12Sanchez-Azofeifa, Arturo (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 11Sharp, Martin (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
- 10Herd, Christopher (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
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Fall 2024
The Hudson Bay and James Bay are critically understudied regions of the Arctic undergoing many changes due to climate change and Arctic Amplification. Cree and Inuit communities surrounding the bay have reported drastic changes in the marine environment since the late 1990s. This thesis explores...
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Fall 2024
The Rae craton is one of the largest Archean–Paleoproterozoic age terranes on Earth and preserves >1.6 billion years of the planet’s history. However, significant uncertainty remains regarding how and when the crust of this craton was created and reworked. This thesis investigates the nature and...
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Fall 2024
Adequate housing is critical for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of individuals and households, as well as for the equality and inclusiveness of society. The human right to adequate housing was first introduced to international law in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural...
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Fall 2024
Overcrowding causes transit riders’ dissatisfaction and may lead to ridership loss while taking a toll on agencies’ resources and forcing them to deal with service disruptions. While the COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant reduction in demand for transit trips, social distancing requirements...
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Refining the geochronology and paleoenvironmental significance of key tephra beds in Yukon and Alaska
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Developing precise analytical tools for dating young volcanic deposits (under 3 million years old) is essential for constructing Quaternary chronological frameworks. This dissertation presents an improved method for determining eruption ages of volcanic ash (tephra) deposits in the ice-age...
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Sacred Geographies, Nationalism, and Space: Negotiating Colonial Praxis and Nationalist Visions in the Planning of Anuradhapura’s New Town
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Sangapala Arachchige Don, Pradeep Dissanayake
Postcolonial urban landscapes are not only shaped by colonialism but also by nationalism and people’s spatial practices. The scholarship on colonial urban development and postcolonial urbanism is well established and has exposed the contested nature of postcolonial spatial experience. However,...
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Spring 2024
The escalating global climate change poses a more severe challenge, and Canada, as a high-latitude country, is experiencing heightened Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects. Given the substantial influence of UHIs on urban, regional, and national climates, ecosystems, and human life, researching this...
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The Use of Terrestrial Laser Scanners for 3-Dimensional Modelling and Quantification of the effects of Competition and Phenology on Plant Structure with Fractal Analysis and Quantitative Structural Modelling Tools
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Terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) are active remote sensing sensors that use light to measure distances between the sensor and objects generating a three-dimensional dataset. This technology has been used in a diverse range of ecological studies measuring plant and vegetation properties. In the...
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Spring 2024
Lithium is crucial for battery production and is utilized in electric vehicles and portable electronics. Among alternative sources of lithium is flowback and produced water (FPW) brines, which can be recovered utilizing ion-exchange with sorbents such as lithium manganese oxide spinels. Among...
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Spatiotemporal Variability of Trends and Anomaly Patterns in the Surface Albedo and Temperature of Glaciers in the Canadian Cordillera and Alaska
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The global average surface air temperature experienced an increase of approximately 0.5°C over the course of the 20th century. Consequently, numerous glaciers worldwide have undergone a reduction in size, and this phenomenon is especially prominent among mountain glaciers, such as those found...