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Assessing the Short-term Impacts on Sediment Production following Rapid Harvest and Stream Crossing Decommissioning in Rocky Mountain Headwaters
DownloadFall 2017
While rapid road and road-stream crossing decommissioning after forestry operations may serve to limit broader impacts of sedimentation in high value headwater streams, few studies have evaluated the combined effects of accelerated harvest operations and rapid retirement of roads on stream...
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Effects of Alternative Forest Harvesting Strategies on Snowpack Dynamics and Seasonal Soil Moisture Storage in Alberta's Mountain Headwaters
DownloadFall 2019
Snowpack accumulation and melt dynamics, and soil moisture storage (SMS) play a critical role in regulating stressed regional water supplies in the southern Alberta Rockies. However, these processes are sensitive to impacts from forest cover losses by timber harvesting and associated land...
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Estimating the mechanical contribution of willows and balsam poplar in soil bioengineering projects in Alberta
DownloadFall 2019
After the floods in 2013 in Alberta, the effort towards reducing the impact of conventional approaches on the environment and improving the desirable effects of vegetation protecting the water bodies has been an increasing trend in most cities. Soil bioengineering designs with fast-growing plants...
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Fall 2010
In this dissertation, a hydrologic classification approach was tested using the shape factor of hydrographs to represent variation in streamflow regimes across Alberta. Hydrograph shape factor was effective at separating the forested landbase into 6 spatially distinct regions. Further statistical...
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Impact of Mountain Pine Beetle Attack on Water Balance of Lodgepole Pine Forests in Alberta
DownloadSpring 2013
In recent decades mountain pine beetle (MPB) has become an important natural disturbance agent in western Canada, thus the impact of this disturbance will likely be an important component affecting water resources in this region. Despite the widespread recognition of the potential changes, there...
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Mountain pine beetle and forest harvest effects on hydrologic processes and streamflow in the Alberta Foothills
DownloadSpring 2021
The Alberta Foothills region has experienced an unprecedented mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak. The provincial management strategy is to contain the infestation with forest harvest. The landscape becomes a patchwork of dead (MPB grey-attack), alive, and harvested stands. MPB attack affects the...
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Patterns of stream temperature and the influence of groundwater in northern Rocky Mountain watersheds
DownloadFall 2023
Stream temperature is an important water quality parameter linked to biotic and abiotic processes that influence the abundance and distribution of aquatic organisms. Stream temperatures can be highly variable through space and time and are determined by energy flux processes. Key energy flux...
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Regional assessment of the effects of land use on water quality: A case study in the Oldman River Basin, Alberta
DownloadFall 2010
Protecting and managing Canadian water resources in the face of growing cumulative effects and non-point source pollution from development (industrial, agricultural, and urban), depends on defensible, scientifically founded, watershed assessments. The objectives of this research were to broadly...
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Road Erosion, Sediment Delivery, and Consequence in the Simonette Watershed West-Central Alberta
DownloadSpring 2022
Gravel and dirt resource roads in the Alberta foothills are critical economic infrastructure, used to explore for, manage, and extract natural resources from this region. Resource roads are also known to add sediment to nearby streams and rivers, causing habitat stress for fish. Understanding...
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Runoff generation in a steep snow-dominated watershed in Alberta's southern Rocky Mountains
DownloadFall 2019
Star Creek is a snowmelt-dominated, steep mountain watershed with shallow soils, deep glacial till, and fractured sedimentary bedrock in the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. Measurements of streamflow quantity and chemistry at variable scales, water table dynamics, and precipitation...