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- 19White, Thomas Leslie
- 2Biggar, K. W.
- 2Sego, D. C.
- 1Adamczak, Kateri M.
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- 21Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of
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- 19University of Alberta Libraries Licensed Resources/Contaminant Behaviour in Freezing Soils and Permafrost: Fate, Transport, and Transformation
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1980
Comprehensive, in-situ study of naturally occurring creep in ice-rich permafrost soil on a steep slope on the Great Bear River. A detailed surficial geology mapping along the Great Bear River was carried out in order to determine the most suitable field site. Coincidentally, the slope is situated...
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Spring 2014
The GeoStudio 2007 convection module a finite element program was used to examine convection in porous embankments and waste rock piles and compared to literature numerical and experimental examples by Goering and Kumar (1996) and Goering (2000) and field data from Diavik waste rock test piles. ...
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Fall 2022
In order to understand permafrost and paleoenvironmental conditions in the Mackenzie Delta Region, permafrost cores were collected in the winter of 2017, near the newly developed Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway (ITH), NWT, by the NWT Geological Survey, NWT Department of Infrastructure, the University...
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Influence of permafrost characteristics on vegetation change in Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada
DownloadFall 2021
Permafrost thaw is a significant contributor to landscape change and ecosystem disruption in northern systems. While previous studies have examined the impact of permafrost on vegetation change, few have investigated the connection of permafrost characteristics to the type and extent of...
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1979
Masters thesis. Examines significant aspects of hydrogeology, hydrogeochemistry, and evidence of groundwater flow as basis for understanding groundwater distribution and development in permafrost regions. Engineering considerations on development of groundwater resources and prevention of icings...
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Microbial community dynamics from permafrost across the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary and response to abrupt climate change
DownloadFall 2015
Permafrost houses active microbial communities adapted to constant sub-zero temperatures and anaerobic conditions. These extreme conditions make permafrost an excellent archive for long-term DNA preservation. Recent studies in the laboratory have shown a shift in permafrost bacterial communities...
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Fall 2023
Piles are commonly used in the Canadian Arctic as a foundation solution. Steel pipe shaft pile, which is a conventional pile type in the Arctic, is placed in an oversized pre-drilled hole and then the annulus is backfilled with gravel slurries or grout designed to cure (i.e., a process called...
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Methylmercury production and export across the terrestrial-aquatic continuum in permafrost peatland catchments
DownloadFall 2023
Ongoing permafrost thaw in northern peatland catchments may increase the production and downstream delivery of neurotoxic methylmercury (MeHg) across the terrestrial-aquatic continuum. Peatlands in boreal-Arctic regions have large stocks of mercury (Hg) in frozen soils, accumulated through...
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Spring 2013
This study is a part of a field experiment constructed at the Diavik Diamond Mine in northern Canada to investigate water flow, geochemical reactions, thermal and gas transport within unsaturated piles of mine waste rock in a continuous permafrost permafrost. Diavik waste rock is categorized by...