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Spring 2023

Wang, Daoheng

The covariance of increasing spinel Cr# and olivine Mg# (“the olivine-spinel mantle array” or “OSMA”) has been used as a sensitive indicator for the melting history of mantle peridotites. The basis for this model has been largely empirical thus far. In this study, the most recent THERMOCALC-based...

Fall 2023

Cizek, Erika

Housing affordability is an issue of increasing social, economic, and political importance in Canada. Concurrent with the broader cost of living crisis, Canadians are forced to spend growing proportions of their income on housing, with homeownership increasingly out of reach for many. However,...

Fall 2023

Shan, Chundi

The Mount Whyte Formation is a prominent unit of the Middle Cambrian period in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB). This formation is widely distributed throughout the region and comprises both clastic and carbonate rock, deposited as part of a Middle Cambrian platform. In the Southern...

Fall 2023

Polo Camacho, Camilo A.

The Late Carboniferous–Middle Permian Unayzah Group is a widespread sand-rich stratigraphic unit with equivalent deposits across the subsurface of the Arabian Peninsula. Historically, sediment deposition for this interval in the subsurface of Saudi Arabia has been ascribed to continental settings...

Fall 2023

Berberoglu, Eren D.

The Nova Scotia passive continental margin is characterized by longitudinal variation in crustal structure from the volcanic U.S. Atlantic Margin in the southwest to a non-volcanic Newfoundland Margin in the northeast. The objectives of this study include characterizing the tectonic structure of...

Spring 2023

Arabzadeh Bahri, Shamim

Immigration is a life-changing decision accompanied by new experiences for individuals. Depending on background, this experience can be varied from one to another and can influence the experience of sense of place in the new environment. This thesis contributes to this area of inquiry by applying...

Fall 2023

Huang, Yinlong

In snow-dominated regions, snow storage is a primary water resource contributing to surface water (SW) and groundwater (GW) supplies. Snow drought is defined as either lack of snow storage or high-temperature-induced early snowmelt, leading to a loss of snow water resources. GW drought refers to...

Fall 2023

Khalili, Pouya

The unfolding climate change crisis poses a growing challenge to water and food security, and yet the reliability of the global breadbaskets and their relation with water resources in the future is poorly understood. The global breadbaskets are defined as key production regions for food grains...

Spring 2023

Han, Tao

Forests account for one third of land area, and two third of global photosynthesis. The better we know about forests, the better decisions we can make on forest management and carbon cycle modeling. During the last decades, we see the development in remote sensing techniques for forest...

Spring 2023

Chen, Qi

The Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation is the primary host of the crude bitumen reserves in the Athabasca Oils Sand Region. The regionally extensive meander belts associated with estuary point bars have been recognized as the primary reservoir facies in the McMurray Formation. It is widely...