Search

Fall 2014

Mloszewski, Aleksandra M.

Life evolved in the oceans nearly four billion years ago, but the environmental conditions surrounding its evolution remains poorly understood. While Archean seawater (2.5 to 3.8 Ga) provided ancient microorganisms with the bioactive trace metals needed to sustain their metabolic requirements, it...

1996

Hurlbut, Don Clinton.

Fall 2014

Castro, Set, I

Microbialites are among the oldest direct evidence of life on Earth. They reached their greatest abundance and diversity during the Proterozoic and decline thereafter. The decline has been attributed to grazing and/or burrowing by metazoan, to changes in ocean chemistry leading to a drop in...

Fall 2011

Fefchak, Chelsea

The Carnian Charlie Lake Formation is a hydrocarbon bearing formation found predominantly in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Aeolian sand bodies are present in both the subsurface and outcrop occurrences, and in fields like Brassey, are the primary hydrocarbon reservoir. For this study,...

1997

Jackson, Henry A.

Fall 2019

Stan, Kayla D.

The primary objectives of this thesis included contributing to: (i) the state of knowledge on the TDF physiological response to climatic variables; (ii) the understanding of forest resilience through assessing productivity response to temperature and precipitation; and (iii) assessing the...

Spring 2020

Ranger, Ilona M.

The timing of a diamondiferous kimberlite cluster within the Archean Superior Province, the Renard cluster (Otish field, Québec), was investigated by ID-TIMS U-Pb dating of groundmass perovskite. Few Otish field kimberlites were previously dated by U-Pb perovskite (Renard 1-3 and Lac Beaver) but...

Fall 2010

Katavouta, Anna

The sea ice fields produced by the NEMO sea ice/ocean coupled model’s prognostic simulation drift from reality in the Labrador sea. Thus four additional data assimilation experiments were conducted in order to obtain satisfactory sea ice fields. In the first two experiments the model’s sea ice...

Fall 2013

Forcino, Frank L

Paleoecology researchers have employed an array of methods for collecting, counting, and identifying fossil data; no standard protocol exists for conducting community paleoecological research. The lack of a standard protocol could lead to inaccurate conclusions. In addition, paleocommunity...

Spring 2019

Li, Yingzhou

The Neoproterozoic Horsethief Creek Group metasedimentary rocks in the Mica Creek area (British Columbia, Canada) are an important supracrustal sequence in the Canadian Cordillera. They contain a continuous range of metamorphic grades from slate, progressively to schists in the biotite, garnet,...