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Fall 2013
Drilling fluid, also referred to as drilling mud, is used to lubricate and cool the drilling apparatus, transport drill cuttings to the surface and seal off porous geologic formations. Disposal of drilling fluid is a growing concern to the global oil and gas industry as it can require extensive...
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POTENTIAL ANTHROPOSOL DEVELOPMENT USING PHOSPHOGYPSUM AS A SUBSTRATE WITH SOIL AND ORGANIC AMENDMENTS
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Phopshopgypsum is a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production resulting from the production of phosphoric acid from phosphate rock (Rutherford et al. 1994a). Most reclamation plans for phosphogypsum stacks include a cover system that is installed over the stack; thus research in the area of...
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Prairie plant species at risk in Southern Alberta: identification of critical habitat at the microsite level for Halimolobos virgata (Nutt.) O.E. Schulz and determination of set back distance between pipeline disturbance and Halimolobos virgata and Cryptantha minima Rydb.
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Little is known about the effect disturbances such as pipelines can have on prairie plant species at risk and their critical habitat in Alberta. Halimolobos virgata appears to be a ruderal, disturbance evolved species that occupies a unique rim niche. This habitat around the rim of depressional...
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Pre-Commercial Thinning Increases Merchantability and Reduces Western Gall Rust Infections in Lodgepole Pine
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Alberta’s forest industry is predicted to be impacted by a short to medium-term decline in timber supply. Intensive silviculture tools, such as pre-commercial thinning, have been shown to increase individual tree growth, shorten rotation lengths and improve stand merchantability in important...
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Fall 2021
Species interactions are thought to underlie the stability of ecosystems, and nowhere is studying such interactions more important than the rapidly changing Arctic. The foraging behaviour of generalist consumers is influenced by the abundance of multiple resources, and generalists are thought to...
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Predicting conservation status of North American avian and mammalian scavengers: Implications of geography, life history, behaviour and human disturbance
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Conservation risk is spatially and taxonomically variable, affected by both biological (intrinsic) and environmental (extrinsic) factors. To better understand this variability, I examined how intrinsic and extrinsic factors influenced sub-national patterns of conservation risk in North America...
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Fall 2016
The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) system is used across Canada and worldwide to provide numerical ratings of fuel moisture based on the fine fuel moisture code (FFMC), duff moisture code (DMC) and drought code (DC). DMC is related to dryness of the duff layer. While DMC has been widely...
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Predicting forest productivity using Wet Areas Mapping and other remote sensed environmental data
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Understanding variability in forest productivity is important to sustainable forest management. The main objective of this thesis was to evaluate efficient and cost-effective ways to predict potential forest productivity (Site Index) using ecological site data obtained from either ground-based...