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Ecohydraulics of Nature-Like Fishways and Applications in Arctic Aquatic Ecosystem Connectivity
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Northern Canada is currently undergoing rapid mineral extraction development. As part of this development there is a need to perform fish habitat compensation projects and build effective fish passage facilities. There is currently limited information available on the hydraulics of nature-like...
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Spring 2012
In the northern reaches of the globe, cities built along rivers create open leads in the river’s seasonal ice cover through warm water effluent discharge. These open leads are known for producing episodic frazil events which can block downstream intakes, causing major problems for recipients of...
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Spring 2011
This study was part of the development of an ice jam flood forecasting system for Hay River, NWT. 2-D numerical models were used to simulate ice processes in an effort to predict ice jam formation. A summer survey was conducted to finalize the bathymetry of the Hay River Delta. Observations were...
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Fall 2010
The main objective of this study was to describe the overflow of freshwater onto the sea ice surface in the Mackenzie Delta and to investigate the hydraulic behaviour of the upwelling and strudel events. This study was performed from the analysis of data collected during field investigations,...
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2-D modeling of freeze-up processes on the Athabasca River downstream of Fort McMurray, Alberta
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This study is part of a three year project aimed to assess the effects of industrial water withdrawals on the ice regime of the Athabasca River. A 2-D numerical model was used to provide quantitative data for this effort. Freeze-up monitoring was carried out over two years along 80-km of the...
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Spring 2011
River ice breakup and associated flooding are realities for many northern communities. This is certainly the case in Hay River, NWT, which is located at the junction of the Hay River and Great Slave Lake. Hay River experiences a wide range of spring river ice scenarios; from docile thermal melt...
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Fall 2009
It is known that discrete ice floes approaching an ice cover from upstream will either contribute to the lengthening of the ice cover, or will become entrained in the flow. Knowledge of the hydrodynamic forces acting on individual ice floes is an important component of any model attempting to...
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Fall 2012
This research describes laboratory and field experiments aiming at developing techniques for obtaining quantitative measurements of suspended frazil ice and surface ice characteristics in rivers using sonars. A series of laboratory experiments were conducted to correlate the sonar backscatter...
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Spring 2019
Measurements of frazil ice characteristics in both laboratory and field environments have each been hindered by different challenges to date. In the laboratory, the resolution of the digital imaging systems used to photograph suspended particles has limited the size of the smallest frazil ice...