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- 1Alam, Shahabul
- 1Bachmann, Victor
- 1Baker, Trevor D.
- 1Barbour, Lee
- 1Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance
- 5Land reclamation
- 2Equivalent land capability
- 2Oil sands mining
- 2Petroleum hydrocarbons
- 2Salinity
- 1AET
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2020-02-01
NorthWind Land Resources Inc. (NorthWind) was commissioned by Syncrude Canada Ltd. (Syncrude) to complete soil sampling and analysis for salinity and petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) profiling and an assessment of moisture conditions within the East Valley Centrifuge Cake Cell (EV Cake Cell). Field...
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Developing a Functional Approach to Assessment of Land Capability: Utilizing Ecosystem Water and Carbon Nutrient Fluxes as Integrated Measures of Reclamation Performance
Download2019-02-14
Straker, Justin R., Carey, Sean K., Petrone, Richard M., Baker, Trevor D., Strilesky, Stacey L.
This report synthesizes over 15 years of research (and 64 site-years of data) on water use, carbon assimilation, and associated ecosystem development on reclaimed oil-sands-mine sites and on non-mine reference sites. A key feature of this research is the use of eddy-covariance methods to make...
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Numerical Modelling of the Impact of Cover Thickness on the Long-term Water Balance of Reclamation Soil Covers Over Lean Oil Sands Overburden
Download2017-03-25
Huang, Mingbin, Alam, Shahabul, Barbour, Lee, Si, Bing Cheng
Syncrude Canada Ltd. (SCL) is undertaking a watershed scale research program to evaluate the performance of reclamation covers placed over lean oil sands (LOS) at the Fort Hills dump at the Aurora North mine site. This research study is referred to as the Aurora Capping Study (ACS). A key element...
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2020-03-19
Drozdowski, Bonnie, Bachmann, Victor, Thacker, Sarah
A root assessment at select locations across the Aurora Soil Capping Study site was completed in October 2018 to determine if rooting patterns and distribution could be used to explain observed variation in above-ground tree growth. The variation in above-ground tree growth included patterns of...