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Fall 2021
Wind energy is emerging as a primary source of renewable energy in Canada, attracting over $23 billion in investment. Steadily increasing, a total capacity of 31,640 MW of wind energy must be installed by 2040 to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement on Climate, requiring the construction...
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Landslide Risk to Railway Operations and Resilience in the Thompson River Valley near Ashcroft, British Columbia
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This thesis investigates the hazard frequency and associated risk posed by twelve large landslides in the Thompson River Valley south of Ashcroft, British Columbia, which are collectively referred to as the Ashcroft Thompson River landslides. The Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways...
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Fall 2018
The thesis deals with the problem of minimization of Conditional Value at Risk within the context of Margrabe market under constraints on the initial capital available. We propose to approximate the distribution of the difference between two lognormal random variables using normal distribution...
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Fall 2017
The mining industry has become increasingly concerned with the effects of uncertainty and risk in resource modeling. Some companies are moving away from deterministic geologic modeling techniques to approaches that quantify uncertainty. Stochastic modeling techniques produce multiple realizations...
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Risk Management for Tailings Dam Safety: Considerations for Long-term and Post-closure Timelines
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Post-closure tailings dams are expected to remain on mine sites in perpetuity following mine closure. Combined with the lack of knowledge regarding how tailings dams will evolve over time, these long-time frames necessitate the development of risk management practices. The purpose of this...
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Fall 2022
Limited understanding of the complex subsurface brings uncertainty and risk of production shortfalls in the oilfield development. Geostatistics provides tools to model the geological uncertainty that occurs in reservoir decision making. The common decision criterion under uncertainty is to find...
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Taming entropy: designing, evaluating and applying decision-support systems for risk management in industrial and non-industrial settings
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After being assigned a process fire investigation in my second year of professional practice, and later working in maintenance leadership following multiple fatality incidents, I wondered why process safety outcomes did not seem to be improving despite constant discussion and an incredible pace...