19. Thank You
Suncor Energy
Syncrude Canada
NSERC
University of Alberta
Dr. Jan Ciborowski
All the students with whom I spent the
summers in Fort McMurray
Personal photos
28. Background Info
•Context of your study/project
• Information that lead to your objectives
•Photos (must be referenced)
•Point form
•Be concise
29. Background Info
- Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
- The Oil Sands of Alberta activities affect greatly
the landscape and destroy the wetlands
- The Oil Sands of Alberta problematic is to reclaim
wetlands lost through bitumen extraction to
wetlands equivalent to pre-disturbance
34. Methodology
- To assess vegetation:
• To capture all the vegetation and
environmental variables variation, each
sampled wetland was visually stratified into
three zones: 1) open-water, 2) emergent, and
3) wet-meadow
• Crossing perpendicularly each of the three
zones, three transects were randomly
positioned. Along each transect and in each
zone, three one-m2 plots randomly placed
were assessed
35. Method
Open water zone
Emergent zone
Wet-meadow zone
Transect
Quadrat
http://sofia.usgs.gov
37. Results
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40. Take Home Message
Tailings seems to affect Open-water and Emergent zone
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Plant community composition differences maybe due to:
1) Dispersal
1) Survival
http://www.animationlibrary.com/animation/22394/Big_cow/
41. Thank You
• University of Alberta
• Dr. Jan Ciborowski and his lab (University of
Windsor)
• Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL)
• Imperial Oil Limited
• Shell Canada Energy
• Suncor Energy Inc.
• Syncrude Canada Ltd.
• Total E&P Canada Ltd.
• Albian Sands Inc.
• Petro-Canada Oil Sands Inc.
• Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
• Canadian Circumpolar Institute
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
Council of Canada (NSERC)
42.
43. References
1) Mattew, J.W. and A.G. Endress. 2008. Performance
Criteria, Compliance Success and Vegetation
Development in Compensatory Mitigation Wetlands.
Environ. Manage. 41: 130-141.
2) Zedler, J.B. and J.C. Callaway. 1999. Tracking Wetland
Restoration: Do Mitigation Sites Follow Desired
Trajectories? Restor. Ecol. 7: 69-73.
3) Alberta Environment. 1999. Regional Sustainable
Development Strategy for the Athabasca Oil Sands Area.
Government of Alberta. AB. Canada.