Geochemical stability of oil sands tailings in mine closure landforms

HL Cossey, AE Batycky, H Kaminsky, AC Ulrich - Minerals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Oil sands surface mining in Alberta has generated over a billion cubic metres of waste,
known as tailings, consisting of sands, silts, clays, and process-affected water that contains …

Hydrological functioning of a constructed peatland watershed in the Athabasca oil sands region: Potential trajectories and lessons learned

KM Biagi, MG Clark, SK Carey - Ecological Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Mine reclamation in the Athabasca oil sands region is legally required as companies must
reconstruct disturbed landscapes into functioning ecosystems which previously existed in …

Energy and carbon fluxes from an oil sands pit lake

MG Clark, GB Drewitt, SK Carey - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently, post-mining landscape plans in the Athabasca Oil Sand Region include large
watersheds terminating in pit lakes. In 2012, Base Mine Lake (BML), was constructed with …

An evaluation of water quality at Sandhill Wetland: implications for reclaiming wetlands above soft tailings deposits in northern Alberta, Canada

JA Hartsock, J Piercey, MK House, DH Vitt - Wetlands Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The experimental Sandhill Wetland is the first permanent reclamation of a
composite tailings deposit, and annual water quality monitoring is of specific interest for …

Establishing peat‐forming plant communities: A comparison of wetland reclamation methods in A lberta's oil sands region

A Borkenhagen, DJ Cooper, M House… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Sandhill Wetland (SW) and Nikanotee Fen (NF) are two wetland research
projects designed to test the viability of peatland reclamation in the Alberta oil sands post …

Evolution of ecosystem-scale surface energy fluxes of a newly constructed boreal upland-fen watershed

N Popović, RM Petrone, A Green, M Khomik… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Obligatory mine reclamation efforts in the Athabasca oil sands region require leased land to
be returned to pre-disturbance function. This entails the re-establishment of key ecosystem …

Optical properties of dissolved organic matter highlight peatland-like properties in a constructed wetland

MG Clark, KM Biagi, SK Carey - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Constructing novel peatland ecosystems can help to restore the long-term carbon
accumulating properties of northern soil systems that have been lost through resource …

Low methane emissions from a boreal wetland constructed on oil sand mine tailings

MG Clark, ER Humphreys, SK Carey - Biogeosciences, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
A 58 ha mixed upland and lowland boreal plains watershed called the Sandhill Fen
Watershed was constructed between 2008 and 2012. In the years following wetting in 2013 …

长白山园池沼泽湿地碳源/汇沿湖岸至高地环境梯度变化.

王婷, 牟长城, 孙梓淇, 李美霖… - Yingyong Shengtai …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
摘要湖泊湿地具有长期储碳能力, 对区域碳循环具有重大贡献, 但有关湖泊湿地碳源汇对气候
变化如何响应尚不清楚. 为探究高海拔区湖岸湿地碳源/汇对气候变化的响应规律, 利用静态箱⁃ …

[HTML][HTML] Upland reclamation promotes forest evaporative losses in the Boreal Plains of Canada: A comparison of carbon and water fluxes

MG Clark, RM Petrone, SK Carey - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022 - Elsevier
Reclaiming upland boreal forests as part of post-mining watershed construction in the
Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) requires evaluation criteria as these novel ecosystems …