| Title | SOURCES: waterborne transport |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | Gammon, P |
| Source | Public presentations: Environmental Geoscience Program, current status of research projects, May 2017; by Jacob, N; Ahad, J ; Gammom, P; Rivard, C; Kao, H; White, D; Parsons, M; Galloway, J; Geological Survey of Canada, Scientific Presentation 70, 2017 p. 18-31, https://doi.org/10.4095/304682  Open Access |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Public presentations:
Environmental Geoscience Program, current status of research projects, May 2017 |
| File format | pptx; pdf |
| Province | Alberta |
| NTS | 73M/13; 73M/14; 73M/15; 73M/16; 74D; 74E; 74L/01; 74L/02; 74L/03; 74L/04; 74L/05; 74L/06; 74L/07; 74L/08; 83P/14; 83P/15; 83P/16; 84A/01; 84A/02; 84A/03; 84A/06; 84A/07; 84A/08; 84A/09; 84A/10; 84A/11;
84A/14; 84A/15; 84A/16; 84H/01; 84H/02; 84H/03; 84H/06; 84H/07; 84H/08; 84H/09; 84H/10; 84H/11; 84H/14; 84H/15; 84H/16; 84I/01; 84I/02; 84I/03; 84I/06; 84I/07; 84I/08 |
| Area | Athabasca River; Fort McKay; Fort McMurray; Muskeg River |
| Lat/Long WENS | -113.5000 -110.0000 58.5000 55.7500 |
| Subjects | environmental geology; fossil fuels; hydrogeology; environmental studies; environmental impacts; pollutants; metals; organic materials; ecosystems; water geochemistry; groundwater; surface waters;
mining; oil sands; tailings analyses; petroleum resources; hydrocarbons; bedrock geology; lithology; bitumen; water wells; Northern Athabasca Oil Sands Region (NAOSR); Muskeg River Watershed; McMurray Formation; Phanerozoic; Cenozoic; Quaternary;
Mesozoic; Cretaceous |
| Illustrations | photographs; geoscientific sketch maps; stratigraphic cross-sections; bar graphs; plots; schematic cross-sections; schematic representations; diagrams |
| Program | Environmental Geoscience
Management |
| Released | 2017 09 14 |
| Abstract | A follow-up to the successful CORES Project (2009-2014), SOURCES (SOurce apportionment Using isotope Ratio Characterization of oil sands Environmental Samples; 2014-2019) is focused on the development
and application of geochemical and isotopic methodologies to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic contaminants and to better understand processes controlling their distribution in Northern Alberta's Athabasca oil sands region. The project is
divided into research projects centred on airborne and waterborne contaminants. The airborne component to SOURCES is examining inorganic nitrogen species (NH3/NH4 and NO3) in air, soils and trees, and organic contaminants (polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons - PAHs) in lake sediments and snow. The waterborne activity is focused on the surface water-groundwater interactions in areas potentially impacted by emissions from the large tailings ponds. The main contaminants of concern for the
waterborne component are metals and naphthenic acids - a complex mixture of carboxylic acids found naturally in bitumen that become concentrated in oil sands process-affected water. As of spring 2017, most fieldwork required to support this research
(both components) has been carried out. Analyses on PAHs in lake sediments and snow, nitrogen and nutrients in tree rings and soils, and metals and naphthenic acids in groundwater and surface water samples are ongoing. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
To increase the program visibility, a public science presentation was offered to the entire department (NRCan) and key partners via Tandberg and NRCan
live web on May 9th, 2017. All the Power Point Presentations (7) are included in this Scientific Presentation and key words associated to the research are as follow: oil sands, groundwater, shale gas, induced seismicity, geological storage, critical
metal deposits and geoscience tools. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 304682 |
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