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Barriers to Fish Passage in Nova Scotia: The Evolution of Water Control Barriers in Nova Scotia’s Watershed
(2011-03)Loss of connectivity throughout river systems is one of the most serious effects dams impose on migrating fish species. I examine the extent and dates of aquatic habitat loss due to dam construction in two key salmon regions ... -
BASEFLOW CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNCONFINED AQUIFER SUPPLYING THE LOWER REACHES OF THE CLYBURN BROOK, CAPE BRETON ISLAND, NOVA SCOTIA
(2002-04-15)The Clyburn Brook, in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, is an important source of freshwater. The brook overlies an unconfined aquifer that supplies potable and irrigation water for the Ingonish area. The Clyburn ... -
Baseline Monitoring for Determining the Effects of Streetscaping on Particulate Matter Concentrations in the Downtown Area of Halifax, Nova Scotia
(2020-04)Anthropogenic sources of air pollution in cities primarily originate from automobile traffic. Understanding the extent of air pollution from traffic is important for how governments plan cities, and for maximizing the ... -
Beating the heat: Development and evaluation of a Canadian hot weather health-response plan
(2001-12)An increasing number of cities subject to hazardous summer weather in the United States and Canada have began to develop and implement hot weather response plans to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths. In this study ... -
Becoming Radio Active: Using Public Service Announcements to Encourage Students to Cycle
(2011-04)The Greening the Campus movement seeks to foster a powerful environmentally sustainable campus culture. Transportation plays a major role in the making of sustainable choices on campus and in everyday life. This study ... -
BEDFORM SEDIMENTOLOGY AND MORPHODYNAMICS OF SABLE ISLAND BANK
(2001-04-15)A series of shoreface-connected sand ridges occur on Sable Island Bank adjacent to Sable Island, are best developed to its south and southwest and extend as far as 23 km south of the island in water depths up to 45m. In ... -
BEDFORMS IN WAVE–FORCED NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENTS: OBSERVATIONS WITH A PROTOTYPE HUMAN-POWERED SURFACE VEHICLE
(2017-04-15)Bedforms in nearshore environments are undulatory sedimentary structures formed by wave-forced fluid-sediment interactions at the seabed. Signature characteristics imprinted on the sediment fabric may be used to infer ... -
Bees on Dalhousie Campus
(2015-04)Implementation of an apiary on Dalhousie’s Studley campus would positively impact the biodiversity of the entire Halifax Urban core. Bees are influential to our environment because of their contributions to human economies ... -
Benthic community structure within Eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds in southern Nova Scotia
(2011-03)Seagrass beds are productive coastal habitats that provide numerous ecosystem services. Declines in seagrass beds worldwide will have profound influences on the trophic structure and overall functioning of coastal ecosystems. ... -
Best Stormwater Management Designs using Bio-retention Retrofits at Dalhousie University
(2012-04)This project was designed to reduce Dalhousie University’s contribution to the stormwater surges that cause the city’s treatment facilities to overflow by answering: What external bio-retention retrofit designs can Dalhousie ... -
Bio-diesel: The New Driving Force Behind Dalhousie’s Maintenance Vehicles
(2007-04)This project investigates the feasibility of running Dalhousie University’s maintenance vehicles on bio-diesel. This project proposes the use of an on campus bio-diesel refinement facility to convert waste cooking oil ... -
Biting Off More than You Can Chew: An Assessment of Student’s Understanding of Dalhousie’s Food System
(2017-04)In an ideal world, food systems, including campus food systems, would reflect the needs and values of the communities they serve. However, a lack of understanding can provide a window of opportunity for multinational ... -
The Brownie Experiment: An Analysis of Sustainable Labelling and Its Effect on Choice
(2015-04)The literature suggests that in total between twenty and thirty percent of the environmental impact in the western world is due to food consumption. As such, food choices are an important consideration in reducing environmental ... -
Bryophyte dynamics across wetland and lakeshore edges in southwest Nova Scotia
(2011-03)Wetlands are effective carbon sinks, supply clean water, enhance soil nutrition, and are regarded as valuable ecosystems. Bryophytes play a key role in wetland functioning. Previous studies have looked at wetlands as whole ... -
Business Ecosystem Services Review: A Nova Scotia Case Study
(2011-04)Recent efforts to assess the state and value of ecosystems on a global level have been increasing, within this research, ecosystem services and their relation to businesses has also been expanding. Although there are ... -
Cambrian Multichambered Foraminifera from the Halifax and Goldenville Groups of the Meguma Supergroup, Nova Scotia
(1998-04-15)Foraminifera in the Cambrian are rare; only ten genera have been recorded and these were all simple tubular and branching unilocular forms found in West Africa. The discovery of an organic lens within the Goldenville ...