Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honours Theses by Title
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QUANTIFYING IMPACTS OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION ON PIXEL AND OBJECT-BASED METHODS OF IMAGE CLASSIFICATION: A CASE STUDY OF IDENTIFYING ESTUARINE MORPHOLOGY IN COBEQUID BAY, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
(2020-04-15)Image processing methods can be used to classify land cover and phenomena fromsatellite imagery according to their spectral characteristics and identify target features. These methodscanprovide a relatively efficient ... -
Quantifying Land-use / Land Cover Change and Eutrophication in the Carleton River Watershed, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
(2018-04)A number of rivers and watershed systems in Southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada have experienced an increase in eutrophication promoting nutrients over the past three decades. As a consequence, artificial eutrophication and ... -
Quantifying the Causes of Human-Black Bear Conflicts in Nova Scotia
(2021-04)Black bears are curious and will stop at nothing for a good meal. Unfortunately, Nova Scotian residents are seeing an increase in the presence of black bears around their properties and homes (Parsons pers. com., 2020). ... -
Quantifying the Impacts of Nova Scotia Forest Management Practices on Forest Stand Albedo and Surface Temperatures
(2024-04)In an effort to mitigate climate change, the Canadian government has increased focus on natural carbon sequestration through afforestation (i.e., the planting of forests where there were previously no forests) and reforestation ... -
Quantifying the temporal and spatial variation of atmospheric particles on Dalhousie Campus – a pilot study
(2009-04)Outdoor air pollution is a broad and complicated issue that poses a real threat to human health and the environment. Past research demonstrates a link between urban air pollution and increased rates of mortality and morbidity ... -
A Quantitative Analysis of Deglaciation as a Possible Earthquake Mechanism in Canada.
(1985-04-15)With the exception of earthquakes occurring along the Pacific coast, earthquakes in Canada cannot be explained by plate tectonic theory. Deglaciation has been proposed as a possible cause of non-tectonic Canadian ... -
Quaternary and late Pliocene seismic stratigraphy of the central Scotian Slope
(2003-04-15)High resolution single channel seismic reflection profiles collected by the Geological Survey of Canada Atlantic (GSCA) have been used to define the Quaternary and Late Pliocene seismic stratigraphy of the central Scotian ... -
Quaternary Geologic History of Lady Franklin Bank, Southeastern Baffin Shelf, N.W.T.
(1983-04-15)The Lady Franklin Sand and Gravel is an informal term for a compositionally sand and/or gravel surficial sediment unit of the southeastern Baffin Shelf, delineated on the basis of grab samples and acoustic data by Praeg ... -
The Question of Relationship Between Low and High Grade Metamorphic Rocks in the French Mountain Area, of the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
(1984-04-15)French Mountain in the Cape Breton Highlands of Nova Scotia is underlain by two broad metamorphic complexes: a metasedimentary complex and a composite gneiss complex. The metasedimentary complex, located on the southwestern ... -
Reconstructing past sea surface temperatures near the Iceland-Faroe Ridge using alkenone paleothermometry (Uk’37 )
(2015-04)Understanding the ocean and its past behaviour is important because it gives insight into rates and amplitudes of global change. This thesis uses a paleoceanographic technique (Simplified Ketone Unsaturation Index (Uk’37)) ... -
RECONSTRUCTING PAST STORMINESS IN HALIFAX HARBOUR THROUGH GRAIN-SIZE ANALYSIS OF MARINE SEDIMENT CORES
(2013-04)The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (ICPP, Trenberth, 2007) predicts that extra tropical storm tracks will move pole-ward and have higher precipitation rates and larger wind speeds at the end of the 21st century. ... -
RECONSTRUCTION OF POLLUTION HISTORY AT MILL COVE, BEDFORD BASIN USING BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA
(1999-04-15)The comparison of data from two cores collected in Bedford Basin, adjacent to the Mill Cove Sewage Treatment Plant, in August 1998, to data from 1968, 1993 and 1996, allows the impact of pollution to be determined. Benthic ... -
Redox state of the South Mountain Batholith: A reconnaissance study using zircon geochemistry
(2019-05-15)The late Devonian South Mountain Batholith (SMB) of Southwestern Nova Scotia is the largest plutonic igneous body emplaced during the Appalachian orogeny, with a current surface expression of 73,000 km2. The batholith ... -
A Refraction Seismic Survey of Martinique Beach: Geometry and Significance to Barrier Beach Evolution
(1985-04-15)During the summer of 1984 a refraction seismic survey was conducted at Martinique Beach using a 12 geophone array and seismic recorder with a hammer plate as the acoustic source. Sixteen sites were occupied along the 3.5 ... -
Regional Geochemical Variations of Upper Cenozoic Volcanic Rocks in the Andes
(1978-03-15)Regional variations in the chemical composition of Miocene-to-Recent volcanic rocks from the Central Andes are investigated on the basis of 260 chemical analyses compiled from the literature in addition to 25 new analyses ... -
A REGIONAL INVESTIGATION OF SCHEELITE OCCURRENCES IN THE MEGUMA QROUP OF NOVA SCOTIA
(1984-04)The scheelite deposits of the Meguma Group of Nova Scotia are found within interbedded veins in the slates and quartzites of the lower Halifax and upper Goldenville Formations. The veins are found at the edge of or within ...