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What’s in our toolbox: Exploring and unlocking Canada’s blue carbon potential
(2023-05-30)Despite growing recognition of the ability of blue carbon ecosystems to sequester and store atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) for several decades, their value is often overlooked in marine management decisions and climate ... -
When and Where Can Farm-level Life Cycle Assessments be Used to Predict Aggregate Food System Contributions to Global Warming?
(2021-04)Food production is a key anthropogenic system driving global warming, biodiversity loss, land use change, and biogeochemical cycle disruption. Food system sustainability is a field of research dedicated to addressing ... -
When clean energy is dirty: A geospatial analysis of Canadian hydroelectric dams constructed between 1981 and 2011 and demographic indicators of environmental marginalization
(2022-08)The increasing urgency for climate action has pushed several governments towards investments in long-term, renewable energy sources. With its abundant supply of freshwater rivers, Canada’s shift away from oil and ... -
When does pain matter? Acknowledging the subjectivity of clinical significance.
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When “Don’t Worry” Communicates Fear: Children’s Perceptions of Parental Reassurance and Distraction during a Painful Medical Procedure
(Wolters Kluwer, 2010)hildren's distress during painful medical procedures is strongly influenced by adult behavior. Adult reassurance (e.g., "it's okay") is associated with increased child distress whereas distraction is associated with increased ... -
Where is the Carbon? Spatially Mapping Organic Carbon on the Seafloor in the Eastern Shore Islands, Nova Scotia, Canada
(2023-04)Coastal sediments contain some of the largest stocks of organic carbon on earth and play a vital role in influencing the carbon cycle. Protecting organic carbon hotspots is essential to mitigating climate change since ... -
WHITE MICAS IN THE LAKE LEWIS LEUCOGRANITE, NOVA SCOTIA
(2001-04-15)The South Mountain Batholith, a peraluminous granitic complex, ranges in composition from biotite granodiorite to muscovite-topaz leucogranite. Leucogranitic rocks form minor and late components of the batholith. The Lake ... -
The White Rock Formation Metavolcanics at Cape St. Mary, Nova Scotia: Petrography, Geochemistry, and Geologic Affinities.
(1981-03-15)A 156 meter thick section of the Silurian White Rock Formation occurs at Cape St. Mary, southern Nova Scotia in the core of a southwest plunging syncline. It includes four metabasite units identified as basaltic flows, and ... -
Whole Rock Analysis using the Electron Microprobe
(1981-03-15)Rock powders ranging in composition from a peridotite to a granite were fused on molybdenum and tantalum strips in a vacuum and a nitrogen atmosphere. A low voltage high amperage source was used to melt the rock powders. ... -
. “Whose voices are not in the room?” Indigenous women’s participation in the Arctic climate crisis research
(2019-12)The climate crisis is the new black with thousands of documents published on the topic every year with significant input from the Inuit, knowledge holders of the dynamic of the Arctic environment. This study reports on a ... -
Why an ecosystem approach is the wrong paradigm for the next stage of fisheries management
(2006-09-13)Scientists from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) manage groundfish stocks by collecting biomass measurements that are used to provide scientific advice on catch limits. Clearly, if the data is uncertain or ... -
Why do fish stocks collapse? The example of cod in Atlantic Canada
(1997-02)In 1993, six Canadian populations of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) had collapsed to the point where a moratorium was declared on fishing. It has been argued that the collapses were caused by poor recruitment of cod to the ... -
Why Has Unemployment Disappeared from Official Macro-Economic Policy Discourse in Canada?
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Why is there no low-temperature phase transition in NaOH?
(1999-02)Although NaOH and NaOD exhibit parallel polymorphism at high temperatures, NaOD exhibits a low-temperature phase transition to a hydrogen-bonded antiferroelectric phase and no comparable transition has been found in NaOH. ... -
Why the Increase in Inequality Matters
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Why Two Old Ferries Went to India: A Critical Review of the Canadian Ship-Recycling Legal Regime. (Marine Affairs Program Technical Report #9).
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Wide-angle seismic imaging of a Mesoproterozoic anorthosite complex: The Nain Plutonic Suite in Labrador, Canada
(2000-11)The Mesoproterozoic Nain Plutonic Suite (NPS) of Labrador (Canada), one of the largest anorogenic plutonic terranes, was studied by a refraction/wide-angle seismic experiment. Four ocean bottom seismometers and 18 land ... -
Wide-angle seismic transect across the Torngat Orogen, northern Labrador: Evidence for a Proterozoic crustal root
(1999-04)A refraction/wide-angle reflection seismic transect across the Labrador peninsula covers the Core Zone of the SE Churchill Province, the Paleoproterozoic Torngat Orogen, and the Archean Nain Province including a portion ... -
Wind energy in Nova Scotia’s electrical power generation sector: The development of an effective wind energy regime
(2009-04)Three major goals of renewable energy policy include security of supply, environmental protection, and economic development and stability. One way in which our society can work towards achieving these goals is through ...