Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences by Title
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Higher Learning - Greening the Kenneth Rowe Roof
(2007-04)The Kenneth C. Rowe building on the Dalhousie University campus was designed to support a greenroof. The greenroof was never installed due to a lack of funding. Higher Learning is a group of Environmental Science students ... -
The Highway 101 Landfill - what have we learned?
(1996-04-15)The Highway 101 Landfill between Upper Sackville and Mount Uniacke, Nova Scotia has been in operation since 1977. Hydrochemical tests were routinely collected on 63 monitoring wells located at various depths in and around ... -
Holocene History of Kings and Hartling Bays, Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia
(1978-03-15)Kings and Hartling Bays are typical of many exposed inlets with bayhead beaches which are prevalent along the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia. The present morphology of these two bays is a result of Pleistocene glaciation ... -
Holocene Relative Sea-Level Change in Nova Scotia
(1993-03-15)Core samples collected around Atlantic Canada, specifically from the West Head salt marsh, Chezzetcook Inlet, enable temporal and spatial examination of benthic foraminiferal assemblages. Benthic foraminiferal zonations, ... -
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How do Dalhousie University’s Studley Campus students rate public transportation user experience on the Halifax peninsula?
(2024-04)Public transit can offer many valuable benefits to cities worldwide. However, ridership can often be low due to several different factors that can make it difficult or inconvenient for people to rely on it as a regular ... -
How moderate agriculture affects the food web of macroinvertebrates in fresh water streams in Kings County,Nova Scotia
(2011-03)Moderate agriculture changes physical and chemical factors in streams resulting in a fertilizing effect by increasing available nutrients to macroinvertebrates through increased detritus breakdown and algal growth (Karr & ... -
How Rocks Affect the Growth of Krummholz in the Mealy Mountains of Labrador
(2009-04)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how rocks affect the growth of coniferous krummholz of two species: Black Spruce (Picea mariana) and Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea). Specifically, I investigated: 1) whether ... -
How the Consumption Habits of Students on Dalhousie Studley Campus Would be Impacted by the Implementation of More Sustainably Operated Food Organizations
(2023-04)The objective of this research study was to understand how the implementation of more sustainably operated food organizations at Dalhousie University would influence the consumption habits of students on Studley campus. ... -
How well do you sort? The impacts of Dalhousie University student demographics on understanding proper waste sorting on campus and in the Halifax Regional Municipality
(2024-04)The inability of students to properly sort their waste on Dalhousie’s campus and in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) resulting from improper waste management education creates barriers to achieving Dalhousie’s ... -
Hydrogeologic Investigation of the Cumberland Central Landfill.
(2000-04-15)The County of Cumberland has used a large tract of Crown Land near Springhill Junction as their main municipal waste disposal site since 1978. The site was initially commissioned as a first-generation landfill, known as ... -
Hydrothermal Alteration, Gold Distribution and Geochronology of Epithermal Gold Mineralization in the Copiapo Volcanic Complex, Chile
(1986-04-15)This thesis is a pilot project of an ongoing investigation into the gold metallogenesis in the Copiapo volcanic complex, Chile. The study is aimed at understanding the pattern of hydrothermal alteration and its relation ... -
Identification of the Carrier of Magnetization in a Basalt Core from Bermuda
(1987-04-15)Peckenham (1981) attempted to use the magnetic properties of a basalt core from Bermuda to help him define the stratigraphy of basalt flows present in the core. The results of his investigation were not helpful. Magnetic ... -
Identifying and prioritizing barriers to Atlantic salmon habitat connectivity in Napu’saqnuk (St Mary’s River), Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia, Canada)
(2024-04)Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are an anadromous fish species that migrate from headwaters of their home rivers out to the open ocean and back; this ecologically, economically, and culturally significant species requires ... -
Identifying and Tagging Tree Species for Removal and Revitalization Within the Dalhousie University Ocean Pond
(2018-04)The Ocean Pond is a space on Dalhousie Campus that was developed by faculty and students to create an area that replicated the natural forest ecosystem of Nova Scotia (Clark, 2006). The native ecosystem in Nova Scotia is ...