Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honours Theses
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The Implications of the Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) on Riparian Canopy Cover in Three Halifax Regional Municipality Parks
(2020-04)Invasive species are posing an increasingly large threat to Canada’s urban forest. The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is an invasive pest with the potential to eliminate entire ash stands. The EAB was discovered in Nova Scotia ... -
Modelling the Critical Habitat of the Bicknell’s Thrush in the Cape Breton Highlands
(2020-04)Bicknell’s Thrush (Catharus bicknelli) is listed as a threatened species under SARA, and identification of critical habitat is a key priority in the species’ recovery. LiDAR data was used to create a habitat suitability ... -
Comparing the Richness of Pathogens around Open-Net Atlantic Salmon Marine Aquaculture Farms to Fallow Farms and Non-Farm Areas in Passamaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick: An Analysis of Methods and Proposal of Future Sampling Considerations
(2020-04)The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada considers Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the outer Bay of Fundy to be endangered. Despite decreases in fishing pressure since wild Atlantic salmon were ... -
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 ... -
Emerging Hot Spot Analysis and Forests: A Case Study on the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid’s Invasion into Nova Scotia using Fine Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery.
(2020-04)Adelges tsugae (hemlock woolly adelgid) is an invasive forest insect first identified in Nova Scotia in 2017. This insect poses a threat to the Acadian Forests, as Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) is a keystone species ... -
A Critical Evaluation of Old-Growth Forest Definitions in Canada
(2020-04)Old-growth forests are a precious resource. As critical areas of biodiversity, they provide habitat for many species at risk. They also provide a multitude of ecosystem services and have enormous intrinsic biological ... -
Fate of Heavy Metals in Passive Wastewater Treatment Systems of the Northwest Territories
(2020-04)Due to unique climatic, geologic, and biologic conditions of northern Canadian landscapes, wastewater management in this region is complex and geographically distinctive. Many regions of the Northwest Territories (NWT) ... -
CENTRAL SCOTIAN SLOPE STABILITY: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF GAS HYDRATES
(2002-04-15)Gas hydrates are ice-like solids in which large quantities of methane are trapped in a solid phase as a result of suitable pressure and temperature conditions in the presence of an excess supply of methane gas. They are a ... -
Minor Folds in Coticule Layers and Their Relationship to Regional Fold Evolution, Central Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia.
(2000-04-15)The highly anisotropic turbidite sequences of the Meguma Group in southern Nova Scotia are folded into upright, noncylindrical, northeast-southwest trending box and chevron folds. Minor folds are well-developed in ... -
"Pock Marks" in Nearshore Sands: Observations During Sandyduck97.
(2000-04-15)Previous bedform research has described different ripple types forming in varying hydrodynamic conditions and used ripple geometry within sedimentary rocks to infer the paleoenvironmental conditions during the ripple ... -
40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology of the Malton Gneiss, Malton Complex, Southeastern British Columbia.
(2000-04-15)The Malton complex, located at the northern tip of the Shuswap complex in southeastern British Columbia, is one of several structural culminations in which Precambrian basement is exposed from beneath Neoproterozoic cover ... -
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 ... -
Paleoenvironment of Triassic Dinosaurs and Other Tetrapods at Carrs Brook, Nova Scotia.
(2000-04-15)A section of Triassic strata is exposed at Carrs Brook, on the northern margin of the Minas Subbasin, Colchester County, Nova Scotia. A detailed map of the Carrs Brook section was made using a plane table survey. The 200-300 ... -
An 40Ar/39Ar Study of the Goldenville, Halifax, White Rock and Torbrook Formations of the Digby Area, Southwest Nova Scotia.
(2000-04-15)Cambrian to early-Devonian meta-sedimentary rocks of the Halifax and Goldenville formations of the Meguma Group and the overlying White Rock and Torbrook formations form the rart of the Meguma Terrane that underlies ... -
Thermobarometry of Eclogite from the Nordøyane Ultra-High Pressure Domain, Western Gneiss Region, Norway
(2020-04-15)Partial melting of subducted continental crust at ultra-high pressure (UHP) conditions may facilitate the exhumation of large UHP terranes like the Western Gneiss Region (WGR), Norway. During the Scandian phase of the ... -
Long & Short Term Trends & Fluctuations of GroundWater Levels at Three Sites in Nova Scotia.
(2000-04-15)Groundwater is an essential resource in Nova Scotia, used by over half of the province's population for domestic purposes. In order to manage this resource effectively, it is important to understand if and how groundwater ... -
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 ... -
Structure and Strain in the Burwash Formation, Northwest Territories.
(2000-04-15)The Burwash Formation is an extensive package of Archean volcanic-turbidite sedimentary units in the Slave Province, Northwest Territories. The turbidites are metamorphosed to greenschist facies, and have undergone two ... -
40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology and Metamorphism of Amphibole from the Humboldt Bay High Strain Zone, Wabigoon Subprovince, Lake Nipigon, Ontario
(2002-04-15)The Humboldt Bay High Strain Zone (HBHSZ) is a shear zone in the Onaman-Tashota Belt, a granite-greenstone belt of the Wabigoon Subprovince of the Archean Superior Province. The HBHSZ represents a boundary within the ... -
Stratigraphic Analysis and Possible Tidal Influence in the Thorburn Member and Coal Brook Member, Stellarton Formation, Nova Scotia.
(2000-04-15)The Late Carboniferous Stellarton Basin is located in central Nova Scotia. It is bounded by the Cobequid Fault to the north and the Hollow Fault to the south. Dextral movement on these faults during the Carboniferous formed ...
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