Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honours Theses by Title
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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 ... -
Relating nutrient availability to yield: an examination of lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium anustifolium) resource limitation in Prince Edward Island
(2015-04)This study investigates the role of nutrient availability within the lowbush blueberry (Vacciunium Angustifolium) to add to the current body of knowledge on the role of resource limitation in predicting final yield. The ... -
The relationship between urban tree canopy cover and socioeconomic status in urban Halifax
(2018-04)Urbanization has highlighted the importance of vegetation in city environments. The influx of people into city centers are concentrating larger populations into smaller areas, and this is having a negative impact on the ... -
RELATIVE RATES OF SULPHIDE OXIDATION BY CHEMICAL AND MICROBIAL MEANS: THE ROLE OF MINERALOGY AND TEXTURE IN ACID ROCK DRAINAGE (ARD) FROM THE MEGUMA SUPERGROUP, NOV A SCOTIA
(1997-04-15)The Meguma Supergroup in Nova Scotia contains abundant sulphide minerals that potentially can cause acid rock drainage (ARD), which is environmentally damaging and expensive to ameliorate. The problem is most intense in ... -
The Removal of Mandatory Home Economics from Quebec’s Official Education Curriculum
(2009-06)This study examines the Quebec government‟s 1997 decision to remove mandatory home economics from the province‟s secondary school curriculum, on the grounds that home economics has the potential to be a valuable tool in ... -
Riparian Buffer Removal and Associated Land Use in the Sackville River Watershed, Nova Scotia, Canada
(2010-04)“To what extent has riparian area been removed in the Sackville River watershed and what land uses are associated with this riparian area removal?” I investigate this question by assessing the extent of riparian area removal ... -
Running Head: ABORIGINAL PEOPLES, WATER AND HEALTH & WELL-BEING
(2011-03)When water is looked at in the context of health, it is generally in terms of access to safe drinking water (Health Canada, 2002). When considering the health of Aboriginal peoples however, it is necessary to look at ... -
SCHLIEREN IN THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN BATHOLITH AND PORT MOUTON PLUTON, MEGUMA ZONE, NOVA SCOTIA
(2001-04-15)Dynamic interactions between crystals and melt can form schlieren as primary features during the various stages of the crystallization of magmas. The restricted conditions necessary for the formation and preservation of ... -
Sediment Consolidation and Permeability at the Central Oregon Margin, Ocean Drilling Program Sites 891 and 892
(1994-03-15)Sediment hydraulic conductivity is a critical and highly variable control on the consolidation of accretionary prism materials. The consolidation state and pore pressure conditions within an accretionary prism ultimately ... -
SEDIMENTOLOGY, FACIES SUCCESSIONS AND CYCLICITY OF A SECTION OF THE JOGGJNS FORMATION, JOGGINS, NOV A SCOTIA
(1998-04-15)The Joggins cliffs near Amherst, Nova Scotia, form one of the world's premiere Carboniferous coal-bearing exposures. A 145 m section was measured in the vicinity of Bell's Brook. The section is classified into three ... -
Seismic Structure of the Ocean Continent Boundary in the Newfoundland Basin from a Multichannel Seismic Line
(2003-04-15)Detailed wide angle Ocean Bottom Seismometer and vertical incidence multichannel seismic (MCS) data were collected along three main transects across the Newfoundland Shelf as part of the Study of Continental Rifting and ... -
SEISMIC VELOCITIES AND REFLECTION SEQUENCES OF WISCONSINAN GLACIAL DEPOSITS IN EMERALD BASIN (SCOTIAN SHELF)
(2001-04-15)Emerald Basin is a 2430 km2 depression located on the central Scotian Shelf approximately 40 kilometers off the coast of Nova Scotia. Sleeve-gun reflection data collected in 1994 and Ocean Bottom Seismometer data collected ...
