Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honours Theses by Title
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Investigating the carbon sequestration and storage capacity of trees in a university campus environment
(2017-04)Rising anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are well established as the main driver of climate change, which has led to concentrated global and regional efforts to mitigate emissions. At a localized level, individual ... -
Investigating the role of call similarity in a tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) parent-offspring recognitionmechanism
(2011-03)Parent-offspring recognition is a mechanism that allows parents and offspring to recognize each other by specific cues. The mechanism is predicted to be well developed in species that are at a high risk for misdirecting ... -
Jatropha as Biofuel: An Analysis of the Possible Implications for Food Security in Mali
(2009-04)Biofuels feature prominently in global climate change and energy security strategies. However, while concerns about climate change and energy security persist, the positive perception of biofuels has weakened in recent ... -
THE JOGGINS AND SPRINGHILL MINES FORMATIONS FACIES MODEL AND INTERPRETATION OF THE PALED-ENVIRONMENT
(1998-04-15)The type section of the Joggins Formation is located along the eastern shore of Chignecto Bay, Nova Scotia. A bed-by-bed measurement of the Carboniferous strata within a 200m stratigraphic zone encompassing the Joggins ... -
Lacustrine Cyclic Sedimentation in the Lower Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation at Rainy Cove, Nova Scotia
(1987-04-15)The Lower Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation at Rainy Cove in Nova Scotia is an excellent coastal cliff exposure of lacustrine strata. The freshwater depositional conditions are inferred from the presence in the strata ... -
Land-Use Change and Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Community Structure in the McIntosh Run, Nova Scotia Canada
(2012-04)Land-cover refers to the physical and biological cover of a land’s surface; including water, vegetation, soil, and/or artificial structures (Ellis 2011). This differs from land-use, which is a more complicated term that ... -
LATE CENOZOIC PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC CHANGES IN THE NORTHWEST PACIFIC USING RADIOLARIAN BIOSTRATIGRAPHY OF ODP SITE 1179 AND OTHERS
(2001-04-15)The radiolarian zonation of ODP Site 1179 was accessed using core-catcher samples. The data indicate that the soft sediments analyzed range from late Miocene to Recent. The radiolaria biostratigraphy of ODP Site 1179 yielded ... -
A Late Cretaceous polar forest, Emma Fjord, Northwest Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada: Paleobotany, Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology
(2002-04-15)During the Mesozoic to Early Cenozoic greenhouse climate phase forests grew well within the polar circle. These unique polar forest ecosystems flourished in a warm, high-latitude environment where trees were subjected to ... -
Late Pleistocene - Holocene Benthonic Foraminifera from the Northern Scotian Shelf
(1986-04-15)A micropaleontological study was carried out on a core taken from latitude 45.8oN in St. Annes Basin on the northern Nova Scotian Shelf. Benthonic foraminiferal assemblages were defined in terms of abundance and dominance ... -
Late Pleistocene-Holocene Paleoceanography of the Northeast Newfoundland Shelf; Benthonic Foraminiferal Evidence
(1986-04-15)A micropaleontological study based on benthonic foraminifera was made of seventy-one samples from core 80-030-26 (Gravity and Piston) taken at a water depth of 267 m in outer Notre Dame Bay, northeast Newfoundland Shelf. ...