Browsing Earth and Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Honours Theses by Title
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A PROPOSED METHODOLOGY FOR THE AMBULATORY MEASUREMENT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO NATURAL RESTORATION IN URBAN GREEN
(2013-03)It is known that natural wilderness environments can act as restorative environments for urban stress. However, it is uncertain what effect urban green spaces have on urban stress. In this study, we reviewed methodologies ... -
Provenance and Depositional Environment of Some Lower Mississippian Sediments, Cape George, Nova Scotia
(1983-03-15)The conglomerates of northern Cape George represent a tectonic block, thrusted from the north during the Carboniferous. Previous provenance studies of the Cape George alluvial fan sediments have not been done in great ... -
Provincial Allocations of Canada’s 2030 INDC and a 2-Degree Scenario Target Using a Multi-Criteria Weighted Sum Model
(2018-04)At the 2015 COP21 Paris Agreement, Canada restated its commitment to a 2030 target of a 30% reduction from 2005 level emissions as an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC). At this agreement, nations in ... -
Pyrrhotite composition and its relationship to acid drainage potential in the Halifax Formation, Meguma Group, Nova Scotia
(1996-04-15)The physical disruption of sulphidic slates of the Halifax Formation of the Meguma Group in Nova Scotia, leads to oxidation of sulphides and the generation of acid rock drainage (ARD). Acid runoff has been a serious problem ... -
QUANTIFYING IMPACTS OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION ON PIXEL AND OBJECT-BASED METHODS OF IMAGE CLASSIFICATION: A CASE STUDY OF IDENTIFYING ESTUARINE MORPHOLOGY IN COBEQUID BAY, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA
(2020-04-15)Image processing methods can be used to classify land cover and phenomena fromsatellite imagery according to their spectral characteristics and identify target features. These methodscanprovide a relatively efficient ... -
Quantifying Land-use / Land Cover Change and Eutrophication in the Carleton River Watershed, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
(2018-04)A number of rivers and watershed systems in Southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada have experienced an increase in eutrophication promoting nutrients over the past three decades. As a consequence, artificial eutrophication and ... -
Quantifying the Causes of Human-Black Bear Conflicts in Nova Scotia
(2021-04)Black bears are curious and will stop at nothing for a good meal. Unfortunately, Nova Scotian residents are seeing an increase in the presence of black bears around their properties and homes (Parsons pers. com., 2020). ... -
Quantifying the Impacts of Nova Scotia Forest Management Practices on Forest Stand Albedo and Surface Temperatures
(2024-04)In an effort to mitigate climate change, the Canadian government has increased focus on natural carbon sequestration through afforestation (i.e., the planting of forests where there were previously no forests) and reforestation ... -
Quantifying the temporal and spatial variation of atmospheric particles on Dalhousie Campus – a pilot study
(2009-04)Outdoor air pollution is a broad and complicated issue that poses a real threat to human health and the environment. Past research demonstrates a link between urban air pollution and increased rates of mortality and morbidity ... -
A Quantitative Analysis of Deglaciation as a Possible Earthquake Mechanism in Canada.
(1985-04-15)With the exception of earthquakes occurring along the Pacific coast, earthquakes in Canada cannot be explained by plate tectonic theory. Deglaciation has been proposed as a possible cause of non-tectonic Canadian ... -
Quaternary and late Pliocene seismic stratigraphy of the central Scotian Slope
(2003-04-15)High resolution single channel seismic reflection profiles collected by the Geological Survey of Canada Atlantic (GSCA) have been used to define the Quaternary and Late Pliocene seismic stratigraphy of the central Scotian ... -
Quaternary Geologic History of Lady Franklin Bank, Southeastern Baffin Shelf, N.W.T.
(1983-04-15)The Lady Franklin Sand and Gravel is an informal term for a compositionally sand and/or gravel surficial sediment unit of the southeastern Baffin Shelf, delineated on the basis of grab samples and acoustic data by Praeg ... -
The Question of Relationship Between Low and High Grade Metamorphic Rocks in the French Mountain Area, of the Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia
(1984-04-15)French Mountain in the Cape Breton Highlands of Nova Scotia is underlain by two broad metamorphic complexes: a metasedimentary complex and a composite gneiss complex. The metasedimentary complex, located on the southwestern ... -
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. ...