Snow and Wet Precipitation, Oil Sands Region

Assess the importance of atmospheric deposition of contaminants as a contributor to ecological impacts of oil sands development and identify sources.

• Use snowpack measurements sampled across a gridwork to develop maps of winter-time atmospheric contaminant loadings for the region ~100 km from the major upgrading facilities

• Assess long-term trends in winter-time atmospheric deposition

• Determine the potential impact of wintertime snowpack mercury loads on tributary river water mercury concentrations (Spring Freshet) using Geographic Information System and hydrological modelling approaches

• Compare snowpack loadings to those obtained from precipitation monitoring and compare spatial patterns to PAC air measurements obtained from passive sampling network

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Date ( RI_367 )
2015-07-08
Date ( RI_366 )
2015-05-12
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Science and Technology Branch / Water Science and Technology / Aquatic Contaminants Research Division - Jane Kirk ( Research scientist )
867 Lakeshore Rd. , Burlington , Ontario , L7S 1A1 , Canada
1-905-336-4712
RI_419
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Jaime Dawson ( Oil Sands Senior Support for Air Component )
867 Lakeshore Rd. , Burlington , Ontario , L7S 1A1 , Canada
1-905-336-4883
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Science and Technology Branch / Water Science and Technology / Aquatic Contaminants Research Division - Dr. Jane Kirk ( Research scientist )
867 Lakeshore Rd. , Burlington , Ontario , L7S 1A1 , Canada
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Science and Technology Branch / Water Science and Technology / Aquatic Contaminants Research Division - Office of director / Bureau du directeur ( Director, ACRD )
105 McGill St. , Montreal , Quebec , H2Y 2E7 , Canada
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • oil sands, monitoring, atmospheric deposition, contaminant, fate and transport, monitoring, polycyclic aromatic compound, particulate metals, snow, Athabasca, river, basin, near-field, far-field, Fort McMurray
  • Observation/Measurement
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Precipitation
  • Oil sands
  • Snow
ECCC Information Category EN ECCC Information Category FR ( RI_528 )
  • Water - Quality
Business Functions Fonctions de l'entreprise ( RI_528 )
  • Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste
  • Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
Branch Direction Générale ( RI_528 )
  • Science and Technology Branch
Directorate Direction ( RI_528 )
  • Water Science and Technology
Environment Canada - Program Environment Canada - Program ( RI_528 )
  • 1.3.2. Ecosystem Assessment and Approaches
GC Security Level GC Restrictions de manipulation ( RI_528 )
  • Unclassified
Geography Portée Géographique ( Place )
  • Prairie - Alberta (AB)
  • Prairie - Saskatchewan (SK)
  • Territories - Northwest Territories (NT)
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2012-01-02
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Supporting Projects:

Canada-Alberta Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring
Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
RI_412
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Public inquiries centre
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd. , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 , Canada
1-800-668-6767
https://www.canada.ca
OnLine resource
Snow and Wet Precipitation Data (English) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
Snow and Wet Precipitation Data (French) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;fra

OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (English) ( HTTPS )

Web Service;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (French) ( HTTPS )

Web Service;HTML;fra

File identifier
43c0ce65-99cc-43c8-96a1-30c5b63bfe3b XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
series; série RI_623
Date stamp
2025-04-01T17:25:41.865Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
Enviroment Canada - Version 1
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Science and Technology Branch / Water Science and Technology / Aquatic Contaminants Research Division - ACRD Data Management Team
867 Lakeshore Rd. , Burlington , Ontario , L7S 1A1 , Canada
 
 

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