Sediment, Oil Sands Region

Monitoring activities have collected bulk suspended sediment samples using continuous flow centrifuges and Phillips Tube samplers in the Lower Athabasca River and tributaries respectively. Further, in the absence of pre-development monitoring for this region, high fidelity dated lake sediment cores were used to assess the natural range in contaminant deposition to this region and to obtain a historical perspective of contaminant loadings. All sediments (suspended river and lake cores) have been analyzed in the laboratory for sediment quality variables as per Appendix B in the Integrated Monitoring Plan (cores were also analyzed for paleo indicators of ecosystem health such as diatoms). In addition, as the Lower Athabasca river bed sediments are known to shift and migrate downstream, bathymetric maps of the bed-channel morphology over time was also completed. This will allow for estimates of bed sediment transport downstream for the period of survey, and be useful in calibration/validation of sediment and contaminant numerical transport models.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2014-12-30
Date ( RI_366 )
2014-01-01
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Ian Droppo ( Research Scientist, Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division )
Burlington , ON , L7S 1A1 , Canada
905-336-4701
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • sediment, sediment quality, suspended sediment, sediment cores, bathymetry, mainstem, tributaries, lake, oil sands, metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, physical, chemical, carbon, visible reflectance spectroscopy, chlorophylla, centrifuge, continuous flow centrifuge, Phillips Tube sampler, time integrated sampling
theme.EC_Information_Category.rdf theme.EC_Information_Category.rdf ( RI_528 )
  • Water
theme.EC_Waf.rdf theme.EC_Waf.rdf ( 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
local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope ( RI_525 )
  • Water - Drainage regions - Peace–Athabasca
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Sediments
  • Oil sands
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
  • Inland waters
Begin date
1989-04-01
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4326 /
RI_412
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Inquiry Centre )
10 Wellington, 23rd Floor , Gatineau , QC , K1A 0H3 ,
819-997-2800
819-994-1412
http://ec.gc.ca
OnLine resource
Sediment Quality Data (English) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
Sediment Quality Data (French) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Dataset;CSV;fra

OnLine resource
Sediment ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Sediments ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Sediment ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Sediment ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (English) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Web Service;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
View ECCC Data Mart (French) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Web Service;HTML;fra

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4d8636f3-c5be-4074-87b4-5f87239a0d8b XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
series; série RI_623
Date stamp
2022-05-20T19:01:12
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_418
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Inquiry Centre )
10 Wellington, 23rd Floor , Gatineau , QC , K1A 0H3 ,
819-997-2800
819-994-1412
http://ec.gc.ca
 
 

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