{"id":554,"date":"2017-02-10T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/?page_id=554"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:22:30","slug":"fen-reclamation-fort-mcmurray-alberta-canada-oil-sands-reclamation-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/fen-reclamation-fort-mcmurray-alberta-canada-oil-sands-reclamation-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Fen Reclamation:  Fort McMurray, Alberta Canada Oil Sands Reclamation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-555\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4497-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4497-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4497.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4528.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-557\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4528-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-556\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4510-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/STB_4330.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-562\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/STB_4330-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4535.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-558\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4535-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4546.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-559\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4546-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4582.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-560\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_4582-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_5645.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-561\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/IMG_5645-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"style\">\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\">The Alberta Oil Sands, centered near Fort McMurray, is producing millions of barrels of oil per day.\u00a0 The oil is extracted from bitumen deposits in sand beds buried beneath the surface.\u00a0 Bitumen is mined using open pit techniques, or in some areas by steam techniques.\u00a0\u00a0 Approximately 1\/2 of the area disturbed by mining is wetland, most of which are fens and bogs.\u00a0 I am part of a multi university team sponsored by CONRAD (Canadian Oil Sands Network for Research and Development) and NSERC to test methods for reclaiming watersheds to support peat accumulating fens.\u00a0 This project in cooperation with University of Waterloo (Drs. Jonathan Price and Richard Petrone) and the University of Calgary (Dr. Maria Strack), Canada is using a novel watershed design and complex factorial design to test processes of fen initiation.\u00a0 CSU graduate student Andrea Borkenhagen are leading the effort on plant establishment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tinyText\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alberta Oil Sands, centered near Fort McMurray, is producing millions of barrels of oil per day.\u00a0 The oil is extracted from bitumen deposits in sand beds buried beneath the surface.\u00a0 Bitumen is mined using open pit techniques, or in some areas by steam techniques.\u00a0\u00a0 Approximately 1\/2 of the area disturbed by mining is wetland, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-554","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/554\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}