{"id":431,"date":"2008-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-177-ceo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:59","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:59","slug":"innovation-anthology-177-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2008\/10\/21\/innovation-anthology-177-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #177: CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 177.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nArmed with new found knowledge from scientists researching boreal wetlands, <b>Syncrude Canada<\/b> is attempting to do something no one has tried before.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd that\u2019s to reconstruct a<b> fen <\/b>after mining for oil sands.  Unlike bogs which get their water from precipitation, the hydrology of a fen depends on ground water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis provides numerous challenges for environmental scientist <b>Clara Qualizza<\/b> and her colleagues as they try to turn<b> oil sands tailings<\/b> into a peat forming landscape.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nCLARA QUALIZZA:  <\/b><em>So we\u2019re designing what the stratigraphy of the uplands and the material underneath the wetlands will be.   We have this type of tailing sand.  Should we make it coarser? Should we add some finer material to it to allow the water to move through it easier or to block it?   How do we drape the soils and connect them into the wetlands because the idea of water moving uphill is about the trees and the upland extending their roots and taking through the soil and taking the water out of the wetlands. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nQualizza\u2019s team hopes to transplant blocks of peat from natural fens to enhance the revegetation process.  The experimental fen should be finished in 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude Canada.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLearn more at Innovation Anthology.com\n <\/p>\n<p>\n I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER  <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>Laura Kilcrease, <\/h3>\n<h4>Alberta Innovates, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.syncrude.com\">Syncrude<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/SyncrudeLogo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02008-10-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike bogs which get their water from precipitation, the hydrology of a <b>fen <\/b>depends on ground water.     This provides numerous challenges for environmental scientist <b>Clara Qualizza<\/b> and her colleagues as they try to turn oil sands tailings into a peat forming landscape.   <em>(Syncrude Canada)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,59,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-forests","category-syncrude","category-water","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}