{"id":908,"date":"2010-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-352\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:20","slug":"innovation-anthology-352","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2010\/11\/11\/innovation-anthology-352\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #352:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 352.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMicrobes are amazing things.  They thrive in the harshest of environments, from hot springs to glaciers, and even oil sands tailings ponds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTara Penner researched these microbes for her graduate studies, and now she\u2019s  continuing this investigation at Syncrude Canada Ltd.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs Tara explains, it was the mid-1990\u2019s before scientists suspected microbes were producing gas bubbles that appeared in tailings ponds.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nTARA PENNER:<\/b><em> The other interesting thing that was observed at this time was that  in the areas of the tailings ponds that were producing more gas, the tailings were densifying more quickly and releasing more water.  And so this is really important because the big problem with our tailings is that it is this yoghurt like substance that holds onto a lot of the water.  So any way that we can  release more water from the tailings and create a more solid dense material that\u2019s going to help with our reclamation efforts.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Tara Penner set out to identify the different microbes, she found that instead of just a handful of species, there were literally hundreds populating the tailings ponds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs well, they were similar to those same microbes that live in natural lake sediments, the ones that degrade plant and animal material.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to <b>Syncrude Canada Ltd<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/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>\u00a02010-11-11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Microbes<\/b> thrive in the harshest environments, from hot springs to glaciers, and even oil sands tailings ponds.  <b>Tara Penner<\/b> researched these microbes for her graduate studies, and now she\u2019s  continuing this investigation at Syncrude Canada Ltd.  While still in the early stages of discovery, these microbes could hold the key to reclaiming tailings ponds.<em> (Syncrude Canada Ltd)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,59,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","category-women-in-science","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/352tara_penner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4670,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/4670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}