{"id":1004,"date":"2011-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-392\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:25","slug":"innovation-anthology-392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/04\/21\/innovation-anthology-392\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #392:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 392.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nOil sands reclamation is benefiting from student research in more ways than one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFirst, graduate students are expanding the knowledge base about northern ecology.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThey are also <b>changing the mindset<\/b> at oil sands companies. Professor and wetland ecologist <b>Dr. Lee Foote<\/b> explains.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nDR. LEE FOOTE: <\/b> <em>At least six of our graduates have gone on to work for industry now.  And with them they\u2019ve brought the cutting edge research abilities, the best educations. They\u2019re  really current.    And oil sands companies have welcomed these folks and paid them handsome salaries because they are the new generation, the young turks, I call them, that are coming in with fresh ideas.  Oil sands traditionally has been run by engineering mindsets.  It\u2019s moving big dirt with big equipment.  And there\u2019s a lot of engineering involved.   But ecology is not quite as linear and direct quite often.   Natural development of these wetlands requires that someone understand community dynamics of wetland plants,  of animal communities.  And these young folks who have moved in with these fresh graduate degrees are bringing that change in mindset to them.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDr. Foote says when it comes to research, these graduates are also fostering a new culture of cooperation between oil sands companies.\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<p><em><br \/>\nDr. Lee Foote is a team leader with the research consortium CFRAWS:  Carbon Dynamics, Food Web Structure and Reclamation Strategies in Athabasca Oil Sands.  He also teaches wetland ecology at the University of Alberta  <\/em><\/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>\u00a02011-04-21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil sands reclamation is benefiting from student research in more ways than one.<br \/>\nNot only are graduate students expanding the knowledge base on northern ecology.  As <b>Dr. Lee Foote<\/b> explains, they&#8217;re also changing the mindseet at oil sands companies.   <em>(Syncrude Canada Ltd)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,59,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","category-water","category-wildlife","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":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}