{"id":1145,"date":"2012-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-460\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:33","slug":"innovation-anthology-460","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2012\/02\/28\/innovation-anthology-460\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #460:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 460.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nTraditional concepts about <b>hydrology<\/b> are based on precipitation and water running downhill to lakes or rivers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut things are more complex on the boreal plain.  As scientists <b>Kevin Devito and Carl Mendoza<\/b> discovered, boreal fens, bogs and peatlands act more as a big sponge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd as reclamation expert <b>Clara Qualizza<\/b> explains, one has to appreciate the importance of what\u2019s called the<b> \u201cU-Factor\u201d.<\/b>\n <\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nCLARA QUALIZZA:<\/b><em>  The U-Factor.  U means  uplift.  And   when you look at a boreal landscape, it\u2019s a mixture of forest lands and wetlands.  And it turns out that the research suggests that aspen uplands need wetlands in their immediate proximity, because there\u2019s an aspen root pipeline that goes from the forest lands down into the wetlands.  Through dry periods, the aspen through their roots that extend into wetland areas or just into the forest  land, they pull water &#8211; there\u2019s  uplift of  water.  So water goes uphill from the wetland sometimes into the forest land.  And that\u2019s what sustains that system.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe U-Factor is one of the new principals that Clara Qualizza and the scientific team are incorporating into a manual for reclaiming boreal ecosystems.\n<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to<b> SYNCRUDE<\/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>\u00a02012-02-28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional concepts about <b>hydrology <\/b>are based on precipitation and water running downhill to lakes or rivers.      But things are more complex on the <b>boreal plain<\/b>.   Boreal fens, bogs and peatlands act more as a big sponge.    And as reclamation expert <b>Clara Qualizza<\/b> explains, one has to appreciate the importance of what\u2019s called the <b>\u201cU-Factor\u201d.  <\/b><em>(Syncrude)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,59,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4778,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}