{"id":1252,"date":"2012-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-503\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:38","slug":"innovation-anthology-503","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2012\/10\/09\/innovation-anthology-503\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #503:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 503.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIt was 1976 when <b>Richard Masalanko<\/b> graduated from NAIT as a chemical technologist and joined the research department of a new oil sands company called <b>Syncrude.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne of Richard\u2019s first tasks with Syncrude was to gather samples from the waterways before the company started its operations.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nRICHARD MASALANKO: <\/b><em>And essentially what we were trying to do is what was there before the plant started up.  What\u2019s the baseline of the various components, the constituents of the water?   And then when the plant started up, of course, afterwards we can check again and see, what are the changes.    And so we\u2019ve gone through many changes in 36 years, as you can well imagine. So I learned a lot of things in the early days.     In the winter we had to sample waterways as well.  They were establishing what was happening during the various seasons.  I can remember distinctly a  time on the Athabasca River taking a sample near the MacKay area.  And we had to go onto the river and we had to use an ice auger to get into this river.  And I thought this won\u2019t take long.  Well it did take a long time.  That ice to my surprise was like three  or more feet thick.  I\u2019d never heard of a river having that kind of a thickness of ice. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRichard Masalanko\u2019s team also set up weather stations to establish trends for the environmental baseline.\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>\u00a02012-10-09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 1976 when <b>Richard Masalanko <\/b>graduated from NAIT as a chemical technologist and joined the research department of a new oil sands company called <b>Syncrude.<\/b>  One of Richard\u2019s first tasks with Syncrude was to gather samples from the waterways before the company started its operations. <em> (Syncrude Canada Ltd.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/503Richard_Masalanko.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","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=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}