{"id":976,"date":"2011-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-378\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:23","slug":"innovation-anthology-378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2011\/02\/22\/innovation-anthology-378\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #378:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 378.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhen loggers cut aspen for lumber or pulp, the trees generally grows back from old roots in the soil.\n<\/p>\n<p.\nBut in oil sands reclamation, there are no roots because the soil has all been dug out.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nKaitlin Schott<\/b> is a graduate student at the University of Alberta.  She\u2019s researching the best way to <b>regenerate aspen from seed.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCaitlin presented her findings at the recent CONRAD Symposium on oil sands reclamation.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nKAITLIN SCHOTT:  <\/b><em>Aspen seeds are very, very small and they\u2019re surrounded by a big clump of fluff.  So they fly in the air and the spot on the soil where they land is actually going to determine their growth because they have very few nutrients within the seed.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the field, Kaitlin made observations every 20 centimeters along transects that were 126 meters long.  She found that seeds that landed in tiny pockets did better than those that fell on flat, hilly, or sloped ground.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nKAITLIN SCHOTT: <\/b><em>We need to have a variable micro topography on our reclamation sites   We don\u2019t want a perfectly flat parking lot for our trees to be growing on.  And we really want to be encouraging regeneration from seed because those seeds are from local sources and they\u2019re the best adapted for the site.  <\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nKaitlin Schott\u2019s research also shows it\u2019s important to limit the use of big machinery on reclamation sites to avoid damaging the soil.\n <\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThanks today to Syncrude<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\nFOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY<br \/>\nI\u2019M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><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>\u00a02011-02-22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When loggers cut aspen for lumber or pulp, the trees generally grows back from old roots in the soil.  But in oil sands reclamation, there are no roots because the soil has all been dug out. <b> Kaitlin Schott <\/b>is a graduate student at the University of Alberta.  She\u2019s researching the best way to <b>regenerate aspen from seed.<\/b>  Kaitlin presented her findings at the recent CONRAD Symposium on oil sands reclamation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,59,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forests","category-oil-sands","category-syncrude","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\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}