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Safety culture in oil and gas : factors that contribute to cultures of non-report

Van Tuyl, Rana (2016-10-25)

This study addresses cultures of non-report in the oil and gas industry in Alberta, Canada. The purpose of the study was to determine what human, workplace/organizational, and external factors contribute to the presence ...

Saltwater spill site assessment and remediation in Northern Alberta

White, D'Arcy (2012-12-07)

This study focuses on the Alberta environmental site assessment process for salt contamination resulting from pipeline failures in the boreal forest of Alberta. A complex saltwater spill site is used as a case study to ...

Satellite-derived sea surface temperatures from the AVHRR for the Vancouver Island Coastal Region

Pogue, C. G. (Capt) (ProQuest, 1995)

In mid-May 1994 Royal Roads Military College (Victoria, BC.) established a remote sensing facility capable of acquiring data from the NOAA series of polar orbiting satellites and began to collect and archive Advanced Very ...

Scholars' temporal participation on, temporary disengagement from, and return to Twitter

Veletsianos, George; Kimmons, Royce; Belikov, Olga; Johnson, Nicole (First Monday, 2018)

Even though the extant literature investigates how and why academics use social media, much less is known about academics’ temporal patterns of social media use. This mixed methods study provides a first-of-its-kind ...

School leaders supporting teachers' mental health

MacDonald, J. Geoff J. (2017-07-29)

This action research project examined school leaders’ role in supporting classroom teachers’ mental health within Prince Edward Island schools. The study explored the question: How can Prince Edward Island’s school leaders ...

Schools and community organizations: The challenges of integrating education and wraparound services for children

Anthon, Dan; Schmidt, Edgar (2019-05-04)

Sea level change in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, southern British Columbia : implications for the interpretation of nearshore archaeological features

Wyatt, Glenda (2016-01-22)

Sea level along the B.C. coastline has changed dramatically over the past 10,000 years due to isostatic rebound following deglaciation from the Fraser Glaciation (Clague & James, 2002). In the future, sea levels globally ...

Sea surface temperatures as indicators of yearling California sea lion stranding numbers along the California coast

McKibbon Corsi, Michelle Darleen Mai (2018-03-23)

Marine mammal rescue centers around North America respond to calls from the public about animals that have stranded due to illness or injury. Each year financial planning must occur at these centers with little information ...

Searching for a "unicorn" : emotional dimensions of environmental educators

Hebert, Gabrielle (2013-01-30)

As more studies highlight the unconscious dynamics of environmental education it is important to understand how those dynamics impact the educators themselves so that we may better train educators and improve the efficacy ...

Seasonal nature discovery field trips : a platform for social learning between a non-profit organisation and local primary schools

Adams, Jessica (2018-01-23)

Employing a social learning framework in a phenomenological inquiry, this study investigated the potential for environmental education (EE) in primary schools through a field trip-based program. Interviews and focus groups ...

Seawater survival and osmoregulation of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr-smolts exposed to four different pesticides

Hauta, Christopher Carl (2014-02-24)

Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) parr-smolts were exposed to sublethal concentrations of cypermethrin, chlorothalonil, quintozene or atrazine to determine if they affected osmoregulation. After 96 h of exposure to a pesticide, ...

Securities regulation: Opportunities exist for IIROC to regulate responsively

Lokanan, Mark (Administration and Society, 2015)

This article examines the applicability of responsive regulation within an inter-agency framework in the financial sector. To do so, the article uses the self-regulatory organization that is responsible for governing ...

Seeds of sustainability : food literacy communication in sharing gardens

Beauge, Myriam (2014-10-03)

Food is omnipresent in our lives. As humans, we spend a great deal of time thinking about it, growing it, marketing it, looking for it, and consuming it. Yet access to food is anything but guaranteed, even in a thriving ...

Seeing all the facts you learned : the lived learning experience of students in a pedagogically-focused virtual reality experience

MacKay, Michael Bryan (2022-07-20)

This thesis aimed to explore presence and learning in virtual reality through a qualitative lens. A virtual learning environment was designed and constructed that accurately mimicked the local solar system to facilitate ...