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Methane Dynamics in a Southern Ontario Calcareous Fen
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-07)Peatlands are important ecosystems that are pivotal for the global carbon budget. They have the ability to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it within peat, which has very slow decomposition rates. Peatlands ... -
Methane dynamics of a constructed fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Oil sands mining activities in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region in northeastern Alberta, Canada have resulted in an extensive amount of land disturbance. The Alberta government requires some reclamation of disturbed land to ... -
A Methodology to Quantify the Topographic Characteristics of Wetland Landscapes
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)Topography underpins natural processes ranging from incident solar radiation at a location to overland flow and water pooling. Despite the influence of topography on natural processes and subsequent ecosystem function, ... -
Metrics for Evaluating Walking School Bus Programs: A Case Study of Waterloo Region, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-03)Normative planning concerns direct sustainable development planning; however, many assertions are made without empirical backing and discount many of the values and characteristics of today’s populations. A potentially ... -
Microclimatic Effects of Forest to Peatland Transitions Within the Boreal Plains
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Peatlands cover approximately 50% of the total landscape of the Western Boreal Forest, which includes the sub-humid Boreal Plains (BP) ecozone. The BP experiences persistent water deficit conditions, promoting anaerobic ... -
Migration and Integration in Nairobi, Kenya: Refugee Rights, Social Capital, and Livelihoods in an Urban Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-27)Kenya has been a major hosting nation for refugees and asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa for the past two decades. Since the early 1990s, Kenya has operated under an encampment policy that mandates all refugees reside ... -
Mining Geotagged Tweets: Tracking Spatiotemporal Variation of Mental Health in Canada during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)This thesis explores and analyzes the evolution of the pandemic as a stressor on mental health in Canada through monitoring the sentiment polarity dynamics, emotion trends, and changes in keywords being discussed on Twitter, ... -
Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflict: social and ecological dimensions of snow leopard-livestock conflict in Shey Phoksundo National Park
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)Human-wildlife conflict is one of the world’s leading conservation challenges. Carnivores are often found at the forefront of these conflicts with humans, and livestock depredation as a leading cause of conflict between ... -
Mixed effects regression for snow distribution modelling in the central Yukon
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)To date, remote sensing estimates of snow water equivalent (SWE) in mountainous areas are very uncertain. To test passive microwave algorithm estimations of SWE, a validation data set must exist for a broad geographic area. ... -
Mixture of Latent Variable Models for Remotely Sensed Image Processing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-22)The processing of remotely sensed data is innately an inverse problem where properties of spatial processes are inferred from the observations based on a generative model. Meaningful data inversion relies on well-defined ... -
Mobility and Transnationalism: Travel Patterns and Identity among Palestinian Canadians
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-11)Increased urban diversity in the metropolises of North America urges us to examine the different forms of mobility of transnational communities in cosmopolitan societies. Recent technological advancements, including ... -
Modeling of carbon dioxide dissolution in an injection well for geologic sequestration in aquifers
(Elsevier, 2021-04-15)Carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration is considered to be one of the most effective technologies of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. In this technology, single phase supercritical CO2 is injected into an underground ... -
Modeling of Permafrost Distribution in the Semi-arid Chilean Andes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)The distribution of mountain permafrost is generally modeled using a combination of statistical techniques and empirical variables. Such models, based on topographic, climatic and geomorphological predictors of permafrost, ... -
Modeling Present and Future Physical Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change: North Shore, Prince Edward Island
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)The IPCC has identified small islands and coastal zones among regions most vulnerable to climate change. The geomorphological characteristics of Prince Edward Island (PEI), such as highly erodible sandstone bedrock and low ... -
Modelling lake ice cover under contemporary and future climate conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-26)Lakes comprise a large portion of the surface cover in northern North America, forming an important part of the cryosphere. Further alterations to the present day ice regime could result in major ecosystem changes, such ... -
Monitoring Ice Break-Up on the Mackenzie River Using Remote Sensing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-12)The Mackenzie Basin is composed of eight sub-basins (North Mountains, Liard, Peace, Athabasca, Great Bear Low Plains, Great Slave and Arctic Red) and includes three large lakes (Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Lake ... -
Monitoring Ice-dammed Glacier Lake Outburst Floods in the Karakoram Using Visible-Infrared Satellite Remote Sensing Observations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Glaciers are an important part of the hydrological cycle because they act as freshwater storage. Glacier ice contains about three-quarters of the world’s freshwater; supplying most of the base flow for rivers originating ... -
Monitoring Lake Simcoe Water Quality using Landsat TM Images
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)Inland lakes are important resources to humans, while the eutrophication effect caused by an overload of nutrients is a significant problem. This study focuses on utilizing the satellite remote sensing to monitor the water ... -
Monitoring Rainwater Harvesting Systems in India Using Satellite Remote Sensing Observations
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-26)The building of small reservoirs is a typical measure taken by farmers to moderate the extremes of the hydrologic regime of a semiarid climate, which is characterized by the alternation of a short rainy season with long ... -
Monitoring Seasonal Snow Density from Satellite Based Passive Microwave Remote Sensing and Automatic Weather Stations
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-26)Seasonal snow plays an important role in Earth’s systems and for hydrological applications one of the most important properties is the quantity of liquid water stored in the snowpack, referred to as snow water equivalent ...