The scientific challenge of our changing environment : proceedings of a conference addressing environmental change in Newfoundland and Labrador and similar regions, held at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, 3-5 March 1993 / edited by Jeremy Hall and Moire Wadleigh.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ottawa : Royal Society of Canada, 1993.
Description
iv, 89 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

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Notes
  • "June 1993."
  • "This conference was organised by TERRAMON and the Newfoundland Section of the Geological Association of Canada, and was supported by the St. John's-88 Fund. The costs of publishing these proceedings have been met by the Canadian Global Change Program."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Can we provide resources for ten billion humans? / W.S. Fyfe
  • Evidence and forcing mechanisms of past climatic changes / Nat Rutter
  • Remote integrated study areas in Baffin Island and Labrador / John D. Jacobs
  • The international toxic monitoring program / Stephen W. Groves
  • Elemental analysis of water, biological and rock samples / H.P. Longerich, S.E. Jackson, J.K. Friel, P.B. Lobel, and B.J. Fryer
  • Monitoring the environment using an airborne imaging spectrometer / Randy Gillespie
  • Using remote sensing to monitor Kalmia Angustifolia encroachment on disturbed forest sites in central Newfoundland / B.D. Titus, D.B. Pike, R.T. Gillespie, R. Helleur and H. Zhang
  • Private sector marine geoscience in Newfoundland and Labrador / Ewan Cumming and Peter Simpkin
  • Are we managing the environment yet? The manager's dilemma and the first whiff of a solution / Lee Doran --^
  • Multistakeholder attitudes towards, and knowledge about, water pollution in St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland / A.J. Bath and L. Langwieder
  • State of the environment reporting and anticipating environmental change / Ian D. Rutherford
  • The Newfoundland environmental assessment process / Bonny Hill
  • Towards geological indicators of environmental change / Antony R. Berger
  • The initiation and development of peatlands in Newfoundland and their reponse to global warming / A.M. Davis
  • Origin and successional status of heath in Newfoundland / W.J. Meades
  • Reconstruction of sapwood: a dynamic measure of foliage biomass / M.B. Karsh
  • Trends in mean monthly temperature for St. John's, 1874-1991 / Hugh G. Miller
  • Environmental change since deglaciation: the evidence of pollen and other data from lake and marine sediments / Joyce Brown Macpherson --^
  • Sedimentological, palynological and diatom evidence of the younger dryas, Pine Hill Pond, Terra Nova National Park: Late-glacial and early holocene environmental change in eastern Newfoundland / D.L. Butler and A.P. Wolfe
  • Pollen, paleotemperatures and the next ice age / Elliott Burden
  • Post-glacial sea level change in Newfoundland as deduced from the distribution of radiocarbon dated marine shells / David Liverman
  • Sea level variation in Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Glacio-isostatic, climatic, and anthropogenic / Norm Catto
  • Recent coastal evolution of Gravel Barachoix, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland / Rebecca Boger and Norm Catto
  • Sea level change during the late quaternary in the Botwood (NTS 2E/03) map area / Catriona MacKenzie and Norm Catto
  • Sea level change in the Carmanville Area, Northeast Newfoundland / Mandy Munro and Norm Catto
  • Long term salmonid research near Cape Race, Newfoundland / R. John Gibson and Stephen C. Riley --^
  • Variability in Newfoundland's ocean environment / Richard L. Haedrich
  • Implications of environmental changes on rare plant distribution patterns in Newfoundland / André Bouchard, Stuart G. Hay and Luc Brouillet
  • Aquatic insects as environmental indicators / M.H. Colbo
  • Monitoring the vegetation of Terra Nova National Park / Peter J. Scott
  • Legume-Rhizobium symbiosis in the shorelines of Newfoundland: N₂-fixation in beach pea root nodules / Arya K. Bal and John Barimah-Asare
  • Birds as bio-indicators in marine and terrestrial ecosystems / W.A. Montevecchi
  • An analysis of snow conditions and winter climate over the Grand Lake catchment and other Newfoundland locations / Colin Banfield
  • Marine fog chemistry and acid deposition at two coastal sites in Atlantic Canada / Stephen Beauchamp and Robert Tordon
  • Tracing atmospheric sulphates using sulphur and oxygen isotopes / Moire A. Wadleigh --^
  • Compound-specific carbon isotope analysis of PAH compounds isolated from shallow sediments from the St. John's Harbour and Conception Bay, Newfoundland / Vincent P. O'Malley, Teofilo A. Abrajano, Jr. and Jocelyn Hellou
  • Defining the hydrogeological framework for environmental studies in Newfoundland and Labrador / John E. Gale
  • Water quality monitoring in Newfoundland and Labrador / John C. Kingston
  • Monitoring activities of the water resources management division / John C. Kingston
  • Fifteen years of freshwater biological monitoring at the experimental ponds area and other places in Newfoundland
  • Experiences and suggestions / P.M. Ryan, M. H. Colbo, R. Knoechel and A. Cook
  • Ecology of landscapes with serpentinized rocks / Bruce A. Roberts --^
  • Analysis of Mn and Fe coatings on stream pebbles by laser ablation microprobe-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (LAM-ICP-MS): a tool for environmental monitoring and geochemical exploration / Diane W. Coish, D.H.C. Wilton, S.E. Jackson and P.H. Davenport
  • The effect of urban and industrial development on the geochemistry of the watersheds in the St. John's area: preliminary results / Terry Christopher, Peter Davenport and Elliott Burden
  • A role for exploration geology in environmental monitoring in urban developments and wetlands in Newfoundland and Labrador / Elliott T. Burden and Eleanora I. Robbins.
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31919577
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