Paleolimnological evaluation of metal(loid) enrichment from oil sands and gold mining operations in northwestern Canada.

Abundant reserves of metals and oil have spurred large-scale mining developments across northwestern Canada during the past 80 years. Historically, the associated emissions footprint of hazardous metal(loid)s has been difficult to identify, in part, because monitoring records are too short and sparse to have characterized their natural concentrations before mining began. Stratigraphic analysis of lake sediment cores has been employed where concerns of pollution exist to determine pre-disturbance metal(loid) concentrations and quantify the degree of enrichment since mining began.

Evaluating Lower Athabasca River Sediment Metal Concentrations from Alberta Oil Sands Monitoring Programs Using Predevelopment Baselines.

Since 1997, sediment metal concentrations have been monitored in the Alberta Oil Sands Region (AOSR) of the Lower Athabasca River by the Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program (RAMP; 1997-2002), the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM; 2012-2014), and the Oil Sands Monitoring Program (OSM; 2015-present). However, it has remained difficult to differentiate industrial sources from natural sources and quantify the extent of pollution due to inadequate knowledge of predevelopment reference conditions. Here, baselines were constructed using predevelopment (i.

Assessment of vanadium and nickel enrichment in Lower Athabasca River floodplain lake sediment within the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (Canada).

Sediment quality monitoring is commonly used to assess for river pollution by industrial activities, but requires knowledge of pre-disturbance conditions. This has long been a critical knowledge gap for assessing pollution of the Lower Athabasca River within the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) because sediment quality monitoring started 30 years after mining operations began in 1967. Here, we analyze oil-sands pollution indicator metals vanadium (V) and nickel (Ni) in sediment cores from five Athabasca River floodplain lakes spanning from 17 km upstream to 58 km downstream of central oil sands operations.

Evaluating temporal patterns of metals concentrations in floodplain lakes of the Athabasca Delta (Canada) relative to pre-industrial baselines.

Sediment quality monitoring is widely used to quantify extent of river pollution, but requires knowledge of pre-disturbance conditions in the potentially altered landscape. This has long been identified as a critical aspect to develop for addressing concerns of river pollution in the Alberta Oil Sands Region. Here, we use analyses of sediment cores from eight floodplain lakes spanning a 67 river-km transect across the Athabasca Delta to define pre-1920 (pre-industrial) baseline concentrations for vanadium and five primary pollutants.

Habituation and dishabituation of exploratory and appetitive responses in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.).

Sucrose-induced antennal and proboscis motor responses of the honey bee were comparatively studied using muscle responses. The activity of the proboscis muscle responses was correlated with sucrose stimulus concentration, but that of antennal muscle responses was not. Both responses habituated following repetitive stimulation with a low sucrose concentration and dishabituated upon stimulation with a high sucrose concentration.

Human pituitary gonadotropin index. I. Standardized LRH test criteria for evaluation of functional amenorrhea.

LRH test were carried out by giving 339 amenorrheic women and 74 normally menstruating volunteers an intravenous injection of 25 mug LRH (Hoe 471). Plasma LH and FSH were measured by RIA in two laboratories (Tuebingen and Ulm) using two standard reference preparations: LER 907 and 2nd IRP-HMG. The average conversion factors between the two standard preparations were calculated at 5.