SYMPOSIUM

Perceptions, Problems, and Plans for Wetland Reclamation in the Canadian Oil Sands

     Organized by Clara Qualizza (qualizza.clara@syncrude.com), Syncrude Canada Limited,
Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada, Dale Vitt (dvitt@plant.siu.edu), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL and Kel Wieder, Villanova University, Villanova, PA

Sponsored by the Peatlands Section of SWS and PeatNet

Confirmed Speakers

Dale H. Vitt, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (dvitt@plant.siu.edu); The importance of wetlands on the northern Alberta landscape

Jon Hornung, Petro Canada, Alberta, Canada (jhornung@petro-canada.ca); The view from industry

Carol Jones, C.E. Jones and Associates Ltd. (cjones@jonesassoc.com) and Cecilia Fitzpatrick, Fort McKay First Nations, Alberta, Canada; First Nations perspectives

Lee Foote (lee.foote@afhe.ualberta.ca), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Carla Wytrykush (wytrykush.carla@syncrude.com) Syncrude, Alberta, Canada; Unconventional wetland types for unconventional wetlands: Establishing an organic carbon base on new wet sediments

Marsha Trites (mtrites@ualberta.ca) and Suzanne Bayley (s.bayley@ualberta.ca), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Vegetation and peat accumulation in boreal saline wetlands: Implications for oil sands reclamation

Kelman Wieder (kelman.wieder@villanova.edu), M. Burke-Scoll, M.A. Vile, K.D. Scott, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, and D.H. Vitt, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; Responses of continental bogs to enhanced atmospheric N and S deposition in the Alberta Oil Sands Region

Kevin DeVito, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (kevin.devito@ualberta.ca); Surprises from the natural landscape from a hydrologic perspective