Investigating the role of the Smoky River watershed on past ice-jam flood regimes at the Peace-Athabasca Delta via analysis of oxbow lake sediment cores

• Main Author: Stratton, Mia Simone
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2022
• Subjects: ice-jam flood; spring discharge; paleolimnology; Smoky River; Peace-Athabasca Delta; oxbow lake; Wood Buffalo National Park; Wood Buffalo; Wabasca; W.A.C. Bennett Dam; Little Smoky River; Wabasca River
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/18351

The Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD) in northern Alberta has been a focus of concern for decades due to decline in frequency and magnitude of ice-jam floods that sustain ecologically and culturally significant shallow perched lakes. Recent changes to the ice-jam flood regime of the PAD have been attribut...