Assessing hydrological processes controlling the water balance of lakes in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Alberta, Canada using water isotope tracers

• Main Author: Falcone, Matthew
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2007
• Subjects: Isotopes; Peace-Athabasca Delta; Hydrology; Delta; Craig and Gordon Model; Flooding; Water balance; Mixing model; Earth Sciences; Athabasca River; Canada; Lake Athabasca; Peace River
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/3081

One of the world’s largest freshwater deltas (~4000 km2), the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD), is located at the convergence of the Peace and Athabasca rivers and Lake Athabasca in northern Alberta, Canada. Since the early 1970s, there has been increasing concern regarding the ecological impacts on the...