Environment and Climate Change Canada

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    CABIN Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network

    The Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) is an aquatic biomonitoring program for assessing the health of fresh water ecosystems in Canada. Benthic macroinvertebrates are collected at a site location and their counts are used as an indicator of the health of that water body....
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    Environment and Climate Change Canada
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    Meltwater from snow contaminated by oil sands emissions is toxic to larval fi...

    To assess the toxicity of winter-time atmospheric deposition in the oil sands mining area of Northern Alberta, embryo-larval fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) were exposed to snowmelt samples. Snow was collected in 2011–2014 near (< 7 km) oil sands open pit mining operations in the...
    Organization:
    Environment and Climate Change Canada
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    • JPG