Source apportionment of an epiphytic lichen biomonitor to elucidate the sources and spatial distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada

Landis, Matthew S.; Studabaker, William B.; Pancras, J. Patrick; Graney, Joseph R.; Puckett, K. J.; White, Emily M.; Edgerton, Eric S.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.131

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“…Another objective of reconfiguring the regional monitoring in the OSR was increasing the quality of the work through external peer-review. While many papers have been published by researchers funded by this program (e.g., Summers et al, 2016;Makar et al, 2018;Landis et al, 2019), additional work also occurs in the region outside of the OSM funding envelope, including industry-funded research, compliance monitoring, provincial monitoring, and independent research (e.g., Shotyk et al, 2017;Redman et al, 2018;Fennell and Arciszewski, 2019). Since 2012 these research efforts have collectively produced hundreds of research papers.…”

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“…Integrated interpretation is common within the OSM, reflected in hundreds of published research papers, each including, at minimum, the contextualization of results with previous findings (e.g., Landis et al, 2019) and synthesis of results (Davidson et al, 2020). OSM researchers have also published some review papers (e.g., Harner et al, 2018).…”

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Challenges and Benefits of Approaches Used to Integrate Regional Monitoring Programs

Arciszewski

Roberts

Munkittrick

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Although challenging to develop and operate, some degree of integrated monitoring is often necessary, especially at regional scales, to address the complex questions of environmental management and regulation. The concept of integration is well-understood, but its practice across programs and studies can be diverse suggesting a broader examination of the existing general approaches is needed. From the literature, we suggest integration of monitoring can occur across three study components: interpretation, analysis, and design. Design can be further subdivided into partial and full integration. Respectively combining information, data, and designs, we further define these types of integration and describe their general benefits and challenges, such as strength of inference. We further use the Oil Sands Monitoring program in northern Alberta as an example to clarify the practices common among integrated monitoring programs. The goal of the discussion paper is to familiarize readers with the diverse practices of integrated monitoring to further clarify the various configurations used to achieve the wider goals of a program.

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Section: Oil Sands Monitoringmentioning

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Challenges and Benefits of Approaches Used to Integrate Regional Monitoring Programs

Arciszewski

Roberts

Munkittrick

et al. 2021

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Consistent with the spatial pattern in air concentrations (Schuster et al 2019), deposition occurs on a gradient, with higher deposition near oil sands production activity. Spatial patterns of PAC deposition have been explored using a variety of methods, including snow (Manzano et al 2016), bulk deposition collectors (Bari, Kindzierski, and Cho 2014), lichen (Graney et al 2017;Landis et al 2019), moss sampling (Zhang et al 2016), and a passive dry deposition sampler (Jariyasopit et al 2018). However, quantitative linkage between concentrations in air and/or precipitation and the levels in these different forms of collection media is difficult to assess (Zhang et al 2016).…”

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“…Petcoke has been of interest given its open storage at the facilities with on-site upgrading and the toxics it contains. Petcoke has been identified in snow (Zhang et al 2016), passive air samplers (Jariyasopit et al 2018), moss (Zhang et al 2016), and lichen (Landis et al 2019). Quantitative estimates of petcoke's and other sources' contributions to PAHs in moss using chemical mass balance (CMB) have been shown to be feasible (Zhang et al 2016).…”

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Advances in science and applications of air pollution monitoring: A case study on oil sands monitoring targeting ecosystem protection

Brook

Cober

Freemark

et al. 2019

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

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The potential environmental impact of air pollutants emitted from the oil sands industry in Alberta, Canada, has received considerable attention. The mining and processing of bitumen to produce synthetic crude oil, and the waste products associated with this activity, lead to significant emissions of gaseous and particle air pollutants. Deposition of pollutants occurs locally (i.e., near the sources) and also potentially at distances downwind, depending upon each pollutant's chemical and physical properties and meteorological conditions. The Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM) was initiated in 2012 by the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta to enhance or improve monitoring of pollutants and their potential impacts. In support of JOSM, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) undertook a significant research effort via three components: the Air, Water, and Wildlife components, which were implemented to better estimate baseline conditions related to levels of pollutants in the air and water, amounts of deposition, and exposures experienced by the biota. The criteria air contaminants (e.g., nitrogen oxides [NO x ], sulfur dioxide [SO 2 ], volatile organic compounds [VOCs], particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter <2.5 μm [PM 2.5 ]) and their secondary atmospheric products were of interest, as well as toxic compounds, particularly polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs), trace metals, and mercury (Hg). This critical review discusses the challenges of assessing ecosystem impacts and summarizes the major results of these efforts through approximately 2018. Focus is on the emissions to the air and the findings from the Air Component of the ECCC research and linkages to observations of contaminant levels in the surface waters in the region, in aquatic species, as well as in terrestrial and avian species. The existing evidence of impact on these species is briefly discussed, as is the potential for some of them to serve as sentinel species for the ongoing monitoring needed to better understand potential effects, their potential causes, and to detect future changes. Quantification of the atmospheric emissions of multiple pollutants needs to be improved, as does an understanding of the processes influencing fugitive emissions and local and regional deposition patterns. The influence of multiple stressors on biota exposure and response, from natural bitumen and forest fires to climate change, complicates the current ability to attribute effects to air emissions from the industry. However, there is growing evidence of the impact of current levels of PACs on some species, pointing to the need to improve the ability to predict PAC exposures and the key emission source involved. Although this critical review attempts to integrate some of the findings across the components, in terms of ECCC activities, increased coordination or integration of air, water, and wildlife research would enhance deeper scientific understanding. Improved understanding is needed in order to guide the development of longterm mon...

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“…The CR notes that PACs originate from a variety of sources, including engine exhaust, stack emissions, wildfires, and fugitive dust from mine faces, tailings berms, and the large petcoke stockpiles. A growing number of studies indicate that fugitive dust, especially that from petcoke piles is a major source of miningrelated PACs found in emissions and the surrounding environment (Harner et al 2018;Jariyasopit et al 2018;Jautzy et al 2015;Landis et al 2019a;Manzano et al 2017;Xing and Du 2017;Zhang et al 2016). Few studies have investigated the effects of petcoke on OSR wildlife; one of which examined the potential for petcoke to limit the exposure of aquatic biota to the residual contaminants associated with fine tailings (Baker, Ciborowski, and MacKinnon 2012) and another which examined the potential toxic effects of petcoke extracts in birds (Crump et al 2017).…”

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Advances in science and applications in air pollution monitoring: A case study on oil sands monitoring targeting ecosystem protection

Altshuler

Ahad

Chow

et al. 2019

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

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Source apportionment of an epiphytic lichen biomonitor to elucidate the sources and spatial distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada

Cited by 49 publications

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Challenges and Benefits of Approaches Used to Integrate Regional Monitoring Programs

Challenges and Benefits of Approaches Used to Integrate Regional Monitoring Programs

Advances in science and applications of air pollution monitoring: A case study on oil sands monitoring targeting ecosystem protection

Advances in science and applications in air pollution monitoring: A case study on oil sands monitoring targeting ecosystem protection

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