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Leslie Smith
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Latest papers
Diavik Waste Rock Project: Simulation of the geochemical evolution of a large test pile using a scaled temperature and sulfide-content dependent reactive transport model
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology · 2022
Long-term monitoring of waste-rock weathering at the Antamina mine, Peru
Chemosphere · 2018
Microbial and geochemical controls on waste rock weathering and drainage quality
The Science of The Total Environment · 2018
Latest funding
- $200,000
Diavik waste-rock research project
NSERC · 2014 · Co-investigator
- $11,988,000
Canadian Water Network/Réseau canadien de l'eau
NSERC · 2012 · Co-investigator
- $128,000
Field-scale prediction of seepage fluxes for assessment of environment impacts
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
6 publications.
Diavik Waste Rock Project: Simulation of the geochemical evolution of a large test pile using a scaled temperature and sulfide-content dependent reactive transport model
David Wilson, Richard T. Amos, Sean A. Sinclair, David C. Sego, Leslie Smith, David W. Blowes
Long-term monitoring of waste-rock weathering at the Antamina mine, Peru
Bas Vriens, Holly Peterson, Laura Laurenzi, Leslie Malcolm Smith, Celedonio Aranda, K. Ulrich Mayer, Roger Daniel Beckie
Microbial and geochemical controls on waste rock weathering and drainage quality
Sharon Blackmore, Bas Vriens, Melanie Sorensen, Ian Malcom Power, Leslie Malcolm Smith, Steven Hallam, K. Ulrich Mayer, Roger Daniel Beckie
Comparison of unsaturated flow and solute transport through waste rock at two experimental scales using temporal moments and numerical modeling
Sharon Blackmore, Leslie Malcolm Smith, K. Ulrich Mayer, Roger Daniel Beckie
Modeling of strategies for performance monitoring of groundwater contamination at sites underlain by fractured bedrock.
Chen Y, Smith L, Beckie R
Anaerobic degradation of naphthalene in a fluvial aquifer: a radiotracer study.
Bianchin M, Smith L, Barker JF, Beckie R
Diavik waste-rock research project
Principal investigators: Blowes, David
Canadian Water Network/Réseau canadien de l'eau
Principal investigators: Courtenay, Simon
Field-scale prediction of seepage fluxes for assessment of environment impacts
Principal investigators: Smith, Leslie
Modular system for survey and long-term monitoring of soil CO2 exchange and CH4 effluxes
Principal investigators: Mayer, Ulrich
Integrated Study of Waste Rock Evolution at a Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories
Principal investigators: Blowes, David
Instrumentation for Vadose Zone Gas Analyses
Principal investigators: Mayer, K Ulrich
Keywords: vadose zone, gas analysis, methane, carbon dioxide, oxygen, groundwater contamination, remediation, natural atetnuation, mine waste
ICP OES instrument
Principal investigators: Beckie, Roger
Canadian Water Network/Réseau canadien de l'eau
Principal investigators: Munkittrick, Kelly
Groundwater - surface water interactions in coastal and inland settings
Principal investigators: Smith, Leslie
Weathering of alkaline/neutral waste rock
Principal investigators: Klein, Bernhard
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- David Blowes and Richard Amos: 42 shared papers
- Ulrich Mayer and Roger Beckie: 40 shared papers
- David Sego and David Blowes: 32 shared papers
- David Sego and Richard Amos: 19 shared papers
- David Blowes and Ulrich Mayer: 17 shared papers
- Bas Vriens and Roger Beckie: 12 shared papers
- Bas Vriens and Ulrich Mayer: 10 shared papers
- Ulrich Mayer and Richard Amos: 9 shared papers
- Roger Beckie and Leslie Smith: 5 shared papers
- Ulrich Mayer and Leslie Smith: 3 shared papers
- Bas Vriens and Leslie Smith: 2 shared papers
- Steven Hallam and Ulrich Mayer: 2 shared papers
- Steven Hallam and Roger Beckie: 2 shared papers
- David Sego and Leslie Smith: 1 shared paper
- Bas Vriens and Steven Hallam: 1 shared paper
- Steven Hallam and Leslie Smith: 1 shared paper
- David Blowes and Leslie Smith: 1 shared paper
- Richard Amos and Leslie Smith: 1 shared paper
- Geological Engineering
- Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Earth Sciences
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Roger Beckie
Geological Engineering
5 shared papers, latest 2018
Ulrich Mayer
Geological Engineering
3 shared papers, latest 2018
Bas Vriens
Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
2 shared papers, latest 2018
Richard Amos
Department of Earth Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2022
David Blowes
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Steven Hallam
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
David Sego
Civil and Environmental Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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