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Here are the references used in the course of our project. They can be found cited throughout our website.

• Frank, R.A. et al. 2008. Effect of carboxylic acid content on the acute toxicity of oil sands naphthenic acids. Environmental Science and Technology 43 (2). pp. 266-271
• Wutor, V.C. et al. 2007. A novel biosensor for the detection and monitoring of β-d-galactosidase of faecal origin in water. Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 40 (6). pp. 1512-1517. Click here to read.
• Gopinath, A.V. and Russell, D. 2005. An Inexpensive Field-Portable Programmable Potentiostat. 2006. Chem. Educator 11. pp. 23-28. Click here to read.
• Robertson, A. MacG. 2000. International Experience in Tailing Pond Remediation. Wismut Tagungsband Internationale Konferesnz 11, Schlema, Germany. July 14, 2000. Accessed August 16, 2011 via: http://www.robertsongeoconsultants.com/publications/amrpaper.pdf.
• Government of Alberta – Alberta Environment. Tailings. Alberta Environment (Website). Accessed: August 16, 2011. http://www.environment.alberta.ca/02011.html.
• Government of Alberta. Alberta’s Oil Sands – Reclamation. Government of Alberta (Website). Accessed: August 16, 2011. http://oilsands.alberta.ca/reclamation.html.
• Munir, N. Jivraj, M. MacKinnon and B. Fung. October, 1995. Naphthenic Acid Extraction and Quantitative Analysis with FT-IR Spectroscopy. Syncrude Edmonton Research Center.
• Gillian McEachern, Environmental Defence. Environmental Defence Submission to Environment Canada on Naphthenic Acids in the Tar Sands. November 11, 2010. Accessed: July 21, 2011. http://environmentaldefence.ca/reports/environmental-defence-submission-environment-canada-naphthenic-acids-tar-sands.
• Government of Canada - Department of Justice. Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (S.C. 1999, c. 33). Government of Canada (Website). 2000. Accessed: July 20, 2011. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-15.31/.
• Ian Shugart, Environment Canada. Memorandum to the Minister: Oil Sands Tailings Ponds. MIN-118731. Revised: January 19, 2009. Document released under the Access to Information Act. Accessed: August 20, 2011. http://www.cec.org/Storage/83/8361_ASUB-II.pdf.
• Government of Canada - Environment Canada. A Guide to Understanding the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. Environment Canada (Website). December 10, 2004. Accessed: July 15, 2011. http://www.ec.gc.ca/lcpe-cepa/default.asp?lang=En&n=E00B5BD8-1.
• Government of Canada - Environment Canada. Frequently Asked Questions about the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI). Government of Canada (Website). Last Modified: July 11, 2011. Accessed: August 20, 2011. http://www.ec.gc.ca/inrp-npri/default.asp?lang=en&n=D874F870-1#ws7786DB31.
• Government of Canada - Environment Canada. List of Organisms on the Domestic Substances List (DSL). Environment Canada (Website). Updated: April 4, 2011. Accessed: July 20, 2011. http://www.ec.gc.ca/subsnouvelles-newsubs/default.asp?lang=En&n=C4E09AE7-1.
• Government of Canada. Government Notices, Department of the Environment, Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. Canada Gazette. Vol. 145 - No. 27. July 2, 2011. Accessed: July 20, 2011. http://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-07-02/html/notice-avis-eng.html#d101.
• Government of Alberta - Alberta Environment. Alberta’s user guide for waste managers. Alberta Environment (Website). 1996. Accessed: July 20, 2011. http://www.environment.alberta.ca/2452.html.
• Singh, K., Regional Approvals Manager, Northern Region, Alberta Environment. Follow-up on Committee Hearings. Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development. March 20, 2009. Document released under the Access to Information Act. Accessed: August 20, 2011. http://www.cec.org/Storage/84/8362_ASUB-III.pdf.
• Government of Canada - Department of Justice. New Substances Notification Regulations (Organisms), SOR/2005-248. Department of Justice (Website). Updated: July 11, 2011. Accessed: July 20, 2011. http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2005-248/page-8.html.
• Energy Resources Conservation Board. Directive 074 ERCB (Website). February 3, 2009. Accessed: August 16, 2011. http://www.ercb.ca/docs/Documents/directives/Directive074.pdf.
• Leung, S. S., MacKinnon, M. D., and Smith, R. E. H. 2003. The ecological effects of naphthenic acids and salt on phytoplankton from the Athabasca Oil Sands region. Aquat. Toxicol. 62:11–26.
• Feng, S., Xue, L., Liu, H., & Lu, P. 2009. Improvement of efficiency of genetic transformation for dunaliella salina by glass beads method. Molecular Biology Reports, 36(6), 1433-1439.
• Kang, Y., Norris, M. H., Barrett, A. R., Wilcox, B. A., & Hoang, T. T. 2009. Engineering of tellurite-resistant genetic tools for single-copy chromosomal analysis of burkholderia spp. and characterization of the burkholderia thailandensis betBA operon. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(12), 4015-4027.
• Kang, Y., Norris, M. H., Wilcox, B. A., Tuanyok, A., Keim, P. S., & Hoang, T. T. 2011. Knockout and pullout recombineering for naturally transformable burkholderia thailandensis and burkholderia pseudomallei. Nature Protocols, 6(8), 1085-1104.
• Mason, C. B., Bricker, T. M., & Moroney, J. V. 2006. A rapid method for chloroplast isolation from the green alga chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Nature Protocols, 1(5), 2227-2230.
• Norris, M. H., Kang, Y., Lu, D., Wilcox, B. A., & Hoang, T. T. 2009. Glyphosate resistance as a novel select-agent-compliant, non-antibiotic-selectable marker in chromosomal mutagenesis of the essential genes asd and dapB of burkholderia pseudomallei. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75(19), 6062-6075.
• Norris, M. H., Kang, Y., Wilcox, B., & Hoang, T. T. 2010. Stable, site-specific fluorescent tagging constructs optimized for burkholderia species. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76(22), 7635-7640.