Locate family members with the last name RAMOS-PADRON.

ESTHER RAMOS PADRON is an academic who published a paper in 2013 entitled Physiology and Molecular Characterization of Microbial Communities in Oil Sands Tailings Ponds. ESTHER RAMOS PADRON published this work as part of a team: Ramos Padron, Esther. Here is a description of this work: In ,,orthern Alberta, mining operations to obtain bitumen from the oil sands generates large volumes of tailings. These are a mixture of sand, clay, water, organic solvents and residual bitumen that are deposited into old open pits, creating tailings ponds, where they are allowed to settle with the final goal of land reclamation. To speed up the sedimentation process, the addition of gypsum (CaSO4 ∙ 2H2O) is currently a management approach used bysome companies. This creates a deep watery mud line with very low oxygen permeability and enough sulfate to support the growth of anaerobic microbial communities. In this thesis work, the microbial physiology and communities associated with oil sands tailings ponds were assessed. Chemical, physiological, and molecular biology approaches were used to determine the key microbial processes (methanogene.