Water Canada
December 1, 2025
A new national survey suggests Canadians overwhelmingly see freshwater as the country’s most important natural resource, but most don’t feel they know enough about it.
Integrating technology and collaborative monitoring in the Western Lake Erie Basin
Edward Millar, Katelynn Johnson, Elizabeth Striano, and Aaron Fisk
IAGLR Lakes Letter
Fall 2025
Based at the University of Windsor, the Realtime Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network (RAEON) supports collaborative freshwater research by providing access to water monitoring instruments and infrastructure. The core of RAEON’s mission centers on collaboration: providing a system through which emerging freshwater monitoring technologies are shared to improve research and management.
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2025-4_Fall_LL27_pg24-25Postdoc Position – Québec à Trois-Rivières
Postdoctoral position: Developing a multi-layer snow model to improve winter greenhouse gas fluxes simulation and impacts of short-lived climate pollutants in CLASSIC and CanESM
Deadline: November 21, 2025 (open until filled)
Project Background
The Canadian Land Surface Scheme Including Biogeochemical Cycles (CLASSIC) is a process-based ecosystem and land surface model designed for use at scales ranging from site-level to global. CLASSIC is the land surface component of the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM) used for climate projections. CLASSIC currently simulates the snowpack as a single homogenous layer, which limits the further improvements in snow-related processes in the CanESM model. Introducing a multi-layer snowpack into CLASSIC would enable a better representation of snowpack processes that are affected by vertical gradients of energy, temperature and moisture. For example, the single layer model does not represent well tundra snowpacks, which are typically comprised of a dense wind slab layer overlaying a less-dense depth hoar layer. A proper representation of Arctic snowpack structure is needed to better simulate the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) released during winter in the Arctic. The simulation of absorption of solar radiation by soot in snow in the current version of CanESM is also very simple and needs to be improved to better account for impacts of short-lived climate pollutants (SCLPs) on snow. This project aims to implement a multi-layer snowpack representation in CLASSIC to address these issues and validate it at key observation sites.
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PostDocOffer_CLASSICsnow OffrePostDoc_CLASSICneigeProtecting lakes for future generations: USask researcher focuses on water quality
Erin Matthews
USask News
October 23, 2025
From glacial pools to man-made reservoirs, Canada is home to more lakes than any other country in the world. These bodies of water are crucial to communities, providing year-round recreation, fishing, hydroelectric energy, and more.
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Sustainability Speakers Series – October 21 – Can we save the Earth’s glaciers?
The Sustainability Speakers Series is an event hosted by Saskatchewan Environmental Society volunteers in partnership with the Saskatoon Public Library. These free, in-person events are held in the Auditorium of Cliff Wright Library (located in the Lakewood Civic Centre, 1635 McKercher Drive) on Tuesday evenings at 6 pm.
October 21 / Can we save the Earth’s glaciers? 2025 — International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation
Dr. John Pomeroy will describe the impacts of climate warming and other changes causing the global retreat of mountain glaciers and why this matters for humanity. The impacts on water resources, sea levels, and ecosystems will be addressed and the prospects for glacier preservation in a time of global warming and the highest atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations in over two million years will be considered.
https://cfcr.ca/calendar/sk-environmental-society-sustainability-speaker/
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https://environmentalsociety.ca/events/sustainable-speakers-series/
Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America’s Great Lakes
Marguerite Xenopoulos, Trent University
Michael R. Twiss, Algoma University
The Conversation
October 16, 2025
Fifty years ago, winter didn’t just visit the Great Lakes — it took up residence. If you blinked too slowly, your eyelashes froze together. Standing on the ice at the edge of Lake Superior, just after an early January snowstorm, everything was white and still, except for the lake. The wind had swept across it revealing ice cracked along thunderous fractures…
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Globe Climate: Wildfire ash speeds up glacier melt
Sierra Bein
The Globe and Mail
September 15, 2025
John Pomeroy is familiar with Peyto Glacier’s rapid melting.
He’s a distinguished professor and director of the Global Water Futures Observatories at the University of Saskatchewan, and has studied the ice mass in Banff National Park since 2008, visiting several times a year to adjust weather stations and photograph changes.
But on a helicopter trip through the Canadian Rockies to the glacier one year ago, Prof. Pomeroy and his team of scientists gasped – stunned to see how much it had transformed since even his previous visit.
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UNESCO WWAP 2025 International Online Seminar Series – Session 2
The United Nations World Water Development Report on Mountains and glaciers: Water towers
Session 2: Cooperation and participation for preserving mountains and glaciers: Focus on Europe and North America
September 17, 2025
15:00 – 16:30 CET
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WWAP 2025 SeminarsWildfire ash is accelerating glacier melt in the Canadian Rockies
Andrea Woo
The Globe and Mail
September 5, 2025
As the helicopter turned toward Peyto Glacier, located in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, John Pomeroy and his team of scientists gasped.
Prof. Pomeroy, a distinguished professor and director of the Global Water Futures Observatories at the University of Saskatchewan, has studied the ice mass in Banff National Park since 2008, visiting several times a year to adjust weather stations and photograph changes.
He is familiar with the glacier’s rapid melting. It retreats tens of metres per year – 80 metres in 2021 alone. But on the helicopter ride last September, he was stunned to see how much it had transformed since even his previous visit…
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Let’s both celebrate – and worry about – our Great Lakes on World Lake Day
John Smol, Sapna Sharma and Steven Cooke
The Globe and Mail
August 27, 2025
Canada is blessed with over nine million lakes, leading to the perception that we have endless freshwater resources. However, Canadian lakes – like lakes around the world – are under increasing environmental threats from multiple stressors, such as pollution, land-cover changes and invasive species, among other factors, many of which are now amplified due to climate change and extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods and droughts.