Centre for Hydrology
July 29, 2026
Register now for Geography 827: Principles of Hydrology, offered as an intensive field school at the Barrier Lake Field Station, Kananaskis Centre, Alberta!
Learn more about the course and view the schedule here: Principles of Hydrology 2026
The Atlantic
July 16, 2026
When the boreal forests of Canada catch on fire, no one can do anything about it in many cases. The forests are part of Earth’s largest land biome, a greenbelt of wilderness that encircles the globe, and they’ve been suffering from the planet’s thermostat being jacked up. Wood-boring pests that flourish in milder climates have swept north and east, through tens of millions of acres. Droughts and dwindling snowpack have stressed the trees. They are ready to burn.
CBC Listen
July 8, 2026
It’s been a wet spring and summer in Saskatchewan, most of the province has had plenty of rain except parts of the north. Host Adam Hunter is joined by John Pomeroy, director of the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for Hydrology to find out why it’s been such a rainy year for the province.
Rocky Mountain Outlook
July 3, 2026
Thirteen years after the 2013 flood tore through the Kananaskis Country Golf Course and completely destroyed it, heavy rain once again sent floodwater spilling across the course last weekend.