A select group of Centre for Hydrology graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be presenting previews of their thesis proposals, research findings, and forthcoming AGU talks at a special CH seminar. The full order of battle is available here.
The seminar will be held in 146 Kirk Hall on Wednesday 10th December in Kirk Hall from 10am-12:30pm (Saskatchewan time).
All invited, feel free to pass on to colleagues that may be interested.
Prof. John Pomeroy will be giving a webinar on The Impact of Wetland Drainage on the Hydrology of a Northern Prairie Watershed to the Association of State Wetland Managers on Monday November 17th at 2 pm Saskatchewan time (1 pm Mountain time).
The talk will detail CH research at Smith Creek, with respect to the hydrological implications of its changing climate and the implications of wetland drainage, as investigated through hydrological model simulations.
If you would like to know more about this research, the webinar will be available at this link. Thanks are due to co-authors Stacey Dumanski, Logan Fang, Kevin Shook, Cherie Westbrook and Xulin Guo.
Abstract: The Prairie Hydrological Model simulates blowing snow redistribution, snowmelt, infiltration to frozen soils and the fill and spill of networks of prairie wetlands. The model was used to simulate the hydrology of Smith Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada with various wetland extent scenarios. This model simulation exercise shows that prairie wetland drainage can increase annual and peak daily flows substantially, and that notable increases to estimates of the annual volume and peak daily flow of the flood of record have derived from wetland drainage to date and will proceed with further wetland drainage.
Professor John Pomeroy has been invited to make a presentation titled The Mountain Hydrology behind the Alberta Flood of 2013 as part of the University of Calgary’s Energy and Environmental Systems Specialization Seminar Series.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 3pm on Monday 6th October in EEEL 210 (Energy. Environment. Experiential Learning, 750 Campus Drive).
The Partners FOR the Saskatchewan River Basin and the Canadian Water Resources Association (Saskatchewan Branch) will be holding their conference at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon from October 27-29, 2014.
The theme for the conference will be Long-Term Threats to the Saskatchewan River Basin.
More information is available in a PDF, on the conference web-site at www.skriverthreats.com, or contact PFSRB at partners@saskriverbasin.ca.
Registration is now open for the CH / CSHS Short Course in The Principles of Hydrology, which will run from 10-21 January, 2015 at the Barrier Lake Field Station, Kananaskis Valley, Alberta.
The course aims to describe and explain the physical principles and processes that govern hydrology, with special reference to Canadian conditions. It is aimed at hydrology and water resources graduate students and early to mid-level professionals who would like to broaden their understanding of hydrological systems and processes.
Full details of content and the registration process are available here.
Dr Kevin Shook is running a Hydroinformatics Workshop at the 2014 CWRA Congress. If you have registered and are planning to attend, you will need to install certain software ahead of time: details are available here.
The full URL is
www.usask.ca/hydrology/informatics/HydroinformaticsSoftwareInstallation.pdf
The 2013 Flood: What Happened, Why It Happened, and What We Might Expect
Thursday, May 1, 7 to 9 PM: Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta
Admission by Donation
Join the Centre for Hydrology’s Professor John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources & Climate Change at the University of Saskatchewan; Paul Whitfield, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Hydrology; and Bob Sandford, Chair of United Nations Water for Life Decade partnership in Canada, as they discuss the events of the 2013 flood, what we learned from it and how we can move forward.
The Town of Canmore, Changing Cold Regions Research Network and
Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan are sponsoring a presentation by one of the world’s leading experts on extreme
weather and hydrology.
Dr Roy Rasmussen, a Senior Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, will present on
The Colorado Flood of September 2013: Lessons for Alberta
The talk will take place at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, at the
Canmore Collegiate High School Theatre
An expert panel discussion will follow. Panellists include
– Dr Howard Wheater, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Water Security, University of Saskatchewan
– Dr Ronald Stewart, Professor, University of Manitoba;
– Dr Al Pietroniro, Director, Water Survey of Canada
– Dr John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change, University of Saskatchewan
– Dr Kevin Shook, Research Scientist, University of Saskatchewan
The event poster is available for download here.
Due to unfortunate circumstances, HP Marshall will be unavailable to present his talk scheduled for 18th December at 1pm (144 Kirk Hall).
Instead, we are happy to announce that Nicholas Kinar will present a talk titled Acoustic Measurement of Snow.
Professor Hans-Peter Marshall of Boise State University will present a Centre for Hydrology seminar titled
Combining ground-based microwave radar, airborne LiDAR, and energy balance modelling to estimate spatial variability of snow properties.
The seminar will take place on Wednesday 18th Deceber at 1pm in 144 Kirk Hall.