Jason Markusoff
CBC News
February 1, 2024
Day after day, the water trucks rolled into the southwest Alberta communities of Cowley, Lundbreck and Beaver Mines. Due to severe drought conditions, that’s how residents and businesses got their water supply between last August and late December.
Bill Macfarlane
CTV News Calgary
January 30, 2024
The Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change says eastern and southern Alberta are facing some of the worst drought conditions on record – including the Dustbowl years of the 1930s and the severe drought of 2001-01.
Arno Kopecky
The Narwhal
January 24, 2024
Arno Kopecky set out to write about B.C.’s winter heat and drought. Then the polar vortex arrived.
Bob Weber
The Canadian Press
January 21, 2024
In the middle of an Alberta mountain playground, adjacent to a popular ski resort, there’s a well sunk into the bedrock that has John Pomeroy worried.
CTV News Edmonton
January 17, 2024
Interview with USask Centre for Hydrology Director John Pomeroy on January 17, 2024.
The Big Story Podcast
January 15, 2024
Winter on the prairies is not usually a time to worry about drought, and fire. At least, it wasn’t. But large swaths of the country, from BC through Ontario, are currently seeing a lack of snow and water accumulation that is “unprecedented in modern times,” according to an expert.
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“Present–2200 CE” (the sixth panel of the A Climate Mural for Our Times mural artwork), Gennadiy Ivanov, 2022, oil on canvas, size of the whole mural 10m × 1.5m, courtesy of the artist.
A Climate Mural for Our Times
Visual Earth
Volume 6, Issue 12
December 15, 2023
“…In A Climate Mural of Our Times, artist Gennadiy Ivanov, working together with climate scientists from the Universities of East Anglia and Saskatchewan, illustrates the interactions between climate, sea level, and society in the context of the Norfolk coastline and city of Norwich…”
The International Year for Glaciers’ Preservation:
Observe, Predict and Protect the Mountain Cryosphere
Prof. John Pomeroy
COP28 Cryosphere Pavilion
Dubai
We are pleased to announce two Hydrology Seminars on Thursday, July 13th by Professors Döerthe Tetzlaff and Chris Soulsby. The seminars will be held at the Coldwater Lab in Canmore and on Zoom.
Prof. Dörthe Tetzlaff – July 13 @ 10 am MDT/CST
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Döerthe Tetzlaff is Professor of Ecohydrology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Head of Department “Ecohydrology & Biogeochemistry” at IGB Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany. Prof. Tetzlaff’s presentation is entitled: Ecohydrological fluxes and storage dynamics in a drought sensitive lowland catchment, Germany.
Prof. Chris Soulsby – July 13 @ 2 pm MDT/CST
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Chris Soulsby is Professor of Hydrology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Prof. Soulsby’s presentation is entitled: The last salmon? Impacts of climate change on the ecohydrology of mountain streams in the Cairngorm National Park, Scotland.
Banff records hottest May ever, Athabasca Glacier melts over winter
Cathy Ellis
Rocky Mountain Outlook
June 8, 2023
“It was the fastest snow melt I’ve ever seen…I’ve never seen anything like this,” said John Pomeroy, director of the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for Hydrology in Canmore and the Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change.