A story of fire and ice: USask research studies how wildfires impact glacier melt
Ashleigh Mattern
USask News
January 4, 2023
From a distance, the mountain peaks of the Canadian Rockies look like a pristine landscape, untouched by human activity, but Caroline Aubry-Wake experienced firsthand how interconnected our world is while studying the impact of wildfires on the Athabasca Glacier.
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UWindsor Joining Largest Freshwater Observational Research Network In Canada
windsorite.ca
January 4, 2023
The University of Windsor will see more than $1.77 million in funding to support its leadership of the Real-Time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network (RAEON), a Canada Foundation for Innovation-funded network focused on the Great Lakes.
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Recent snowfall bodes well for soil moisture
Alex McCuaig
The Western Producer
January 5, 2023
U of S professor says snowpack levels on the Prairies have played a bigger role in soil moisture levels in recent years.
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UN to recognize glacier preservation in 2025 thanks to Canadian researchers
CBC News Calgary
Dec. 24, 2022
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution to declare 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation — a concept Coldwater Lab director John Pomeroy says is rooted close to home in Canmore, Alta.
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Will It Snow This Christmas?
Graeme Bruce
CBC News
December 14, 2022
Many parts of Canada are seeing less snow on the ground over Christmas. Find out if you’ll have snow this holiday.
Frosty reception to overly optimistic glacier report
Yahoo! News
Nov. 18, 2022
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recently released a report entitled “World Heritage Glaciers: Sentinels of Climate Change” that stated that “limiting global warming to 1.5 C could save glaciers in two-thirds of World Heritage sites.”
That has some experts balking at the claim.
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Scientists say warming climate puts southern Alberta’s water supply at risk
Anne Mayo
Calgary Journal
March 30, 2022
When a heatwave ripped through Western Canada in the summer of 2021, and Alberta’s temperatures soared above 40C, Shawn Marshall was cool in comparison.
As the climatologist studied a glacier in the Rocky Mountains, wind caressed the top of the ice shelf and chilled the air around him. Here, he noticed the glacier was darker in comparison to others he had seen in Canada.
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Eco-artists spread climate change message at fall exhibition
Marie Conboy
The Bow Valley Crag & Canyon
Oct. 27, 2022
The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies are hosting the opening of two fall exhibitions, Cold Regions Warming and Contemporary Consciousness, the research and artwork of Global Water Futures, scientists Trevor Davies and John Pomeroy, and artists Gennadiy Ivanoff, Alexandra Ewen, and Joshua Jensen-Nagle, on Friday, Oct. 28th, 2022.
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State of glaciers in the Canadian Rockies is ‘dire right now,’ expert warns
Bill Macfarlane
CTV News Calgary
Oct. 25, 2022
A Canadian professor is warning many of the iconic glaciers in the Canadian Rockies will be gone in the coming decades due to climate change.
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Climate Models Show a “Surprisingly Resilient” Elbow River
Ann Sullivan
ERWP Eyes on the Elbow
September 2022
Despite climate change and its anticipated effects – increased temperatures, decreased snowpack, wildfires, extreme weather events – the Elbow River will likely flow on regardless, albeit in a more “flashy” way. Not flashy as in colourful or flamboyant, of course, but as in unpredictable or slightly out of control.
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