UPDATE: Canmore water, climate scientist wins international research award

Cathy Ellis
Rocky Mountain Outlook
May 7, 2025

Canmore’s John Pomeroy has been honoured with a prestigious international award for his research over four decades in advancing and understanding climate science, hydrological processes and hydrological predictions.

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UPDATE: Prof. Pomeroy was also recognized by Hon. Tracy Muggli in the Senate on June 12. You can watch and read that address here.

Global Action Urged to Preserve Glaciers – and Humanity – at High-Level Dushanbe Conference

Global Water Futures News
June 4, 2025

Prof. John Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan, participated in the High-Level International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation where scientific, financial, and world leaders issued the Dushanbe Glacier Declaration, calling for urgent global climate action to preserve glaciers and safeguard water security for billions.

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Listen: Dr. John Pomeroy on The Evan Bray show

The Evan Bray Show
CJME Radio
May 12, 2025

A Saskatchewan hydrologist is being honoured with an international water research prize for his contributions to understanding that scientific area. Dr. John Pomeroy, hydrologist, director of the University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Centre for hydrology, member of the Global Institute for Water Security, UNESCO Chair in Mountain Water Sustainability and distinguished professor in the department of geography and planning in USask’s College of Arts and Science, joins Evan to discuss this honour and some of his recent work.

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‘Exceptionally large late season storm’ needed to bring mountain snow levels in Banff, Kananaskis to normal

Cathy Ellis
Rocky Mountain Outlook
April 24, 2025

BANFF – The snowpack shortage in the mountains could pose dangerous conditions this summer.

Canmore’s John Pomeroy, one of the world’s leading snow and ice hydrology experts, said the snow water equivalent is hundreds of millimetres below normal for this time of year, generally at between 65 and 85 per cent of normal for high elevation snowpacks in the Bow River Basin and Kananaskis Country…

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