It’s become a natural part of spring in Calgary.
As the temperature soars and the snow melts, many Calgarians will to cast their eyes to the Bow and Elbow rivers — watching for any sign of rising water levels.
Read more as Centre for Hydrology Director, John Pomeroy, describes the indications and precursors of flooding events.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/melting-rivers-no-sign-of-calgary-flooding-1.5064266
The Global Institute for Water Security, Centre for Hydrology and Global Water Future’s is pleased to host a special seminar by Dmitri Kavetski, Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Civil, Environmental, Computer and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. The presentation takes place on Thursday, March 14, 2019, at 12:00 pm CST in the NHRC Seminar Room 1261. Dmitri’s presentation is entitled Advances and challenges in probabilistic hydrological modelling at the catchment scale.
Attached is a poster, please feel free to pass on this to others who think may be interested. For those of you who will not be in Saskatoon at this time, the lecture will be live streamed and viewable here – https://www.usask.ca/water/lecture-series/special-seminars.php.
Phillip Harder, John W. Pomeroy & Warren D. Helgason
Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques,
DOI: 10.1080/07011784.2019.1575774
Sebastian A. Krogh and John W. Pomeroy
Journal of Hydrometeorology,20(2), 197-215.
Preferential meltwater flowpaths as a driver of preferential elution of chemicals from melting snowpacks
Diogo Costa, John W. Pomeroy
Science of The Total Environment, 662, 110-120.
The USask-led Global Water Futures has been designated as one of only three Regional Hydroclimate Projects (RHP) in the world by the GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Exchanges) project of the United Nations World Climate Research Programme.
Read more here.
A long-term hydrometeorological dataset of a northern mountain basin
Kabir Rasouli, John W. Pomeroy, J. Richard Janowicz, Tyler J. Williams,and Sean K. Carey
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 89-100, 2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-89-2019
Centre for Hydrology Director, John Pomeroy (left) and past student Sebastian Krogh (right).
University of Saskatchewan researchers with the Global Water Futures (GWF) program have provided the first detailed projections of major water challenges facing Western Arctic communities such as Inuvik and transportation corridors such as the Dempster Highway by the end of this century.
“There will be a tipping point reached over the next few decades, putting at risk communities whose infrastructure was designed for 20th century climate and hydrology,” said Dr. John Pomeroy (PhD), senior author of a recent paper in the American Meteorological Society’s prestigious Journal of Hydrometeorology.
“Humanity has to act quickly and decisively to avert such a future, and that will involve reducing greenhouse gas concentrations and improving infrastructure to better withstand the extreme events that are coming,” said Pomeroy, director of the USask Centre for Hydrology and director of the USask-led GWF, the largest freshwater research program in the world.
Centre for Hydrology director, John Pomeroy, voices his concerns that smoke and soot from nearby wildfires may be contributing to a faster melt rate on western Canadian glaciers in a recent CBC article.
Read more: Wildfire soot darkening glaciers could speed up melt rate, scientists fear
Congratulations to Caroline Aubry-Wake who won a Cryosphere Student Innovation Award from the American Geophysical Union at its Fall Meeting in Washington DC last week. The $1000 USD prize was for her proposal of an innovative method to determine debris cover thickness on glaciers. Great work Caroline!
Caroline Aubry-Wake, the winner of the Cryosphere Student Innovation Award, conducting fieldwork.