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Communicating Scientific Results to Local Communities: BC Floods 2018

May 23, 2018

The top disaster news in the past few weeks has been major flooding in communities across Canada. From New Brunswick to Alberta and British Columbia, … Read more

Tags BC, climate, climate change, Flood, flooding, floodplains, Grand Forks, Kootenays, municipalities, PCIC, scicomm, science communication, snow, snowpack, streamflow, temperature, weather

Western Water & Forests: Spring 2016 Outlook

March 26, 2016

Last month, Dezene Huber, a professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, tweeted this photo of BC’s mighty Fraser River in Prince George. Doesn’t … Read more

Tags drought, forests, hydrology, insect infestation, pine beetle, snowpack, spruce beetle, water, weather, western canada

Fish, forests, and snow

June 7, 2014

You’re standing on a stream bank in your local mountain watershed. The sun is rising, warming the back of your head, and you see a … Read more

Tags aquatic ecosystems, climate change, drought, fish, floods, forests, groundwater, insect infestation, mountains, snow, snowmelt, snowpack, stream temperature, streamflow, surface water, wildfire

Modelling our way to the answers

August 1, 2013

I ran across a press release recently for a paper on snowpack and climate change in Oregon. It caught my attention because it was written … Read more

Tags climate change, hydrology, numerical modelling, Okanagan, science communication, snowpack, uncertainty

Where's all the snow?

February 11, 2013

We spent a few days in the Rockies last week, on a memorial trip for a family member we lost last year. We were surprised … Read more

Tags Alberta, Columbia Icefield, snowpack, water supply

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