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USASK Continues to Climb in Shanghai Rankings
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The Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan has moved up in the 2021 Shanghai Rankings to #15 from #20 in 2020.
Complete list of rankings
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Improving Weather Simulations Through Increased Generality
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GIWS Member Simon Papalexiou's research on advanced stochastic modelling featured on Research Spotlight at AGU’s Eos Magazine.
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USask PhD student seeks to better design agricultural drainage projects as farmers face more extreme precipitation
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“Future climate projections suggest that we’re in for more extreme weather in the Prairies. That could mean more droughts and flooding in the future,” said Holly Annand, GIWS member and PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning in USask’s College of Arts and Science.
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Important Environmental Issues Tackled in New USask Courses
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GIWS member, Dr. Kevin Ansdell, will be offering two new courses at the University of Saskatchewan this fall addressing environmental and sustainability issues of global importance.
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Two GIWS Researchers Publications Featured in Nature
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The publications of GIWS Researchers Grant Ferguson and Lucia Scaff were featured in Nature in August.
Grant Ferguson et al
August 17, 2021
Stronger and More Drylines
Lucia Scaff et al
August 5, 2021
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Contribute the Election Conversation
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The Conversation Canada is looking to provide expanded coverage of the upcoming federal election.
We are interested in connecting with political scientists, but also other academics who can offer insights in areas that should be part of the federal campaign -- the environment, health, economics, reconciliation, energy and pandemic-related issues, to name just a few.
In addition to providing stories in advance of the election, The Conversation Canada wants to assemble a team of experts who would be available to write on very short notice to respond to breaking news from the campaign. We would like to line up academic experts in advance who could be ready to write when needed.
Please contact Politics Editor Lee-Anne Goodman (lee-anne.goodman@theconversation.com) with ideas or experts who could work with us on our election coverage.
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Challenge Extended: GIWS 10 Year Research Image Challenge
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Celebrating 10 Years, The Global Institute for Water Security is pleased to announce the Research Image Challenge. The contest will highlight and promote the incredible decade of water research through photographs, images & artwork.
The deadline for submissions has been extended to September 15, 2021.
Challenge Details
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Geography 825: Process-Based Hydrological Modelling
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Email Martyn Clark for more information.
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Geography 827: Principles of Hydrology
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The University of Saskatchewan Centre for Hydrology with the assistance of the Canadian Society for Hydrological Sciences is offering an intensive course on the physical principles of hydrol-ogy with particular relevance to Canadian conditions. The course is led by Dr. John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources & Climate Change, and taught by Dr. Pomeroy and a team of subject-matter experts.
October 5 - November 4, 2021
Online Tuesday & Thursday
Note: This Course plans to return to an in-person format in Fall 2022
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Geography 836: New Ecohydrology
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Email Cherie Westbrook for more information.
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Geography 849: Advanced Planning with Indigenous Communities
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Email Robert Patrick for more information.
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Application is open July 5 – October 11, 2021
Science communication (SciComm) to wider audiences is critical for building dialogue with communities around the world, informing sound policy, and inspiring the next generation of researchers.
AGU is committed to supporting these efforts. We want to help fuel creative scicomm endeavors, and we know that often it takes just a little bit of money to launch far-reaching innovation. With that goal in mind, we will be offering grants (averaging $1,000 or less) to scientists around the world to encourage and jump-start outreach and engagement activities that will share science and its value with wider communities, from journalists to policymakers to students to members of the public.
Grants must be for activities/events that will begin before December 31, 2021.
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Fulbright Canada grants support research with colleagues across the U.S. for a 4 to 9-month period. Applications are accepted through November 15th, 2021, and these opportunities are for a start date of September 2022 or January 2023.
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Conferences, Events, and Workshops
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Global Water Futures Core Modelling Webinar
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The Topical Webinar Series hosted by the Core Modelling and Forecasting Team of the Global Water Futures program is a weekly event from May to August. In constrast to thematic webinars, this series highlights science advances from across the globe and aims to spur critical discusssions that will improve our understanding and capability in modelling and managing cold-region hydrology.
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2021 Distinguished Lecture Series
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September 15 - November 03, 2021
Full schedule and registration link coming soon.
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September 30th: Orange Shirt Day
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On Thursday, Sept. 30, the University of Saskatchewan (USask) community is encouraged to participate in Orange Shirt Day to help acknowledge and remember residential school survivors and their families. This year, Orange Shirt Day coincides with Canada’s first-ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
For a limited time, shirts for this event will be available for pre-order through the USask Bookstore to help affirm our commitment that Every Child Matters. Special thanks to local Indigenous artist Kevin Peeace who generously painted the original design for this year’s shirt. Proceeds from the sales of these shirts will be directed toward a Spring 2022 sequel to the Gathering for miyomahcihowin and the Saskatoon Residential School Survivors Circle*.
To order a shirt through the USask Bookstore, two options are available:
NOTE: USask Orange Shirt Day shirts will be available for pre-order until Monday, August 30 to ensure delivery before Sept. 30.
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Lucia Scaff, Andreas Prein, Yanping Li, Adam Clark, Sebastian Krogh, Neil Taylor, Changhai Liu, Roy M. Rasmussen, Kyoko Ikeda, Zhenhua Li, 2021: "Dryline characteristics in North America’s historical and future climates", Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05800-1
Alonso-González, Esteban, Ethan Gutmann, Kristoffer Aalstad, Abbas Fayad, and Simon Gascoin. "Snowpack dynamics in the Lebanese mountains from quasi-dynamically downscaled ERA5 reanalysis updated by assimilating remotely-sensed fractional snow-covered area." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions (2020): 1-31. https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/25/4455/2021/hess-25-4455-2021-discussion.html
Leila Eamen, Roy Brouwer, Saman Razavi, "Integrated modelling to assess the impacts of water stress in a transboundary river basin: Bridging local-scale water resource operations to a river basin economy", Science of The Total Environment,
Volume 800, 2021, 149543 Integrated modelling to assess the impacts of water stress in a transboundary river basin: Bridging local-scale water resource operations to river basin economy
Shook, Kevin, Raymond J. Spiteri, John W. Pomeroy, Tonghe Liu, and Oluwaseun Sharomi. "WDPM: the Wetland DEM Ponding Model." Journal of Open Source Software 6, no. 64 (2021): 2276. WDPM: the Wetland DEM Ponding Model
Scaff, Lucia, Andreas F. Prein, Yanping Li, Adam J. Clark, Sebastian A. Krogh, Neil Taylor, Changhai Liu, Roy M. Rasmussen, Kyoko Ikeda, and Zhenhua Li. "Dryline characteristics in North America’s historical and future climates." Climate Dynamics (2021): 1-18. Dryline characteristics in North America's historical and future climates
Mohammad Ghoreishi, Razi Sheikholeslami, Amin Elshorbagy, Saman Razavi, Kenneth Belcher, "Peering into agricultural rebound phenomenon using a global sensitivity analysis approach", Journal of Hydrology, Volume 602, 2021, 126739, Peering into Agricultural Rebound Phenomenon Using a Global Sensitivity Analysis Approach
He, Zhihua, John W. Pomeroy, Xing Fang, and Amber Peterson. "Sensitivity analysis of hydrological processes to perturbed climate in a southern boreal forest basin." Journal of Hydrology 601 (2021): 126706. Sensitivity analysis of hydrological processes to perturbed climate in a southern boreal forest basin
Tropea, B. and R.E. Stewart, 2021: "Assessing past and future hazardous freezing rain and wet snow events in Manitoba, Canada using a pseudo-global warming approach." Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2021.105656.
Crawford, Sarah E., Markus Brinkmann, Jacob D. Ouellet, Frank Lehmkuhl, Klaus Reicherter, Jan Schwarzbauer, Piero Bellanova et al. "Remobilization of pollutants during extreme flood events poses severe risks to human and environmental health." Journal of Hazardous Materials 421 (2022): 126691. Remobilization of pollutants during extreme flood events poses severe risks to human and environmental health |
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Job Opportunities
Colorado State University
Applications deadline: September 7, 2021
New - Water Allocation Modeller
Government of Alberta
New - Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist
Boulder, Colorado
New - Associate Scientist III - Marine Archaeologist
Silver Spring, Maryland
New - Project Scientist I/II
Boulder, Colorado
New - Associate Scientist II / III
Boulder, Colorado
New - Associate Scientist III
Silver Spring, Maryland
New - Associate Scientist II
Silver Spring, Maryland
Knowledge Mobilization Specialist
University of Saskatchewan,
Global Water Futures
Weather Centre Director
Millersville University
Application Deadline: June 30, 2021
Assistant Professor or Associate Professor or Professor of Computer Science and Meteorology: High Performance Computing
University of Oklahoma
Assistant/Associate Professor, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
University of Arizona
Anticipated start date Aug 2021
Hydrologist/GoldSim Modeller
Robertson GeoConsultants Inc.
Vancouver, BC
Research Scientist Positions - Water Modelling Team
Global Water Futures
University of Saskatchewan
Application deadline: open until filled
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“Pan-Arctic Snow Research” that is now accepting submissions.
We welcome researching focusing on, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Address and study the change of seasonal snow cover in the Arctic and its possible effects on permafrost thermal regime, glacier mass balance and terrestrial ecosystems;
- Address the effect of current climate change on the physical characteristics of the seasonal snowpack (i.e. melting refreezing, rain on snow) and possible consequences for fauna, flora and snowpack stability;
- Address and study the processes that cause the deposition and presence of impurities, including anthropogenic contaminants, in seasonal snowpacks and their release during melting and the potential effect on ecosystems;
- Address the diversity of microbial communities in the seasonal snowpack and how they are connected to other ecosystems, such as the atmosphere, ice and permafrost;
- Technological improvements\developments for measuring key physical snow parameters to better understand the processes related to seasonal snowpack, including remote sensing, field and laboratory experiments;
- Data sharing of relevant snow-cover-related datasets and integration between observations, obtained at different spatial resolutions and time scales, and model frameworks.
The abstract submission deadline is 30 November 2021. For more information, visit here.
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