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USask researchers awarded over $5 million in NSERC Discovery Grants
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GIWS Member Christy Morrisey among group of Usask researchers awarded nearly $5.7 million from Canada’s Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) Discovery Grants Program to support 32 wide-ranging projects.
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'Major Issue in Climate Change': New Modelling Predicts the Nature of Extreme Rainstorms in the U.S. is Changing
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Modelling created by GIWS Member Dr. Simon Papalexiou predicts If no changes are made to the rate of global greenhouse gas emissions, storms that used to occur every 20 years on average will instead occur every seven by the end of the century.
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GIWS Members Contribute Chapter to National Issues Report
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Global Institute for Water Security members Hayley Carlson and Alain Pietroniro were the coordinating lead authors for the Water Resources chapter in Canada in a Changing Climate: National Issues Report. Led by Natural Resources Canada, this report provides a national perspective on how climate change is impacting our communities, environment and economy, and how we are adapting.
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USask Professors Aim to Help Saskatchewan Kids
Notice Nature this Summer
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GIWS member Dr. Graham Strickert, collaborates with Dr, Erika Dyck on a new initiative that encourages children and youth to go outside and learn more about the natural world around them.
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NSERC CREATE for Water Security leaves lasting impact
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As a unique water security training program wraps up at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), the program’s leaders, Dr. Cherie Westbrook and Caroline Aubry-Wake, look back on the past six years as an overwhelming success.
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Managing Water Supply in Changing Times
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People used to think the availability of water from sources like rivers and groundwater would always be reliable, but that’s no longer the case, and that change is happening rapidly. GIWS Executive Director Jay Famiglietti notes that Canada is warming at twice the global rate, the Prairies at three times the global rate and northern Canada at four times the global rate.
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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.
Submisstions due August 30, 2021.
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GIWS Researcher Receives Long Term Service Award from
International Association of Hydrogeologists
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Grant Ferguson, Professor of Civil, Geological and Environmental Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan, has been recognized for his long-standing involvement with the International Association of Hydrogeologist – Canadian National Chapter by being awarded the Long Term Service Award.
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GIWS Researcher Receives CSSS Fellowship
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Dr. Bing Si has been awarded a 2021 Fellowship from the Canadian Society of Soil Science. He is a member of the Global Institute for Water Security and a Professor in the Department of Soil Sience, College of Agriculture and Bioresrouces, University of Saskatchewan.
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Upcoming Webinars, Lectures & Events
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GIWS members are convening three sessions at #AGU21. If your research aligns, please consider submitting to these sessions! There are options to present virtually or in person (pending alignment with USask travel restrictions) – learn more about submitting an abstract to #AGU21 here.
H040 - Conflict, migration and social justice: Integrating social science and hydrologic datasets to understand the dynamics of human-water interactions
Conveners: Li Xu (University of Saskatchewan), Xin Lu (Flowminder; Karolinska Institute) & Jay Famiglietti (University of Saskatchewan)
H045 - Diagnostics, Sensitivity, and Uncertainty Analysis of Earth and Environmental Models
Conveners: Juliane Mai (University of Waterloo), Lucy Marshall (University of New South Wales), Mary Hill (University of Kansans) & Saman Razavi (University of Saskatchewan
H066 - Introducing the paradigm of Critical Zone science to Agrohydrology
Conveners: Ying Zhao (Ludong University), Yanping Li (University of Saskatchewan), Li Guo (Sichuan University) & Jian Liu (University of Saskatchewan)
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CRIPE Workshop on River Ice
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August 29 -
September 1
Saskatoon, SK
This year both in-person and online options are being considered. Please stay tuned to the website (below) for more details.
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A core group of Water Walkers are currently walking 1900 kms in Ceremony for the Saskatchewan River. nêhiyaw/Metis/Mide Kwe Tasha Beeds mentored under the late Josephine-Ba Mandamin will be the lead Walker. They move for the Water; for Life; for the children.
The GIWS is proud to support the Water Walkers.
Learn more about the walk and ways to get involved
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Conflict, migration and social justice: Integrating social science and hydrologic datasets to understand the dynamics of human-water interactions.
Deadline: August 4, 2021
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Water Security to Promote Gender Equity and
Climate-Change Resilience in West Africa
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The University of Saskatchewan (UofS) has acquired funding to support 8 West African and 2 Canadian Early Career Researcher (ECR) / Postdoctoral Fellow (PDF) / PhD scholars (at dissertation stage) for an interdisciplinary exchange program between Canada, Ghana, and Senegal.
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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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Tang, Guoqiang, Martyn P. Clark, Simon Michael Papalexiou, Andrew J. Newman, Andrew W. Wood, Dominique Brunet, and Paul H. Whitfield. "EMDNA: Ensemble Meteorological Dataset for North America." Earth System Science Data Discussions(2020): 1-41.
Noyes, C., Kim, J., Person, M. et al. A geochemical and isotopic assessment of hydraulic connectivity of a stacked aquifer system in the Lisbon Valley, Utah (USA), and critical evaluation of environmental tracers. Hydrogeol J (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-021-02361-9
Ahmed, Mohamed I., Amin Elshorbagy, Alain Pietroniro, and Daniel Princz. "Improving the Representation of the Non-Contributing Area Dynamics in Land Surface Models for Better Simulation of Prairie Hydrology." Journal of Hydrology (2021): 126562.
DeBeer, C. M., Wheater, H. S., Pomeroy, J. W., Barr, A. G., Baltzer, J. L., Johnstone, J. F., Turetsky, M.R., Stewart, R.E., Hayashi, M., van der Kamp, G., Marshall, S., Campbell, E. Marsh, P., Carey, S.K., Quinton, W.L., Li, Y., Razavi, S., Berg, A., McDonnell, J.J., Spence, C., Helgason, W.D., Ireson, A.M., Black, T.A., Elshamy, M., Yassin, F., Davison, B., Howard, A., Theriault, J.M., Shook, K., Demuth, M.N. & Pietroniro, A. (2021). Summary and synthesis of Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN) research in the interior of western Canada–Part 2: Future change in cryosphere, vegetation, and hydrology. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(4), 1849-1882. doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-1849-2021
Langs, L. E., Petrone, R. M., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2021). Subalpine forest water use behaviour and evapotranspiration during two hydrologically contrasting growing seasons in the Canadian Rockies. Hydrological Processes, 35(5), e14158. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14158
McDonnell, J. J., Gabrielli, C., Ameli, A., Ekanayake, J., Fenicia, F., Freer, J., Graham, C., McGlynn, B., Morgenstern, U., Pietroniro, A., Sayama, T., Seibert, T., Stewart, M., Vanche, K. Weiler, M. & Woods, R. (2021). The Maimai M8 experimental catchment database: Forty years of process‐based research on steep, wet hillslopes. Hydrological Processes, e14112. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14112
Moustakis, Y., Papalexiou, S. M., Onof, C. J., & Paschalis, A. (2021). Seasonality, intensity, and duration of rainfall extremes change in a warmer climate. Earth's Future, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001824
Whitfield, P. H., Kraaijenbrink, P. D., Shook, K. R., & Pomeroy, J. W. (2021). The Spatial Extent of Hydrological and Landscape Changes across the Mountains and Prairies of Canada in the Mackenzie and Nelson River Basins Based on Data from a Warm Season Time Window. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 1-77. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-2513-2021 |
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