News Update August 2015
Jill Johnstone on how fire and insects are remaking the planet's vast boreal forest. GIWS congratulates India’s Rajendra Singh on the award of the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize.
News
- Water expert shocked at location of proposed new Calgary sports complex, John Pomeroy, CBC Radio Canada International
- Water expert astonished by proposed location of CalgaryNEXT along Bow River, John Pomeroy, The Calgary Herald
- Snowy Canada endures drought, heat, fires as planet gets warmer, John Pomeroy, Bloomberg News
- The New North: Stoked by climate change, fire and insects are remaking the planet's vast boreal forest, Jill Johnstone, Science Special Section
- Creating a research brand, by Jeff McDonnell, Science Magazine
- Researchers seek answers from Athabasca Glacier, Rocky Mountain Outlook, John Pomeroy
- Mountain parks feeling effects from drought, The Crag and Canyon, John Pomeroy
- A wildfire wake-up call for Canada, The Globe & Mail, Op-Ed by Toddi Steelman
- Experts says boreal forest 'wouldn't exist' without wildfires, News Talk 650 CKOM, Jill Johnstone
- Get used to it: Expect more devastating weather if climate change remains unchecked, Planet S, Toddi Steelman
- U of S prof says Sask. needs to prepare for new wildfire reality, NewsTalk 650 CKOM, Toddi Steelman
- Saskatchewan academic says ways of handling wildfires must change, mysask.com, Toddi Steelman
- After the fire: What's next for northern forests and communities?, The StarPhoenix, Toddi Steelman and Jill Johnstone
- University of Saskatchewan professor calls for wildfire strategy, Global News, Toddi Steelman
Successful Grants
Michael Kehoe, SENS postdoctoral fellow and GIWS associate member, has received funding from SINERGIA/National Swiss Science Foundation for the project “A Flexible Underwater Distributed Robotic System for High‐Resolution Sensing of Aquatic Ecosystems”. It is a multi-disciplinary project which will use autonomous underwater vehicles in conjunction with innovative instrumentation to measure the physical, chemical and biological parameters of freshwater lakes at extremely high resolution. This will allow greater understanding of how fine spatial structure in lake water columns contribute to phytoplankton population dynamics and diversity. A particular focus is on how phytoplankton blooms occur. Michael's role in the project is to measure the sinking rate of individual phytoplankton cells using a methodology he developed during his PhD.
Announcements
GIWS congratulates India’s Rajendra Singh on the award of the 2015 Stockholm Water Prize. Patricia Gober had the honour of presenting the Prize Committee’s citation in a splendid ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on August 26. The King and Queen of Sweden were in attendance. The Stockholm Water Prize is considered the top prize in the world for water-related achievements. Please view the video of the evening for event highlights.