Members of our group will be discussing Prairie hydrology and water quality dynamics at the upcoming Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Halya Petzold and Amber Penner will present posters showing preliminary results associated with their Master's research projects while Genevieve Ali will give a talk about the dominant controls on… Continue reading Our group at the AGU Fall Meeting 2013
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Field season wraps up in the Catfish Creek Watershed…
Freeze-up came at the end of November in Catfish Creek Watershed, bringing a close to the 2013 field season. Water and weather monitoring instruments not designed for extreme low temperatures or in danger of being drifted over by snow were removed from the watershed through the month of November. In total, 26 perched water table… Continue reading Field season wraps up in the Catfish Creek Watershed…
G. Ali to speak at GIS Day 2013
As part of the activities organized by the University of Manitoba Libraries on November 20th, 2013, Genevieve will give an overview of a comprehensive spatial database that encompasses the whole of Lake Winnipeg Watershed and that can be used as a decision-making tool. Her talk, entitled "Using GIS for water management: the path towards a… Continue reading G. Ali to speak at GIS Day 2013
G. Ali to speak at CWRA SYP luncheon
Genevieve will discuss the multi-tasking skills that are now expected from the new generation of hydrologists at a pizza lunch organized by the Manitoba Branch of CWRA SYP (Canadian Water Resource Association, Student and Young Professionals). Date and time: November 14th, 2013, 1:30 pm Place: University of Manitoba, EITC E2-399 Presentation title: The modern hydrologist's… Continue reading G. Ali to speak at CWRA SYP luncheon
Graduate scholarship successes!
Amber Penner, a new MSc student in our group, is the proud recipient of a Graduate Entrance Scholarship from the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources at the University of Manitoba. As for Maliheh Rabie, who started her PhD in September 2013, she not only received an International Graduate Student Entrance Scholarship… Continue reading Graduate scholarship successes!
New funding for the modelling of Pothole wetland dynamics
A multi-partner research team led by Genevieve Ali was recently successful in getting funds from the Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund (Round 6). The goal of the project – to start in 2013 and end in 2017 – is to develop a simulation tool that will allow researchers and land managers to examine and measure… Continue reading New funding for the modelling of Pothole wetland dynamics
Multiple projects funded through Round 6 of the LWBSF
The Watershed Systems Research program is lucky enough to have had three research projects given the go ahead by Environment Canada through the Lake Winnipeg Basin Stewardship Fund (LWBSF). The biggest project, led by the Manitoba Conservation Districts Association (MCDA), will focus on the establishment of pilot sites for innovative surface water and nutrient management… Continue reading Multiple projects funded through Round 6 of the LWBSF
Nomination to a US EPA Science Advisory Board panel
Genevieve Ali was recently invited to sit on the Environmental Protection Agency’s independent Science Advisory Board’s new Water Body Connectivity Report Advisory Panel. The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) was established by the US Congress in 1978 with the mandate to advise the Agency on technical matters, particularly to review the quality and relevance of… Continue reading Nomination to a US EPA Science Advisory Board panel
New funding for research on non-contributing areas
Funding was awarded to Genevieve Ali through Environment Canada’s Lake Winnipeg Basin Initiative to conduct research on the “delineation of areas that contribute to nutrient transport in near-level landscapes within Lake Winnipeg Watershed”. Indeed, runoff is particularly difficult to calculate in Prairie basins because the areas contributing to downstream flows are limited and highly variable… Continue reading New funding for research on non-contributing areas
It is raining blue in Manitoba…
It is very exciting to simulate rainfall and follow the water through different soil and bedrock layers... especially when the water is blue! Lauren Timlick successfully led a rainfall simulation and dye tracing experiment in the Steppler Watershed (South-Central Manitoba) on June 25th, 2013. Lauren's summer project focuses on subsurface flow patterns, especially preferential flow… Continue reading It is raining blue in Manitoba…
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