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!
LAB NEWS
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…
New research program launched
Genevieve Ali just received new funding from NSERC for research on water, sediment and nutrient connectivity in engineered Prairie landscapes. This new funding is also associated with an Early Career Researcher Award to G. Ali. With this new research program, focus will be on landscapes where natural flow paths have been significantly altered by surface… Continue reading New research program launched
Snow melt, ice jams and high waters are keeping us busy!
Well... the melt finally started last week-end and was rather dramatic. The good news is that we have great data and pictures on the way. The bad news is that some of our equipment was washed off or unplugged from the recording devices due to the ice jams and strong currents!
PhD opportunity in hydrology and biogeochemistry
We are looking for a PhD student to study "Contributing areas and nutrient transport in near-level landscapes of the Lake Winnipeg Basin". Details about the PhD opportunity can be found in the position ad below. -- Position: The Watershed Systems Research Program (WSRP), the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Manitoba, and the… Continue reading PhD opportunity in hydrology and biogeochemistry
G. Ali to present at 2013 CMOS/CGU/CWRA
Genevieve Ali will give a presentation at the upcoming CMOS/CGU/CWRA congress in Saskatoon on May 29rd, 2013. Her talk entitled "Opposing natural and artificial isoscapes: a key towards a better identification of runoff sources in flat Prairie watersheds?" will be part of the session "Stable Isotope Tracers and Climate-Driven Change" and describe a comprehensive oxygen-18… Continue reading G. Ali to present at 2013 CMOS/CGU/CWRA
Ecohydrological Systems Laboratory - Laboratoire sur les systèmes écohydrologiques 