On June 18, 2015, Laura Blunden attended the Manitoba Soil Science Society (MSSS) tour with the University of Manitoba Watershed Systems Research Program (WSRP). The tour stopped at the Classen Farm, which is currently being studied by Ph.D. student Kokulan Vivekananthan and other researchers from the University of Manitoba and the University of Waterloo to… Continue reading Quick recap of the 2015 MSSS Tour
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What does a summer job in hydrology entail? Meet Adrienne Schmall…
Don’t let the last name fool you… Ms. “Schmall” is already off to some very BIG things in academia and research! A Bachelor of Science student majoring in Geological Sciences, Adrienne joined the WSRP as Research Assistant in the field season of 2015 and she quickly made an impact. Motivated to find a working experience… Continue reading What does a summer job in hydrology entail? Meet Adrienne Schmall…
New dye tracing experiment this summer
A dye tracing experiment was conducted at the Classen site in the La Salle River watershed on June 8th, 2015. Blue dye was applied to two plots and soil profiles were excavated three days later to reveal the flow pathways present in the thick clay soils of the area. After getting covered in blue dye… Continue reading New dye tracing experiment this summer
La Salle River Watershed sampling in spring-summer 2015
Summer students Madison Hutchinson and Laura Blunden have been sampling surface water in the La Salle River Watershed throughout the summer! This work was done as a collaboration between the Watershed Systems Research Program, the LaSalle Redboine conservation District and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. All samples - collected weekly - will be analyzed for nutrients… Continue reading La Salle River Watershed sampling in spring-summer 2015
Best poster award to Adrienne!
We are happy to report that Adrienne (Schmall) won the best poster award at this year's national conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA). Her poster focused on using electrical conductivity to determine wetland-to-wetland connectivity in the Prairie Pothole Region. Congratulations Adrienne!
2015 Spring Freshet in the Catfish Creek Watershed
Here is a quick update on our work in the Catfish Creek Watershed, near Pine Falls, MB, Canada: Cody Ross, MSc student, is currently conducting dye tracing experiments to assess the relative importance of overland flow and subsurface flow in the establishment of riparian-stream connectivity. The Catfish Creek Watershed is characterized by a near even… Continue reading 2015 Spring Freshet in the Catfish Creek Watershed
Our group at the 2015 CWRA national conference
Several members of our group will be reporting on several of our research projects at the 68th national conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) that will take place In Winnipeg between June 2 and June 4, 2015. See the list of oral presentation and posters below: Oral presentation (presenter highlighted in bold): Ali,… Continue reading Our group at the 2015 CWRA national conference
2015 Campbell Scientific Award for Aminul!!!
We are happy to announce that Aminul (Haque) is this year's recipient of the Campbell Scientific Best Student Poster Award! This award was given in recognition of the excellent three-page extended abstract as well as the poster that Aminul presented at the 2015 AGU Joint Assembly in Montreal. Congratulations!
Our group at the 2015 AGU Joint Assembly
Two members of our group (Genevieve and Aminul) will be in Montreal next week to talk about two of our ongoing projects in the Catfish Creek Watershed and and Broughton's Creek Watershed. If you happened to be attending the conference, watch for the following poster and oral presentation: Poster presentation by Aminul on Tuesday, May… Continue reading Our group at the 2015 AGU Joint Assembly
Congratulations Halya!
Halya successfully defended her MSc research work this week. Her thesis, entitled "A combined field data and empirical modeling approach to precipitation-runoff analysis in an agro-forested Prairie watershed", represented countless hours of fieldwork and as many hours (if not more) of digging through 15-minute hydrometric data to extract relevant patterns of behavior for the Catfish… Continue reading Congratulations Halya!
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