Examine how alterations in water quality, climate, and land cover are influencing macroinvertebrate populations and what these changes reveal about ecosystem health.
Dive into the performance of various models on the Great Lakes鈥攁 region with complex transboundary datasets, diverse climatic and land use conditions, and immense socio-economic importance to both the USA and Canada.
Evidence from the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica
Widespread seawater intrusion beneath grounded ice may be the missing link between the rapid, past, and present changes in ice sheet mass and the slower changes replicated by ice sheet models.
Assessing the importance of groundwater
Improving our understanding of local water budgets and, in particular, the role of groundwater is imperative to making informed management and conservation decisions.
Assessing the impacts of multiple stressors
Quantifies and compares听how rainbow darters are coping with multiple, natural and human-induced environmental stressors.
Read about the latest advancements in sustainable water harvesting systems achieved through the use of biomimetic surface engineering principles.
Gain unique insights into the fate and transport of groundwater chloride originating from seasonally applied road salt and the efficacy of road salt reduction strategies.
Dive deep into the significant complexities surrounding efforts to build resilience in the Red River Basin under climate change.
Investigates long-term baseflow trends and identifies possible climatic drivers across Canada.
Dive deeper into the global rivers study revealing impaired or severely impaired biological quality that is negatively impacting the provision of valuable ecosystem services.
This study examines daily spatial maps of sea ice presence probability with longer-term lead times up to 90鈥塪ays and freeze-up/breakup dates of strategic use to shipping operators.
Reviews peatland management pathways and their vast potential for greenhouse gas emission reductions.
Takes a closer look at extensive subglacial hydrological systems in the Antarctic, a region critical for future sea level rise.
Salinization may be an overlooked driver of downward trends of hypolimnion DO concentrations in lakes worldwide.
Swamps, which are characterized by woody vegetation cover, represent large areas of North America鈥檚 wetlands, and are comparatively understudied and largely missing from greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. A better understanding of swamp carbon stocks and fluxes, and how they vary from other wetland types, is required to support improved wetland mapping and climate and earth system modelling efforts.This study shows the importance of swamps for wetland carbon storage and important carbon cycling differences among swamp types. It demonstrates that regardless of organic versus mineral swamp definitions, all swamp types are important in terms of carbon accumulation and fluxes.
Featured in Nature Communications, this study pinpoints strategies to improve watershed management and planning given the critical role of legacy nitrogen.
Take a closer look at the WAMPUM Adaptation Framework for Sea Level Rise, guided by Indigenous knowledge of the northeastern and mid-Atlantic Tribal Nations.
Examines regional conservation practices based on where you farm.
Examines and measures the potential impact wetland restoration efforts could have on nitrogen removal
Examines the impact of air temperature and wind speed on hypoxia in aquatic ecosystems in Lake Erie.
How algae fuelled by phosphorus contributes to ice sheet melting
Evaluating how evapotranspiration responds to a warmer climate in the boreal biome.
Assessing the effectiveness of a fully automated ice-mapping approach that integrates unsupervised segmentation from the Iterative Region Growing using Semantics (IRGS) methodology with supervised Random Forest (RF) labelling.
Examines how a warming Arctic is altering carbon budgets.
Demonstrates how multi-temporal, multi-sensor remotely sensed observations of water can be combined with digital elevation models to estimate surface water storage.
Benchmarks an archive of numerical weather predictions and demonstrates how the data can be used in the hydrologic modelling of extreme events.
Assesses the important role of coastlines in the exchange of energy, water and substances.
Develops a methodology to quantify landform elements in wetlandscapes.
Explores the role of smaller wetlands in nutrient processing.
Studies how thermokarst lake expansion modifies ecological function.
Provides long-term context for the role of climate and human impacts in peatland drying.
Dr. Carrie Mitchell, School of Planning
Despite an influx of funding earmarked for climate change, and a growing body of new climate science, effectively translating this science to planning practice remains a significant challenge. This paper explores the information-related challenges planning professionals in the Philippines experience while working to adapt to climate change.
Dr. Christine Dow, Department of Geography and Environmental Management and Canada Research Chair
This study underscores that the warming effects of climate change are impacting our planet in ways that are often more dangerous than we perhaps had thought.
Dr. Jason Thistlethwaite, School of Environment Enterprise and Development/Dr. Daniel Henstra, Department of Political Science
The findings of this study indicate that there are significant variations and deficiencies in the quality of climate change plans in Canadian cities and how well-equipped they are to withstand extreme weather such as heat waves, ice storms, wildfires and floods.
Dr. Donald Burn, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
This study provides important insights into the nature of changes in flood regime that can be expected within cold regions and challenges the notion that climate change uniformly results in increased flood magnitudes. The complex changes to flood attributes identified in this work can be inferred to be climate-driven since all data are from reference networks.
Dr. Rebecca Rooney, Department of Biology/ Dr. Rich Petrone and Dr. Derek Robinson, Department of Geography and Environmental Management
Understanding the effect of surficial geological layer thickness on hydrologic connectivity can provide decision makers with new information that may help them understand and manage the potential response of watersheds to climate change and mining activities, and to inform future reclamation planning.
Dr. Christopher G. Fletcher, Department of Geography and Environmental Management
This study reviews the current generation Canadian Seasonal to Interannual Prediction System (CanSIPS) and Canadian Earth-System Model 2 (CanESM2).
Dr. Roy Brouwer, Department of Economics
The study indicates that the Nile basin countries would potentially gain from multilateral trade liberalization and trade facilitation as resources are reallocated to sectors in each country where there is a comparative advantage. As tariffs on trade between Nile countries have already been eliminated for several sectors, implementing free basin-wide trade is expected to have limited economic and water resource implications compared to instituting improved trade facilitation in the basin.
Dr. Sherry Schiff, Earth and Environmental Sciences/Dr. Josh Neufeld, Biology
Sherry Schiff (Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Josh Neufeld (Biology) provide first evidence that Boreal Shield lakes are highly suitable 鈥榣iving laboratories鈥� for studying the biogeochemical and microbiological aspects of ancient life. They will be used to better understand modern day challenges such as the control of harmful algae blooms and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Dr. Stephen G. Evans, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
A massive catastrophic collapse of two glaciers took place in the Tibetan Plateau in July and September 2016. What can real-time remote sensing tell us about the role climate change may have played in in the twin collapses?
Dr. William Taylor, Department of Biology
Algal blooms and fouling are reoccurring in the Great Lakes, despite improvements seen in the 1990s following the Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. With new targets set for Lake Erie, total phosphorus trends are being studied, but few are evaluating these trends in smaller streams where diffuse loading is the major source of phosphorus.
Dr. Hyung-Sool Lee, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) may lower net global emissions of methane by 10 to 60 per cent, significantly mitigating the potential impact of this potent greenhouse gas on the global climate. Newly discovered syntrophic interactions between AOM and extracellular electron transfer could substantially lower estimates of the global methane flux.
Dr. Philippe Van Cappellen, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Damming could constitute the largest single anthropogenic alteration of the freshwater hydrological cycle. Dams drive global environmental change, altering the global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients, and thus require a richer conceptual framework of governance across the land-sea interface.
Dr. Daniel Henstra, Department of Political Science
Flooding is the most costly hazard for Canadian municipalities and recently became the largest source of property insurance claims. Escalating damage to property and infrastructure has prompted greater interest from municipalities in policies that share the responsibility for risk reduction and the burden of costs with other levels of government and non-governmental actors.
Dr. Roy Brouwer, Department of Economics
Climate change has important consequences for the world鈥檚 freshwater resources, in particular their availability in time and space. The frequency and intensity of extreme weather events resulting in floods and droughts are expected to increase. Practitioners and researchers are supplementing traditional climate change adaptation solutions with demand management policy tools and instruments, aiming to change human behaviour with respect to water use.
