topic:"water" found 157 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Above Bow Falls

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on board

Catalogue Number: GyH.02.15

Description: A low and wide, white and blue waterfall between gray rocks with evergreen trees mountains in the background.

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Artist: Henry George Glyde (1906 – 1998, Canadian)

Title: Above Bow Falls

Date: 1952

Medium: oil on board

Dimensions: 31.0 x 39.0 cm

Description: A low and wide, white and blue waterfall between gray rocks with evergreen trees mountains in the background.

Subject: Banff; Bow Falls; Rocky Mountains; water; waterfall

Credit: Gift of Fred Burghardt, Edmonton, 2018

Catalogue Number: GyH.02.15

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A..."climate"...ising to Alberta in the dawn of the Anthropocene

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Author: Skrajny, Joanna

Publisher: The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal

Call Number: P

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Author: Skrajny, Joanna

Responsibility: Joanna Skrajny

Publisher: The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal

Physical Description: p. 22 - 25

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Environment; Climate; Climate change; Fires; Fire ecology; Floods; Water; Watersheds

Abstract: Pertains to climate change during Anthropocene including increased wildfires, ticks, and tick-borne diseases, floods, increase in insurance rates, and negative effects on health and mental health, wildlife extinction, decrease in fresh water.

Notes: In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 27, No.2, June 2019, p. 22 - 25

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Digital version of publication available online

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https://albertawilderness.ca/publications/wild-lands-advocate/

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Alberta Oil Sands #14

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Artist: Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)

Date: 2007

Medium: photograph on board

Catalogue Number: BuE.18.01

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Artist: Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)

Title: Alberta Oil Sands #14

Date: 2007

Medium: photograph on board

Dimensions: 162.56 x 121.92 cm

Subject: oil; water; chromogenic; print

Credit: Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014

Catalogue Number: BuE.18.01

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[Alberta, P.R.I.M.E. - Water Resources]

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Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Published Date: 1969

Publisher: Dept. of Agriculture, Water Resources Division, Development Planning Branch

Call Number: C9-5.3

Publisher: Dept. of Agriculture, Water Resources Division, Development Planning Branch

Published Date: 1969

Scale: Scale: 32 miles : 1 inch

Medium: Library - Maps and blueprints (unannotated; published); Map

Subjects: Alberta; P.R.I.M.E. - Water Resources

Accession Number: 778

Call Number: C9-5.3

Collection: Archives Library

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Alberta's trout streams : victims of conflicting interests

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Cunningham, E. B

Call Number: 04 C91 Pam

Author: Cunningham, E. B

Physical Description: p.123-126 : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Fishing; Water

Notes: From Canadian Audubon, vol.28, no.4, September-October 1966

Call Number: 04 C91 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Author: Schindler, D.W.; Donahue, W.F.

Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Call Number: 03.5 Sc1a PAM

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Author: Schindler, D.W.; Donahue, W.F.

Responsibility: D.W. Schindler; W.F. Donahue

Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 6 pages ; illustrations , maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Water; Watersheds; Climate; Climate change; Climatology; Western Canada; Glaciers; Rivers; Lakes

Abstract: Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.