topic:"Hydrology" found 4 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: Written by one of the most respected experts in water and water-associated climate science and featuring stunning photography collected over the past four decades, Our Vanishing Glaciers explains and illustrates why water is such a unique substance and how it makes life on this planet possible. Focusing on the Columbia Icefield, the largest and most accessible mass of ice straddling the Continental Divide in western North America, and featuring photographs, illustrations, aerial surveys and thermal imaging collected over more than 40 years of the author’s personal observations, the book reveals the stunning magnitude of glacial ice in western Canada. Citing evidence to suggest that in the Canadian Rocky Mountain national parks alone, as many as 300 glaciers may have disappeared since 1920, this large-format, fully illustrated coffee table book graphically illustrates the projected rate of glacier recession in the mountain West over the rest of this century and serves as a profound testament to the beauty and importance of western Canada’s water, ice and snow. (from publisher's website)

Contents: 1. The wonder of water -- 2. What winter does to water -- 3. Ecology as defined by winter water -- 4. How ice fields and glaciers form -- 5. Canada's most accessible glaciers -- 6. The death of Peyto glacier : A case for more comprehensive -- 7. The Columbia ice field today -- 8. Glaciers in a changing climate -- 9. What we stand to lose -- 10. Water, climate and the National Parks ideal.

Notes: Winner, 2017 Lane Anderson Award for Best Canadian Science Writing

ISBN: 9781771602020

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 03.4 Sa5o

Location: Reading Room

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://rmbooks.com/book/our-vanishing-glaciers/

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Rain comin' down : water, memory and identity in a changed world

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25257

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Sandford, Robert W.

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books

Edition: First

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5r

1 website

Author: Sandford, Robert W.

Responsibility: Robert W. Sandford

Edition: First

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 330 pages

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

Subjects: Water; Watersheds; Rivers; Glaciers; Hydrology; Hydrology - Alberta; Rocky Mountains; Climate change

Abstract: Robert Sandford has spent a lot time watching and thinking about water. This was not because he was predisposed to do so, but because the importance of water gradually caught up with who he was and what he was doing with his life. As this self-reflective book demonstrates, when one takes up the serious study of water, one cannot but be surprised at how far that interest can take you: from the very origins of the cosmos right down to the unique structure and remarkable qualities of water as a molecule. It takes you to the depths of the oceans, to the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere, and into the centres of storms. You fall to Earth with raindrops, travel tiny streams and great rivers, go round and round in lakes and ponds. Your study takes you down to the very roots of trees, into the soil, along the dark, dank banks of underground rivers. It takes you from one person’s thirst to the thirst of nations; from the demographics of the past to how those may drastically change in the absence of water in decades to come. Following water takes one back and forth in time, linking us to what the Earth was like in the past; what it is now; and how water will shape what it will be in the future. (from publisher's website)

Contents: Invocation - Rain comin' down; Celestial rivers; Rivers of cold; Rivers of heat; Rivers of words; The heart of dryness; Irrigating Eden; Rivers of memory; Rivers of ice; As the world burns; Learning from the burning: The summer of 2018; Afterword - Rivers of hope; Appendix - a Canadian National Glacier Act; Bookshelf

ISBN: 9781771603171

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5r

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://rmbooks.com/book/rain-comin-down/

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Understanding the Banff Hot Springs: through Karst hydrogeology

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Yonge, Chas

Publisher: Altona, Manitoba : Friesens Corporation

Edition: First

Call Number: 03.5 Y7u

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Author: Yonge, Chas

Responsibility: Chas Yonge

Edition: First

Publisher: Altona, Manitoba : Friesens Corporation

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 104 pages

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

Subjects: Hydrology; Hydrology - Alberta; Geography; Geology - Alberta - Mountain Park; Hot springs; Banff; Banff National Park

Abstract: The Banff Hot Springs is an iconic location with a long and storied history, having been first found and used by indigenous peoples. In 1883, Canadian Pacific Railway workers found the springs, which led to the development of Banff National Park and tourism in the Canadian Rockies. But the geologic history encompassed in the rocks of the Banff area extends back more than a billion years. In Understanding the Banff Hot Springs through Karst Hydrogeology, Chas Yonge looks at the Banff Hot Spring system from a new perspective: that of karst. Karst landforms are created by dissolution of rock, which leads to some of the most beautiful landscapes on the planet. This karst perspective leads to some very different conclusions regarding the nature of the hot springs. For example: How old is the thermal water? How far has it travlled underground? And how extensive are its pathways? Anyone with an interest in the science behind the Banff Hot Springs and exploring the local geology and landscape of the Canadian Rockies will find this book the perfect answer to their curiousity. Featuring a foreword by Arthur N. Palmer, Professor of Hydrogeology, Emeritus, at State University of New York. As of a few years ago, Chas Yonge was the former owner and operator of Canmore Cave Tours, offering interpretive tours underground. He has been an enthusiastic caver for almost 50 years, taking him all over the world. Since earning a PhD in karst paleoclimatology, he has applied isotope studies to karst, culminating in a number of publications. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary and is currently a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. (From Amazon website)

Contents: Acknowledgements; Foreward; Hot springs in Canada where do you find them?; Rocky Mountain geology around Banff; Geological setting of the Banff Springs Hotel; Sources and depth of the Banff thermal spring water; Carbonate hot springs viewed as hypogene karst; Hydrogeology of the the Rockies and Banff Hot Springs; Flow nets developed along thurst faults; Conduits developed along a thurst fault, nearby examples in Rats Nest Cave; Hypogene recharge at the Banff Hot Springs: mechanisms and chemistry; Epigene recharge; the invasion of cold, shallow groundwater at Banff; Age of the groundwater; Spring elevation: relevance to the Late Wisconsin Glaciation; Tufa deposits and tufa caves; Cave formation by microbes: tufa speleogenesis; The cave deposits (speleothems); Banff Hot Springs Summary; Appendices; Glossary; References and further reading; Index; About the author; About the designer

ISBN: 9780987936936

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 03.5 Y7u

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Further research via Research Gate

Websites

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320553179_Hydrogeology_of_the_Banff_Hot_Springs_Banff_National_Park_Canada_A_karst_perspective

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Water, weather and the mountain west

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13641

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

Published Date: 2007

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5wa c.1; 03.5 Sa5wa c.2; 03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3

1 website

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 207 pages : illustrations

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

Subjects: Conservation; Water; Watersheds; Canada; Climate; Climate change; Climatology; Hydrology; Hydrology - Alberta

Abstract: Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada. Since many rivers are already fully allocated to numerous uses, future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water resources and how effectively we manage them—especially in the face of climate change. The message to take home from this eloquent book is that it is time to dispel the myth of limitless abundance of water in Canada and throughout North America. We all need to be mindful that though our technologically sophisticated society is largely fuelled and lubricated by refined petroleum, it ultimately runs on plain water. In his conclusion to this authoritative book, Robert Sandford, chair of Canada’s United Nations Water for Life Decade, offers a realistic picture of the various issues and threats related to the future availability and quality of fresh water in Canada. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)

Contents: Invocation: through mist and rainbow the water speaks; One: water, weather and the west; Two: the drinking-water supply in Canada; Three: what can we learn from others; Four: reading the wind: reframing the climage-change debate; Five: future landscapes in the mountain west; Appendix One; Appendix Two; Written on the wind: a climate-change bookshelf; Index; Acknowledgements

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-198) and index

ISBN: 9781894765930

Accession Number: 40500 - 2 copies; P2020-2

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5wa c.1; 03.5 Sa5wa c.2; 03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website

Websites

https://rmbooks.com/book/water-weather-and-the-mountain-west/

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