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Water, weather and the mountain west

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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

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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

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An Empty Landscape

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: September/October 2021

Author: Mitchell, Alanna

Publisher: Aaron Kylie

Edition: Vol. 141

Call Number: P

Author: Mitchell, Alanna

Responsibility: with photography by Peter Mather

Edition: Vol. 141

Publisher: Aaron Kylie

Published Date: September/October 2021

Physical Description: p.34-44

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Alberta; Alpine tundra; Animal populations; Animals; Canada; Canadian Endangered Species Protection Act; Caribou; Climate change

Abstract: The ecological importance of the caribou and their current population decline due to climate change and human influences. Herds in the northern Canadian Rockies are already on the endangered species list.

Notes: "In Canadian Geographic, volume 141, issue 5, September/October, 2021"

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

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Athabasca

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Artist: Gennadiy Ivanov

Date: ca. 2022 – 2022

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: IvG.03.03

Description: Landscape painting of glacial area. Background has a blue sky that is filled with tall glacial formations. Right at the centre of the middle ground are silhouettes of two people rendered in black. Off to the the right side of the foreground is a weather station. The colour palette is made up of blu…

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Artist: Gennadiy Ivanov

Title: Athabasca

Date: ca. 2022 – 2022

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 34.0 x 50.0 cm

Description: Landscape painting of glacial area. Background has a blue sky that is filled with tall glacial formations. Right at the centre of the middle ground are silhouettes of two people rendered in black. Off to the the right side of the foreground is a weather station. The colour palette is made up of blue, purples, orange, black, brown, green, and white.

Subject: Glaciers; weather station; climate change; University of Saskatchewan.

Credit: Gift of Gennadiy Ivanov, Norwich, Norfolk , UK, 2023

Catalogue Number: IvG.03.03

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Athabasca Glacier Station 1

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Artist: Gennadiy Ivanov

Date: ca. 2019 – 2019

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: IvG.03.02

Description: Landscape pastel drawing of a glacier area, colour palette made up of purple,orange, yellows, blues and black. In the background there are glaciers, hills,or mountains. Middle ground is filled with vertical and horizontal lines that represent the pattern of glaciers. In the foreground, off to the l…

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Artist: Gennadiy Ivanov

Title: Athabasca Glacier Station 1

Date: ca. 2019 – 2019

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 49.0 x 69.0 x 49.0 cm

Description: Landscape pastel drawing of a glacier area, colour palette made up of purple,orange, yellows, blues and black. In the background there are glaciers, hills,or mountains. Middle ground is filled with vertical and horizontal lines that represent the pattern of glaciers. In the foreground, off to the left hand side is a weather station made up of black and blue.

Subject: Glaciers; weather station; climate change; University of Saskatchewan

Credit: Gift of Gennadiy Ivanov, Norwich, Norfolk , UK, 2023

Catalogue Number: IvG.03.02

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Athabasca Glacier Station 2

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Artist: Gennadiy Ivanov

Date: ca. 2019 – 2019

Medium: pastel on paper

Catalogue Number: IvG.03.01

Description: Landscape pastel drawing with a colour palette made up of purples, blues, and soft peach. in the background there are glaciers or mountains. In the middle ground, just slightly off to the right, there is a weather station composed of black and blue pastel. in the foreground are vertical lines of pu…

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Artist: Gennadiy Ivanov

Title: Athabasca Glacier Station 2

Date: ca. 2019 – 2019

Medium: pastel on paper

Dimensions: 50.0 x 65.0 x 50.0 cm

Description: Landscape pastel drawing with a colour palette made up of purples, blues, and soft peach. in the background there are glaciers or mountains. In the middle ground, just slightly off to the right, there is a weather station composed of black and blue pastel. in the foreground are vertical lines of purple, white, and blue, that represent patterns of the glaciers.