name:"Sandford, Robert W" found 59 records - Research Collections

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

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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

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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

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Our vanishing glaciers : the snows of yesteryear and the future climate of the mountain West

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Sandford, Robert W.

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

Edition: First

Call Number: 03.4 Sa5o

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Author: Sandford, Robert W.

Responsibility: Robert W. Sandford

Edition: First

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

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)

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

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

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

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The Columbia River Treaty : a primer

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14436

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

Published Date: 2014

Author: Sandford, Robert W

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

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5c

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Responsibility: by Robert William Sandford, Deborah Harford and Jon O'Riordan

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

Published Date: 2014

Physical Description: 141 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm

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

Subjects: Columbia River; Conservation; Treaties; Watersheds

Notes: Includes bibliographical references

ISBN: 9781771600422

Accession Number: P2015-03-31

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5c

Collection: Archives Library

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Flood forecast : climate risk and resiliency in Canada

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

Published Date: 2014

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Publisher: Surrey, British Columbia. : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5f

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Responsibility: Robert William Sandford and Kerry Freek

Publisher: Surrey, British Columbia. : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2014

Physical Description: xi, 139 pages ; 19 cm

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

Subjects: Conservation; Floods

Notes: Includes bibliographical references

ISBN: 9781771600040

Accession Number: P2015-03-31

Call Number: 03.5 Sa5f

Collection: Archives Library

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The weekender effect : hyperdevelopment in the mountain towns

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

Published Date: 2008

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Publisher: Vancouver : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 04 Su7w

Author: Sandford, Robert W

Responsibility: Robert William Sandford

Publisher: Vancouver : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: xii, 116 p.

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

Subjects: Canmore; Development; Tourism

ISBN: 9781897522103 (bound)

Accession Number: 50500 2009-02-04

Call Number: 04 Su7w

Collection: Archives Library

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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