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Our vanishing glaciers : the snows of yesteryear and the future climate of the mountain West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25256
- 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)
- 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
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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
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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
- 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
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Sunshine : its human and natural heritage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6555
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Banff : Sunshine Village Corporation
- Call Number
- 04 Su7sa
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Responsibility
- [designed and edited by Jon Whyte]
- Publisher
- Banff : Sunshine Village Corporation
- Published Date
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 96p. : ill., maps
- Notes
- Signed by author
- Accession Number
- 3832 (2)
- Call Number
- 04 Su7sa
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Columbia Icefield
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7116
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1993
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Banff : Altitude
- Call Number
- 03.4 C72s Pam
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Banff : Altitude
- Published Date
- 1993
- Physical Description
- 64p. : ill., ports., map
- Series
- An Altitude superguide
- Notes
- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 0-919381-92-8
- Accession Number
- 26000
- Call Number
- 03.4 C72s Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The book of Banff : an insider's guide to being a local in Banff
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3883
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1994
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Banff : Friends of Banff National Park
- Parks Canada
- Call Number
- 02.6 B22s
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Banff : Friends of Banff National Park
- Parks Canada
- Published Date
- 1994
- Physical Description
- xi, 242p. : ill., ports., map
- Subjects
- Banff (residents)
- Guidebooks
- ISBN
- 0-9698954-0-2
- Accession Number
- 28000
- Call Number
- 02.6 B22s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Climbers and climate change
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12573
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Physical Description
- p.71-72 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Environment
- Glaciers
- Vaux family
- Water
- Notes
- In Canadian Alpine Journal, vol.87, 2004
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Water and our way of life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12881
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Fernie (B.C.) : Rockies Network
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sa5w c.1
- 03.5 Sa5w c.2
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Responsibility
- by Robert W. Sandford
- photographyi by Steve Short
- Publisher
- Fernie (B.C.) : Rockies Network
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 160p. : col. ill
- Subjects
- Conservation
- Notes
- Publication part of the 2003 United Nations International Year of Fresh Water
- ISBN
- 0-9680036-1-3
- Accession Number
- 60000
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sa5w c.1
- 03.5 Sa5w c.2
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- Archives Library
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Johnny Boychuk : packing history in the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12954
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sa5j Pam
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Physical Description
- p.20-23 : ill., ports
- Notes
- In Canadian Cowboy Country, vol.9, no.4 (December 2005 / January 2006)
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sa5j Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Roads to our future
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13018
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Call Number
- 02.5 W52s Pam
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Physical Description
- p.30-41 : ill
- Subjects
- Automobiles
- Roads
- Notes
- In Westworld Alberta, vol.27, no.5 (November 2001)
- Call Number
- 02.5 W52s Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A National Mountain Centre
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13032
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Physical Description
- p.11 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Museums
- Notes
- In Experience the Mountain Parks, 2006/2007 (iss.1)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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