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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
- 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
1 website
- 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
- 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.
- Notes
- In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via PNAS's website
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25284
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Rutter, Nat
- Coppold, Murray
- Rokosh, Dean
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
1 website
- Responsibility
- The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Nat Rutter
- Murray Coppold
- Dean Rokosh
- Edition
- Revised Second Edition
- Publisher
- Field, B.C. : Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 137 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Climatology
- Climate change
- Environment
- Environmental conservation
- Geography
- Geology
- Abstract
- Climate change is at the forefront of public consciousness today. Political initiatives to combat the social and economic effects of changing climate will affect the lives of everyone. Media reports often portray climate scenarios and the range of uncertainty accompanying predictions. How does a reader approach the science behind the headlines? The goal of this book is to explain climate change science by examining the recent Ice Age history so spectacularly exposed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains landscape. Local and global sources of paleoclimate information are combined with dating techniques to unravel the glacial history of the Rockies over the last 30,000 years. The illustrated road log guide can be used by the armchair reader or the traveller to visit the landscape features essential to the interpretation. The Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to increasing public understanding of the geosciences. Its teaching themes demonstrate the use of physics, biology, chemistry and mathematics in solving science questions and problems. The diverse program includes public lectures, teacher workshops, school programs and guided hikes. The Foundation conducts educational hikes to the Burgess Shale soft-bodied fossil deposit and the Mt. Stephen trilobite beds, both UNESCO World Heritage sites in Yoho National Park. (From Good Reads)
- Contents
- Introduction -- Archives of Climate Change -- Dating the Archives -- Extracting Climate Information -- Interpreting the Last Ice Age -- Finding Climate Change in the Rockies -- Glaciation in the Banff-Jasper Area -- Road Log Guide to Landscape Features -- Short Term Climate Change -- Future Climate Change -- Rood Log Stop Coordinates.
- Notes
- Sponsored by the CSPG Foundation
- ISBN
- 9780978013219
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.2 R93c
- 03.2 R93c Reference copy
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On the rocks : the local impacts of glacial melt
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20030
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Payne, Colin
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Payne, Colin
- Responsibility
- Colin Payne
- Published Date
- 2015
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to the de-glaciation of Western Canada during the 21st century with the Athabasca Glacier as the example
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Iss. 16, Fall 2015, p. 40 - 45
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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Peyto : a hotbed of glacier science
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19950
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Responsibility
- Lynn Martel
- Published Date
- 2012
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertians to Peyto Glacier and glacier monitoring programs through Natural Resources Canada
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol.4, Iss.1, Winter 2012, p.36-41
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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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
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- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 207 pages : illustrations
- 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
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- Archives Library
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- Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website
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