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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
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- 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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Banff flood hazard study : bow river and forty mile and echo creeks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14692
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 25 March 2013
- Author
- North Hydraulic Consultants Ltd
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd
- Call Number
- 03.5 N82b Pam
- Responsibility
- prepared for Albert Environment and Sustainable Resource Development ; prepared by Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd
- Published Date
- 25 March 2013
- Physical Description
- 6 pages
- Series
- NHC project No. 100047
- Notes
- Photocopy of the original report
- Report written three months before the major flood in Southern Alberta on June 20, 2013
- Call Number
- 03.5 N82b Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Becoming water : glaciers in a warming world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14438
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Demuth, Michael
- Publisher
- Victoria [B.C.] : RMB
- Call Number
- 03.4 D4b c.1
- 03.4 D4b c.2
- Author
- Demuth, Michael
- Responsibility
- Michael Demuth
- Publisher
- Victoria [B.C.] : RMB
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- ix, 135 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Subjects
- Climate
- Climatology
- Glaciers
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references
- ISBN
- 9781926855721
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- tbd
- Call Number
- 03.4 D4b c.1
- 03.4 D4b c.2
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- Archives Library
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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
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- 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
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Further research
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Current serials in the library of the Scott Polar Research Institute
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12014
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1972
- Author
- Scott Polar Research Institute
- Publisher
- Cambridge
- Call Number
- R 03.5 Sco3
- Publisher
- Cambridge
- Published Date
- 1972
- Physical Description
- 47p
- Subjects
- Climatology
- Glaciers
- Accession Number
- 597
- Call Number
- R 03.5 Sco3
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The flood of 2013 : a summer of angry rivers in southern Alberta
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Calgary Herald
- Publisher
- Toronto : Greystone Books
- Call Number
- 03.5 C3f
- Author
- Calgary Herald
- Responsibility
- by the Calgary Herald ; foreword by Naheed Nenshi
- Publisher
- Toronto : Greystone Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 130 pages, 5 pages of plates : chiefly illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Alberta
- Climate
- Climatology
- Disasters
- Floods
- Notes
- The staff at the Calgary Herald wrote the text and took and compiled the photographs.
- Contains: The raging waters -- Devastation and destruction -- The cleanup -- Helping hands and heroes -- How Albertans saw it -- Hell or high water.
- ISBN
- 9781771640305
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 03.5 C3f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Fortress Mountain Summit Registers and Notes
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- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Scope & Content
- Files consist of summit notes and summit registers from Fortress Mountain produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1992 and 2005. Summit records include entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurr…
- Date Range
- 1992-1999
- 2002-2005
- Reference Code
- M200 / V / A / 34 to 36
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Organization record
- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M200
- V14
- S6
- Series
- M200 / V: Summit Records
- Sous-Fonds
- M200
- Sub-Series
- M200 / V / A: Identified Summit Records
- Accession Number
- accn. 2023.10
- accn. 7779
- Reference Code
- M200 / V / A / 34 to 36
- Responsibility
- Summit Registers and Notes produced by Alpine Club of Canada
- Date Range
- 1992-1999
- 2002-2005
- Physical Description
- 3 volumes 4 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- Fortress Mountain is located in Kananaskis Country, near Spray Valley, Banff National Park and Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. It was originally a mountain ski resort. The films, Inception, The Bourne Legacy, The Claim, The Revenant and others were filmed in the area. Canadian climate researchers have used the area of Fortress Mountain Resort to study the effects of climate change in the area.
- Scope & Content
- Files consist of summit notes and summit registers from Fortress Mountain produced by the Alpine Club of Canada between 1992 and 2005. Summit records include entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while at the summit, wildlife sightings, trail updates, and related topics. Files include: M200 / V / A / 34: Fortress Mountain Summit register Aug. 16, 1992 - Aug. 13, 1995 M200 / V / A / 35: [Fortress Mountain? 1995 - 1999] M200 / V / A / 36: Fortress Mountain Sep 15, 2002 - Aug 13, 2005
- Name Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Subject Access
- Alberta
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Avalanches
- Backcountry skiing
- Backpacking
- Banff National Park
- Bow Valley
- Climatology
- Climbing
- Conservation
- Environment
- Environment and Nature
- Films and film making
- Fortress Mountain
- Helicopters
- Hiking
- Mountain
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- National parks and reserves
- Parks
- Provincial parks and reserves
- Ski mountaineering
- Skiing
- Sports and leisure
- Sports and recreation
- Summit
- Trails
- Winter sports
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff National Park
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Kananaskis Country
- Rocky Mountains
- Spray Valley
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Mandarin
- Japanese
- Korean
- Related Material
- M235
- Biographical Source Notes
- Fortress Mountain and the false promise of public participation in Alberta, March 2020, Shaun Fluker, In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.1, March 2020, p. 6 - 8, The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal. Whyte Archives Library Call Number: P
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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The ice age problem
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7216
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1941
- Author
- Knoche, Walter
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : Smithsonian Institution
- Call Number
- 03.5 K75 Pam
- Author
- Knoche, Walter
- Publisher
- Washington (D.C.) : Smithsonian Institution
- Published Date
- 1941
- Physical Description
- 5p
- Series
- Smithsonian miscellaneous collections, vol.99, no.22
- Subjects
- Climatology
- Glaciers
- Radiation
- Accession Number
- 10000
- Call Number
- 03.5 K75 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Legacy in time : three generations of mountain photography in the Canadian West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14441
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Vaux, Henry
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 06.4 V46l c.1
- 06 V46l c.2
- Author
- Vaux, Henry
- Responsibility
- Henry Vaux Jr.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 125 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, maps ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Climatology
- Environment
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Photographers
- Photography
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Vaux family
- Notes
- Includes bibliography references
- Repeat photography of glacier formations in the mountains of Western Canada, comparing the photographs taken by Vaux family members in the late 19th and early 20th century with photographs taken by Henry Vaux Jr. of in the early 21st century
- ISBN
- 9781771600606
- Accession Number
- P2015-01-20
- tbd
- Call Number
- 06.4 V46l c.1
- 06 V46l c.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Looking forward to a warmer Alberta
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- Author
- Gietz, Conrad
- Physical Description
- p.12-15
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Climatology
- Glaciers
- Vegetation
- Notes
- In Environment Views, vol.11, no.3, Dec 1988
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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