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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Watersheds
Climate
Climate change
Climatology
Western Canada
Glaciers
Rivers
Lakes
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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Andy Russsell Career Scrapbook

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Part Of
Andy Russell fonds
Scope & Content
File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and career of Andy Russell. Also includes an invitation presented to Russell from the Winnipeg Game and Fish Association and newspaper clippings pertaining to Cleo Mowers' career.
Date Range
1947-1961
Reference Code
M153 / 575
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Scrapbook
  1 image     1 Electronic Resource  
Part Of
Andy Russell fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M153 / S43 / V555
Sous-Fonds
M153
Sub-Series
VII Russell family series
Accession Number
5777
Reference Code
M153 / 575
GMD
Scrapbook
Date Range
1947-1961
Physical Description
3 cm of textual records (28 pages ; 31.5 x 35.5 cm)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description.
Scope & Content
File consists of a scrapbook of newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and career of Andy Russell. Also includes an invitation presented to Russell from the Winnipeg Game and Fish Association and newspaper clippings pertaining to Cleo Mowers' career.
Name Access
Russell, Andy
Mowers, Cleo
Subject Access
Academics
Administration
Backpacking
Biographical
Climatology
Conservation
Ecology
Education
Environment and Nature
Forestry
Horseback riding
Personal and Professional Life
Photography
Natural history
Natural resources
Wildlife
Wildlife fatalities
Geographic Access
Banff
Lake Louise
Jasper
Banff National Park
Jasper National Park
Yoho National Park
Kootenay National Park
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Language
English
Conservation
Blank pages not scanned
Finding Aid
Access by advance appointment only
Creator
Russell, Kay
Title Source
Title based on item.
Processing Status
Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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Climate change and landscape in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

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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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Author
Rutter, Nat
Coppold, Murray
Rokosh, Dean
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Websites
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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
Author
Scott Polar Research Institute
Publisher
Cambridge
Published Date
1972
Physical Description
47p
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Climatology
Glaciers
Accession Number
597
Call Number
R 03.5 Sco3
Collection
Archives Library
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue9926
Medium
Library - Periodical
Author
Gietz, Conrad
Call Number
P
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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Mountain areas and global change : a view from the Canadian Rockies

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8875
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Luckman, B. H
Call Number
04 L96 Pam
Author
Luckman, B. H
Physical Description
p.183-195 : ill., map
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alpine tundra
Climatology
Glaciers
Notes
In Mountain Research and Development, vol.10, no.2, May 1990
Accession Number
5839
Call Number
04 L96 Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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Newsclippings Scrapbook

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Part Of
Andy Russell fonds
Scope & Content
Scrapbook pertains to Andy Russell.
Date Range
1947-1955
Reference Code
M153 / 576
Description Level
5 / File
GMD
Scrapbook
  1 image     1 Electronic Resource  
Part Of
Andy Russell fonds
Description Level
5 / File
Fonds Number
M153 / S43 / V555
Sous-Fonds
M153
Sub-Series
VII Russell family series
Accession Number
5777
Reference Code
M153 / 576
GMD
Scrapbook
Date Range
1947-1955
Physical Description
2 cm of textual records (26 pages ; 30.5 x 35.5 cm)
History / Biographical
See fonds level description
Scope & Content
Scrapbook pertains to Andy Russell.
Name Access
Russell, Andy
Subject Access
Academics
Administration
Backpacking
Biographical
Climatology
Conservation
Ecology
Education
Environment and Nature
Films and film making
Forestry
Horseback riding
Personal and Professional Life
Photography
Natural history
Natural resources
Wildlife
Wildlife fatalities
Geographic Access
Banff
Lake Louise
Jasper
Banff National Park
Jasper National Park
Kananaskis
Yoho National Park
Kootenay National Park
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Language
English
Conservation
Blank pages not scanned
Finding Aid
Access by advance appointment only
Creator
Russell, Kay
Title Source
Title based on contents of file
Processing Status
Processed
Electronic Resources
Images
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