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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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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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Little ice ages : ancient and modern
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12595
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Grove, Jean M
- Publisher
- London : Routledge
- Edition
- 2ed
- Call Number
- 03.4 G91l
- Author
- Grove, Jean M
- Edition
- 2ed
- Publisher
- London : Routledge
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 2v. : ill., maps
- Notes
- Rev. edition of: The little ice age, 1988
- Bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 0415099848X (two-volume set)
- Accession Number
- 7535
- Call Number
- 03.4 G91l
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Great lodges of the Canadian Rockies : on top of the world [videocassette]
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12604
- Medium
- Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alliance Atlantis
- Edition
- Episode 1001
- Call Number
- 06.3 B26gr V
- Responsibility
- Producer: Chuck Scott
- Writer/Director: Tom Radford
- Edition
- Episode 1001
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Alliance Atlantis
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 1 video cassette (ca. 60:00) : col. with b & w sequences
- Subjects
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Architecture
- Banff Springs Hotel
- Mount Assiniboine Lodge
- Plain of Six Glaciers Tea House
- Notes
- PBS production first aired in July 2004
- Companion book: Great Lodges of the Canadian Rockies by Christine Barnes
- Interviews include: Bart Robinson, Robert W. Sandford, Lazlo Funtek, Barb Renner, Syd Feuz, Martha McCallum, Carole Harmon, and Ken Jones
- Accession Number
- 7548
- Call Number
- 06.3 B26gr V
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Ice : beauty, danger, history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12723
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Couture, Pauline
- Publisher
- Toronto : McArthur & Company
- Call Number
- 03.4 C83i
- Author
- Couture, Pauline
- Publisher
- Toronto : McArthur & Company
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 336p. : ill
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- McCarthy, Daniel
- Vaux family
- Call Number
- 03.4 C83i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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How does Earth work? : physical geology and the process of science
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12919
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Smith, Gary Allen
- Publisher
- Upper Saddle River (NJ) : Pearson Prentice Hall
- Call Number
- 03 Sm4h
- Author
- Smith, Gary Allen
- Responsibility
- Gary A. Smith, Aurora Pun
- Publisher
- Upper Saddle River (NJ) : Pearson Prentice Hall
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- xxxi, 623p : ill., maps
- Notes
- Juvenile school textbook includes DVD supplement of active art animation and modules
- ISBN
- 0130341290
- Accession Number
- 7611
- Call Number
- 03 Sm4h
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Mountains as water towers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13147
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Centre
- Call Number
- 04 M86b November 2003
- Responsibility
- edited by Leslie Taylor and Anne Ryall
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff Centre
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 201 p. : ill
- Series
- Mountain communities conference series
- Banff Mountain Summit
- Notes
- Proceedings of conference held at The Banff Centre, Novermber 23-26, 2003
- Includes bibliographic references and index
- Partial contents: The effects of forest fire on water chemistry and mercury dynamics in aquatic systems in the Canadian Rockies / Erin Kelly; The effect of climate change on the Bow River / Gary Parkstrom; Impacts of climate change and variablity on freshwater ecosystems / Fred J. Wrona; The wonder of water / Robert W. Sandford
- ISBN
- 1-894773-14-4
- Accession Number
- 7645
- Call Number
- 04 M86b November 2003
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Understanding Earth
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13167
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Grotzinger, John
- Publisher
- New York : Freeman and Company
- Edition
- 5th ed
- Call Number
- 03 G91u
- Author
- Grotzinger, John
- Responsibility
- John Grotzinger, Thomas H. Jordan, Frank Press and Raymond Siever
- Edition
- 5th ed
- Publisher
- New York : Freeman and Company
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- xxi, 579, 58, [2], p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Geology
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Meteorology
- Notes
- Includes bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 0-7167-6682-5
- Accession Number
- 7642
- Call Number
- 03 G91u
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Scritti di natura : Ernie Kroeger, fotografie = Writings of nature : Ernie Kroeger photographs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13265
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Torino, Italy : Museo Nazionale della Montagna
- Call Number
- 06.4 K91s
- Publisher
- Torino, Italy : Museo Nazionale della Montagna
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 68p. : ill
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- Photographers
- ISBN
- 88-7376-027-9
- Accession Number
- 7824
- Call Number
- 06.4 K91s
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Globe-trotter : carnet de savoirs et d'activites
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13347
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Bergevin, Robert
- Publisher
- Quebec : Les editions CEC
- Call Number
- 03 B45g
- Author
- Bergevin, Robert
- Responsibility
- Robert Bergevin, Denis Bruneau
- Publisher
- Quebec : Les editions CEC
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- VI, 198p, 3p, 10p, 4p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Environment
- Geology
- Glaciers
- Juvenile literature
- Notes
- Juvenile school textbook. French text
- ISBN
- 2-7617-2253-1
- Accession Number
- 7805
- Call Number
- 03 B45g
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- Archives Library
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