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Hello Muhammad Qasim,
There's no shortage of things to share this week. Registration is now open for several webinars in our annual NRCan series; the value of our annual student awards has increased (and we've added a CSHS undergraduate award); and our "Other News You Can Use" section is stuffed with partner events and updates. Happy Friday water people!
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Webinars, Workshops, Courses
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Manitoba Branch webinar series: February 22, noon CT. Webinar #4: Data products, tools, and knowledge for sustainable water management in the Prairies. Presenter: Lauren Miranda (Project Manager, Prairie Water, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan). Learn more and register here.
NEW NRCan Webinar Series: February 28, 1 pm ET. Indigenous Engagement. Presenter: Aiden Cyr. NRCan webinars are free but you must register. Register here. (More details about the presentation will be posted soon.)
NEW CWRA SYP Winnipeg Chapter Networking Event: February 29, 6:30 - 8:30 pm CT. Presentation by TREK Geotechnical followed by networking. Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba - 870 Pembina Highway. Email cwra@umanitoba.ca to register.
NEW NRCan Webinar Series: March 5, 1 pm ET. Elevation, Terrain and Super-Resolution. Presenter: Heather McGrath. NRCan webinars are free but you must register. Read more and register here.
NEW CSHS Workshop: March 8, 1 pm ET. Time Series and Random Fields in Hydroclimatology – Analysis and Generation With COSMOS. Read more and register here.
Saskatchewan Branch webinar series: March 12, noon CT. Webinar #6: Global precipitation monitoring from Tomorrow.IO's bespoke satellite constellation. Presenter: Greg Porter, Tomorrow.io. Read more and register here.
NASH Salt Dilution Hydrometric Workshop: March 12, 9 am - 5 pm PT. Kelowna. BC. This workshop is being offered in conjunction with the Environmental Flows conference. Read more and register through the conference portal here.
Partner event: Okanagan Basin Water Board and the CWRA BC Branch. Environmental Flows Conference: March 13-15, 2024. Kelowna, BC. Visit the conference website for details.
NEW NRCan Webinar Series: March 19, 1 pm ET. Manning’s N: High-Resolution Approaches And Challenges In Surface Roughness Modeling For Hydrological Assessment. Presenter: Heather McGrath. NRCan webinars are free but you must register. Read more and register here.
UPDATE Alberta Branch conference: April 15-16, Calgary, Alberta. The call for abstracts is open, rates have been posted, and preliminary program info is now available. Learn more here. Registration will be available soon.
Ontario Branch Flooding Workshop: April 24-25, Oakville, ON. Knowledge Transfer, Innovation, Collaboration and Communication. Registration now available. Learn more and register here.
NEW Partner Event: 15th International Symposium On Ecohydraulics And Fish Passage 2024. May 5-9, Quebec City. Visit the conference website for details.
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Alberta conference call for abstracts!
April 15-16 in Calgary, Alberta
"Resilience Through Adaptive Management"
Registration will be available soon.
In the meantime ... submit an abstract and learn more about conference rates, technical tours, and preliminary programming.
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Important Updates
#CWRA2024
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Last call for abstracts for the CWRA annual national conference.
The deadline is February 19, 2024.
Information about conference workshops and tours is now available on the conference website.
The value of conference student awards has increased this year (woohoo) and we have a new CSHS award for undergraduates. Award criteria and application details are available here.
Registration for the conference will be available soon, and stay tuned for conference volunteer opportunities!
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Sorry, no new jobs to post today on our CWRA Job Board. Remember to check the job board frequently though, we post jobs as we receive them. (And good luck with your job search!)
All CWRA members enjoy a 10% discount on job postings. If you would like to post a job on our website and have it announced through our bi-weekly eblasts, email info@cwra.org for rate information.
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Reminder: CWRA's Winter 2024 Water News is now online. Please let us know if you would like to submit an article or news item (or advertise!) in the Spring issue. The deadline for submissions is March 15.
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It's time to test your knowledge once again!
Dendritic; Density Current; Depletion Curve (Hydraulics); Design Capacity; Developed Water; Diadromous; Distributary Channel; Dowser; Drawdown; Dystrophic Lake.
Last week's "C" definitions are here.
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ICYMI: Here's the link to The Rivers Playlist.
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Say hello to Craig Sutherland!
A long-time member of CWRA, Craig's enthusiasm has apparently not waned. His hand shot up at our recent midterm board meeting when we were looking for volunteers for our new Indigenous Engagement Committee. Thanks Craig!
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1. What do you do as a career? What do you like about it?
As a water resources consulting engineer based in Victoria, BC (and soon to be part-time in Kingston, Ontario), I specialize in nature-based design for river channel engineering and assessing the vulnerability of community water sources to climate change. I find satisfaction in exploring methods to integrate ecological processes to improve infrastructure resilience while protecting important ecological values. This work involves collaborating with clients, multi-disciplinary teams, stakeholders, and communities to develop sustainable solutions using science-backed decision-support tools. Often, this combination results in innovative solutions that surpass what individual organizations could achieve.
2. When did you first join the CWRA?
I joined CWRA at the start of my career in 2001 and have been an active member ever since.
3. Why do you like being a part of the CWRA?
Engaging with like-minded individuals from across the country who share a common interest in sustainable water management is the highlight of my involvement with CWRA. The association offers valuable opportunities to meet and share ideas with other water professionals from a range of diverse backgrounds. Working together with other CWRA members to organize events, ranging from webinars to multi-day conferences, is especially fulfilling. The lively engagement, enthusiasm, and camaraderie at CWRA events make my active participation truly worthwhile.
4. What do you think is the top/most important water-related issue in Canada?
The increased uncertainty in planning resilient water-related infrastructure amid a changing climate I believe is a significant and challenging issue in today's water resources engineering field. Our current design practices, often relying on standardized hazard-based approaches, can overlook the potential consequences of infrastructure failure. This can either lead to under-designed projects leading to increased risk where consequences of failure are significant or over-designed projects and increased costs where consequences may be less severe. Transitioning to risk-based planning and design is crucial for striking a balance between the climate change impacts to communities and the costs of adaptive infrastructure measures. While there has been significant progress in applying risk assessment to planning and design, ongoing efforts are required to establish clear guidance on establishing acceptable levels of risk levels for communities. Engaging decision-makers, policy-makers, practitioners, and communities will be essential in navigating this transition, and I eagerly anticipate continued contribution to these discussions.
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This installation of the BWPS features papers on techniques to quantify hydrological processes at global and local scales. Bujak‐Ozga et al. (2023) characterize drainage density from water level and channel flow measurements made using wireless sensors and surveys. Fischer et al. (2019) utilize low-tech methods to extract plant water for isotopic analysis. Langhorst and Pavelsky (2023) show how decades of Landsat observations can predict erosion and geomorphological change. Mondal and Mishra (2024) utilize network theory to characterize spatial relationships between hydrological variables. McMillan et al. (2022) show how hydrological signatures indicate watershed responses.
Bujak‐Ozga I, Van Meerveld HJ (Ilja), Rinaldo A, Von Freyberg J. 2023. Short-term dynamics of drainage density based on a combination of channel flow state surveys and water level measurements. Hydrological Processes 37 (12): e15041 DOI: 10.1002/hyp.15041
How to characterize the flowing drainage density of streams by wireless sensors and measurements: the Erlenbach research catchment of Switzerland; data fusion using the novel CEASE method; and spatial differences.
Fischer BMC, Frentress J, Manzoni S, Cousins SAO, Hugelius G, Greger M, Smittenberg RH, Lyon SW. 2019. Mojito, Anyone? An Exploration of Low-Tech Plant Water Extraction Methods for Isotopic Analysis Using Locally-Sourced Materials. Frontiers in Earth Science 7. Link.
Water extraction methods to characterize stable isotope ratios for hydrological applications: comparisons of kitchen-countertop methods with cryogenic vacuum extraction, and characterization of errors in the context of applications.
Langhorst T, Pavelsky T. 2023. Global Observations of Riverbank Erosion and Accretion from Landsat Imagery. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 128 (2): e2022JF006774 DOI: 10.1029/2022JF006774
Two decades of Landsat observations utilized to quantify riverbank erosion and change: statistical distributions; river width as a predictor of erosion; quantifying uncertainties; and geospatial differences, processes and human activities.
McMillan HK, Gnann SJ, Araki R. 2022. Large Scale Evaluation of Relationships Between Hydrologic Signatures and Processes. Water Resources Research 58 (6): e2021WR031751 DOI: 10.1029/2021WR031751
Understanding the important processes that control watershed responses: hydrological signatures and a spatial geography of similarities and differences; big datasets and distributions; correlations; and site-specific linkages.
Mondal S, Mishra A. 2024. Quantifying the Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, and Soil Moisture Network’s Interaction Over Global Land Surface Hydrological Cycle. Water Resources Research 60 (2): e2023WR034861 DOI: 10.1029/2023WR034861
Understanding relationships between hydrological variables by utilizing multiplex network theory: spatio-temporal heterogeneity; correlations and network topologies; scales of connectivity; and mapping similarities and differences.
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The Request for Proposals (RFP) for Flood Frequency Analysis (FFA) Manual for Hydrotechnical Practitioners in Canada has been released. The Canada Buys link to the RFP can be found here.
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Do you have a project, technology, or study you would like to share with almost 4000 water resource professionals in either our quarterly Water News magazine or this bi-weekly newsletter? Drop us a line.
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