{"id":189,"date":"2016-04-20T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/?page_id=189"},"modified":"2016-05-06T17:10:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T23:10:59","slug":"water-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/water-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Watershed Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watershed Modelling<\/h2>\n

\"Alberta<\/h2>\n

Alberta\u2019s economy depends on an adequate and predictable supply of water. Water\u00a0intensive industries including irrigated agriculture, industries reliant on hydroelectric\u00a0power, and the oil and gas sector and all require predictable water for a healthy future.\u00a0However, climate change and climate variability will undoubtedly alter the spatial and\u00a0temporal water supplies for the province of Alberta. Understanding the dynamics of the\u00a0different water flows and endowments in space and time is needed to allow timely\u00a0policy decisions and better targeted investments in efficient water infrastructures and\u00a0management facilities.<\/p>\n

Events such as the 2013 flood in Calgary and the summer\u00a0drought in the Edmonton region in 2015 necessitate that proper mitigation measures be\u00a0adapted to accommodate future climate variability and future climate change scenarios.\u00a0The economic and social costs of poor decisions for adaptation cannot be overstated.\u00a0This project will seek to convey to stakeholders the risks and opportunities to their\u00a0future growth scenarios as a result of changes in future local water availability. Long-term integrated water management requires all sectors of the economy: agriculture,\u00a0ecosystem services, municipal, industrial and energy (both oil and gas and hydroelectric)\u00a0to collaborate to ensure there is enough water, when we need it, to ensure a strong\u00a0economy.<\/p>\n

In collaboration with Dr.\u00a0Monireh Faramarzi , this research program\u00a0addresses issues related to Future Water Supply and Watershed Management in\u00a0Alberta. This project specifically proposes to examine the projected future water\u00a0demand scenarios in light of recently developed water supply scenarios for Alberta.\u00a0This project will provide two key deliverables, A) advancing the knowledge of WA\u00a0forecasting for Alberta and B) engaging stakeholders through a series of interactive\u00a0workshops to identify imbalances in WA\/WD scenarios. Bringing together future\u00a0WA scenarios (as defined by the science) and future projected WD (as refined by\u00a0stakeholder projection scenarios) is absolutely necessary to gain consensus to\u00a0implement adaptation strategies to mitigate potential economic, environmental and\u00a0social consequences.<\/p>\n

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Improving stormwater management systems<\/h2>\n

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The goals of this research program, in collaboration with Clearflow Group of\u00a0companies, is to manage water quality problems in stormwater ponds via a\u00a0combination of complementary technologies: environmentally friendly polymers,\u00a0floating treatment wetlands and Nautilus pond design with downstream wetland for\u00a0further improvement of stormwater quality. Stormwater ponds face continuing\u00a0water quality problems (e.g. algae blooms and excessive suspended sediments);\u00a0however, there is still no single environmentally responsible method to solve such\u00a0problems. The technologies mentioned above are currently not used to their full\u00a0potential mainly due to the lack of large-scale studies of their effectiveness in\u00a0pollution control and environmental effects. Synergistic benefits of combining these\u00a0technologies in combating pollution in stormwater ponds are the subject of this\u00a0research program. In this program, we measure and model the efficiency of these\u00a0combined technologies in controlling suspended sediments, nutrients, chloride,\u00a0algae, fecal bacteria, heavy metals oxygen demand, oil and grease and other organics\u00a0in urban stormwater ponds. Equal in importance will be our research into potential\u00a0long-term environmental effects of these technologies in stormwater ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watershed Modelling Alberta\u2019s economy depends on an adequate and predictable supply of water. Water\u00a0intensive industries including irrigated agriculture, industries reliant on hydroelectric\u00a0power, and the oil and gas sector and all require predictable water for a healthy future.\u00a0However, climate change and climate variability will undoubtedly alter the spatial and\u00a0temporal water supplies… Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/189\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}