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What's New in the Watershed
November 2012
In This Issue
Environmental Monitoring Agency
Glacier Retreat
Integrated Watershed Management Plan
Meet WEHUB, a friend of SEAWA:  

 

The Water and Environmental Hub (WEHUB) is a cloud-based, open source web platform that's making it easier for individuals and organizations to find, access, and share water and environmental data. Think of it as a web-based work bench that makes it easier for organizations, researchers, and companies to access and work with water data, and build custom solutions that fit their particular individual or community needs. 


Water Trivia

There is more fresh water in the atmosphere than in all of the rivers on the planet combined. 


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What's on our radar this month? Alberta's new environmental monitoring agency...
Bow at Banff
 
 Alberta will soon have an arms-length agency to oversee environmental monitoring across the province - beginning in the oil sands region.  The formation of the agency  was a key recommendation of the Environmental Monitoring Working Group report.  Read more about the new agency here.
WEHUB



 
The WEHUB project needs your help to collect and distribute Canadian water and environmental data for users to access, mashup, analyze, model and interpret. Do you have data to share? Or do you know an organization or individual who does? Visit the WEHUB website.
 
Glacier retreat affects stream ecology, water resources 
 
Shawn Marshall (UofC) speaks about the research he and fellow researcher Mike Demuth are performing on glaciers throughout the Rockies. Read the Calgary Herald report here.
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Featured Video

What's the difference between climate and weather? In this one minute animation the relationship between trend and variation are explained with an excellent analogy to a man walking his dog.
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SEAWA is proud to announce that the Strategic Plan for the IWMP is now available online. The Steering Committee for the IWMP will now begin to prepare the Terms of Reference for the first phase of the IWMP. Read or download the PDF here.
 

STOP! Important! Save the date!  
The half-day workshop on Watershed Hydrology and Risk Management previously scheduled for November 12 has been re-scheduled for January 14 to accommodate people taking November 12 as a day off for Remembrance Day. 

On November 22 SEAWA and the University of Saskatoon Global Institute for Water Security will be co-hosting a public meeting to share the preliminary results of the project titled "A Collaborative Approach to Better Understand Water Security in the Saskatchewan River Basin." There will be an opportunity to meet with members of the research team to review the findings, and to discuss next steps and opportunities for future collaboration. In the afternoon, representatives from Alberta Environment Water Quality Branch will discuss the results of recent water quality monitoring that has been conducted in the basin. Everyone is welcome - lunch will be provided. For more information and to RSVP please email maggie@seawa.ca.

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Please, feel free to contact us with any comments or questions you have about SEAWA, about land and water issues in the region, or about your personal connection to the watershed.
 
Contact Info
Maggie Romuld M.Sc., P.Biol.
Watershed Project Coordinator
maggie@seawa.ca