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Communicating Scientific Results to Local Communities: BC Floods 2018

December 2, 2019May 23, 2018

The top disaster news in the past few weeks has been major flooding in communities across Canada. From New Brunswick to Alberta and British Columbia, … Read more

Tags BC, climate, climate change, Flood, flooding, floodplains, Grand Forks, Kootenays, municipalities, PCIC, scicomm, science communication, snow, snowpack, streamflow, temperature, weather

Communicating Wildfire

December 2, 2019May 16, 2018

*Edited 21 May to add books by Michael Kodas and Gary Ferguson. 2017 was the worst wildfire season on record in BC. A total of … Read more

Tags art, bcenv, communication, documentary, emergency, evacuation, Flood, ijnr, megafire, memorials, movies, museum, outreach, painting, photography, wildfire

No Drought in Sight (yet)

December 2, 2019June 17, 2017

It’s amazing how much impact the weather has on your state of mind. It’s June and the land is green, lush and verdant after a … Read more

Tags drought, Flood, gardening, hydrology, spring, Vancouver Island, vegetation, veggie garden, weather

Listening to winter in a land of extremes

December 2, 2019November 17, 2016

This summer I was worried about drought. About the ability of the greatly diminished Cowichan River to support the fall Chinook salmon run. These worries … Read more

Tags Cowichan, drought, extreme, Flood, fungi, salmon, seasons, summer, Vancouver Island, weather, winter

Ice Jams: A Powerful & Messy Problem

December 2, 2019March 23, 2013

It’s spring in our northern cold climates, and that usually means ice jams. Got a shot yesterday of a small one on the Oldman River, … Read more

Tags Flood, geomorphology, ice jam, Nechako River, river hydraulics, winter
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