🚨 We’re hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Remote Sensing in the University of Lethbridge’s Department of Geography & Environment. 🚨 🔗 Full details and application link: uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8952 📆 Application review starts March 9!

The Mountain Ice & Water Lab @ ULethbridge is recruiting for Spring-Fall 2026! • PhD → glacier–groundwater interactions (Peyto Glacier) • MSc → snowmelt-driven hydrology & headwater recharge (Westcastle Basin) Both combine fieldwork + process-based modelling 🏔️💻📖 Details in posters!

4 months into this job, I'm still not over the view from my office! The morning golden light, coffee, and a bit of calm before teaching, grants, and coding turn the day into a whirlwind!

Great weekend catching up on what glaciologists are up to and providing some hydro context at the Northwest Glaciologist Meeting! Thanks a lot to @watershedlab.bsky.social and @glasheologist.bsky.social for the organization ❄️

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Let’s do this! #NWG2025 🧪⚒️❄️

Know someone doing great work on climate or global change? 🌍 ULeth is hiring a Tier 2 CRC (racialized scholars, within 10 yrs of PhD). ☀️ Join us in sunny southern Alberta ⏰ Position review start Nov 3!! 🔗 uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8708

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?... (please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

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Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

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Hiring alert! Geography at U. Leth is looking for a new Instructor! If you love GIS, remote sensing, and teaching geoscience skills -> join our awesome crew on the coulees 🗓️ Start date: July 1, 2026 📍Lethbridge, Alberta 💰 $59K–$75K Apply by Jan 1, 2026: uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8717

With the fall colors out and the semester starting next week, I finally got around to visit my colleague's weather stations at the Castle Mountain Resort this week and chat about future work we can do about mountain hydrology in the region.

It's new faculty orientation week at @ulethbridgeartsci.bsky.social! Really neat to get to know the other incoming professors across the departments (philosophy, neuroscience, English, chemistry.. and more). Pretty excited for this cohort :)

Setting up a new instruments in the Yukon with a colleague's lab -> walking in deep wet moss, eating wild blueberries and trying to measure streamflow and no eat bugs while asking loudly: Is there permafrost here? And there? And for how long? And what if there's a fire? And how much snow? It's fun.

Increasingly, glacier retreat, warm temperatures and recreation don't mix. It's easy to forget how dynamics these environnements are when we access them on well-maintained trails and infrastructure www.climbing.com/news/climber...

60 Climbers & Hikers Heli-Evacuated From Bugaboos Due to Flooding

The iconic alpine climbing area remains closed until further notice.

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It’s NSERC PhD season! If you’re : ➡️ finishing an MSc (or supervising someone who is) ➡️ looking for a PhD in 2026 ➡️ into mountain hydrology (glaciers, snow, groundwater) Let’s chat! 🎉 Happy to support curious and keen applicants as a potential advisor 😄 www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

I signed my contract for U. Lethbridge in Dec. 2023. This was coming for a while... But I am still so freaking excited (and fully embracing this pocket of joy amongst the burning fires of the world). Special shout-out to my 2011 undergrad self who was so nervous to go knock on a prof's door.

First day back in the office today! After a year of maternity leave, I'm psyched to get back into science - now as a tenured-track prof in geography at U. Lethbridge So much to catch up on before the semester starts! Decorating/organizing my new office is not urgent, but will take priority anyway 😊

A shout out to the @hakai.org ACO team for their work in helping us understand the magnitude of glacier mass loss in western Canada in a study published today. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Multi-day, tuition-FREE expeditions for high school girls* blending science, art, and backcountry travel 🏔️ inspiringgirls.org/apply 📅 Deadlines: Girls* on Ice Canada - 2/7 Girls* on Rock & Girls* in Icy Fjords - 2/9 Girls* on Ice Switzerland & Girls* on Ice Austria - 2/14 Girls* on Ice Alaska - 3/2

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We are alarmed by the Administration’s actions to freeze science funding and eliminate DEI efforts and climate change initiatives, which go against AGU’s mission and harms our members. We must unite to address these changes, beginning by hearing from you. Read more: https://buff.ly/4hm8r4e

Nope nope nope. Terrible idea. Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's good. Water can get contaminated by so many things out in the wild and wrench havoc on our human bodies.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · last yr.

“Raw water" from natural sources is trending, but it’s untested for safety, unlike tap or bottled water. Drinking it risks exposure to harmful microbes and toxins. A microbiologist debunks myths and highlights the public health risks: https://buff.ly/3PZTDwd (Bill Sullivan, Indiana University)

“‘are they prepared to sacrifice a multi-billion-dollar food industry for a coal mine?’” With southern Alberta known as the province’s heart of agriculture, roughly $14 billion in products are exported every year” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/leth...

‘It’s a catastrophe’: Southern Alberta’s ag industry concerned over potential coal mining pollution

Pushback continues to mount over possible coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, with the latest being a letter penned to the provincial government over the impact coal mining could...

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When everyone was looking at the USA, Alberta quietly scrapped a series of ministerial orders that banned coal development in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #cndpoli #abpoli

Alberta rescinds coal development ban for foothills of the Rocky Mountains

Energy Minister Brian Jean said in a letter to the Alberta Energy Regulator that he was rescinding ministerial orders which directed the agency to suspend approvals and refuse new applications for coa...

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Trans, intersex, and queer people will always exist because humans are biological creatures and biology - inevitably and always - creates variability and diversity. If there is any “biological truth,” it’s that a biological system will never conform to the strictures of human machinations.

Doc Impossible@impossiblephd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump signed an executive order that tries to write trans people out of existence today. It's mostly symbolic. It's still gonna make for a LOT of pain for the trans community--just probably not where you think it will. It's gonna be real bad for grant funding, which means medical research. A 🧵

These devastating fires in LA are climate change in action. More than 80% of the county is under drought, and when hurricane force winds hit dry land, they ignite. As @katharinehayhoe.com says, we are experiencing global weirding.

Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:

Yes, Climate Change is Raising the Risks—and Stakes—of Extreme Wildfires

Rising temperatures, parched forests, and shifting precipitation patterns are fueling severe wildfires with unprecedented impacts. There is still time to act.

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I debated doing some computer work during naptime today, but instead decided to go for a very slow stroller run - my first run since little L was born. I think it was the right call :) Maybe I'll be so sore tomorrow that computer time will sound like the best option! #matleave #runningnaps

What happens to surface water and groundwater when glaciers retreat and T/P changes? We took a look at exactly that in our recent open-access paper! We ran hydro simulations in the Cordillera Blanca, where there are lots of data + studies about GW and hydrology. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

I attended a day of presentations and discussions about snow monitoring with researchers from U. Calgary, U. Lethbridge and Alberta gov. last week. The goal: meet future colleagues, get the science juices flowing and help me plan my next steps. And of course, test bringing a baby to meetings!

I have a few months before I start as a tenured track assistant prof here in Canada. Any suggestions to start prepping? With the caveat that I have pretty limited computer time, but many hours of thinking available!

"every fraction of a degree matters" is true as hell. In the same way that releasing CO2 hurts people and planet, avoiding its release saves us from potential harm This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

Goodbye, Karsten Heuer. thenarwhal.ca/rocky-mounta...

Rockies conservation icon Karsten Heuer reflects on life and death | The Narwhal

Karsten Heuer has lived beyond limits, fought fiercely to protect Rocky Mountain wild places and now prepares for his final journey

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So many new folks! Hi! 😀 My work is about how snow and ice contribute to our water resources 🏔️ Outside of science, I'm usually skiing and climbing. These days, I'm at home with my new-ish baby 🐣 I share about science, mountains, water, climate, and occasionally, about social and gender issues.