Global Water Futures Observatories
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🌍 Canada’s premier national freshwater research facility 📈 Open-access water research data 💧 Instrumented water observing sites, laboratories, and deployable systems. gwfo.ca
Freshwater Stewardship: Water holds more than data. This Sept 30 we reflect on the responsibility as scientists, researchers, knowledge holders, technicians, practitioners, and students to listen, learn, and broaden the ways we understand water. #OrangeShirtDay #NationalDayforTruthandReconciliation
We are looking forward to next week's launch of our webinar series #GWFOExpertBriefs. Join us on Monday to hear stories of impact from @water.usask.ca's @andrewireson.bsky.social! Register now! usask-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #DataDrivenScience #Water 💧
Shared water. Shared science. Shared security. On #IntlDayOfPeace we celebrate science bringing people together. When challenges are shared, science & solutions should be too. The #DecadeOfActionForCryosphericSciences calls on cooperation to protect societies facing cryosphere loss lnkd.in/gRaVsjeN
Congratulations to GWFO director, Dr. John Pomeroy, on winning @src-rsc.bsky.social's Bancroft Award in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the science and modelling of snow processes! 🏆 ❄️ news.usask.ca/articles/res...
Join us on Monday September 28th at 1PM CST as Andrew Ireson from Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) shares his experiences from GWFO's freshwater observatories in Canada's breadbasket region🌾🚜 Register for the webinar: usask-ca.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Webinar series incoming!🌊 Across Canada, scientists collect water data through GWFO's observatories in lakes, rivers, wetlands, glaciers, & drainage basins. Join us to hear from researchers behind the data on what their work means for Canada's freshwater future. Details & registration next week ➡️
GWFO Director John Pomeroy talks about Canadian experience with melting glaciers www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...
30 Canadians missing in Nepal after deadly glacier-triggered floods
Thirty Canadians remain missing in Nepal a week after catastrophic flash floods killed at least 1,100 people. Kathy Le reports.
ctvnews.ca
GWFO partner repository @datastream.org is looking for a French and English speaking Environmental Data Services Manager to be based in Canada. See the job post here: datastream.org/en-ca/articl...
Job Posting: Environmental Data Services Manager - Article - DataStreamJob Posting: Environmental Data Services Manager - Article - DataStream
The Gordon Foundation is seeking a Data Services Manager to join DataStream at an exciting time as our community of data contributors and users grows across Canada.
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Explained: "Researchers needed somewhere to put data and a common way to describe it in order to unlock opportunities for more impactful science. It was known at the time that the scale of water data, the demands on computing, and the need to work across disciplinary boundaries would all grow."
CUAHSI@cuahsi.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe CUAHSI August e-Newsletter is out! With summer coming to an end an a new semester on the horizon, there are a lot of new programs launching including, a cyberseminar series, 2 workshops, conferences and many other engagement opportunities! us3.campaign-archive.com?u=aad7e9257f...
Peatlands store vast amounts of carbon, but winter matters for the carbon budget. Using GWFO data, @uw-ecohydrology.bsky.social researchers found non-growing season CO₂ emissions can offset 33% to 256% of growing season uptake. www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
Frontiers | Comparing modeled and measured carbon dioxide data at five canadian peatlands revealed highly variable non-growing season fluxes
Peatlands hold up to one-third of the global organic carbon (C) stock and are considered a critical C sink. Climate models project that the rate of warming i...
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Professor @Jenn Baltzer GWFO lead @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social @crrc-wlu.bsky.social shares experience from the Fire Ecology Network www.castanet.net/news/Canada/...
This is Ontario's worst wildfire season, early estimates suggest. It's not over yet.
Wildfires across northern Ontario have torched more of the province's forest than during any previous year on record, early estimates suggest, with a recent burst of fast-moving wildfires responsible ...
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@firebobbc.bsky.social looks like those drinking water catchments may be in for a hard time...
BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More@bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 3mo ago“The entire city of Kimberley, B.C., has been placed under an evacuation alert as multiple wildfires burn out of control to the west of the Kootenay community.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social #BCWildfire #Kimberley #MatthewCreekWildfire #TowerCreekWildfires
Professor Marguerite Xenopoulos, GWFO Facility Lead, Water Quality Centre @trentuniversity.bsky.social, and colleague Paul Frost share their knowledge of algal blooms in this recent @theconversation.com article about Washington DC's Reflecting Pool theconversation.com/what-science...
What science tells us about the algae bloom in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Algal blooms are not maintenance failures requiring paint or treatment with hydrogen peroxide and nanobubbles. They are ecological warning signs.
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GWFO Director Professor John Pomeroy spoke to The Atlantic about wildfire conditions in Canada www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Canada’s Forests Will Burn and Burn
Once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control.
theatlantic.com
The Department of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences is excited to announce a new Minor in Watershed Science and Management starting in Sept 2026. This minor is accessible to students in all UNBC Faculties and has options to select from a wide range of required and elective courses.
"Farmers are key to future solutions" From the Global Institute for Water Security - research with Global Water Futures graduate Yohanne Gavasso Rita - farmers' adaptation know-how is crucial to help scientists, governments, and industry address climate realities in food production bit.ly/4oJWvh2
Understanding Climate Impacts on Canola Through Farmers’ Eyes - Global Institute for Water Security
Drawing on farmer insights, new research highlights how climate variability is affecting canola production and the strategies producers are using to respond.
water.usask.ca
We're losing it all right before our eyes. With 39 monitoring stations at high elevations near glaciers across the Canadian Rockies, a new Parks Canada report outlines the impacts of warming temperatures on glacial melt and how this affects popular spots near Banff. parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ab/ban...
"The New Normal": GWFO Director John Pomeroy talks about changing weather extremes www.cjme.com/2026/06/17/t...
The Evan Bray Show – Wednesday, June 17
Evan welcomes Saskatchewan Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill to take your calls and questions, gets the latest update on construction in the province and looks ahead to the weather a developing El Niño ...
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GWFO will be at #CWRA2026 representing the growing network of water scientists in Canada's premier freshwater research facility providing long-term water monitoring, informing decision makers with up-to-date science, and supporting regional drought, flood, and wildfire forecasting.
CWRA | ACRH@cwranational.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are just a few days away from the #CWRA2026 National Conference in #Winnipeg, MB 💧 📸 If you are posting about the conference, be sure to tag us on socials and use the hashtag #CWRA2026 in your posts! Reshare and comment down below to let us know if you are attending 👇
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Above-average Alberta snowpack expected to ease drought concerns in Saskatchewan
Higher-than-normal mountain snowpack in Alberta is expected to bring relief to Saskatchewan following years of drought-like conditions in some areas. John Pomeroy, a professor at the University of Sas...
discovermoosejaw.com
uwaterloo.ca/ecohydrology... @uw-ecohydrology.bsky.social
Bhaleka attends the Canadian Polar Data Workshop VI | Ecohydrology Research Group | University of Waterloo
Bhaleka Persaud, Research Data Management Specialist with the Global Water Futures Observatories (GWFO) and ERG, presented research at the Canadian Polar Data Workshop VI in Waterloo, Ontario.
uwaterloo.ca
Forests catch a lot of snowfall, but how that snow is stored, lost, or melts varies widely by climate. GWFO observation sites Marmot Creek and Fortress Mountain provided data for improving models that help to better predict water supply and climate impacts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Work carried out by GWF and GWFO team members @uwaterloo.ca found that understanding how winter peatland emissions reduce their carbon‑storage capacity is crucial for improving climate predictions and managing a major global carbon sink uwaterloo.ca/ecohydrology... @uw-ecohydrology.bsky.social
New publication Compares Modeled and Measured Carbon Dioxide Data in Canadian Peatlands During the Non-growing Season | Ecohydrology Research Group | University of Waterloo
New research highlights the critical role of the non-growing season in shaping Peatland carbon budgets.
uwaterloo.ca
