Southern Rockies Watershed Project wins 2014 Alberta Emerald Award.
Friday, June 13, 2014
The
Southern
Rockies
Watershed
Project
and
team
was
selected
as
the
recipient
of
the
Challenge
Award
in
Water
in
the
2014
Alberta
Emerald
Awards.
Mike
Stone,
from
the
Department
of
Geography
and
Environmental
Management,
is
a
member
of
this
research
team.
The
broad
goals
of
the
Southern
Rockies
Watershed
Project
are
to:
1)
Develop
a
better
understanding
of
connections
between
the
climatic,
hydrological,
and
ecological
factors
regulating
this
key
headwater
landscape
(including
natural
and
human
related
disturbance
pressures)
and,
2)
Link
this
information
with
the
condition
of
downstream
water
resources
at
larger
basin
scales,
including
implications
for
municipal
water
supplies
for
drinking
water.
The
project
is
unique
in
bringing
together
a
highly
diverse
team
of
water
and
natural
resource
scientists
spanning
headwaters
hydrology,
disturbance
ecology,
large
basin-scale
river
processes,
water
treatment
engineering,
and
natural
resource
sociology
and
economics
to
generate
information
needed
for
the
protection
and
sustainable
management
of
these
critical
water
resources.
This
research
spans
a
range
of
scales
from
smaller
watersheds
in
the
headwaters
of
the
Oldman
River
basin
and
the
Elbow
River
to
larger
river
basin
scales.
