FEATURE PROJECTS
Glaciers play an important role in the annual hydrologic cycle of many river basins in British Columbia, exerting controls on runoff timing and magnitude as well as downstream temperature. Glaciers are known to delay the onset of runoff at the beginning of the melt season, and to augment runoff in mid- to late summer with the melting of the ice reservoir. Glacierized river basins stand to be affected by climate directly through changes in precipitation/evaporation and indirectly through changes to the glaciers themselves. It is this latter change that we are endeavoring to understand and...
The overall objective of this research program is to assess climate change and related water-use risks to aquatic ecosystems in mountain regions.
