Department of

GEOGRAPHY & PLANNING

2016 – 2017

RESEARCH ACTIVITY REPORT

THE DEPARTMENT

BY THE NUMBERS 2016-17

30 Academic journal papers

4 Books & book chapters

30+ Media interviews

50+ Invited lectures &

presentations

40 Presentations at

conferences & workshops

33 Technical reports,

conference & review papers

100+ million in new funding as principal or co-investigator

14 Faculty Members

9 Adjuncts & Affiliates

2 Emeritus Professors

7 Post-Doctoral Fellows

27 Doctoral Students

25 Masters Students

8 Visiting Researchers

RESEARCH NEWS

GLOBAL WATER FUTURES

The U of S was awarded $77.8 million from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) to lead the Global Water Futures: Solutions to Water Threats in an Era of Global Change initiative. With 140 partners around the world, this the largest university-led water research program ever funded worldwide.

Professor John Pomeroy is the project’s Co-PI, and Global Water Futures Associate Director.

The overarching goal of Global Water Futures is to deliver risk management solutions - informed by leading-edge water science and supported by innovative decision-making tools - to manage water futures in Canada and other cold regions where global warming is changing landscapes, ecosystems, and the water environment.

COLDWATER LABORATORY – CANMORE As part of the launch of Global Water Futures, the Coldwater Laboratory was opened in Canmore, Alberta. This year-round research and training facility will support more than 20 researchers including students, faculty, visiting researchers, and postdoctoral fellows Professor John Pomeroy is Director of the facility. Research at the facility will improve predictions about future water availability, assist in disaster planning, and support water policy and management decisions.

L to R: Holly Anand (GEPL PhD student); John Pomeroy (CRC and GWF Associate Director); Karen Chad (Vice-president Research); Hon. Ralph Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness); Bettina Hamelin (Vice-president of Partnerships, NSERC); Peter Stoicheff (U of S President). Photo credit: University Communications

RESEARCH FUNDING Our research funding provides opportunities for graduate student training at both the Master’s (MA, MSc) and PhD level. Our faculty and graduate students have been successful in obtaining Tri-Agency funding from NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR, with some faculty having received funding from more than one Tri-Agency. Our research is also funded by a variety of other sources, including industry, governments, not-for-profit organizations, and foundations. Our funding sources reflect the breadth and interdisciplinary nature of research in the Department of Geography and Planning.

FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS

Beaver as an aquatic ecosystem restoration tool

NSERC Discovery Grant ($160,000) C. Westbrook (PI)

Next generation solutions to ensure healthy water resources

Global Water Futures ($1,391,228) B. Noble (Co-I)

Leadership grant for female faculty

Arts & Science, U of S ($1,000) C. Westbrook (PI)

Strategy against TB of First Nations: Determinants of TB transmission project

SHRF & CIHR ($825,000) P. Hackett (Co-I)

Rocky Mountain water supply resilience & vulnerability evaluation

Alberta Innovates ($550,000) J. Pomeroy (PI), C. Westbrook (Co-PI)

Mountain forest management for water

Spray Lake Sawmills ($275,000) J. Pomeroy (PI)

Mountain water futures Global Water Futures ($1,726,083)

J. Pomeroy (Co-I), C. Westbrook (Co-I)

Scholarship of teaching & learning research cluster

GMCTL ($10,000) A. Aitken (Co-I), X. Guo (Co-I)

Community tool-kit for marine baseline EA in Nunavut

Irving and Nunavut Research Institute ($124,000)

B. Noble (Co-I)

Yukon hydrological modelling MESH streamflow forecast

Government of Yukon ($270,400) J. Pomeroy (PI)

GWF solutions for forecasting, prediction & management of change for

Canada’s major river basins GIWS ($1,650,000) J. Pomeroy (Co-I)

Beaver dam retention following the 2013 Alberta flood

Arts & Science USRA ($4,500) C. Westbrook (PI)

First year research experience: Research coaches

GMCTL ($3,100) A. Aitken (PI)

OVPR contribution to Global Water Futures: Solutions to water threats

in an era of global change OVPR U of S ($17,500,000)

J. Pomeroy (Co-I)

Renewing indigenous relations through renewable energy

SSHRC Connection ($24,934) B. Noble (Co-I)

Integrating measures of grassland function using remote sensing Arts & Science USRA ($4,500)

X. Guo (PI)

Arts & Science faculty recruitment & retention program

V-Provost Faculty Relations ($15,000) K. Chutko (PI)

Experimental learning fund – Undergraduate research project

GMTCL ($3,586) X. Guo (PI)

Fostering Aboriginal environmental

stewardship in natural resource development

Max Bell Foundation ($60,000) B. Noble (Co-I)

Global Water Futures: Solutions to water threats in an era of global change CFREF Tri-Agency Institutional Programs

Secretariat ($77,840,000) J. Pomeroy (Co-I)

Experimental learning fund: teaching conference attendance

GMCTL ($1,500) X. Guo (PI)

FACULTY RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

DR. CHERIE WESTBROOK Beaver as an aquatic ecosystem restoration tool. Beaver are both revered and hated because of their unique gift for modifying the plumbing of waterways. A lot is known about how beaver dam building regulates flows of water and sediment - key in keeping aquatic ecosystems healthy and resilient – and land managers are increasingly re-introducing beaver to degraded streams across western North America. The problem lies in knowing where the talents of these iconic critters would be most (and least) effective. Dr. Westbrook’s research examines the scope and permanence of the changes effected by beavers’ engineering capabilities to evaluate their effectiveness as an aquatic ecosystem restoration tool. Results are providing new insights into the changes beaver make to ecosystem-forming processes, and the enhancements to ecosystem resilience.

DR. ABRAHAM (AVI) AKKERMAN Exploring city form, phenomenology and urbanism. Dr. Akkerman is currently exploring philosophical urbanism and lineages in mind-environment patterns, including how the prehistoric origin of public space is identified in such features as the medicine wheels of the Archaic Paleoindians of the Great Plains, and in Neolithic roundel enclosures of central Europe. His recent book, Phenomenology of the Winter City, published in 2016, was the first to consider weather and city-form in phenomenological research. The book examined the impact of the late Little Ice Age in north-central Europe upon mood-disorder, and showed a link with the emergence of Marxism and Existentialism in the late 19th century.

DR. ROBERT PATRICK Empowering communities through watershed planning. The Cumberland Delta is the largest inland delta in North America. It is ecologically significant and diverse in First Nation, Métis and European culture. Over the past century, upstream development, including hydroelectric projects, evaporative losses in reservoirs, and changes in snowfall in the Rocky Mountains, have caused cumulative impacts to the Delta. Average flows in the SK River through the Delta have decreased 20 % over the past 100 years, resulting in reduced natural flood frequency. These changes have had detrimental impacts: fish, muskrat and moose populations have declined. Through community engagement, Dr. Patrick’s research has generated a watershed plan to identify changes impacting the Delta and residents. Mitigation measures have been identified and residents have become active participants in, and empowered by, watershed planning.

Photo credit: Ralf Beutnagel

AWARDS - RECOGNITIONS - APPOINTMENTS

Alec Aitken: Appointed by the President as member of the University of Saskatchewan’s Presidential Committee for Sustainability

Krystopher Chutko: Appointed Assistant Professor, Academic Programming

Bram Noble: Appointed to Canadian Council of Academies Expert Panel on Integrated Natural Resource Management

John Pomeroy: Named Distinguished Professor of Geography, and Awarded Tuzo Wilson Medal by the Canadian Geophysical Union

Anton Sizo, Bram Noble & Scott Bell: Awarded International Associated for Impact Assessment’s 2017 Best Paper Award in Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Ryan Walker: Received Volunteer Recognition Award from the Saskatchewan Professional Planners Institute, and appointed to Saskatchewan Higher Education Quality Assurance Board

Cherie Westbrook: Appointed member of the Editorial Board, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Physical Geography and Environmental Sciences

John Pomeroy (center) receives John Tuzo Wilson Medal at the Canadian Geophysical Union annual meeting on May 31. (Left: Howard Wheater, Right: Richard Petrone, Photo credit: Chris Marsh)

GRADUATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Nik Aksamit American Geophysical Union Cryosphere Innovation Award

Robert Falside Stoddart Memorial Scholarship Holly Annand Assoc. of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan, Education Grant

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship-Doctoral (PGS D) Obadiah Awume Paul Simpson-Housley/CAG Student Travel Award Warrick Baijius Paul Simpson-Housley/CAG Student Travel Award Noelle Bouvier Joseph Armand Bombardier CGS Masters SSHRC Thuy Thi Minh Doan Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship Phillip Harder American Geophysical Union Cryosphere Innovation Award Lindsay Herman Joseph Armand Bombardier CGS Masters SSHRC Sebastian Krogh University of Saskatchewan Student Travel Award Greg Lewallen Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship Meng Li Spatial Knowledge and Information Conference Presentation Award Zhaoqin Li Student Research Award, Saskatchewan Ministry of the Environment Chris Marsh American Geophysical Union Innovation Award for Students: Flash Freeze Competition Sarem Nejad Saskatchewan Innovation and Opportunity Scholarship

Teacher Scholar Doctoral Fellowship Kevin Newman SETA Student Travel Award

Graduate Student’s Association Student Travel Award Kelechi Nwanekezie University of Saskatchewan Graduate Research Fellowship

SSHRC doctoral fellowship Veronica Rohr SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship-Masters Hailey Robichaud Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship - Masters/NSERC Stephanie Streich Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship - Masters/NSERC Heather Toews University of Saskatchewan Graduate Research Fellowship

Margaret Skeel Graduate Student Scholarship, Nature Saskatchewan Lindsay Wong Northern Scientific Training Program Award Xiaolei Yu Teacher Scholar Doctoral Fellowship

RESEARCH MISSION AND VALUES The Department of Geography and Planning shares the University’s mission to achieve excellence in the scholarly activities of teaching, discovering, preserving, and applying knowledge. Included amongst the values we hold as important in guiding our research are: excellence in scholarship and graduate student mentoring; academic freedom and independence; interdisciplinarity, integration and collaboration. We are committed to research with impact both within and beyond the scholarly community – research that tackles today’s societal and environmental challenges, stimulates public debate on pressing environmental and community issues, and addresses challenges framed by our sense of place stretching from the local through to international scales.

RESEARCH FOCUS Research activity in our department exemplifies the spirit of the disciplines of geography and planning and is concentrated in three overlapping domains: Hydrology, earth and environmental systems; Applied and scientific geomatics; Planning and management of the built and natural environment. Much of our research occurs at the boundaries of these domains, is cross-cutting, and is focused on integrative approaches to addressing scholarly and societal challenges and mobilizing knowledge.

Hydrology, Earth and Environmental Systems

Applied and Scientific Geomatics

Planning and Management of the Built and Natural

Environment

Hydrology, Earth and Environmental Systems Modeling and understanding hydrological, ecological and geophysical systems and interactions with the human environment. Our research is focused on understanding, assessing, and modeling physical environmental systems and processes and the landscapes they create, including how environmental systems are changing under natural and human-induced stress. This includes research on water supply resilience and vulnerability, marine environments, responses of river flow and glacier cover to climate change, fluvial geomorphology, erosion modeling, wetland science, and eco-hydrology. Research also occurs at topical boundaries, using applied geomatics and other tools and exploring the implications of physical environmental change for policy, planning, and management of the human environment. This includes research focused on flood risk management, environmental impact assessment, and decision support tools for wetland assessment and watershed management. Our Department is home to the Centre for Hydrology, a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change and the Associate Program Director of Global Water Futures. The Centre for Hydrology currently manages much of its research relating to mountain hydrology at the Coldwater Laboratory in Canmore, Alberta. Some of our current research projects include: Rocky Mountain water supply resilience and vulnerability evaluation Expanded testing and development of the Prairie Hydrological Model in Prairie

pothole watersheds Sensitivity of Dempster highway hydrological responses to climate warming Long-term ecology and seabed habitat mapping, Frobisher Bay, Nunavut Assessing community structure of marine benthos, Canadian Beaufort Sea shelf Understanding the alterations of hydrogeomorphic processes by beavers in

southern South America Assessment of PAH distributions in sediments in the oil sands monitoring area and

western Lake Athabasca Assessing beaver influence on mountain peatland form and ecohydrologic

function Integrated systems modeling of land owner values and water quality in the

Qu’Appelle watershed

Applied and Scientific Geomatics

Advancing GIS, spatial statistics and remote sensing, with applications to problems in the social, physical and environmental sciences. Our research is focused on the development of remote sensing techniques for assessing forests and grasslands productivity, using GIS and spatial statistics in health research and urban geography, and developing tools to examine human mobility, navigation, and interaction in urban environments. Research also occurs at topical boundaries, contributing the development and application of geomatics for understanding physical systems and supporting policy and planning decisions. This includes collaborative research with computer science, plant science, and other scholars, practitioners and decision makers from the social, health and natural sciences. Our work in this area includes the development of new tools and the integration of emerging technologies, such as the development of smartphone applications for indoor positioning and mobility tracking, the use of field based sensor systems, and the integration of drones for environmental modeling. Our research is supported in part by The Spatial Initiative, and our Department is home to its current Academic and Scientific Director. Some of our current research projects include: Integrating measures of grassland function using Remote Sensing Development of monitoring methods for dead materials in Alpine pastures using

Remote Sensing data in Qinghai-Tibet plateau SEA application for landscape-based, temporal analysis of wetland change in

urban environments Remote sensing of terrestrial non-photosynthetic vegetation using hyperspectral,

multispectral, SAR, and LiDAR data Detecting spatial and temporal changes in land cover on Aboriginal reserves Developing indoor positioning tools for use with smartphone based tracking

applications to study human movement and interaction Methods development for understanding human behavior during navigation Spatial analysis of and access to health care services in urban areas

Planning and Management of the Built and Natural Environment

Planning and design of urban and rural spaces, and assessing and managing human interactions with the natural environment.

Our research is focused on the built and natural environment, including human well-being and the planning and design of urban and rural spaces. This includes research on city form, urban quality, sustainable cities, municipal governance, Indigenous health, indigenous urbanism, age-friendly communities, and human navigation. Research also occurs at topical boundaries, including natural resources planning and management and exploring human interactions with the natural environment using applied geomatics and other analytical tools. This includes research focused on watershed planning and management, flood risk management, environmental policy and planning, northern communities, energy policy, and impact assessment. Our research is supported by collaborations with a variety of external government, industry and community partnerships and on-campus partnerships. Our Department is also home to the Prairie Research Centre of the Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network, and its Director.

Some of our current research projects include: Cumulative impact monitoring for decision support in the Mackenzie Valley, NWT Baseline analysis for marine shipping impact assessment in Nunavut Source water protection planning with First Nations in Saskatchewan The emergence of Type 2 diabetes in First Nations and Métis communities Indigenizing city planning processes in Canada’s large Prairie cities Examining the role(s) of citizens, artists, community-organizations, businesses and

decision makers in approaches to urban change that honour diversity Analysis of perceptions of credible science about nuclear energy Flood risk mitigation options for rural communities Addressing food security in regional strategic environmental assessment Exploration of inter and intra-generation equity provisions in EA Strengthening implementation of strategic environmental assessment in Banff

National Park

FACULTY

ALEC AITKEN, PROFESSOR Arctic marine biology, Quaternary geology and geomorphology, Paleo-Indian settlements on the Canadian Prairies

ABRAHAM AKKERMAN, PROFESSOR Population and demography; Urban design; Origins of city form; Planning and development; Phenomenology of the built environment

SCOTT BELL, PROFESSOR Geographic information science; Navigation and wayfinding; Cartography; Human spatial cognition; Health geography

JILL BLAKLEY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Cumulative effects assessment; Strategic environmental assessment; Environmental management frameworks; Natural resources management; Regional planning; Public life studies

KRYSTOPHER CHUTKO, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Current and past variability in terrestrial and aquatic processes; Lake sediments and changes in lake productivity; Development of predictive models of lake productivity; Water sourcing and routing using stable water isotopes

DIRK DE BOER, PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT HEAD Impact of human activity on sediment quality using lake sediment; Detecting changes in water and sediment quality using long-term monitoring data; Modeling erosion and sediment yield in large-scale drainage basins

XULIN GUO, PROFESSOR Remote sensing; Integrating measures of grassland functioning using remote sensing; Remote sensing applications for landscape change, physical systems and in urban environments

PAUL HACKETT, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR History of Aboriginal health; Diffusion of directly transmitted, acute infectious diseases; Impact of cultural change on community health; History of tuberculosis among First Nations of western Canada

LAWRENCE MARTZ, PROFESSOR, VICE DEAN, FACULTY RELATIONS Digital terrain analysis for hydrological modeling applications; Cartography; Hydrology; Geomorphology; Digital elevation models

BRAM NOBLE, PROFESSOR Natural resources development; Energy policy; Environmental impact assessment; Cumulative effects; Strategic environmental assessment; Environmental decision making; Aboriginal engagement in resource development

ROBERT PATRICK, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Land use and watershed planning; Source water protection; Water security; Integrated water resources management and Indigenous communities; Low impact development in urban areas

JOHN POMEROY, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR, TIER 1 CRC Physical hydrology; Cold regions processes; Watershed modeling; Hydrometeorology; Impact of land use and climate change on hydrology; Snow processes; Improved prediction of floods and droughts

RYAN WALKER, PROFESSOR Urban planning and geography; Indigenous urbanism; Public space design and measurement; Age-friendly communities; Multi-level governance

CHERIE WESTBROOK, PROFESSOR Wetland science; Response of wetland form and function to natural and human stressors; Groundwater-surface water interactions in alpine wetlands; Decision support tools for flood risk management; Influence of beaver on wetland form and function

PUBLICATIONS 2016-17 BOOK CHAPTERS Fabrikant S, Raubal M, Bertolotto M, Davies C, Freundschuh S, Bell S. 2015. Spatial Information Theory.

In: Proceedings of Conference on Spatial Information Theory. Patrick R. 2016. Indigenizing Source Water Protection. In R. Bone and R. Anderson, Indigenous Peoples

and Resource Development in Canada. Captus Press. Toronto, pp 307-316. Pomeroy J, MacDonald M, Dornes P, Armstrong R. 2016. Water Budgets in Ecosystems. In Edward A.

Johnson and Yvonne E. Martin (Ed.), A Biogeoscience Approach to Ecosystems: Cambridge University Press.

Walker R, Nejad S. 2017. Urban planning, Indigenous peoples, and settler states, in A Bain, L Peake (eds), Urbanization in a Global Context. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 136-154.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Aksamit NO Pomeroy J. 2016. Near-Surface Snow Particle Dynamics from Particle Tracking Velocimetry

and Turbulence Measurements during Alpine Blowing Snow Storms. The Cryosphere, 103043 - 3062. Chen L, Chen S, Guo X. 2017. Multilayer NMF for Blind Unmixing of Hyperspectral Imagery with

Additional Constraints. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 83(4): 307 - 316. Chilima J, Gunn J, Noble BF, Patrick R. 2017. Institutional arrangements for assessing and managing

cumulative effects to watersheds: Lessons from the Grand River watershed, Ontario, Canada. Canadian Water Resources Journal. doi.org/10.1080/07011784.2017.1292151

Chu T, Guo X, Takeda K. 2017. Effects of Burn Severity and Environmental Conditions on Post-fire Regeneration in Siberian Larch Forest. Forests, 8(76): 1 - 27.

Cordeiro MRC, Wilson HF, Vanrobaeys J, Pomeroy JW, Fang X. The Red-Assiniboine Project Biophysical Modelling Team, 2017. Simulating cold-region hydrology in an intensively drained agricultural watershed in Manitoba, Canada, using the Cold Regions Hydrological Model. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 213483 - 3506.

Harder P, Schirmer M, Pomeroy J, Helgason W. 2016. Accuracy of snow depth estimation in mountain and prairie environments by an unmanned aerial vehicle. The Cryosphere, 102559 - 2571.

Karran D, Westbrook CJ, Wheaton J, Johnston CA, Bedard-Haughn A. 2017. Rapid surface-water volume estimations in beaver ponds. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 21: 1039-1050, doi:10.5194/hess-21-1039-2017.

Leroux NR, Pomeroy JW. 2017. Modelling capillary hysteresis effects on preferential flow through melting and cold layered snowpacks. Advances in Water Resources Research, 107250 - 264.

López-Moreno JI, Boike J, Sanchez-Lorenzo A, Pomeroy JW. 2016. Impact of climate warming on snow processes in Ny-Ålesund, a polar maritime site at Svalbard. Global and Planetary Change, 14610 - 21.

Lopez-Moreno JI, Gascoin S, Herrero J, Sproles EA, Pons M, Alonso-Gonzalez E, Hanich L, Boudhar A, Musselman KN, Molotch NP, Sickman J, Pomeroy J. 2017. Different sensitivities of snowpacks to warming in Mediterranean climate mountain areas. Environmental Research Letters, 121 - 10.

Mahmood TH, Pomeroy JW, Wheater HS, Baulch HM. 2016. Hydrological responses to climatic variability in a cold agricultural region. Hydrological Processes, 31(4): 854 - 870.

Mercer J, Westbrook CJ. 2016. Ultrahigh resolution mapping of peatland microform with ground-based structure from motion with multi-view stereo. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 121: 2901-2916. doi:10.1002/2016JG003478.

Musselman KN, Pomeroy JW. 2017. Estimation of needleleaf canopy and trunk temperatures and longwave contribution to melting snow. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18555 - 572.

Noble B, Liu J, Hackett P. 2017. The contribution of project environmental assessment to assessing and managing cumulative effects: individually and collectively insignificant? Environmental Management 59(4): 531-545

Olagunju A, Gunn J. 2016. Integration of environmental assessment with planning and policy-making on a regional scale: A literature review. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 61:68 - 77.

Pan X, Yang D, Li Y, Barr A, Helgason W, Hayashi M, Marsh P, Pomeroy J, Janowicz R. 2016. Bias corrections of precipitation measurements across experimental sites in different ecoclimatic regions of western Canada. The Cryosphere, 102347 - 2360.

Patrick RJ, Machial L, Quinney L, Quinney K. 2017. Lessons Learned Through Community-Engaged Planning. International Indigenous Policy Journal (April 2017 Special Issue) Volume 8, Issue 2 (2017) Reconciling Research: Perspectives on Research Involving Indigenous Peoples—Part 1.

Pomeroy JW, Essery, RLH, Helgason WD. 2016. Aerodynamic and Radiative Controls on the Snow Surface Temperature. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 172175 - 2189.

Ridsdale R, Noble BF. 2016. Assessing sustainable remediation frameworks using sustainability principles. Journal of Environmental Management (Invited paper, special issue) 184(1): 36-44.

Shah TI, Bell S, Wilson K. 2016. Spatial Accessibility to Health Care Services: Identifying under-Serviced Neighbourhoods in Canadian Urban Areas. PloS one, 11(12): e0168208.

Smith CD, Kontu A, Laffin R, Pomeroy JW. 2017. An assessment of two automated snow water equivalent instruments during the WMO Solid Precipitation intercomparison Experiment. The Cryosphere, 11101 - 116.

Udofia A, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2016. Aboriginal Participation in Canadian Environmental Assessment: Gap Analysis and Directions for Scholarly Research. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 18(3): 28pgs.

Udofia A, Noble BF, Poelzer G. 2017. Meaningful and efficient? Exploring the challenges to Aboriginal participation in environmental impact assessment. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 65: 164-174.

Wachowiak MP, James AL, Wachowiak-Smolikova R, Walters DF, Chutko KJ, Rusak JA. Accepted 28-Aug-17. Visual analytics of high-frequency lake monitoring data: A case study of multiple stressors on a large inland lake system. International Journal of Data Science Analysis.

Walker R, Berdahl L, Lashta E, Newhouse D, Belanger Y. 2017. Public attitudes towards Indigeneity in Canadian prairie urbanism. The Canadian Geographer, 61(2): 212-223

Wang X, Helgason B, Westbrook C, Bedard-Haughn A. 2016. Effect of mineral sediments at depth on carbon mineralization, organic matter composition and microbial community dynamics in a mountain peatland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 103: 16-27.

Weber M, Bernhardt M, Pomeroy JW, Fang X, Härer S, Schulz K. 2016. Description of current and future snow processes in a small basin in the Bavarian Alps. Environmental Earth Sciences, 75(1223): 1 - 18.

Westbrook CJ, Cooper DJ, Anderson CB. 2017. Alteration of hydrogeomorphic processes by invasive beavers in southern South America. Science of the Total Environment 574: 183-190. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.045.

Whitfield PH, Pomeroy J W. 2016. Changes to flood peaks of a mountain river: implications for analysis of the 2013 flood in the Upper Bow River, Canada. Hydrological Processes, 30(25): 4657 - 4673.

SELECT TECHNICAL REPORTS, PROCEEDINGS, REVIEWS

AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Bell T, Forbes D, Aitken A, Atkinson D, Edinger E, James T, Pollard W, Smith R. 2015. Instability of Coastal

Landscapes in Arctic Communities and Regions. ArcticNet Summary Report. Bell T, Forbes D, Aitken A, Atkinson D, Edinger E, James T, Pollard W, Smith R. 2015. 2014. Instability of

Coastal Landscapes in Arctic Communities and Regions. 2012-2013 ArcticNet Progress Report. Bell T, Forbes D, Aitken A, Atkinson D, Edinger E, James T, Pollard W, Smith, R. 2015. 2013. Instability of

Coastal Landscapes in Arctic Communities and Regions. 2012-2013 ArcticNet Progress Report. Edinger E, Campbell C, Aitken A, Deering R, Herder E, Misiuk B. 2017. Integrated Marine Geoscience to

Support Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainable Development, Frobisher Bay, Nunavut. 2016-2017 ArcticNet Progress Report.

Edinger E, Campbell C, Aitken A, Miles L, Deering R. 2016. Integrated Marine Geoscience to Support Environmental Impact Assessment and Sustainable Development, Frobisher Bay, Nunavut. 2016-2017 ArcticNet Progress Report.

Guo X. 2016. Grassland mapping, measuring, monitoring, modeling, and prediction (4MP) using remote sensing methods. X International Rangeland Congress, pp.1-4

Hanna K, McGuigan E, Noble B, Parkins J. 2016. What is known about the impacts of alternative energy development? A gap analysis of impact assessment research for alternative energy development. Project report prepared in completion of reporting requirements for the SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant Program. CEAR Project Report SC-16-1. Centre for Environmental Assessment Research: Kelowna, BC.

Li Z, Guo X. 2017. Grassland canopy vertical structure retrieval from multi-angular and multi-temporal fine quad-pod Radarsat-2 images. Spatial Technology and Information – Canada, pp.1-10.

Noble BF, Martin J, Olagunju A. 2016. A review of the application of cumulative effects assessment in the context of Section 22 project environmental assessments conducted in the James Bay Territory.

Report prepared for the James Bay Advisory Committee on the Environment. Montreal, QC. 36 pgs. Noble BF. 2016. Learning to listen: Snapshots of Aboriginal participation in environmental assessment.

Aboriginal People and Environmental Stewardship Series. Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Ottawa, ON.

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