uwaterloo.ca/ecohydrology... @uw-ecohydrology.bsky.social

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

Report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development to Canada's Parliament: addressing Canada's seven per cent renewable supply of the world's freshwater www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Comm...

GWFO observatories in Canada's Rocky Mountains are monitoring Spring freshwater flows that are affecting downstream conditions www.msn.com/en-ca/public...

This week at the CGU meeting in Halifax NS, Professor Sean Carey, GWFO Facility Lead for Tombstone Water Observatory and Wolf Creek Research Basin sites, was awarded the J. Tuzo Wilson Medal for outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge of Canadian geophysics @cgu-ugc.bsky.social

McMaster University Professor Sean Carey, GWFO Facility Lead for Yukon Tombstone and Wolf Creek observatories, worked with collegues to show that thawing permafrost is rapidly transforming dozens of Arctic streams into acidic, metal-laden waterways news.usask.ca/articles/res...

Rewired Watersheds and Toxic Blooms in Northern Lakes 📅 Wednesday, May 27, 2026, Irena Creed, GWFO Facility Lead at the UTSC Aquatic Chemistry Laboratory Traces Centre and UTSC Harmful Algae Analytical Unit ow.ly/mzfS50Z1AZN @cdnsciencepub.com @scas-scsa.bsky.social

Professor Jennifer Baltzer, facility lead at Wilfrid Laurier University for the Global Water Futures observatory Fire Ecology Network, collects vital data about lingering underground fires www.begiant.ca/stories/plac... @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social

A study of Global Water Futures Observatory site Sibbald Fen shows that sudden warming events like chinooks can trigger bursts of CO₂ from mountain peatlands—even in winter. As winters warm, this hidden carbon loss could grow. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @envwaterloo.bsky.social @water.usask.ca

We will never see this glacier again. Colombia's Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology & Environmental Studies has confirmed the extinction of the Cerros de la Plaza glacier in the Andes. Rising temperatures, reduced snowfall & its low altitude contributed to the acceleration of its retreat.

As dozens of communities across the prairies are experiencing spring flooding, GWFO explains the effects of excess water & what we might see as the snow continues to melt. GWFO is Canada's national freshwater research facility of observation sites & laboratories www.cbc.ca/player/play/... gwfo.ca

New resource, Water One Window, from the Canada Water Agency to bring together current water information from 11 federal government agencies: www.canada.ca/en/canada-wa...

Earth Day 2026 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day: across Canada, scientists and technicians at GWFO sites and laboratories are working to provide water research data that supports climate resilience gwfo.ca/facilities/m...

The University of Saskatchewan's Multi-purpose Soil Testing (MOST) Facility, part of the GWFO observatory network, is testing the performance of green roofs in cold climates water.usask.ca/news-items/2...

From @ramsar.org. the 2025 Global Wetland Outlook synthesises recent scientific and economic evidence for wetland loss and degradation, ecosystem services provided, and requirements to achieve international restoration and conservation targets www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org/s/GWO2025_En...

Professor Mark Servos is GWFO Facility Lead for Grand River sites in Ontario and the Ecotoxicology Laboratory at University of Waterloo uwaterloo.ca/news/media/o...

Watching for runoff. globalnews.ca/video/118053...

The McMaster Hydrometeorology and Climatology Lab will be celebrating Earth Week with tree planting, urban environmental monitoring technology showcase, and an accouncement of new gifts that will support local conservation efforts on April 25th, 2026 www.tickettailor.com/events/mcmas...

World Bank launches 'Water Forward' programme to tackle global water stress reut.rs/41yrjH5

Canada’s first national peatland data portal is here. Led by Dr. Maria Strack, PI of @can-peat.bsky.social, this new platform brings together critical peatland data to support water research, watershed management, collaboration and Indigenous data sovereignty. uwaterloo.ca/news/canadia...

Professor Kheyrollah Pour leads the GWFO facility, Remote Sensing of Environmental Change (RESEC) Laboratory @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social yellowknifer.com/2026/04/07/m...

🍁 The agriculture.canada.ca Canadian Drought Outlook predicts whether Canadian drought will emerge, stay the same or improve. It is issued on the first Thursday of each month. 🧪 ➡️ Current drought conditions 🔗 tinyurl.com/NAIS-Current ➡️ Drought Outlook, Jan 1 to Mar 31, 2026 🔗 tinyurl.com/NAIS-CDO

We’re hiring an Environmental Data Services Manager! This position can be remote or based in our Toronto office. Find out more and apply 👇 datastream.org/en-ca/articl...

Permafrost catchments aren’t all the same. Data from GWFO's Yukon observatory Wolf Creek Basin, showed how season, snowpack, and landscape type shape dissolved organic matter export and quality—from humic headwaters to autotrophic lake production. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

GWFO sites help to measure water in all its forms www.rmoutlook.com/banff/at-hig...

How can we better protect the lakes and waterways we depend on? In this #TEDxUniversityofSaskatchewan talk, Dr. Helen Baulch draws on her work as a #USask water and sustainability professor to explore the factors that shape water quality. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=noRL...

I’m visiting the SLU Dept. of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment in Uppsala today and saw this on a bookshelf. The dept is home to our 2024 and 2025 #NobelPeatPrize laureates. #peatland

As Himalayan glaciers retreat at an accelerating pace, science, lived experience, and visual storytelling come together to ask what this means for mountain communities and the region’s future. 📆 Tuesday, 7 April | 5:30 pm 📍 Alliance Française Auditorium, Kathmandu 🎫 Free entry

Will there be more freshwater available in Alberta this year because of more snow in the mountains? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...