After touring the Glenmore Drinking Water Treatment Plant we're slowly heading upstream. Here the elbow river enters the Glenmore reservoir in Calgary #sourcetotap #forWater #NSERCforWater #sourcewaterprotection pic.twitter.com/a62DyKSkev
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 13, 2018
We looked at the effect of wildfire ash on coagulant demand in drinking water treatment #sourcetotap #forWater #NSERCforWater #sourcewaterprotection pic.twitter.com/WimSJETnLT
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 13, 2018
We're heading west and upstream. Outside the limits of the city of Calgary we're discussing how managers can work with ranch and ag-land owners to ensure water quality #sourcetotap #forWater #NSERCforWater #sourcewaterprotection pic.twitter.com/XCTEwFmiA3
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 13, 2018
We finally made it into the forested headwaters of the elbow river. This upper third of the watershed generates the vast majority of flow, stressing the importance of even minor quality changes here at the source #sourcetotap #forWater #NSERCforWater #sourcewaterprotection pic.twitter.com/wOJutiVmVB
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 14, 2018
The woodland cows looked on indifferently pic.twitter.com/dVqFgydX31
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 14, 2018
I'm smitten with Alberta 😍 pic.twitter.com/Kvy7WLHCXM
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 14, 2018
#forWater grad students from across Canada and from several disciplines learned how to measure river discharge on the Crowsnest River #NSERCforWater #sourcetotap #youngprofessionals pic.twitter.com/0S09vrjg2R
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 15, 2018
We also learned that a $5k and $40k instrument can measure Q comparably well to a $1 orange and tape measure
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 15, 2018
From #forWater PIs Uldis Silins and Monica Emelko: We do a bad job talking about #clearcutting. While it may look ugly, it may be the ecologically correct choice for fast regeneration of Lodgepole pine #NSERCforWater #sourcetotap
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 15, 2018
If you look at this cut block and see destruction, just look down to see new seedlings racing towards the new sunlight #forestry #silviculture pic.twitter.com/TrkNa4orrP
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 15, 2018
More fantastic views from Alberta. As smoke from nearby fires hangs in the air we talked about raising and harvesting trees like Lodgepole pine that evolved to depend on #wildfire for reproduction and regrowth #forWater #NSERCforWater pic.twitter.com/GPr2zCEiwj
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 15, 2018
An apparent contradiction between management for trees versus water: scarification (tilling) of the ground by dragging these 'sharkfins' results in short term sediment runoff, but also leads to faster and stronger regeneration of Lodgepole pine #forWater #sourcetotap pic.twitter.com/54zWpELFU5
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 15, 2018
Another complication of managing forests for multiple uses: free range cows can disturb new saplings. We learned that leaving slash on the ground can deter them. #forestry pic.twitter.com/lhpP6SPFCx
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 15, 2018
Seeing lots of neat #RockyMountain #geology! Tough sandstone forms a channel for this stream while the shale above and below crumbles away pic.twitter.com/MTqZEqCp8p
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 16, 2018
Me, at all the trees and rivers and rocks and cows and bears of #Alberta #neature pic.twitter.com/MjKs0mznlP
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 16, 2018
"Not too often do you get all this neatness in one location, that’s called #Neature." So true Lenny Pepperbottom pic.twitter.com/b9hgnZ3VeP
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 16, 2018
Today we examined some of the burnt landscapes from the 2003 Lost Creek #wildfire, which burned 20k ha of forest. Despite continued high sediment export in streams, salvage harvest has greatly improved recruitment of young pine, making for great habitat for animals like moose pic.twitter.com/et0gUucmuR
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 16, 2018
Another consequence of #wildfire can be increased P export associated with sediment, filling these nutrient-poor streams with algae, like we see here. #forWater #NSERCforWater #sourcetotap pic.twitter.com/nsiiwvufIJ
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 16, 2018
In another stream impacted by the 2003 #wildfire we looked at the #macroinvertebrate population. The increased algae led to community shifts after the fire, but 15 years later presence of #stoneflies and #mayflies indicate somewhat improved health pic.twitter.com/BBBmfOr1BL
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 16, 2018
Encounters with cows continued today. Cows trodding and pooping 💩 near and in streams certainly has implications for #waterquality. #forWater #NSERCforWater #sourcetotap pic.twitter.com/Wilt5BgWcz
— Tyler Hampton (@tylerbhampton) August 16, 2018
