Canadian Water Resources Association 2025

Canadian Water Resources Association 2025

10:30am PDT

Advanced bias correction of hydroclimate extremes through nonstationary and ordinary-event-based approaches TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún Developing a Fully Distributed Watershed Model for Evaluating Water Quality Benefits of Agricultural Beneficial Management Practices TBAJames Craig • Wanhong Yang Modelling Climate Change Impacts on a Regulated Transboundary Lake TBA

10:45am PDT

Flood Frequency Analysis in North America is Affected by Shifting Cold Regions Streamflow Regimes TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún

10:50am PDT

Isotopes for Everyone: Development of a model agnostic isotope tracer simulator TBAJames Craig • Tegan Holmes The International Red River Watershed Board – bridging diverse knowledge systems and enabling respectful Indigenous inclusion in transboundary cooperation on water TBA

11:00am PDT

Is there added value in using a convection-permitting climate simulation for the study of summer-fall floods in southern Quebec Watersheds? TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún • Maedeh Khalili

11:10am PDT

Short-range Hydrological Ensemble Forecasting Using Long Short-term Memory Networks with Data Integration of Streamflow and Snow Observations TBAJames Craig • Yegane Khoshkalam Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Orders of Approval: Challenges and Opportunities for IJC Boards of Control TBA

11:15am PDT

A Systematic Approach for Selecting Drought Indices and Timescales: A Case Study TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún • Aruna Kumar Nayak

11:30am PDT

Interpolating extreme precipitation characteristics for IDF curve construction in Canada TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún • Jonathan Jalbert Can We Model Every Snowflake? Scaling Challenges in Hydrologic Modelling TBAJames Craig • Sarah Grass An Innovative Approach to Predicting Conflicts between Transboundary States over the Sharing of Fresh Water Resources TBA

1:30pm PDT

On Advancing Integrated Modelling of Hydrologic and Human Systems TBAJames Craig • Saman Razavi Snow Drought Classification in Southern Alberta TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún • Nadie Rupasinghe

1:45pm PDT

Comparative Analysis of Drought Indices for Effective Drought Characterization in Southern Alberta TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún • Sharad Aryal

1:50pm PDT

Ontario hydrological modelling assessment project: contrasting alternative streamflow simulation models TBAJames Craig • Bryan A. Tolson

2:00pm PDT

Evolving patterns of hydro-climatic extremes over large domains TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún • Gaby Gründemann

2:10pm PDT

Long-lead forecasts of summer streamflow drought in British Columbia TBAJames Craig • Sacha Ruzzante

2:15pm PDT

An Impacts-based IDF-AR Storm Rating Scale for a Warming Climate TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún • Melinda M. Brugman

2:30pm PDT

Agnostic strategy for hydrological model calibration: a case study using MESH model TBAJames Craig • Rodolfo Alvarado Montero A thousand years of hydrological drought variability: implications for the prediction of hydro-climatic extremes TBAJianxun (Jennifer) He • Alain Pietroniro • Paul Whitfield • Cuauhtémoc Tonatiuh Vidrio-Sahagún • Dave Sauchyn

3:30pm PDT

Automated salinity monitoring to support irrigation in the Delta Region of British Columbia TBAChris Gallagher • Willemijn Appels • Andrew Nadler

3:50pm PDT

Advances in data driven irrigation management TBAChris Gallagher • Willemijn Appels

4:10pm PDT

Irrigation Sustainability in a Changing Climate: CMIP6 SSP-Based Projections and Adaptation Strategies TBAChris Gallagher • Willemijn Appels • Naresh Kumar Arumugagounder Thangaraju

4:30pm PDT

Advancing collaborative, data-driven water stewardship on the Canadian Prairies TBAChris Gallagher • Willemijn Appels • Thomas Saleh

8:30am PDT

A Climate Indicator Dashboard for Communicating Climate Change in the Okanagan Valley TBAMason Marchildon • Robert Metcalfe • Sandra Schira

8:50am PDT

Status and trends in Canadian waters TBAMason Marchildon • Robert Metcalfe

9:10am PDT

Forecasting Future Trends in Drinking Water Quality: A Focus on Ontario Municipal Water Supply Systems TBAMason Marchildon • Robert Metcalfe

9:30am PDT

State of the Bow River Watershed: A Collaborative Approach to Water Quality Reporting TBAMason Marchildon • Robert Metcalfe • Mike Murray

10:00am PDT

Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data TBAJames Bomhof • Derek Brzoza • Paige Thurston

10:20am PDT

Assessment of SWOT observations for hydrological modelling TBAJames Bomhof • Derek Brzoza • Rodolfo Alvarado Montero

10:40am PDT

On the need for continuous hydrometric monitoring TBAJames Bomhof • Derek Brzoza • Prabin Rokaya

11:00am PDT

Tracking Water's Frozen Fingerprints: High-Frequency Isotope and Hydrologic Monitoring for Improved Runoff Prediction in the Canadian Rocky Mountains TBAJames Bomhof • Derek Brzoza • Terri Whitehead

3:30pm PDT

Hydrology, Water Decisions, and Water Projects in Northeast BC TBAJames Bomhof • Derek Brzoza • Ryan Rolick

3:50pm PDT

Introducing HydRA an online rating curve tool for all TBAJames Bomhof • Derek Brzoza • Jonathan Jeffery

4:10pm PDT

The Joy of Cooking Hydrometric Data: A culinary misadventure in data review TBAJames Bomhof • Derek Brzoza • Jonathan Jeffery

4:30pm PDT

Embedded Resilience of Hydrometric Infrastructure for Canada's National Hydrometric Program TBAJames Bomhof • Derek Brzoza • Matthew Tong

8:30am PDT

Groundwater Contributions to a Proglacial Stream in the Canadian Rockies: Assessing Baseflow and Surface Water Interactions in a Glacierized Watershed TBASepideh Kheirkhahhas • Cathy Ryan • Jasmine Skirten

8:50am PDT

Geochemical Analysis of the Sheep River: Insights into the Impact of Climate Change on Flow Pathways TBASepideh Kheirkhahhas • Cathy Ryan • Sepideh Kheirkhah

9:10am PDT

Developing an integrated regional-scale groundwater-surface water model to evaluate impacts of land-use/land-cover and climate change on water resources in central Alberta TBASepideh Kheirkhahhas • Cathy Ryan • Luis Carlos Serrano Diaz

9:30am PDT

Groundwater Level Variability: Implications for Sustainable Urban Development TBASepideh Kheirkhahhas • Cathy Ryan • Mason Marchildon

1:30pm PDT

Town of Princeton – Planning for an Extremely Uncertain Future TBASteve Litke • Jonathan Welke

1:50pm PDT

Floodplain Mapping for Areas with Dikes – Lower Fraser River Case Study TBASteve Litke • Neil Peters

2:10pm PDT

Lessons learned from considering climate change in floodplain mapping studies across British Columbia. TBASteve Litke • Faye Hirshfield

2:30pm PDT

Collaborative Approaches to Floodplain Mapping: Experience from the Nicola-Coldwater Rivers Flood Study in Central BC TBASteve Litke • Elisa Scordo