4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly My Schedule This is your personal schedule ONLY. Registration to attend the meeting or special events and sessions is required. Items highlighted indicate a time conflict. MONDAY, MAY 04, 2015 Download an ICS file to be used in your calendar application 08:00 AM ­ 08:15 AM H11B­01 The Hydrological Challenges of Scale Dependency SCHEDULED Howard S. Wheater, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 08:15 AM ­ 08:30 AM SCHEDULED H11A­02 Geophysical and Hydrological Investigation of Rock Glacier in the Canadian Rockies Alexandra Mozil, Laurence R Bentley and Masaki Hayashi, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 08:45 AM ­ 09:00 AM SCHEDULED H11B­04 Multi­scale studies of Permafrost Thaw Impacts on Eco­ Hydrology in the Southern Fringe of Permafrost, Northwestern Canada. William L Quinton1, Jennifer Lynn Baltzer1, Oliver Sonnentag2, Aaron A Berg3, Laura Chasmer1 and Ryan Connon1, (1)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 09:30 AM ­ 09:45 AM SCHEDULED H11B­07 A Model for Water Flow in Patterned Glacial Till Incorporating Coupled Multi­Scale Heterogeneity Effects Xicai Pan, Melkamu Ali, Andrew M Ireson and Warren Helgason, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 1/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly 515A­C 02:00 PM ­ 02:15 PM SCHEDULED H13A­01 Soil and vegetation development affect the evolution of hydrological pathways in engineered hillslopes Willemijn M Appels, Andrew M Ireson, Jeffrey McDonnell and Lee S. Barbour, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 02:15 PM ­ 02:30 PM SCHEDULED H13C­02 An Observational Study of the Influence of Ice Formation on Heat and Water Loss from the Upper Great Lakes. Peter Blanken, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Christopher Spence, Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, John D Lenters, LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Andrew Gronewold, NOAA Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 03:00 PM ­ 03:15 PM SCHEDULED SCHEDULED H13A­05 Multi­Year Water Balance Assessment of a Constructed Wetland, Fort McMurray, Alberta Erin Nicholls1, Sean Kevin Carey1, Gordon B Drewitt 1, Elyn Humphreys2, M. Graham Clark2 and Carl A Mendoza3, (1)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C H13C­05 The Great Lakes Evaporation Network (GLEN): More than just evaporation John D Lenters, LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Peter Blanken, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Christopher Spence, Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Andrew Gronewold, NOAA Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Norma Froelich, Northern Michigan University, Chelsea, MI, United States and Wendy Leger, Environment Canada, Burlington, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 2/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly 03:15 PM ­ 03:30 PM SCHEDULED SCHEDULED H13C­06 Recent advances in Environment Canada's modelling efforts in the Great Lakes Frank Seglenieks1, Vincent Fortin2, Dorothy A Durnford2, Bruce Davison3, Erika Klyszejko4, Murray MacKay5, Etienne Gaborit 2, Milena Dimitrijevic2, Frederic Dupont 2, Stéphane Bélair2 and Gregory C Smith2, (1)Environment Canada, MSC, Burlington, ON, Canada, (2)Environment Canada Dorval, Dorval, QC, Canada, (3)Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (4)Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (5)Environment Canada Toronto, Science and Technology Branch, Toronto, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C H13A­06 Carbon and water vapour fluxes for the first two years of a constructed wetland. M. Graham Clark1, Elyn Humphreys1 and Sean Kevin Carey2, (1)Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (2)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 03:30 PM ­ 03:45 PM SCHEDULED SCHEDULED AS13B­07 Comparison between high­resolution climate simulations using single and multiple nesting. Dominic Matte, René Laprise and Julie M Theriault, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 513D­F H13C­07 Streamflow Prediction in the Great Lakes Basin Using Two Watershed Discretization Schemes Amin Haghnegahdar1, Bryan Tolson1, Eric D Soulis1, Etienne Gaborit 2 and Vincent Fortin2, (1)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)Environment Canada Dorval, Dorval, QC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 04:30 PM ­ 06:30 PM SCHEDULED H14A­0187 Understanding Flow Pathways, Major Chemical Transformations and Water Sources Using Hydrochemical and Hydrometric Data in a Constructed Fen, Fort McMurray Alberta Kelly Biagi 1, Sean Kevin Carey1, Erin Nicholls1 and Carl A Mendoza2, https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 3/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly Kelly Biagi , Sean Kevin Carey , Erin Nicholls and Carl A Mendoza , (1)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D AS12A­06 Ensemble Hydrological Forecasts SCHEDULED SCHEDULED Dorothy A Durnford1,2, Vincent Fortin1 and Etienne Gaborit 1, (1)Environment Canada Dorval, Dorval, QC, Canada, (2)Meteorlogical Service of Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H14A­0186 A Comparison of Soil Nitrogen Availability Between a Post Mined Reclaimed Wetland and Two Natural Wetlands in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Chelsea Thorne1, Sean Kevin Carey1, Elyn Humphreys2, Merrin L Macrae3 and Richard M Petrone3, (1)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (2)Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D TUESDAY, MAY 05, 2015 08:00 AM ­ 08:15 AM SCHEDULED H21A­01 Progress in modeling high latitude land surface hydrological processes Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 08:00 AM ­ 10:00 AM SCHEDULED H21A Changing Cold Regions: Climate, Cryosphere, Hydrology, Ecology I The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 08:15 AM ­ 08:30 AM H21A­02 Changing Climate and Streamflow in the Western https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 4/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly SCHEDULED Canadian Arctic Philip Marsh1, Stefano Endrizzi1, Daqing Yang2 and Tyler de Jong1, (1)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)National Hydrology Research Center, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 08:45 AM ­ 09:00 AM SCHEDULED ES21A­04 Black Spruce (Picea mariana) Water Use Response to Moisture Deficits on a Permafrost Peat Plateau Rebecca Kathleen Warren1, Aaron A Berg1, William L Quinton2 and Jennifer Lynn Baltzer2, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 511B 09:30 AM ­ 09:45 AM SCHEDULED H21A­07 Hydrologic Response of a Bog Cascade with a Dynamic Contributing Area in Discontinuous Permafrost Ryan Connon1, William L Quinton1, James R Craig2 and Jessica Hanisch3, (1)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (3)University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 09:45 AM ­ 10:00 AM SCHEDULED H21A­08 Root Network Impact on Soil Thermal Conductivity and Active Layer Thaw Stacey Van Opstal and William L Quinton, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 10:30 AM ­ 10:45 AM SCHEDULED H22A­01 A Unified Approach for Process­based Hydrologic Modeling Martyn P Clark, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 5/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly 10:30 AM ­ 12:30 PM SCHEDULED H22A Changing Cold Regions: Climate, Cryosphere, Hydrology, Ecology II The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 10:45 AM ­ 11:00 AM SCHEDULED H22A­02 Simulated thaw development of a peat plateau­bog complex in a discontinuous permafrost region, Northwest Territories Barret L Kurylyk1, Masaki Hayashi1, William L Quinton2 and Clifford I Voss3, (1)University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (3)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 11:00 AM ­ 11:15 AM SCHEDULED H22A­03 Implications of Galling Herbivory on Ground Thaw Through Shrub­Soil Heat Transfers Within Canada’s Northern Boreal Forest Allison McManus, Jennifer Lynn Baltzer and William L Quinton, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 11:15 AM ­ 11:30 AM SCHEDULED H22A­04 Robustness in the spring surface energy balance in a mountain basin Chris Marsh1,2, John W Pomeroy3, Howard S. Wheater3 and Raymond J Spiteri1,4, (1)Center for Hydrology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (3)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (4)Numerical Simulation Lab, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 11:30 AM ­ 11:45 AM https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 6/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly SCHEDULED SCHEDULED H22A­05 Sensitivity of Snow­Vegetation Interactions and Streamflow Regimes to Climate Change in Mountain Basins Kabir Rasouli 1, John W Pomeroy1, Danny G Marks2, J. Richard Janowicz3 and Sean Kevin Carey4, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Yukon Environment Water Resources Branch, Whitehorse, YT, Canada, (4)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C B22B­05 Ecohydrological Controls on Carbon Drainage via Groundwater in a Coastal BC Douglas­Fir Headwater Catchment During Pre­ and Post­Harvest Periods Mark S. Johnson1,2, T. Andrew Black3, Rachhpal Jassal3, Nicholas J. Grant 3 and Iain Hawthorne1, (1)University of British Columbia, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Biometeorology and Soil Physics Group, Vancouver, BC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 512A/B/E/F 11:45 AM ­ 12:00 PM SCHEDULED H22A­06 Effects of Roads and Linear Forest Disturbances on the Snow Mass and Energy Balance Keith N Musselman and John W Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 12:00 PM ­ 12:15 PM SCHEDULED H22A­07 Measuring and Modelling a Major Winter Precipitation Event in the Canadian Rockies Michael Schirmer1, Xing Fang1 and John W Pomeroy2, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 12:15 PM ­ 12:30 PM H22A­08 The Influence of Site Conditions and Surface Vegetation on Snow Accumulation and Ablation in the Elk Valley, British https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 7/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly SCHEDULED on Snow Accumulation and Ablation in the Elk Valley, British Columbia, Canada David Aaron Bezeau and Sean Kevin Carey, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 02:00 PM ­ 02:15 PM SCHEDULED H23C­01 The strengths and weaknesses of using hydrological connectivity to interpret stream biogeochemistry Christopher Spence1, Rosa Brannen2, Newell Hedstrom 1, Steven V Kokelj3, Shawne Kokelj4, Meg McCluskie4 and Cherie Westbrook2, (1)Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (3)Northwest Territories Geoscience Office, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, (4)Environment and Natural Resources, Government of the Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, NT, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 513A­C 02:00 PM ­ 02:20 PM SCHEDULED H23B­01 Improvement of Land Surface Schemes for Cold Region Processes: Recent Results from the Changing Cold Regions Network in Western Canada Howard S. Wheater1, Naveed Khaliq2, Kwok Pan Chun1, Alan Barr3, Andrew M Ireson1, Paul A Bartlett 4, Murray MacKay5, Patricia Pernica1 and Yanping Li1, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)National Research Council, Ocean, Coastal and River Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Environment Canada, Atmospheric Science & Technology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (4)Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)Environment Canada Toronto, Science and Technology Branch, Toronto, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 04:30 PM ­ 06:30 PM SCHEDULED H24A­0223 Geostatistical extrapolation of area­density relations of water bodies from local to regional scale Saskia L Noorduijn, Masaki Hayashi and Laurence R Bentley, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D ES24A­0145 Implications of Galling Herbivory on Ground Thaw https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 8/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly SCHEDULED Through Shrub­Soil Heat Transfers in Canada’s Northern Boreal Forest Allison McManus, Jennifer Lynn Baltzer and William L Quinton, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D WEDNESDAY, MAY 06, 2015 08:00 AM ­ 08:15 AM SCHEDULED SCHEDULED AS31A­01 Sensitivity of snow crystal habit on the formation of winter precipitation types Julie M Theriault and Housseyni Sankare, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 513D­F H31A­01 Modelling the frequency distributions of peak streamflows on the Canadian Prairies Kevin Shook and John W Pomeroy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 08:00 AM ­ 10:00 AM SCHEDULED H31A Changing Cold Regions: Climate, Cryosphere, Hydrology, Ecology III The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 08:15 AM ­ 08:30 AM SCHEDULED H31A­02 Testing the ability of a semi­distributed hydrological model to simulate streamflow and contributing area relationships in cold regions Samson Girma Mengistu and Christopher Spence, Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 08:20 AM ­ 08:35 AM https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 9/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly SCHEDULED H31C­02 The Influence of Surface Coal Mining on Hydrology and Solute Transport in the Elk Valley, British Columbia, Canada Christopher C Wellen, McMaster University, School of Geography & Earth Sciences, Hamilton, ON, Canada and Sean Kevin Carey, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 08:30 AM ­ 08:45 AM SCHEDULED H31A­03 Noah­MP Land Surface Model simulation for Boreal Forest (BERMS SK­OAS) Site Yanping Li 1, Liang Chen1, Fei Chen2, Alan Barr3 and Bingcheng Wan2, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Environment Canada, Atmospheric Science & Technology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 08:45 AM ­ 09:00 AM SCHEDULED H31A­04 Comparing Observed and Simulated Interannual Variability in the Carbon and Water Balances of the Southern Boreal Forest Omer Yetemen1, Andrew M Ireson1, Jill F Johnstone1, Alan Barr2 and T. Andrew Black3, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)Environment Canada, Atmospheric Science & Technology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Biometeorology and Soil Physics Group, Vancouver, BC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 09:00 AM ­ 09:15 AM SCHEDULED H31A­05 Simulation of Lake Heat Fluxes by the Canadian Small Lake Model: Offline Performance Assessment for Future Coupling with a Regional Climate Model Patricia Pernica1, Murray MacKay2 and Howard S. Wheater1, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)Environment Canada Toronto, Science and Technology Branch, Toronto, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 09:10 AM ­ 09:30 AM https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 10/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly SCHEDULED H31C­05 Understanding and Modelling Hydrological Impacts of Land Use and Land Management Change Howard S. Wheater, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 09:45 AM ­ 10:00 AM SCHEDULED SCHEDULED SE31A­08 Deployment of an unmanned aerial system to assist in mapping an intermittent stream network Christopher Spence and Samson Girma Mengistu, Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 511D H31C­07 Estimating the Impact of Depressional Storage Drainage on the Hydrology of a Canadian Prairie Basin using Physically Based Modelling John W Pomeroy, Xing Fang, Kevin Shook and Cherie Westbrook, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 10:30 AM ­ 10:45 AM SCHEDULED H32A­01 Hydrologic and Thermal Responses to Rapid Retreat of a Lake­Terminating Glacier Robert Dan Moore1, Lawrence Bird1,2, Matt Chernos1, Alexis Moyer1 and Michele N Koppes1, (1)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Summit Environmental Consultants Inc., Vernon, BC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 10:30 AM ­ 12:30 PM SCHEDULED H32A Changing Cold Regions: Climate, Cryosphere, Hydrology, Ecology IV The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 12:15 PM ­ 12:30 PM https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 11/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly SCHEDULED H32A­08 Developing a Glacier Hydrology Model for the Canadian Rockies Dhiraj Pradhananga1, John W Pomeroy1, Michael N. Demuth1,2, Xing Fang1 and Tom Brown1, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 02:00 PM ­ 02:15 PM SCHEDULED H33A­01 An Assessment of Past and Projected Future Hydro­ Climatic Extremes over Key Watersheds within Western Canada Barrie R Bonsal, Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Charles Cuell, Selkirk College, Castlegar, BC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 02:45 PM ­ 03:00 PM H33A­04 State of Flood Forecasting in Canada SCHEDULED Paulin DL Coulibaly, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Peter F Rasmussen, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Donald H Burn, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Alain Pietroniro, Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and FloodNet The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 03:40 PM ­ 04:00 PM SCHEDULED AS33C­06 Seasonal and Diurnal Changes in Soil and Ground Water at a Mixed Forest at Borden Ontario Norma Froelich1, Ralf M Staebler2 and Paul A Bartlett 2, (1)Northern Michigan University, Chelsea, MI, United States, (2)Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 513A­C 04:30 PM ­ 06:30 PM SCHEDULED H34B­0160 Lateral Variations of Ground Temperatures along Linear Disturbances in the Peatlands in the Regions of Discontinuous Permafrost https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 12/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly Michael Braverman, Wilfrid Laurier University, Geography, Waterloo, ON, Canada and William L Quinton, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D SCHEDULED H34B­0159 Spatial Variability of Snowmelt Rates at Scotty Creek, NWT Emily Haughton1, William L Quinton1 and Oliver Sonnentag2, (1)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H34B­0149 Evaluation of SMOS Frozen Ground Flags SCHEDULED SCHEDULED SCHEDULED SCHEDULED Tracy L Rowlandson, Melanie Dawn Chabot and Aaron A Berg, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H34B­0158 Recent changes in glaciers within the upper Yukon River basin and their contribution to discharge at Whitehorse Chris Michael DeBeer, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Jeffrey L Kavanaugh, University of Alberta, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Sarah C Laxton, Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, YT, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H34E­0171 Evaluation of Paleo­Hydrologic Extremes and Their Uncertainties Saman Razavi 1, Amin A Elshorbagy1, Howard S. Wheater1, Dave Sauchyn2, Gonzalo Sapriza1 and Kwok Pan Chun1, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H34B Changing Cold Regions: Climate, Cryosphere, Hydrology, Ecology Posters https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D 13/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly SCHEDULED SCHEDULED SCHEDULED H34B­0154 Towards a large scale modelling of wetlands water dynamics in northern basins. Vanessa Pedinotti 1, Gonzalo Sapriza1, Lindsay Stone2, Bruce Davison3, Alain Pietroniro3, William L Quinton2, Christopher Spence3 and Howard S. Wheater1, (1)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (3)Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H34B­0151 Measurement and modeling of the surface conductance of boreal aspen and black spruce stands Jilmarie Stephens1, Thomas A Black1, Nicholas Grant 1, Zoran Nesic1 and Alan Barr2, (1)University of British Columbia, Biometeorology Group, Faculty Land and Food Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)Environment Canada, Atmospheric Science & Technology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H34B­0156 Assessing the Sensitivity of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Observed Brightness Temperature for Soil Freeze­ Thaw Detection during Wet Snow Conditions Matthew Williamson1, Tracy L Rowlandson2, Jaison Thomas Ambadan2, Aaron A Berg2 and Warren Helgason3, (1)University of Guelph, Geography, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (3)University of Saskatchewan, Civil and Geologic Engineering, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D SCHEDULED H34B­0140 Analysis of Precipitation and Temperature of the Lower Liard River Basin, using Wavelet Transform Bhaleka Persaud1, Paul H Whitfield2 and William L Quinton1, (1)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D THURSDAY, MAY 07, 2015 09:00 AM ­ 09:15 AM SCHEDULED H41A­05 Assessment of SPEI as a Tool for Representing Drought in the Agricultural Landscapes of the Southern Canadian Prairies Sunil Gurrapu1,2, Aston Chipanshi3, David Sauchyn1,2 and Allan Howard3, (1)University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada, (2)Prairie Adaptation https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 14/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly (1)University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada, (2)Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC), Regina, SK, Canada, (3)Agriculture Agri­ Food Canada, Regina, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 510D 09:45 AM ­ 10:00 AM SCHEDULED H41B­06 Field scale flow processes and soil water dynamics in seasonal wetlands of the Canadian Prairies Dawn Keim, Melkamu Ali and Andrew M Ireson, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 10:30 AM ­ 11:00 AM SCHEDULED H42B­01 Water Resource Futures Under Climate Change ­ Framing Uncertainty Within the Context of Vulnerability to Identify Risk Howard S. Wheater and Ali Nazemi, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 514A­C 11:00 AM ­ 11:15 AM SCHEDULED H42C­02 Characterization of Field­Scale Water Balance Components at A Heterogeneous Prairie Field Site Xicai Pan, Warren Helgason and Andrew M Ireson, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 12:15 PM ­ 12:30 PM SCHEDULED H42A­08 Regional nutrient export modeling of the South Saskatchewan River catchment using SPARROW Luis Alejandro Morales­Marin1, Howard S. Wheater2 and Karl­Erich Lindenschmidt 1, (1)Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, Canada, (2)University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 510D 02:50 PM ­ 03:05 PM https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 15/18 4/27/2015 2015 Joint Assembly 02:50 PM ­ 03:05 PM SCHEDULED H43B­04 Evaluating the Sensitivity of C­Band RADARSAT­2 SAR Data to Active Layer Soil Moisture over Arctic Tundra in Trail Valley Creek, NT. Rachel Elizabeth Humphrey1, Justin R Adams2, Aaron A Berg2 and Philip Marsh3, (1)University of Guelph, Geography, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (3)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal 515A­C 04:30 PM ­ 06:30 PM SCHEDULED H44A­0177 Comparison of agricultural roughness measurements from pin boards and terrestrial laser scanners: implications for SAR scattering models Melanie Dawn Chabot1, John Barrie Lindsay2, Tracy L Rowlandson3, Justin R Adams3 and Aaron A Berg3, (1)University of Guelph, Geography, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)The University of Guelph, Geography, Guelph, ON, Canada, (3)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D SCHEDULED SCHEDULED H44B­0186 Preferential unsaturated flow and transport in heterogeneous mine waste rock dumps Willemijn M Appels, Andrew M Ireson and Lee S. Barbour, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H44A­0182 Assessing the Spatio­Temporal Variability of Soil Moisture Within the Brightwater Creek Watershed in Saskatchewan, Canada Travis T Burns1, Aaron A Berg1 and Erica Tetlock2, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Environment Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D SCHEDULED H44A­0176 On the application of RADARSAT­2 IEM retrievals for determining inter­field soil moisture distributions a priori to vegetation emergence Justin R Adams1,2, Aaron A Berg1, Heather McNairn2 and Catherine Champagne3, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Agriculture https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 16/18 4/27/2015 SCHEDULED SCHEDULED 2015 Joint Assembly Champagne , (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Agriculture and Agri­Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (3)Agriculture and Agri­Food Canada, National AgroClimate Information Service, Ottawa, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H44A­0179 Comparison of Upscaled Soil Moisture Measurements from a SMAP Validation Network using Six Techniques William Woodley1, Aaron A Berg2, Justin R Adams2 and Tracy L Rowlandson2, (1)University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H44A­0181 Evaluation of COSMOS (COsmic­ray Soil Moisture Observing System) Soil Moisture Product in a Peatland Environment Elizabeth Erin Wrona1, Aaron A Berg1 and Philip Marsh2, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D SCHEDULED B44A­0078 From 10 Hz to 30 Minutes: Standardized Procedures for (Post)­Processing Eddy Covariance Measurements of the Taiga Plains Flux Tower Meso­Network in Northwestern Canada Karoline Wischnewski 1, Manuel Helbig2, Natascha Kljun3, Laura Chasmer4, Philip Marsh4, William L Quinton4 and Oliver Sonnentag5, (1)Université de Montréal, Département de géographie, Montréal, QC, Canada, (2)University de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, (4)Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (5)University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D SCHEDULED H44A­0178 Establishing soil moisture downscaling parameters a priori using network data as a proxy for future RADARSAT­ Constellation retrievals Aaron A Berg and Justin R Adams, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D H44A­0183 A role for soil organic carbon in passive remote sensing of soil water content from SMAPVEX12 https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 17/18 4/27/2015 SCHEDULED 2015 Joint Assembly sensing of soil water content from SMAPVEX12 Hida Rosemary Manns1, Aaron A Berg1 and Andreas Colliander2, (1)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States The Palais des congrès de Montréal Poster Hall 517B­D https://agu.confex.com/agu/ja2015/meetingapp.cgi#Favorites/Schedule 18/18