More on the Impact+ program:

Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Government of Canada / gouvernement du Canada
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We’re especially excited about candidates working at the interface of environmental change, climate resilience, and water and food security.

If this sounds like you (or someone in your network), please share! Happy to chat if you’d like to learn more about our department or Lethbridge.

🚨 We’re hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Remote Sensing in the University of Lethbridge’s Department of Geography & Environment. 🚨

🔗 Full details and application link: uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8952

📆 Application review starts March 9!

The Mountain Ice & Water Lab @ ULethbridge is recruiting for Spring-Fall 2026!

• PhD → glacier–groundwater interactions (Peyto Glacier)
• MSc → snowmelt-driven hydrology & headwater recharge (Westcastle Basin)

Both combine fieldwork + process-based modelling 🏔️💻📖

Details in posters!

4 months into this job, I'm still not over the view from my office! The morning golden light, coffee, and a bit of calm before teaching, grants, and coding turn the day into a whirlwind!

Great weekend catching up on what glaciologists are up to and providing some hydro context at the Northwest Glaciologist Meeting! Thanks a lot to @watershedlab.bsky.social and @glasheologist.bsky.social for the organization ❄️

Know someone doing great work on climate or global change? 🌍

ULeth is hiring a Tier 2 CRC (racialized scholars, within 10 yrs of PhD).

☀️ Join us in sunny southern Alberta

⏰ Position review start Nov 3!!

🔗 uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8708

Opportunities matching 'earth' Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

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Hiring alert! Geography at U. Leth is looking for a new Instructor!

If you love GIS, remote sensing, and teaching geoscience skills -> join our awesome crew on the coulees

🗓️ Start date: July 1, 2026
📍Lethbridge, Alberta
💰 $59K–$75K

Apply by Jan 1, 2026: uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8717

With the fall colors out and the semester starting next week, I finally got around to visit my colleague's weather stations at the Castle Mountain Resort this week and chat about future work we can do about mountain hydrology in the region.

It's new faculty orientation week at @ulethbridgeartsci.bsky.social! Really neat to get to know the other incoming professors across the departments (philosophy, neuroscience, English, chemistry.. and more). Pretty excited for this cohort :)

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A group of 8 folks dressed in hiking close stand together cheering at the camera, with vegetation and bushes in the foreground and mountain in the back

A woman in a yellow hat with sunglasses and a black puffy jacket smiles at the camera with mountains in the background

A small creek with mountains in the background and someone standing by the creek in the distance

Setting up a new instruments in the Yukon with a colleague's lab -> walking in deep wet moss, eating wild blueberries and trying to measure streamflow and no eat bugs while asking loudly: Is there permafrost here? And there? And for how long? And what if there's a fire? And how much snow? It's fun.

60 Climbers & Hikers Heli-Evacuated From Bugaboos Due to Flooding The iconic alpine climbing area remains closed until further notice.

Increasingly, glacier retreat, warm temperatures and recreation don't mix. It's easy to forget how dynamics these environnements are when we access them on well-maintained trails and infrastructure www.climbing.com/news/climber...

It’s NSERC PhD season!
If you’re :
➡️ finishing an MSc (or supervising someone who is)
➡️ looking for a PhD in 2026
➡️ into mountain hydrology (glaciers, snow, groundwater)
Let’s chat! 🎉

Happy to support curious and keen applicants as a potential advisor 😄

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

Smiling women in a pink tshirt showcasing her office door with her name on it, being extremely happy about it.

I signed my contract for U. Lethbridge in Dec. 2023. This was coming for a while... But I am still so freaking excited (and fully embracing this pocket of joy amongst the burning fires of the world).

Special shout-out to my 2011 undergrad self who was so nervous to go knock on a prof's door.

A smiling woman wearing a white and green shirt stands in an empty office with a window overlooking a field and a blue sky, with a single laptop on top of a desk and empty bookshelves.

First day back in the office today! After a year of maternity leave, I'm psyched to get back into science - now as a tenured-track prof in geography at U. Lethbridge

So much to catch up on before the semester starts! Decorating/organizing my new office is not urgent, but will take priority anyway 😊

Orthoimage of the Columbia Icefield from last September acquired from the @unbc @hakai Airborne Coastal Observatory

A shout out to the @hakai.org ACO team for their work in helping us understand the magnitude of glacier mass loss in western Canada in a study published today.

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We are alarmed by the Administration’s actions to freeze science funding and eliminate DEI efforts and climate change initiatives, which go against AGU’s mission and harms our members. We must unite to address these changes, beginning by hearing from you.

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Nope nope nope. Terrible idea. Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's good. Water can get contaminated by so many things out in the wild and wrench havoc on our human bodies.

‘It’s a catastrophe’: Southern Alberta’s ag industry concerned over potential coal mining pollution Pushback continues to mount over possible coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, with the latest being a letter penned to the provincial government over the impact coal mining could...

“‘are they prepared to sacrifice a multi-billion-dollar food industry for a coal mine?’”

With southern Alberta known as the province’s heart of agriculture, roughly $14 billion in products are exported every year”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/leth...

Alberta rescinds coal development ban for foothills of the Rocky Mountains Energy Minister Brian Jean said in a letter to the Alberta Energy Regulator that he was rescinding ministerial orders which directed the agency to suspend approvals and refuse new applications for coa...

When everyone was looking at the USA, Alberta quietly scrapped a series of ministerial orders that banned coal development in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #cndpoli #abpoli

I use a pair of rolled socks. Maybe in a big stuff sack (like a big duffel?) and shake it around a bunch?

Trans, intersex, and queer people will always exist because humans are biological creatures and biology - inevitably and always - creates variability and diversity.

If there is any “biological truth,” it’s that a biological system will never conform to the strictures of human machinations.

These devastating fires in LA are climate change in action. More than 80% of the county is under drought, and when hurricane force winds hit dry land, they ignite. As @katharinehayhoe.com says, we are experiencing global weirding.

Yes, Climate Change is Raising the Risks—and Stakes—of Extreme Wildfires Rising temperatures, parched forests, and shifting precipitation patterns are fueling severe wildfires with unprecedented impacts. There is still time to act.

Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:

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Blue skies with snowy mountains and a river

I debated doing some computer work during naptime today, but instead decided to go for a very slow stroller run - my first run since little L was born. I think it was the right call :)

Maybe I'll be so sore tomorrow that computer time will sound like the best option!

#matleave #runningnaps

Key point beyond the numbers: It's possible to gain insights about surface water–GW interactions of a mountain glacierized basin without a full 3D numerical GW representation by using a process-based hydrological model + a well-developed, robust conceptual understanding + data!

We looked at climate change scenarios by varying T/P for different glacier covers. Most interestingly, we see limited changes in streamflow (especially GW!) because of the balance between glacier retreat and the increase in precip and ET. It's a fine balance!

We ran simulations and got a lot of numbers (and suppl. materials!) about flow composition, glacier wastage, and climate scenarios.
- Annually, 16% of the water transits through groundwater, but up to 56% in peak dry season
- 19% of the water in the basin comes from a negative glacier mass balance