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Fire and Water Forum
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Grande Prairie , AB
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Wildfire risk is real in the Peace. Sharing knowledge is the beginning of a conversation to find solutions and become proactive. This full day forum will bring together our understanding of fire and...
Improving the Fire Weather Index System for Peatlands using Peat-Specific Hydrological Input Data
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The Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) system, even though originally developed and calibrated for an upland Jack pine forest, is used globally to estimate fire danger for any fire environment. However...
Jonas Mortelmans
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PhD Researcher (Earth and Environmental Sciences)
Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance Integrated Watershed Management Plan
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The Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance (MPWA) supports the three goals of Alberta’s Water for Life Strategy: safe secure drinking water, healthy aquatic ecosystems, and reliable, quality water supplies...
Prompt Rewetting of Drained Peatlands Reduces Climate Warming Despite Methane Emissions
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Peatlands are strategic areas for climate change mitigation because of their matchless carbon stocks. Drained peatlands release this carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2). Peatland...
Satellite Determination of Peatland Water Table Temporal Dynamics by Localizing Representative Pixels of A SWIR-Based Moisture Index
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The OPtical TRApezoid Model (OPTRAM) is a physically-based approach for remote soil moisture estimation. OPTRAM is based on the response of short-wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance to vegetation water...
Video - Land Use as a Tool for Watershed Management
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This presentation discusses land-use as a tool to understand the drivers of water processes.