Forever Chemicals Fixed with Particle Physics?
Ashley Johnson, Education and Outreach Coordinator What is a forever chemical? Forever chemical is a term that generally gets used for chemicals that cannot be broken down through natural processes. […]
2023 Year in Review
Before 2024 gets into full swing, we’d like to take a moment to reflect on some of our achievements over the course of 2023. Here are some brief highlights: 2023 […]
An overview of palaeontology and how it relates to water
Margaret Cross, B.Sc. Honors in Palaeontology and Ashley Johnson, Education and Outreach Coordinator In October, Margaret and Ashley gave a talk to the WPAC summit attendees who came to the […]
Safe Secure Drinking Water For All: cause for the rare authorization of an inter-basin transfer in the Athabasca Watershed
Caity Seifert, Drinking Water and Climate Change Adaptation and Resiliency Intern Water is complicated. Its management, even more so. Alberta’s Water Act was implemented on October 7th, 1998. It represented […]
Watershed Workshop at Generate/Navigate
Ashley Johnson, Education and Outreach Coordinator In March, I was invited to host a WPAC workshop for Inside Education’s youth conference focused on water and energy, Generate/Navigate. The youth conference included […]
Water in Alberta’s Boreal—Never a Dry Subject
Lorne Fitch, P. Biol. The joint northern WPAC conference, Water Management in Alberta’s Boreal, included a keynote address by Lorne Fitch, Professional Biologist, Fish and Wildlife Biologist and a past Adjunct […]
Robert Bondar STEM Career Development Program
Sarah MacDonald, Watershed Science Coordinator “Roberta Bondar, Roberta Bondar, Roberta Bondar” my neighbor repeated. I had some exciting news to share with her; I was accepted to the Roberta Bondar […]
AWC Field Season Project Updates
Ashley Johnson, Education and Outreach Coordinator Buckle in folks, this blog post will have a lot of information. We’ve been busy travelling across the watershed since late May, and finally […]
My AWC Summer
Aneilia Ayotte, Science Communications Coordinator Working with the Athabasca Watershed Council this summer has been such a wonderful opportunity. I am so happy that I was hired for this job, […]
Benthic Invertebrates; the Who, What, and Why
Aneilia Ayotte, Science Communications Coordinator What are benthic invertebrates? Benthic Invertebrate sounds like a bit of a daunting phrase when you first hear it, however when you break it down […]
