Eastern Snow Conference
AN INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATION
IN
ORIGIN, PRECIPITATION, ACCUMULATION, CHARACTER, MELT, AND
RUNOFF OF SNOW
&
CANADIAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
HYDROLOGY SECTION
Welcome
you to the Joint Meeting of the 58th Annual ESC and CGU:
‘Snow and Ice:
Principles, Processes, Management and
Use’.
Cosponsored by the Canadian Snow Committee, the International Glaciological Society and the International Commission on Snow and Ice Working Group on Snow Vegetation Interactions.
Corporate Sponsors:
Geonor and New Brunswick Environment
Past President: Dorothy Hall (NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center)
President: Mary Albert (CRREL)
Vice-President (Program Chair): John Pomeroy
(Univ. of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Secretary-Treasurer (Canada): Miles
Ecclestone (Trent University)
Secretary-Treasurer (U.S.A.): Austin Hogan
Editor: Janet Hardy (CRREL)
Co-Editor: John Pomeroy (Univ. of Wales,
Aberystwyth)
Steering Committee:
Austin Hogan (Chair)
Ken Rancourt
John Pomeroy
Research Committee:
Andrew Klein (Chair) (Texas A & M University)
Dave Milburn (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada)
Jim Cragin
Webmaster: Ross Brown (Meteorological Service
of Canada)
Ross Brown, Montreal
Mike Demuth, Ottawa
Miles Ecclestone, Peterborough
Susanne Hanson, Aberystwyth
John Pomeroy, Aberystwyth
Past President: Phil Marsh (NWRI, Saskatoon)
President: Hok Woo (McMaster University,
Hamilton)
Vice-President: Dan Moore (University of
British Columbia, Vancouver)
Secretary-Treasurer: Al Pietroniro (NWRI,
Saskatoon)
Member at Large: Denis Gratton (Université du
Québec a Trois Rivières)
Member at Large: John Pomeroy (Univ. of
Wales, Aberystwyth)
Special Thanks
to: the CGU Executive and Organising Committee
TUESDAY MORNING , 15 MAY
ESC/HS/CRIPE Room: Montpetit Bldg 202
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Chair: R Bourdages |
ESC/HS/CRIPE - Cold Season
Hydrology: from Freezeup to Breakup |
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9:10 |
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9:30 |
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9:50 |
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10:10 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING ** |
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Chair: M Ferrick
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ESC/HS/CRIPE - Cold Season
Hydrology: from Freezeup to Breakup |
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11:10 |
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11:30 |
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11:50 |
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12:10 |
LUNCH |
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* Student Paper Poster
Room:
** A list of poster titles
appears at the end of this section of the program booklet
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, 15 MAY
ESC/HS Room: Monpetit 202
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Chair: P Marsh |
Snow & Ice Hydrology |
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13:30 |
Collins, D. A. |
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13:50 |
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14:10 |
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Using tracers to
evaluate and optimise flow components generated by the UBC watershed in a
glacierised mountain basin |
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14:30 |
Mitchell, A, Brown, G.H.
and Fuge, R.* |
Minor and trace element
export from a glacierised alpine headwater catchment - implications for
downstream water quality |
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14:50 |
Taylor, S., Feng, X. and
Williams, M. |
Estimating snowmelt's
isotopic composition for hydrograph separation from field, laboratory and
modelling work |
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15:10 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING ** |
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Chair: M Albert |
Snow & Ice
Hydrometeorology |
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15:30 |
Brown, R., Brasnett, B.
and Robinson, D. |
Development of a gridded
north American daily snow depth and snow water equivalent dataset for GCM
validation |
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15:50 |
Brubaker, K.L. |
A technique to estimate
snow depletion curves from time-series data using the beta distribution |
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16:10 |
Daly, S.F., Davis, R.E.,
Ochs, E., Hardy, J., Bryant, E. and Pangburn, T. |
A preliminary study on
the feasibility for monitoring prairie snow cover for operational runoff
assessment |
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16:30 |
Dye, D. G. |
Variation in the
Northern Hemisphere annual snow-free period and its significance for
ecosystem processes |
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16:50 |
Pomeroy, J.W. , Hanson,
S. and D. Faria |
Small-scale Variation in Snowmelt Energy:
An Additional Factor Controlling Snowcover Depletion |
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* Student Paper Poster
Room:
** A list of poster titles
appears at the end of this section of the program booklet
CGU/ESC BARBEQUE, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
18:30
WEDNESDAY MORNING , 16 MAY
ESC/HS Room: Monpetit 203
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Chair: C. Burn |
Frozen Ground |
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8:30 |
Riseborough, D.W.* |
An analytical model of
the ground surface temperature under snowcover with soil freezing |
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8:50 |
Janowicz, J.R., Gray,
D.M. & Pomeroy, J.W.* |
Characterisation of
snowmelt infiltration scaling parameters within a mountainous sub-arctic
watershed |
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9:10 |
Lacelle, D., Bjornson,
J., Clark, I.D. and Lauriol, B.* |
Isotopic variations in
retrogressive thaw slumps, Richardson Mountains, N.W.T., Canada |
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9:30 |
Lewkowicz, A.G. and
Kokelj, S.V. |
Slope erosion by
overland flow, Canadian Arctic Archipelago |
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9:50 |
Marsh, P. and Neumann,
N.N. |
Rapid drainage of a
permafrost-dammed lake in north-western Canada |
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10:10 |
COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING ** |
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Chair: A.
Lewkowicz
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Frozen Ground/Snow & Ice
Hydrology |
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10:30 |
Burn, C.R. |
Tundra lakes and
permafrost, Richards Island, western Arctic coast, Canada |
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10:50 |
Turcotte, D.S., English,
M.C., Holmes, A. and B. Reid |
Active layer development
and radiation balance in a low arctic tundra basin, Coppermine River, NWT |
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11:10 |
Jones, H.G. and Pomeroy,
J.W. |
Snowmelt in a small
boreal forest basin in eastern Canada: influence of concrete frost on the
hydrology and chemical composition of the surface waters |
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11:30 |
Daanen, R.P. and Nieber,
J.L. |
Coupled moisture, heat
and solute transport in a snowpack |
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11:50 |
Fassnacht, S.R.,
Dressler, K. A. and Bales, R.C.* |
Physiographic parameters
as indicators of snowpack state for the Colorado River basin |
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12:10 |
LUNCH |
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* Student Paper Poster
Room:
** A list of poster titles
appears at the end of this section of the program booklet
WEDNESDAY MORNING , 16 MAY
ESC Author’s Breakfast
0630-0800h ‘Le
Rendez-vous’, 1st Floor University Centre, Univ of Ottawa
Eastern Snow Conference Room: Monpetit 202
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Chair: D Hall |
Cryosphere |
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8:30 |
Barber, D. G, Yackel, J.
and Iacozza, J. |
On the estimate of SWE
over first-year sea ice using Radarsat-1 |
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8:50 |
Papapkyriakou, T.,
Barber, D., Hanesiak, J. and Yackel, J. |
Application of an
analytical model of periodic heat flow through layred snow to examine
relationships between the surface heat budget and microwave scattering from
RADARSAT-1 over snow-covered sea ice. |
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9:10 |
Riggs, G. Hall, D. K.
and Key, J.R. |
Initial evaluation of
MODIS sea ice observations |
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9:30 |
Harouche, I. and Barber,
D.G. |
Seasonal
characterization of microwave emissions over snow-covered first-year sea ice |
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