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MacArthur Glacier, Yoho National Park. Photo by Lynn Martel.
The Alpine Club of Canada’s State of the Mountains Report
The Mountain Legacy Project
Based in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, the Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) explores changes in Canada’s mountain landscapes through the world’s largest collection of systematic high-resolution historic mountain photographs a growing collection of repeat images.
Learn more here.
The Mountain Conditions Report
By the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides
The Mountain Conditions Report is published by the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides, and exists to assist recreational outdoorspeople in making reasonable, informed decisions in the field. The information provided in the Mountain Conditions Report consists of field observations in specific mountain areas from trained and certified ACMG members who have recently traveled to those areas. You can read the reports here.
ClimateData.ca is a climate data portal produced collaboratively by the country’s leading climate organizations and supported, in part, by the Government of Canada. ClimateData.ca enables Canadians to access, visualize, and analyze climate data, and provides related information and tools to support adaptation planning and decision-making.
Climatedata.ca is a collaboration between Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), the Computer Research Institute of Montréal (CRIM), CLIMAtlantic, Ouranos, the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), the Prairie Climate Centre (PCC), and HabitatSeven.
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space: Glacier Viewer
Where do glaciers exist? The Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) project at the National Snow and Ice Data Center has implemented a database of glacier outlines from around the world.
The GLIMS Glacier Viewer allows users to view and search through different map layers, including glacier outlines, Regional Coordinator institution locations, the World Glacier Inventory, extinct glaciers, and more. GLIMS data can be downloaded into a number of GIS-compatible formats.
Women Plus Water - Lecture Series and Expert List
Women Plus Water increases the visibility of women in water and engages people through the annual lecture series, expert list, and mentorship opportunities to learn about the gendered impacts of water research, management, and decision-making.
The Expert List is open to people of all genders and nationalities who have a demonstrated track record of contributing to gender equity in water through research, publications, policy, practice, community or youth engagement, entrepreneurship, or art.
Sign up for the Expert List here.
Research and adventure.
Girls* on Ice Canada
Inspiring Girls* Expeditions empowers young women to lead and succeed through science, art, and outdoor exploration. Each summer, we lead tuition-free multi-day expeditions for high school girls in BC and the Yukon.
Guardians of the Ice
Guardians of the Ice is a nonprofit organization focused on the rapidly-shrinking Columbia Icefield as a leading indicator of the worldwide climate crisis. Our purpose is to effectively engage the public to build support for a low-carbon future.
World Rivers Day
World Rivers Day is a celebration of the world’s waterways. It highlights the many values of our rivers, strives to increase public awareness, and encourages the improved stewardship of all rivers around the world. Rivers in virtually every country face an array of threats, and only through our active involvement can we ensure their health in the years ahead.
Juneau Icefield Research Program
The Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP) is an eight-week immersion in the wilderness of the Juneau Icefield, during which participants traverse from Juneau, Alaska to Atlin, British Columbia.
The Association of Canadian Mountain Guides
The ACMG is a professional association of trained and certified guides and instructors that is dedicated to protecting the public interest in mountain travel and climbing instruction, and a member of the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations (IFMGA).
Zuc’min Guiding
Zuc’min Guiding is an independent, professional Indigenous adventure- tourism company. Our practices focus exclusively on advancing Indigenous knowledge through hiking and education of both the public and fellow tour operators.
Global Water Futures (GWF)
Global Water Futures is a pan-Canadian research program that is funded in part by a $77.8-million grant from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. Core partners of GWF are the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Waterloo, Laurier University and MacMaster University.
The Canadian Permafrost Association
The Canadian Permafrost Association was founded in 2018 to bring together academics, practitioners, policy-makers, communities and indigenous organizations to help understand and address permafrost-related challenges in Canada.
Snow Forecasting
Canadian researchers in the Global Water Futures Program at the University of Saskatchewan, along with members from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), have developed an experimental 2-day snowpack forecasting model. The program, called SnowCast, uses data from the Canadian Hydrological Model, the Global Environmental Multiscale Model, and forecasts from ECCC to provide high resolution snowpack forecasts, taking into account windflow, solar radiation, precipitation and temperature over complex terrain.
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SnowCast 2-Day Forecast.
The Global Glacier Casualty List (GGCL) is a dynamic platform to visualize data about recently disappeared and soon-to-disappear glaciers. They tell these glaciers’ stories and how their losses have or will impact human communities in terms of cultural meaning, natural beauty, water availability, economic opportunity and world heritage.
The Ausuiktuq Glacier is a small valley glacier (approximately 3.7 km 2 in 2016) located on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island, 4 km east of Canada’s most northerly community of Grise Fiord or Ausuiktuq, Nunavut. It is critically endangered, and projected to disappear by 2050. Story by David Burgess. Further reading here.
