Canada is teeming with lakes, streams and wetlands. Clean, healthy fresh waters support biodiversity and provide extensive health, economic and cultural benefits to Canadian communities. However, rates of climate change in northern boreal regions are among the highest of anywhere on Earth. Rising temperatures, changes to precipitation and declining snow cover will fundamentally alter how water and chemicals move through the environment, and could threaten our valuable aquatic resources.
How will environmental pressures, including climate change, impact water quality? This is the question that drives our research. Our team works to unravel relationships between water and nutrient cycling, to understand how patterns and processes vary across the landscape and how human activities impact the surface waters that drain forested ecosystems.
A robust understanding of the environmental controls on nutrient cycling in the boreal region is critical for informing decision-making aimed at safeguarding water quality. Our research program expands understanding of how human activities impact boreal ecosystems, by diving deep into the mechanisms that underpin observed changes and also by looking broadly at controls on regional-scale patterns. Through interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers, practitioners and decision-makers, the results of our research inform management decisions that protect ecosystems and water quality.
How will environmental pressures, including climate change, impact water quality? This is the question that drives our research. Our team works to unravel relationships between water and nutrient cycling, to understand how patterns and processes vary across the landscape and how human activities impact the surface waters that drain forested ecosystems.
A robust understanding of the environmental controls on nutrient cycling in the boreal region is critical for informing decision-making aimed at safeguarding water quality. Our research program expands understanding of how human activities impact boreal ecosystems, by diving deep into the mechanisms that underpin observed changes and also by looking broadly at controls on regional-scale patterns. Through interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers, practitioners and decision-makers, the results of our research inform management decisions that protect ecosystems and water quality.
Contact Information
Nora Casson
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Influences on Water Quality
Department of Geography
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave. Winnipeg MB
Email: [email protected]
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Influences on Water Quality
Department of Geography
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave. Winnipeg MB
Email: [email protected]