{"id":1904,"date":"2014-06-16T20:32:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2014-06-17T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:52:20","slug":"albertas-bow-river-climate-change-and-human-impacts-smcc-backgrounder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/albertas-bow-river-climate-change-and-human-impacts-smcc-backgrounder\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta&#8217;s Bow River: Climate change and human impacts | SMCC Backgrounder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1985\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/266984661_0430c4501f_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1985\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1985\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/266984661_0430c4501f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bow Falls, Banff, Alberta. Credit: Tim Redpath, via Flickr\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/266984661_0430c4501f_z.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/266984661_0430c4501f_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bow Falls, Banff, Alberta. Credit: Tim Redpath, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97797311@N00\/266984661\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the days leading up to June 20, 2013, Alberta experienced extreme rainfall that led to flooding on the Bow River and its associated watershed. Total<br \/>\ndamage was estimated at $3 to 5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>While there is no way to prevent such floods, scientific research by climatologists, hydrologists and other experts can help us understand the root causes, as well as the best ways to mitigate against the damage. Such research recognizes the interconnectedness of floods to the other issues facing the river and its residents, including water scarcity, water quality and the integrity of ecosystem services.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the one-year anniversary of the flood, the\u00a0SMCC has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/docs\/SMCC-BowRiver.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">created a backgrounder<\/a> that summarizes the state of scientific knowledge about the Bow River and its watershed. The document was produced in partnership with\u00a0a group of local stakeholders that in 2010 produced the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/y2y.net\/files\/843-ubbces-executive-summary-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Upper Bow Basin Cumulative Effects Study<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The backgrounder can be accessed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemediacentre.ca\/smc\/docs\/SMCC-BowRiver.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can also check out all of our previous backgrounders on <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?page_id=183\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a>. If you are working on a story about the flood or any other aspect of the Bow River and would like help finding a scientific expert to speak to, just <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?page_id=329\" target=\"_blank\">give us a call.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days leading up to June 20, 2013, Alberta experienced extreme rainfall that led to flooding on the Bow River and its associated watershed. Total damage was estimated at $3 to 5 billion. While there is no way to prevent such floods, scientific research by climatologists, hydrologists and other experts can help us understand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[180,1761,31,1763,210,1284,1762],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backgrounder","tag-alberta","tag-bow-river","tag-climate-change","tag-drought","tag-floods","tag-water","tag-water-quality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-uI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}