Simulating the Impact of Land Use Change on Watershed Hydrologic Characteristics

Dr. Steven Frey is a Senior Scientist at Aquanty Inc. He received his BSc in Geology at the University of Western Ontario, and his PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Following his PhD, Steve was a Visiting Fellow at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, where he conducted research on the impact of agriculture on surface water and groundwater resources. He has expertise across a broad spectrum of topics in hydrology, including preferential flow and transport processes, and the impacts subsurface drainage has on water and contaminant movement in agricultural ecosystems. Steve is currently the scientific lead on the MFGA Aquanty modeling project investigating the hydrologic impacts of land use change in the Assiniboine River Basin.

Building a Knowledge Base in Support of EG&S: An Overview of Ongoing Research in Alberta

Dr. Edward Bork is currently the Mattheis Chair in Rangeland Ecology and Management, and also serves as the Director of the Rangeland Research Institute at the University of Alberta. He has been teaching and conducting rangeland research since 1991 on a wide range of basic and applied topics such as integrated weed control in pasture, grazing systems, fire ecology, forage and legume production dynamics, landscape and disturbance ecology, and more recently, on the importance of grasslands in providing environmental goods and services such as carbon storage. Dr. Bork's work has had a strong focus on addressing practical problems of high relevance to practitioners managing either private or public rangelands, and has been involved with extensive collaboration with other researchers and agencies. Both he and his graduate students have given numerous research and extension talks on these topics. Dr. Bork and his family continue to reside on and operate a mixed farm in the Aspen Parkland region of central Alberta, Canada.