Alberta Watershed Ed
Alberta Watershed Ed. is an education campaign and contest delivered online through @cpawssab Instagram and promoted through CPAWS Southern Alberta Facebook and email newsletters. This project aims to educate participants on the nature of local river and watershed processes in Southern Alberta using accessible language to communicate the complex scientific concepts so that they may better understand the processes that deliver drinking and irrigation water, sustain ecosystems from the Rockies to Hudson Bay, and shape the landscape.
The human relationship with watersheds is not one-sided; watersheds connect us all to the landscapes we live in. However, the many ways in which we use and interact with these landscapes impacts the watersheds within them. Recent changes to policies in Alberta that formerly protected vast headwater environments in southern Alberta watersheds threaten the future health and function of the landscapes we rely on to sustain us. The ultimate objective of Alberta Watershed Ed. is to empower participants with knowledge of landscape processes and inspire them to advocate for watershed protection and conservation in their communities.
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CHECK OUT THE LESSON PLANS BELOW TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT A WATERSHED IS, HOW IT SUPPORTS OUR LANDSCAPE, AND HOW WE CAN BEST PROTECT OUR WATERSHEDS.
Lesson Resources
About Kelsey: Kelsey is a Master’s student at the University of Calgary in the Department of Geography. She researches fluvial geoarchaeology along the Bow River in Alberta. Fluvial geoarchaeology is the study of river and landform processes using human and environmental clues from the past in order to understand how the river system operated in past times. Kelsey completed her BSc in Environmental Science at the University of Guelph in 2017. Following her undergraduate education, she worked as a stream restoration technician in Toronto before beginning her studies at UofC in 2019.
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