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December 05, 2023
River Dynamics Laboratory members Dr. Jeremy Venditti, Dr. Julia Carr, Dr. Tingan Li, Dr. Aaron Steelquist, Max Hurson, Morgan Wright, Dan Murphy, Chloe Ross and Kyra Baird will present their current research project at the AGU meeting in 2023. The AGU meeting in 2023 will be held in San Francisco, California and online from December 11th-15th. Additionally, Dr. Jeremy Venditti and Dr. Julia Carr will be convening two sessions.
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May 12, 2022
A 2018 slide created a 5-metre waterfall north of Lillooet, blocking migration route. Geoscientists in British Columbia are returning to the scene of a massive landslide on the Fraser River to map its effects and assess the risk of future slides on salmon.
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May 12, 2022
A team of researchers from Simon Fraser University have returned to the scene of a massive 2018 landslide as part of a project aimed at preventing future extinction-level events.
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Follow @LandslideSalmonBig Bar Landslide: Rapid on October 2023 at low flow - Upstream view https://t.co/KxUrlEEPyT via @YouTube @LandslideSalmon
— Jeremy Venditti (@VendittiLab) November 10, 2023
2022 BCSRIF Landslides and Salmon Project
- SFU News: SFU researchers mapping landslides that could wipe out Fraser River salmon, May 12, 2022.
- RadioNL: SFU research team investigating Fraser River landslide risk, May 12, 2022
- CBC News: Researchers in B.C. to map landslides in Fraser River in effort to protect salmon, May 13, 2022
- Mission City Record: Research team looking to prevent another Big Bar landslide that could wipe out B.C. salmon, May 12, 2022
- Surrey Leader: Research team looking to prevent another Big Bar type landslide that could wipe out B.C. salmon, May 12
- Daily Advent: SFU research team investigating Fraser River landslide risk
- Global News: Researchers in B.C. to map landslides in Fraser River, help protect salmon, May 12, 2022
2021 Atmospheric River, Landslides, and Flooding
- Globe and Mail: From fire to ‘atmospheric river’: Why B.C. is trapped in a world of climate extremes, Kathryn Blaze Baum & Mathew McClearn, November 18, 2021
- SFU News: Replicating river flows in the lab sheds new light on landslides, Kobie Huang, November 18, 2021
- Globe and Mail: Long road ahead for B.C. as repairs to Coquihalla Highway, main route between Vancouver and Kamloops, get under way, Mike Hager, November 25, 2021
- Vancouver Is Awesome & Alaska Highway News: Does B.C. need rapid response teams to prevent wildfire-driven floods?, Stefan Labbe, November 25, 2021
- Circle of Blue: HotSpots H2O: Unusually powerful ‘atmospheric river’ pummels British Columbia Pacific Northwest.
- Vancouver Is Awesome: First Nations, conservationists rescue dozens of endangered salmon stranded in B.C. floods, Stefan Labbe, December 24, 2021
Big Bar Landslide
- Global News: SFU researchers hope to predict rockslides, interview with Linda Aylesworth, September 19, 2019
- EOS: Remote landslide puts Fraser River salmon on shaky ground, Lesley Evans Ogden, January 22, 2020
- The Tyee: Blasting wasn’t enough. Salmon again will be blocked at Big Bar, Christopher Pollon, April 6, 2020