LivingLakesCanadaNewsStreamJune2019

Inthisissue[Clickonlinksbelowtogodirectlytoatopic]

LivingLakesInternationalConferenceonLakesampWetlandsSTREAMDNAUpdates

ColumbiaBasinWaterCollaborativeGroundwaterMonitoringProgram

RoundtableResultsRevitalizingBCLakeStewardship

LakeForeshoreProtectionWaterMonitoringConference

NewTeamMembersIntheNews|UpcomingEvents

RelatedReportsampResources|OpportunitiesampEducation

Wetlands are one of the most significant ecosystems on theplanet They provide rich habitat for biodiversity and help

mitigate the impacts of climate change We need to take theirpreservation more seriously Protecting the worlds wetlands is

much more cost effective than trying to restore them Incollaboration with all sectors of civil society we have the

opportunity to preserve the integrity of the worlds remainingwetlands

~ Living Lakes Executive Director Kat Hartwig from the Living Lakes 15th

International Conference on Lakes amp Wetlands

JoiningglobalwaterstewardsinSpain

LivingLakesCanadateammemberspresentedtoaninternationaldelegationatthe15th

InternationalConferenceonLakesampWetlandsinValenciaSpaininMayLLCPhoto

ALivingLakesCanadacontingentreturnedfromthe20thanniversaryLivingLakesInternationalConferenceonLakesampWetlandsinValenciaSpaininMayThisconferencewasthe20thanniversarycelebrationofLivingLakesandwasattendedbyover200delegatesfrom41countries

Kootenay Lake Partnership Chair Jayme Jones provided a personal account ofthe experience that can be read here - Journey to Spain PerspectivesPassion and PaellaThe teamrsquos trip was supported by CBEENrsquos Professional Development BursaryProgram Read LLC team members Claire Pollock-Hall and Avery Deboer-Smithrsquos reflections Agua Adventures on the CBEEN website

READASUMMARYOFTHEEXPERIENCEHERE

Wetlands are one of the most significant ecosystems on theplanet They provide rich habitat for biodiversity and help

mitigate the impacts of climate change We need to take theirpreservation more seriously Protecting the worlds wetlands is

much more cost effective than trying to restore them Incollaboration with all sectors of civil society we have the

opportunity to preserve the integrity of the worlds remainingwetlands

~ Living Lakes Executive Director Kat Hartwig from the Living Lakes 15th

International Conference on Lakes amp Wetlands

JoiningglobalwaterstewardsinSpain

LivingLakesCanadateammemberspresentedtoaninternationaldelegationatthe15th

InternationalConferenceonLakesampWetlandsinValenciaSpaininMayLLCPhoto

ALivingLakesCanadacontingentreturnedfromthe20thanniversaryLivingLakesInternationalConferenceonLakesampWetlandsinValenciaSpaininMayThisconferencewasthe20thanniversarycelebrationofLivingLakesandwasattendedbyover200delegatesfrom41countries

Kootenay Lake Partnership Chair Jayme Jones provided a personal account ofthe experience that can be read here - Journey to Spain PerspectivesPassion and PaellaThe teamrsquos trip was supported by CBEENrsquos Professional Development BursaryProgram Read LLC team members Claire Pollock-Hall and Avery Deboer-Smithrsquos reflections Agua Adventures on the CBEEN website

READASUMMARYOFTHEEXPERIENCEHERE

FullSTREAMaheadSummer2019

LivingLakesCanadaProgramManagerRaeganMallinsonledthefirstadaptedCABINprotocol

trainingpracticumfortheSTREAMDNAprojectonJune12and13inNelsonBCLLCPhoto

LivingLakesCanadahasbeguntrainingandcertifyinginterestedorganizationsandindividualsusinganadaptedCABINprotocoltoincludeeDNAanalysisfortheSTREAMproject

ThefirstcoursetookplaceinNelsonJune12-13withrecordregistration

STREAM DNA (Sequencing The Rivers for Environmental Assessment andMonitoring) is the new community-based project that involves the collection of bulkDNA samples from rivers across Canada Each year STREAM aims to recruit andtrain community members to collect a total of 1500 samples From this datamonitoring the long-term responses of benthic macroinvertebrates to changebecomes possible which is fundamental for assessing how rivers as a wholewill respond to global environmental change

Students in the Selkirk College Integrated Environmental Planning Programattended a benthos sample collection demonstration Read about it HERE

We will be holding the following Program ManagerFieldTechnician Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) amp

eDNA Training course

Smithers BC June 24 amp 25 2019Canmore AB July 16 amp 17 2019Fort St JohnDawson Creek area August 27 amp 28 2019Sudbury ON September 17 amp 18 2019

SEEPHOTOSANDREADACCOUNTSHERE

ColumbiaBasinWaterCollaborative

TheColumbiaBasinWaterMonitoringCollaborativeSteeringCommitteeonJune18LLC

Photo

OnJune18ththeColumbiaBasinWaterMonitoringCollaborativersquosSteeringCommitteemetinNelsonBCtoprovidefeedbackandguidanceonthemonitoringframeworkTheface-to-facemeetinghad21steeringcommitteememberssomecomingfromasfarawayasWinnipeg

TheColumbiaBasinWaterMonitoringCollaborativeisthecurrentiterationoftheColumbiaBasinWaterMonitoringFrameworkandDataHubInitiativethatgotunderwayinNovember2017whenLivingLakesCanadaco-hostedtheCrackingtheCodein3DWaterDataHubandMonitoringFrameworkconferencetoenvisionaWaterMonitoringFrameworkfortheColumbiaBasin

ColumbiaBasinGroundwaterLevels

MOREDETAILSANDHOWTOREGISTERHERE

READTHEFULLMEETINGBRIEFING

Groundwaterleveldata(metersbelowgroundsurface)oftheLivingLakesCanadaVolunteer

ObservationWellinCrestonneartheGoatRiver(Red=2017Green=2018Blue=2019)

TheColumbiaBasinGroundwaterMonitoringProgramhashadabusySpringWedownloadedgroundwaterleveldatafromallofoursitesandwearebusyreviewingandanalyzing thedatawithourpartnersatGWSolutionsGroundwater leveldatafromourmonitoringsitesinCrestonandBlewettarenowavailableontheBCReal-timeWaterDataToolcheckthemouthere

BlewettCreston

IfyouareinterestedinmonitoringagroundwaterwellinyourcommunityorwouldlikemoreinformationontheProgramcontactgroundwaterlivinglakescanadaca

CBWMCaseStudiesnowonline

Sinceourlastnewsletter(March2019)theFeaturedCaseStudiesintheElevatingCommunity-Based Water Monitoring in Canada Resource Package havebecomeavailable

The Resource Package is the outcome of the national roundtable onCommunity

LEARNABOUTOURGROUNDWATERPROGRAMHERE

BasedWaterMonitoringconvenedbyLivingLakesCanadainpartnershipwithTheGordon Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund-Canada and co-hosted withEnvironment and Climate Change Canada and Indigenous and Northern AffairsCanadainOttawaONinNovember2018ThegoaloftheRoundtablewastoworkcollaboratively towards achieving shared water stewardship objectives andrecommendations

BCLakeStewardshipleapsforward

WaterqualitytestingonMoyieLakeaspartoftheLong-TermLakeTrendsProjectLWAPhoto

In2018theBCLakeStewardshipSociety(BCLSS)inpartnershipwithLivingLakesCanada completedaproject for theMinistryofEnvironmentandClimateChangeStrategy entitled An Integrated Lake Monitoring Framework for British ColumbiaThis report identified a number of needs of the volunteer lake stewardshipsectorTheBCLSSplanstofullyaddresstheseneedsthroughanewprogramTheBCLakeStewardshipEngagementInitiativeABCLSSrepresentativewill traveltheprovinceandofferpresentationstoengagelakestewardsandpotentialstewardsandsupportenvironmentallakeactivitiesincludingwaterqualitymonitoring

Doyouneedhelplookingafteryourfavouritelake

BCLSS is working with the Ministry of Environment amp ClimateChange Strategy to conduct standardized ice off sampling on

three lakes in the East Kootenays Lake Windermere ColumbiaLake and Moyie Lake as part of the larger Long-Term Lake

Trends Project

ACCESSTHECOMPLETERESOURCEPACKAGE

READALLABOUTTHISNEWPROGRAM

Read Lake Windermere Ambassador Program CoordinatorShannon McGintys account of this lake sampling

SHIMforthewin

ASensitiveHabitatInventoryMapping(SHIM)projectonLakeWindermereisguiding

governmentdecision-makingEKILMPPhoto

TheEastKootenayIntegratedLakeManagementPartnership (EKILMP)completedaSensitiveHabitat InventoryMapping (SHIM)projectonLakeWindermerewhereshoreline habitat values were assessed and risk ratings were determined forcommonshorelineactivities

The recent decision by the BCGovernment to turn down amarina proposal onLakeWindermere inorder toprotect keyhabitatarea isevidenceofhoweffectivetheDFO(DepartmentofFisheriesandOceansCanada)SHIMprotocolcanbeforlakeforeshorepreservation

Cuttingedgewatermonitoringtechniques

Living Lakes Canada was updated on the latest science of water monitoringtechniques at the American National Water Quality Monitoring Councils 11thNational Water Monitoring Conference held in Denver Colorado March 25-29Conferencethemesincluded

Innovative Designs and Technology for Water Quality Monitoring andAssessmentHolisticWaterQualityMonitoringExploringChemicalPhysicalandBiologicalIntegrity

READMOREABOUTTHISDECISION

EffectiveMonitoringCollaborationsandPartnershipsMonitoringandAssessmenttoProtectHumanandEcosystemHealth

Of the many informative presentations the ChesapeakeMonitoring Cooperative provided excellent learnings for theco-ordination work LLC is doing for the Columbia Basin Water

Monitoring Collaborative The Chesapeake Bay MonitoringCooperative encompasses an area of 11601 square

kilometres and spans 2 US states involves all levels ofgovernment over 70 community-based water monitoringgroups academia and citizen scientists and integratesvolunteer-based and non-traditional water quality and

macroinvertebrate monitoring data data housing and datainterpretation

VISIT WWWCHEASAPEAKEMONITORINGCOOPORG

Wevewelcomednewfacestoourteam

Michele A SamIndigenous Peoples andPlaces Liaison Michele A Sam was born in Toronto (a

word translated to indicate ldquoWhere trees

stand tall in the waterrdquo) Ontario where

her father is from He is Haudenosaunee

with Italian heritage and Michele honours

her fatherrsquos people by following her

motherrsquos lineage

READ MORE

Tom DanceAdvisor Tom Dance has more than 35 years of

professional experience as a

hydrogeologist Most of his career has

been spent working in Western Canada

and he is familiar with the geologic and

hydrogeologic conditions within the

Western Canada sedimentary basin

READ MORE

ACCESSTHECONFERENCEPROCEEDINGS

Lindsay CapitoSummer Intern Lindsay Capito is a MSc student in

Watershed Science at Utah State

University She completed her BS in

Management and Restoration of Aquatic

Ecosystems at USU after completing

general studies at Northland Pioneer

College in the White Mountains of

Arizona

READ MORE

Kyle PrinceSummer Intern

Kyle Prince grew up west of Grande

Prairie Alberta on several small farms and

was always lucky enough to have a creek

or river as his backyard

READ MORE

Ashley DuboisSummer Intern

Ashley Dubois is currently in between her

third and fourth year at the University of

Alberta where she is working towards a

BSc double majoring in Biology and

Psychology She was born and raisedin the beautiful Rocky Mountains ofInvermere BC where her passion fornature and ecology started

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IntheNewsSTREAMacommunity-basedwatermonitoringprogramtoinform

waterresourcemanagement~BIOSSummer2019

LivingLakesCanadaProjectManagerRaeganMallinsonco-authored

thisarticleabouttheSTREAMprogramfortheAlbertaSocietyof

ProfessionalBiologistsnewsletterwhichreceivesmentiononthecover-

seepage6

ldquoItrsquosattheverycoreofeverythingrdquoThesignificanceofCanadarsquoswild

rivers~CanadianGeographicJune132019

LivingLakesCanadaismentionedinthisarticlehelpingtheKaska

GuardiansstartafreshwatermonitoringprogramontheLiardandsome

ofitstributariesinFall2018

ToxictailingsdonotbelongintheAthabascaRiver~GlobeampMailJune

42019

LivingLakesCanadaAdvisorDavidSchindlerco-authoredthisarticle

aboutaproposalthatwouldallowtoxictailingstobeslowlydischarged

intotheAthabascaRivertodisposeoffluidfinetailings

FinalistsannouncedinSuzyHamiltonLegacyAward~TheNelson

DailyMay142019

LivingLakesCanadaProgramCoordinatorAveryDeBoer-Smithwas

nominatedasafinalistinthe2019SuzyHamiltonLegacyAwardforher

yearsofserviceasExecutiveDirectoroftheFriendsofKootenayLake

StewardshipSociety

Upcomingeventswewillbeattending

SETAC North America 40th Annual MeetingSociety of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

(SETAC)

Toronto ON Canada

November 3-7 2019

VISIT THE EVENT WEBSITE

The 6th International Columbia RiverTransboundary ConferenceKimberley BC Canada

September 12-14 2019

VISIT THE EVENT WEB PAGE

RelatedReportsampResourcesHandbookforWaterChampionsStrengtheningDecision-Makingand

CollaborationforHealthyWatersheds~April272019

Thishandbookisapracticalguideintendedforlocalgroups

collaborativeorganizationsandIndigenousandCrowngovernments

seekingtobetterunderstandwatershedgovernance

AmericanNationalWaterMonitoringNews-18thEdition~National

WaterQualityMonitoringCouncilSpring2019

Thenewsletterincludesasummaryofthe11thNationalMonitoring

Conferenceaswellasmanyarticlescontributedfromaroundthe

country

BuildingClimateResilienceintheOkanaganAHomeowners

ResourceGuide~SouthOkanaganRealEstateBoard2019

TheSouthOkanaganRealEstateBoardinpartnershipwiththeRegional

DistrictofOkanagan-Similkameenhaslaunchedthisnewdigital

resourcepublicationtoeducaterealtorsandhomeownersaboutwhat

theycandotopreparethemselvesandtheircommunitiestofacethe

challengesofclimatechangeevents

StewardshipSolutionsOnlineToolkit~KootenayConservationProgram

Groundwaterandlakemonitoringarefeaturedinthisonlinetoolkit

designedforstewardshippractitionerslocalgovernmentplannersand

otherserviceprovidersaswellasaone-stopshopforprivatelandowners

interestedinstewardshipoptionsfortheirproperty

OpportunitiesEducation

WaterDataWednesdays

TheAtlanticWaterNetworkhasstartedanewsocialmediacampaignof

sharingsomeldquoTipsandTricksrdquowhenitcomestoallthingswaterdataon

theirsocialmediaplatformsusingthehashtagWaterDataWednesdays

Feelfreetosharetheseweeklypostsandtweetsonyourownplatformsas

wellascreatesomeofyourownforsharingusingthe

WaterDataWednesdayshashtag

CanadasClimateChangeAdaptationPlatformWebinarSeries

InthisseriestheOntarioCentreforClimateImpactsandAdaptation

Resourcesshowcasesprojectsandproductsavailableunder

theAdaptationPlatformBuildingRegionalAdaptationCapacityand

Expertise(BRACE)ProgramandCanadainaChangingClimateThese

webinarsaremadepossiblewithsupportfromNaturalResourcesCanada

Pleaseshareournewsletter

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