St. Denis National Wildlife Area is a 361 ha watershed situated east of Saskatoon (106°06’W, 52°02’N). The topography of this field site is characterized by knob-and-kettle moraine with prairie potholes (sloughs). The site is underlain by low-permeability glacial tills with some sand deposits. The watershed has been extensively monitored by Environment Canada for decades and is the location of numerous inter-disciplinary studies related to the biology and hydrology of the area. Meteorological, snow, groundwater and water-level measurements have been extensively made at this site, along with air photography, remote sensing and careful visual observations. The large amounts of data collected at this location since the 1960s allowed for numerous breakthroughs with respect to advancing our understanding of semi-arid Canadian prairie hydrology; this led to the development of new physical models of environmental phenomena related to runoff, drought prediction and water availability.
This field trip is associated with the Advanced Hydrology class (GEOG 427) in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dr. Nicholas J. Kinar and Dr. Andrew Ireson are the tour guides with the Global Insitute for Water Security (GIWS) and the Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan. …...more
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