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Citation Middleton, Mary Ann; 2016; (PhD, in progress); Streams with greater connectivity to an aquifer are potentially more sensitive to changes in groundwater levels and fluxes during the summer low flow period; Simon Fraser University, Dept of Earth Sciences, Groundwater Resources Research Group
Organization SFU
URL http://www.sfu.ca/grrg/ResearchProjects2.html
Abstract/Description or Keywords Streams with greater connectivity to an aquifer are potentially more sensitive to changes in groundwater levels and fluxes during the summer low flow period. Research focused on the use of streambed-interface temperature in combination with field methods to characterize aquifer-stream connectivity and evaluate factors influencing the groundwater flux to streams at different scales. A simplified heat budget was used in combination with groundwater flux measurements in Fishtrap and Bertrand Creeks. The understanding of aquifer-stream connectivity at different scales was applied in the development of a vulnerability framework for assessing groundwater-dependent streams, and to determine stream vulnerability to changes in groundwater conditions.
Information Type Thesis
Regional Watershed Lower Fraser
Sub-watershed if known Fishtrap Creek; Bertrand creek
Aquifer # 15; 27; 28; 33; 34; 50
Comments
Project status in progress
Contact Name Mary Ann Middleton; Dr. Diana Allen
Contact Email [email protected]; [email protected]