Adam Norris talks about land-use as a tool to understand the drivers of water processes, e.g. dissolved oxygen. He describes how artic grayling populations related to riparian channel characteristics and his data sampling processes to collect dissolved oxygen readings in winter from streams. Theoretical phosphorus budgets for different streams were compared to dissolved oxygen levels. Adam Norris makes the case that land-use, phosphorus runoff and grayling extirpation are connected. Riparian zones should not be the only focus of watershed protection practices; land-use practices in the watershed have water quality impacts as well.
Adam Norris is the Watershed Coordinator with the Mighty Peace Watershed Alliance. His presentation was part of the CWRA/WPAC Joint Conference, Red Deer, Alberta, March 13-14, 2013.
