Career Highlights

• First to find fractal dimensions of bare patches and snow patches caused by snowpack ablation

• First to demonstrate semi-fractal spatial distribution of snow water equivalent and that it causes the bare and snow patches

• Developed first uncalibrated model of snowcover depletion for the Canadian Prairies

• Created CAESAR - flood forecasting model used by Alberta Environment (2003 - to date)

• Wrote flood operating procedures and software used by all Alberta Environment dams

• Successfully forecast floods in Alberta for 10 years (1997-2007), including 4 events in Summer 2005

• Re-wrote dam flood operations software to save the City of Drumheller in June 2005

• First to show changes in historical precipitation phase and timing on the Canadian Prairies

• Developed first model of spatial distribution of water storage on the Canadian Prairies (WDPM)

• First to validate long-suspected hysteretic relationship between depressional water storage and the connected/contributing fractions of basins on the Canadian Prairies

• Developed first model of hysteretic variable connected/contributing fractions of Prairie basins (PCM) integrated with a hydrological model (CRHM)

• Created several R packages and delivered many R training sessions.

• Developed first hysteretic meta depression model of variable connected/contributing fractions of Prairie basins (HGDM)