8. EARTH SCIENCES RANKINGS
1. California Institute of Technology
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Stanford University
4. University of California - Berkeley
5. Columbia University
6. University of Michigan
7. Pennsylvania State University
8. University of Arizona
9. Harvard University
10. University of Texas - Austin
US News and World Report, 2006
12. The frequency, severity and causes
of extreme droughts in the
Winnipeg River basin
Scott St. George
Geological Survey of Canada
13. FU N DI N G A GE NCI ES
Manitoba Hydro
Manitoba Geological Survey
Natural Resources Canada
National Science and Engineering Council of Canada
Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative
23. Annual discharge since 1924
+ 58%
NO TREND
+ 52%
+ 46%
NO TREND
NO TREND
NO TREND
NO TREND
24. “
For monthly and annual
average flow based on
adjusted disaggregated flow
data, upward trends are
detected for the entire period
from 1912 to 2006.
Liu, 2007
25. Winnipeg River
≠ Saskatchewan River
Western Hudson Bay
Canadian Prairies
47. Martin-Philippe Girardin
Canadian Forest Service
Greg Pederson
United States Geological Survey
Glen MacDonald David Sauchyn Emma Watson
UCLA University of Regina Environment Canada
Erik Nielsen Jacques Tardif
Manitoba Geological Survey University of Winnipeg
84. Scott St. George
Streamflow in the Winnipeg
River basin, Canada: trends,
extremes and climate linkages
Journal of Hydrology 332, 396-411, 2007
85. Scott St. George, Dave Meko and Mike Evans
Regional tree growth and
inferred summer climate in
the Winnipeg River basin,
Canada since AD 1783
Quaternary Research 70, 158-172, 2008
86. Scott St. George, Dave Meko, Martin Girardin, Erik
Nielsen, Greg Pederson, Dave Sauchyn, Jac Tardif,
and Emma Watson
The tree-ring record of
summer drought in the
Canadian Prairies
Journal of Climate, in press