"Athabasca River Basin High-Res Modelling of the Impact of Climate Change" - Webinar hosted by COSIA

On September 16th, 2021 Aquanty's senior scientist Hyoun-Tae Hwang delivered a webinar discussing our recent work in modelling the impacts of climate change in the Athabasca River Basin using HydroGeoSphere. We would like to thank Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) for the opportunity to present this most recent research, which follows on several years of partnerships to model the ARB in high-resolution using HydroGeoSphere, Aquanty’s cutting edge integrated hydrologic modeling platform.

About the presentation:

Quantifying and representing climate change impacts on water resources are key to developing water management plans, policies for sustainable, healthy ecosystems and water supplies.

Aquanty conducted high resolution modelling of the Athabasca River Basin (ARB), incorporating both surface and subsurface flows, significantly improving accuracy over existing global scale models.

The new model helps improve our understanding of the seasonal, short and long-term changes to surface and ground water by conducting extreme event and drought analysis. This helps oil sands producers adapt production and mine-closure processes appropriately, but the learnings from this research may be applied even more broadly by governments, industries and other water resource managers.

You will likely be surprised by the results, projecting hotter and wetter overall conditions in the ARB by end-of-century.