Managing Upland Watersheds In An Era Of Global Climate Change
Banff, Canada, September 6-11, 2006
PRE-FORUM FIELD TRIP 2006
September 5 (Tuesday)
Participants arrive at Calgary International Airport and stay overnight
at the Delta Hotel at the airport.
September 6 (Wednesday)
08:00 Depart Delta Hotel for Icefields Parkway
Enroute: A Brief History of the Region, Robert Sandford
10:00 Rest Stop: Bow Valley Parkway - Stops along Parkway to examine prescribed burning, wildlife management, and recreation management programs
10:30 Arrive at Sawback Prescribed Burn: “Upland Watershed Management: The Role of Fire”, Ian Pengelly, Fire Specialist, Banff National Park
11:30 View Crowfoot Glacier
13:00 Lunch at Mt. Coleman Picnic Area
14:00 Depart for Big Hill
14:30 Arrive at Big Hill
15:30 Arrive at Columbia Icefields Chalet
16:00 Columbia Icefield SnoCoach Tour of Athabasca Glacier:
“Is Glacial Recession a Worry?” Shawn Marshall, University of Calgary
18:00 Return to Columbia Icefields Chalet
18:30 Dinner at Chalet
September 7 (Thursday)
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Tour of High Altitude Wastewater Treatment Plant
09:15 Depart Icefields Chalet for Banff—continue with lectures and examples
of upland watershed management
11:00 Peyto Lake Overlook
12:00 Arrive Bow Lake
12:15 Lunch at Num-Ti-Jah Lodge, Bow Lake
13:15 “Water Quality in Jeopardy?” David Schindler, University of Alberta
Species Protection, Ecosystem Restoration, Resource Conservation
Ian Syme & Ed Abbott, Resource Conservation
13:45 Depart Num-Ti-Jah Lodge
14:30 Arrive Lake Louise
15:30 Depart Lake Louise
16:30 Arrive Banff Centre
FORUM V BEGINS
19:00 Opening Reception
Hosted by the Calgary Foundation
Welcoming: Vice President W.R. (Reg) Gomes, University of California
September 8 (Friday)
OPENING SESSION: Inaugural Speeches
09:00 Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Henry Vaux, Jr. Chair, Rosenberg Forum
Ms. Sarah Iley, Vice President, Programming, The Banff Centre
Mr. Richard Rosenberg, Bank of America-Emeritus
The Honorable Herbert Gray, Chair, Canadian Section, International Joint Commission
The Honorable Allen Olson, Commissioner, U.S. Section, International Joint Commission
10:00 BREAK
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (Chair: Henry Vaux)
10:30 Factors for Success: Public and Private Sector Roles in Securing a Safe and Reliable Water Supply in a Time of Global Change
Mr. Don Lowry, President & CEO, EPCOR, Edmonton, Alberta
11:00 Mountains of the World - Water Towers for the 21st Century
Dr. Bruno Messerli, University of Bern
11:30 Upland Watershed Management in the Developing World
Dr. Sihem Benabdallah, University of Tunis
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch, hosted by Alberta Ingenuity
SESSION ONE (Chair: Helen Ingram)
CHALLENGES IN UPLAND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT: FOR WHAT? FOR WHOM?
13:30 Dr. Holger Hoff, University of Potsdam
13:45 Dr. Pedro Arrojo, University of Zaragoza
14:00 Discussant: Dr. Hans Schreier, University of British Columbia
14:15 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
15:00 - 15:30 Break
SESSION TWO (Chair: Yuksel Inan)
UPLAND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT AND GLOBAL CHANGE
15:30 Upland Watershed Management and Environmental Impacts in the Face of Global Climate Change - Dr. David Sauchyn, University of Regina
15:45 The Implications of Climate Change for Upland Watersheds
Professor Richard Adams, Oregon State University
16:00 Discussant: Dr. Rashid Hassan, University of Pretoria
16:15 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
17:00 Adjourn for the day
18:30 Dinner hosted by the Alberta Irrigation Project
September 9 (Saturday)
SESSION THREE (Chair: Ayman Rabi)
COPING WITH GLOBAL CHANGE IN UPLAND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT – LEARNING FROM REGIONAL EXPERIENCES
Case Study One–The Jordan River Basin
08:30 Speaker: Dr. Alon Rimmer, Israel Oceanographic & Limnological
Research, Ltd.
08:45 Adaptation and Policy: Mr. Youssef Hassan Ayadi, Jordan Valley Authority
09:00 Discussant: Dr. Moneef Zou’bi, Islamic World Academy of Sciences
09:20 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
10:05 - 10:35 Break
Case Study Two-The Saskatchewan River Basin (Chair: Bob Sandford)
10:35 Speaker: Dr. David Shindler, University of Alberta–Elements and Impacts of Global Change
Reaction Panel
10:50 The Honourable Guy Boutilier, Minister of the Environment, Alberta
11:05 The Honourable John Nilson, Minister of the Environment, Saskatchewan
11:20 The Honourable Steve Ashton, Minister of Water Stewardship, Manitoba
11:35 Round Table Discussion
12:15 Lunch - hosted by Expo Zaragoza 2008
Case Study Three-The Rhone River Basin (Chair: Alberto Garrido)
13:30 Speaker: Professor Jean-Paul Bravard, President de la ZABR
12:45 Speaker: Professor Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Osnabrück University, Germany
14:00 Discussant: Dr. Bruno Messerli, University of Bern
14:20 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
15:05 - 15:30 Break
Case Study Four- The International Joint Commission: A Case Study in the Successful Management of International Waters (Chair: Henry Vaux)
15:30 Speaker: The Honorable Jack Blaney, Commissioner, Canadian Section, International Joint Commission
15:45 Speaker: The Honorable Dennis Schornack, Chair, American Section International Joint Commission
16:00 Discussant: Mr. Phillip Weller, International Commission for
the Protection of the Danube
16:20 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
17:10 Closing: Peter Gleick - Conference Summarizer (Chair: Fred Cannon)
17:30 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
19:00 Reception and Gala Dinner–hosted by Environment Alberta
Speaker: The Honorable Guy Boutilier, Minister of the Environment,
Province of Alberta
POST-FORUM FIELD TRIP
Upper Columbia Basin, British Columbia, Canada 2006
September 10 (Sunday)
08:00 Depart Banff Centre
- Tour Briefing - 30 minutes
- Enter Columbia Valley—Briefing by Columbia Basin Trust – Kindy Gosal
11:00 Arrive Columbia River Headwaters, Columbia Lake, Canal Flats
- First Nation’s Presentation on First Nation’s Issues
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Board Bus for Trip to Radium, B.C.
14:00 Arrive Columbia Wetlands – Briefing
14:30 Canoe Trip through Columbia Wetlands
17:30 End Canoe Trip
18:00 Board Bus – Depart Radium
19:00 Arrive Golden, B.C. Lodging: Prestige Inn, Golden, BC
September 11 (Monday)
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Board Bus for Trip to Kinbasket Reservoir
09:30 Arrive Kinbasket Reservoir –Discussion of:
- Recreational Issues
- F & W Issues
- Archeological Issues
- Management of Upstream Reservoirs Under Existing Treaty
10:30 Depart Kinbasket Reservoir
11:45 Lunch at the Canyon’s Edge
15:00 Arrive Takakkaw Falls, Yoho Valley
15:45 Depart Takakkaw Falls
16:15 Canadian Pacific R.R. – Spiral Tunnels
16:45 Depart Spiral Tunnels
17:45 Arrive Banff Centre, Dinner on your own
WECOME TO BANFF
In the wake of the Mountains as Water Towers Summit held in November 2003, The Banff Centre has attracted one of the world's elite conferences on water policy and watershed management. Created through an endowment from the Bank of America, and named after the bank's former president, the Rosenberg Water Forum is a biennial invitational gathering of world leaders in international water policy. The fall 2006 forum will be held at The Banff Centre.
Bob Sandford, chair of the United Nations International Year of Fresh Water and Wonder of Water initiative in Canada, extended the invitation to meet in Banff at the most recent meeting of the forum's organizing committee, held in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting finalized plans for the forum to be held in the fall of 2004 in Ankara, Turkey and confirmed Banff as the location for the fall 2006 meeting.
“It was the reputation The Banff Centre gained through the Water Towers Summit and the natural attraction of our UNESCO Canadian Rockies World Heritage Site that made Banff the unanimous choice for the forum,” said Sandford.
Leslie Taylor, one of the organizers of the Mountains as Water Towers Summit and associate director, Mountain Culture at The Banff Centre, says confirmation that the Rosenberg Forum will meet in Banff is welcome news. “Forums such as this confirm Banff as a world centre for the exploration of globally significant issues in mountain environments. We can learn a great deal from how others are addressing water problems that we are just beginning to face here in the Canadian Rockies.”
The principal themes for the 2006 Rosenberg World Water Forum will be issues in mountain watersheds, including the impacts of climate change on water agreements and treaties, and issues related to water scarcity in areas of perceived abundance. Representatives from more than 20 countries are expected to attend.
Canadian representatives will also participate at the Rosenberg Forum in Turkey this fall. At this forum, problems associated with managing river systems such as the Tigris-Euphrates, the Nile, and the Danube will be compared to the growing complexity of managing international water systems such as the Columbia River.