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Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada (2018)
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Dugdale, S. J., Curry, R. A., St-Hilaire, A., & Andrews, S. N. (2018). Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada. Water Resources Management, 32(15), 4853-4878. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-018-2057-7

Water temperature is a key determinant of biological processes in rivers. Temperature in northern latitude rivers is expected to increase under climate change, with potentially adverse consequences for cold water-adapted species. In Canada, little is... Read More about Impact of future climate change on water temperature and thermal habitat for keystone fishes in the Lower Saint John River, Canada.

Thermal infrared imaging for the detection of relatively warm lacustrine groundwater discharge at the surface of freshwater bodies (2018)
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Marruedo Arricibita, A. I., Dugdale, S. J., Krause, S., Hannah, D. M., & Lewandowski, J. (2018). Thermal infrared imaging for the detection of relatively warm lacustrine groundwater discharge at the surface of freshwater bodies. Journal of Hydrology, 562, 281-289. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.05.004

Thermal infrared (TIR) imaging has been previously applied to survey relatively large thermal footprints in coastal zones, lakes, reservoirs and rivers. In freshwater systems, the buoyancy of relatively warm groundwater during the winter months allow... Read More about Thermal infrared imaging for the detection of relatively warm lacustrine groundwater discharge at the surface of freshwater bodies.

Avian sensor packages for meteorological measurements (2018)
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Thomas, R. M., MacKenzie, A. R., Reynolds, S. J., Sadler, J. P., Cropley, F., Bell, S., …Cai, X. (2018). Avian sensor packages for meteorological measurements. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(3), 499-511. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-16-0181.1

The increasing miniaturization of accurate, reliable meteorological sensors and logging systems allows the deployment of sensor packages on lightweight airborne platforms. Here, we demonstrate the safe and humane use of avian species (white-tailed an... Read More about Avian sensor packages for meteorological measurements.

Understanding summertime thermal refuge use by adult Atlantic salmon using remote sensing, river temperature monitoring, and acoustic telemetry (2018)
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Frechette, D. M., Dugdale, S. J., Dodson, J. J., & Bergeron, N. E. (2018). Understanding summertime thermal refuge use by adult Atlantic salmon using remote sensing, river temperature monitoring, and acoustic telemetry. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 75(11), 1999-2010. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0422

Adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) return to natal rivers several months before spawning and during summer can be subjected to temperatures that exceed their upper temperature tolerance limits. Salmon use thermal refuges to minimize exposure to high... Read More about Understanding summertime thermal refuge use by adult Atlantic salmon using remote sensing, river temperature monitoring, and acoustic telemetry.

Effect of discharge and habitat type on the occurrence and severity of Didymosphenia geminata mats in the Restigouche River, eastern Canada (2018)
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Gillis, C., Dugdale, S. J., & Bergeron, N. E. (2018). Effect of discharge and habitat type on the occurrence and severity of Didymosphenia geminata mats in the Restigouche River, eastern Canada. Ecohydrology, 11(5), Article e1959. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1959

Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Since 2006, the Restigouche River watershed, eastern Canada, has been affected by nuisance growths of the mat-forming diatom, Didymosphenia geminata. In 2010, in view of the potential impacts of this alga on... Read More about Effect of discharge and habitat type on the occurrence and severity of Didymosphenia geminata mats in the Restigouche River, eastern Canada.

Improving representation of riparian vegetation shading in a regional stream temperature model using LiDAR data (2017)
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Loicq, P., Moatar, F., Jullian, Y., Dugdale, S. J., & Hannah, D. M. (2018). Improving representation of riparian vegetation shading in a regional stream temperature model using LiDAR data. Science of the Total Environment, 624, 480-490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.129

Modelling river temperature at the catchment scale is needed to understand how aquatic communities may adapt to current and projected climate change. In small and medium rivers, riparian vegetation can greatly reduce maximum water temperature by prov... Read More about Improving representation of riparian vegetation shading in a regional stream temperature model using LiDAR data.

Stream temperature under contrasting riparian forest cover: Understanding thermal dynamics and heat exchange processes (2017)
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Dugdale, S. J., Malcolm, I. A., Kantola, K., & Hannah, D. M. (2018). Stream temperature under contrasting riparian forest cover: Understanding thermal dynamics and heat exchange processes. Science of the Total Environment, 610-611, 1375-1389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.198

Climate change is likely to increase summer temperatures in many river environments, raising concerns that this will reduce their thermal suitability for a range of freshwater fish species. As a result, river managers have pursued riparian tree plant... Read More about Stream temperature under contrasting riparian forest cover: Understanding thermal dynamics and heat exchange processes.

Automating drainage direction and physiographic inputs to the CEQUEAU hydrological model: Sensitivity testing on the lower Saint John River watershed, Canada (2017)
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Dugdale, S. J., St-Hilaire, A., & Curry, R. A. (2017). Automating drainage direction and physiographic inputs to the CEQUEAU hydrological model: Sensitivity testing on the lower Saint John River watershed, Canada. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 19(3), 469-492. https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2017.051

© IWA Publishing 2017. CEQUEAU is a process-based hydrological model capable of simulating river flows and temperatures. Despite an active user base, no facility yet exists for the automatic assembly and input of watershed data required for flow simu... Read More about Automating drainage direction and physiographic inputs to the CEQUEAU hydrological model: Sensitivity testing on the lower Saint John River watershed, Canada.

Controls on Arctic glacier-fed river water temperature (2016)
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Mellor, C. J., Dugdale, S. J., Garner, G., Milner, A. M., & Hannah, D. M. (2017). Controls on Arctic glacier-fed river water temperature. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 62(4), 499-514. https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2016.1261295

The impact of climate change on Arctic rivers is expected to be severe. There is therefore a need for greater understanding of Arctic river temperature processes. This study quantifies the spatio-temporal variability of water temperatures in the Kårs... Read More about Controls on Arctic glacier-fed river water temperature.

A practitioner's guide to thermal infrared remote sensing of rivers and streams: recent advances, precautions and considerations (2016)
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Dugdale, S. J. (2016). A practitioner's guide to thermal infrared remote sensing of rivers and streams: recent advances, precautions and considerations. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 3(2), 251-268. doi:10.1002/wat2.1135

Stream temperature is a key habitat variable controlling all physical and biological river processes. In light of the threat of climate change to fluvial environments, growing importance is being placed on the need to gain a better understanding of s... Read More about A practitioner's guide to thermal infrared remote sensing of rivers and streams: recent advances, precautions and considerations.

Temporal variability of thermal refuges and water temperature patterns in an Atlantic salmon river (2013)
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Dugdale, S. J., Bergeron, N. E., & St-Hilaire, A. (2013). Temporal variability of thermal refuges and water temperature patterns in an Atlantic salmon river. Remote Sensing of Environment, 136, 358-373. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.05.018

In response to high summer river temperatures, salmonids avoid heat stress by making use of discrete units of cold water termed thermal refuges. Although recent research has documented how their spatial arrangement within a river affects salmonid dis... Read More about Temporal variability of thermal refuges and water temperature patterns in an Atlantic salmon river.

Making riverscapes real (2011)
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Carbonneau, P. E., Fonstad, M. A., Marcus, W. A., & Dugdale, S. J. (2012). Making riverscapes real. Geomorphology, 137(1), 74-86. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.09.030

Aerial photosieving of exposed gravel bars for the rapid calibration of airborne grain size maps (2010)
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Dugdale, S. J., Carbonneau, P. E., & Campbell, D. (2010). Aerial photosieving of exposed gravel bars for the rapid calibration of airborne grain size maps. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 35(6), 627-639. doi:10.1002/esp.1936

In recent years, fluvial remote sensing has seen considerable progress in terms of methods capable of system scale characterisation of river catchments. One key development is automated grain size mapping. It has been shown that high resolution aeria... Read More about Aerial photosieving of exposed gravel bars for the rapid calibration of airborne grain size maps.

An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing (2009)
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Carbonneau, P. E., Dugdale, S. J., & Clough, S. (2011). An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing. River Research and Applications, 26(5), 650-658. doi:10.1002/rra.1263

In recent years, remotely sensed image datasets with ground resolutions below 10?cm have seen widening applications in fluvial sciences with the development of methods for image based measurements of bathymetry, grain sizes and habitat types. However... Read More about An automated georeferencing tool for watershed scale fluvial remote sensing.