Burstall Creek (and the surrounding Burstall Pass) is a sub-alpine research site located in the Saskatchewan River Basin to support hydrological research and was instrumented in 2018 in order to understand the changes in hydrometeorological processes on source water dynamics in subalpine regions of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Data collected allows researchers to study effects on freshwater supplies as a result of hydrometeorological process changes with global warming as snowmelt periods occur earlier in the year, and glaciers contribute less annual meltwater, resulting in longer growing seasons and greater reliance on rainfall to generate runoff.

To study effects on freshwater supplies as a result of hydrometeorological process changes with global warming as snowmelt periods occur earlier in the year, and glaciers contribute less annual meltwater, resulting in longer growing seasons and greater reliance on rainfall to generate runoff.

Hathaway, J. M., Westbrook, C. J., Rooney, R. C., Petrone, R. M., Langs, L. E. (2022) Quantifying relative contributions of source waters from a subalpine wetland to downstream water bodies. Hydrological Processes, 36(9), e14679. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14679

Real-time Data: https://giws1.usask.ca/cfh/GOES/mobile/Burstallchart_mob.html