Fire and rain: A new collaboration on the effects of fire on storm runoff in Spain and British Columbia

火与雨：关于西班牙和不列颠哥伦比亚省火灾对风暴径流影响的新合作

• 批准号: 577618-2022
• 负责人: McDonnell, JeffreyJJ
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Saskatchewan
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=764628
• 关键词: Fire; rain; new; collaboration; effects

This NSERC Catalyst project is a new collaboration with Professor Artemi Cerdà, the top fire hydrology researcher in the world. Through on-the ground visits and in-person collaborative meetings, I will learn first-hand from these groups about their experiments at their field sites in Spain. I will then import these methods, approaches and knowledge back to Canada for research to be applied across watersheds in BC. In exchange with these groups, I will share research approaches using isotope hydrology tracing that they have not yet tried in their attempts to trace the fate of rainfall on burned land. The specific objectives of the project are to: (i) begin isotope data collection at the Sierra de Enguera Soil Erosion Experimental Station; (ii) plan the design of similar runoff plots on recently burned land in BC Canada; and, (iii) conduct lab experiments with imported Spanish soil at the Multi-purpOse Slope Testing (MOST) Facility at the University of Saskatchewan. I plan to use a portion of my sabbatical from September 2023 - April 2024 to visit Professor Artemi Cerdà's lab as well as several other groups in the Valencia region who specialize in wildfire impacts on hydrology. Others I plan to visit include Esther Peña-Molina and Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; and Antonio del Campo and his colleagues at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. This work has major implication for Canada where fire, exacerbated by climate change, is a rapidly growing threat. The Fall 2021 flooding in BC that made international headlines is very likely Canada's largest insurable disaster. Many more will follow in future years. This Catalyst project will focus on the key player in fire-flood disasters, namely the fire impact on soil infiltrability and resulting increases in surface runoff and the rapid delivery of rainfall into streams

这个 NSERC Catalyst 项目是与世界顶级火灾水文学研究员 Artemi Cerdà 教授的一项新合作，通过实地访问和面对面的合作会议，我将从这些小组那里直接了解他们在各自领域的实验。然后，我将把这些方法、方法和知识带回加拿大，以便在不列颠哥伦比亚省的各个流域进行研究。作为与这些团体的交流，我将分享他们尚未尝试过的使用同位素水文学追踪的研究方法。尝试该项目的具体目标是：(i) 在 Sierra de Enguera 土壤侵蚀实验站开始收集同位素数据；(ii) 规划在最近被烧毁的土地上设计类似的径流地块。加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省；(iii) 在萨斯喀彻温大学的多用途斜坡测试 (MOST) 设施中使用进口的西班牙土壤进行实验室实验。 2023 年 9 月至 2024 年 4 月，参观 Artemi Cerdà 教授的实验室以及巴伦西亚地区专门研究野火对水文学影响的其他几个小组。我计划参观的其他小组包括卡斯蒂利亚大学的 Esther Peña-Molina 和 Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja。 -La Mancha；以及巴伦西亚理工大学的 Antonio del Campo 和他的同事，这项工作对加拿大具有重大意义。气候变化加剧的火灾是一种迅速增长的威胁，成为国际头条新闻的 2021 年秋季洪水很可能是加拿大最大的可保灾难，未来几年还会有更多灾难发生。 -洪水灾害，即火灾对土壤渗透性的影响，导致地表径流增加以及降雨迅速流入溪流