WAter Data Exchange (WADE) For decades, volunteers have been collecting water monitoring data in streams, creeks and lakes in their communities, often as part of a larger program including stream channel or riparian restoration, community engagment and
Groundwater - Surface Water Connectivity in California On March 12 Foundry Spatial co-hosted a workshop with the University of Victoria, The Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund, and Stanford University's Water in the West Program in Menlo Park, CA. The objective
New Collaboration with University of Victoria on Surface Water - Groundwater Interactions A little behind on announcing this, but last November we received notice that our application was successful for a Collaborative Research and Development Grant from the National Science and Engineering Research Council, in
Annual Alberta Branch CWRA Conference Last Tuesday, I was in Red Deer, presenting at the Alberta chapter's annual conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association. The presentation described the Alberta Water Tool, the decision support tool we developed
agrology BC Institute of Agrology March 2018 Featured Agrologist - Ben Kerr Honored to be the March 2018 featured agrologist. Thanks BCIA! https://www.bcia.com/news/march-2018-featured-agrologist-ben-kerr
Van Carto Day! Thanks to a couple of old colleagues, Eliana Macdonald of Ecotrust Canada and Pano Skrivanos of Inlailawatash for the invite to present at the inaugural Van Carto Day on December 1. That's Van
Alberta Water Tool Update - Now Open Access About a year ago, we launched the Alberta Water Tool (AWT) - a web based decision support tool providing information on water resources, existing water users, and the needs of the environment in
Decision support tools don't always = Better decisions Almost everything we do at Foundry Spatial is designed to help people make better, more sustainable decisions about the world around them. What does that really mean, though? A perfect decision is an
Presentation at BC Institute of Agrologists AGM Tomorrow I'll be in Abbotsford at the BCIA AGM presenting in the "Flood or Drought: Water Resources in a Changing Climate" Professional Development Session. My presentation, "Using data to support
webinar POLIS Creating a Blue Dialogue Webinar Series Way back in early December, I was invited to take part in the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance's Webinar, Strengthening Monitoring and Reporting for BC's Watersheds. About 100 people attended the webinar and
#BCTECH and BCIC Innovation Challenge Foundry Spatial will be at the #BCTECH Summit in Vancouver March 14 and 15, 2017. We'll be presenting our solution to the BCIC / BC Stats data visualization challenge on Tuesday afternoon and with
Introducing Fountainhead, Advanced Water Data Management System Data Collection vs. Understanding, Sharing, and Acting Environmental data collection has become easy and inexpensive in the twenty-first century. It’s pretty routine to put a robot hydrometric logger into the bush, push