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Caroline Aubry-Wake

@cryocaro.bsky.social
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Mountain hydrology | Assistant Prof at U. Lethbridge | Glaciers, snow, and water in a changing world | she/her/elle |

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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
More on the Impact+ program: Canada Impact+ Research Chairs - Government of Canada / gouvernement du Canada www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
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Application process - Canada.ca
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We’re especially excited about candidates working at the interface of environmental change, climate resilience, and water and food security. If this sounds like you (or someone in your network), please share! Happy to chat if you’d like to learn more about our department or Lethbridge.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚨 We’re hiring a Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Remote Sensing in the University of Lethbridge’s Department of Geography & Environment. 🚨 🔗 Full details and application link: uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8952 📆 Application review starts March 9!
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Canada Impact+ Research Chair – Professor (Or Associate Professor)
The University of Lethbridge invites applications from world-renowned researchers for the prestigious Canada Impact+ Research Chair competition. The Impact+ program is a one-time initiative designed t...
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The Mountain Ice & Water Lab @ ULethbridge is recruiting for Spring-Fall 2026! • PhD → glacier–groundwater interactions (Peyto Glacier) • MSc → snowmelt-driven hydrology & headwater recharge (Westcastle Basin) Both combine fieldwork + process-based modelling 🏔️💻📖 Details in posters!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
4 months into this job, I'm still not over the view from my office! The morning golden light, coffee, and a bit of calm before teaching, grants, and coding turn the day into a whirlwind!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Great weekend catching up on what glaciologists are up to and providing some hydro context at the Northwest Glaciologist Meeting! Thanks a lot to @watershedlab.bsky.social and @glasheologist.bsky.social for the organization ❄️
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Know someone doing great work on climate or global change? 🌍 ULeth is hiring a Tier 2 CRC (racialized scholars, within 10 yrs of PhD). ☀️ Join us in sunny southern Alberta ⏰ Position review start Nov 3!! 🔗 uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8708
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Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Climate and Global Change
The Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Lethbridge invites applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in the natural sciences, in the area of Climate and Global Change. The suc...
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?... (please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
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Opportunities matching 'earth'
Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Hiring alert! Geography at U. Leth is looking for a new Instructor! If you love GIS, remote sensing, and teaching geoscience skills -> join our awesome crew on the coulees 🗓️ Start date: July 1, 2026 📍Lethbridge, Alberta 💰 $59K–$75K Apply by Jan 1, 2026: uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8717
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Faculty of Arts & Science - Instructor II or III (Geography and Environment)
The Department of Geography & Environment at the University of Lethbridge invites applications for a continuing appointment at the rank of Instructor II or III to commence on July 1, 2026, subject to ...
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
With the fall colors out and the semester starting next week, I finally got around to visit my colleague's weather stations at the Castle Mountain Resort this week and chat about future work we can do about mountain hydrology in the region.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It's new faculty orientation week at @ulethbridgeartsci.bsky.social! Really neat to get to know the other incoming professors across the departments (philosophy, neuroscience, English, chemistry.. and more). Pretty excited for this cohort :)
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Setting up a new instruments in the Yukon with a colleague's lab -> walking in deep wet moss, eating wild blueberries and trying to measure streamflow and no eat bugs while asking loudly: Is there permafrost here? And there? And for how long? And what if there's a fire? And how much snow? It's fun.
A man with a big Blu backpack walking in vegetated, hummocky ground with rolling hills in the backgroundA group of 8 folks dressed in hiking close stand together cheering at the camera, with vegetation and bushes in the foreground and mountain in the backA woman in a yellow hat with sunglasses and a black puffy jacket smiles at the camera with mountains in the backgroundA small creek with mountains in the background and someone standing by the creek in the distance
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Increasingly, glacier retreat, warm temperatures and recreation don't mix. It's easy to forget how dynamics these environnements are when we access them on well-maintained trails and infrastructure www.climbing.com/news/climber...
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60 Climbers & Hikers Heli-Evacuated From Bugaboos Due to Flooding
The iconic alpine climbing area remains closed until further notice.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It’s NSERC PhD season! If you’re : ➡️ finishing an MSc (or supervising someone who is) ➡️ looking for a PhD in 2026 ➡️ into mountain hydrology (glaciers, snow, groundwater) Let’s chat! 🎉 Happy to support curious and keen applicants as a potential advisor 😄 www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...
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NSERC - Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program
NSERC - Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I signed my contract for U. Lethbridge in Dec. 2023. This was coming for a while... But I am still so freaking excited (and fully embracing this pocket of joy amongst the burning fires of the world). Special shout-out to my 2011 undergrad self who was so nervous to go knock on a prof's door.
Smiling women in a pink tshirt showcasing her office door with her name on it, being extremely happy about it.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
First day back in the office today! After a year of maternity leave, I'm psyched to get back into science - now as a tenured-track prof in geography at U. Lethbridge So much to catch up on before the semester starts! Decorating/organizing my new office is not urgent, but will take priority anyway 😊
A smiling woman wearing a white and green shirt stands in an empty office with a window overlooking a field and a blue sky, with a single laptop on top of a desk and empty bookshelves.
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bmenounos.bsky.social @bmenounos.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A shout out to the @hakai.org ACO team for their work in helping us understand the magnitude of glacier mass loss in western Canada in a study published today. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Orthoimage of the Columbia Icefield from last September acquired from the @unbc @hakai Airborne Coastal Observatory
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Inspiring Girls* Expeditions @inspiringgirls.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Multi-day, tuition-FREE expeditions for high school girls* blending science, art, and backcountry travel 🏔️ inspiringgirls.org/apply 📅 Deadlines: Girls* on Ice Canada - 2/7 Girls* on Rock & Girls* in Icy Fjords - 2/9 Girls* on Ice Switzerland & Girls* on Ice Austria - 2/14 Girls* on Ice Alaska - 3/2
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APPLY — Inspiring Girls Expeditions
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 04/02/2025
We are alarmed by the Administration’s actions to freeze science funding and eliminate DEI efforts and climate change initiatives, which go against AGU’s mission and harms our members. We must unite to address these changes, beginning by hearing from you. Read more: buff.ly/4hm8r4e
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Nope nope nope. Terrible idea. Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's good. Water can get contaminated by so many things out in the wild and wrench havoc on our human bodies.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“‘are they prepared to sacrifice a multi-billion-dollar food industry for a coal mine?’” With southern Alberta known as the province’s heart of agriculture, roughly $14 billion in products are exported every year” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/leth...
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‘It’s a catastrophe’: Southern Alberta’s ag industry concerned over potential coal mining pollution
Pushback continues to mount over possible coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, with the latest being a letter penned to the provincial government over the impact coal mining could...
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
When everyone was looking at the USA, Alberta quietly scrapped a series of ministerial orders that banned coal development in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #cndpoli #abpoli
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Alberta rescinds coal development ban for foothills of the Rocky Mountains
Energy Minister Brian Jean said in a letter to the Alberta Energy Regulator that he was rescinding ministerial orders which directed the agency to suspend approvals and refuse new applications for coa...
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I use a pair of rolled socks. Maybe in a big stuff sack (like a big duffel?) and shake it around a bunch?
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simón(e) 🌑 @simonedsun.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trans, intersex, and queer people will always exist because humans are biological creatures and biology - inevitably and always - creates variability and diversity. If there is any “biological truth,” it’s that a biological system will never conform to the strictures of human machinations.
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These devastating fires in LA are climate change in action. More than 80% of the county is under drought, and when hurricane force winds hit dry land, they ignite. As @katharinehayhoe.com says, we are experiencing global weirding.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/01/2025
Climate change is creating warmer, drier conditions that cause fire seasons in some regions like western North America to last longer and be more active. Read more:
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Yes, Climate Change is Raising the Risks—and Stakes—of Extreme Wildfires
Rising temperatures, parched forests, and shifting precipitation patterns are fueling severe wildfires with unprecedented impacts. There is still time to act.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I debated doing some computer work during naptime today, but instead decided to go for a very slow stroller run - my first run since little L was born. I think it was the right call :) Maybe I'll be so sore tomorrow that computer time will sound like the best option! #matleave #runningnaps
A woman in a blue sweater pushing a stroller with mountains in the backgroundBlue skies with snowy mountains and a river
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Key point beyond the numbers: It's possible to gain insights about surface water–GW interactions of a mountain glacierized basin without a full 3D numerical GW representation by using a process-based hydrological model + a well-developed, robust conceptual understanding + data!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We looked at climate change scenarios by varying T/P for different glacier covers. Most interestingly, we see limited changes in streamflow (especially GW!) because of the balance between glacier retreat and the increase in precip and ET. It's a fine balance!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We ran simulations and got a lot of numbers (and suppl. materials!) about flow composition, glacier wastage, and climate scenarios. - Annually, 16% of the water transits through groundwater, but up to 56% in peak dry season - 19% of the water in the basin comes from a negative glacier mass balance
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Why is this important? There are substantial gaps in understanding mountain GW–cryosphere interactions! How much glacier meltwater ends up in the GW, and how will it change as glaciers retreat? We often simply don't know... Despite GW being an important water resource in a lot of alpine areas.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
What happens to surface water and groundwater when glaciers retreat and T/P changes? We took a look at exactly that in our recent open-access paper! We ran hydro simulations in the Cordillera Blanca, where there are lots of data + studies about GW and hydrology. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Sensitivity of surface water and groundwater contributions to streamflow in a tropical glacierized basin under climate change scenarios - IOPscienceSearch
Sensitivity of surface water and groundwater contributions to streamflow in a tropical glacierized basin under climate change scenarios, Caroline Aubry-Wake, Gavin McNamara, Lauren D Somers, Jeffrey M...
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I attended a day of presentations and discussions about snow monitoring with researchers from U. Calgary, U. Lethbridge and Alberta gov. last week. The goal: meet future colleagues, get the science juices flowing and help me plan my next steps. And of course, test bringing a baby to meetings!
Women carrying a baby in a carrier in a small meeting room with other scientists, with a presenter in the background.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I have a few months before I start as a tenured track assistant prof here in Canada. Any suggestions to start prepping? With the caveat that I have pretty limited computer time, but many hours of thinking available!
"you're hired, now what" book with baby playing in the background
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/11/2024
"every fraction of a degree matters" is true as hell. In the same way that releasing CO2 hurts people and planet, avoiding its release saves us from potential harm This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
a graphic showing a linear relationship between emissions of co2 and the warming of earth, projected out also into various scenarios
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Sarah Boon @snowhydro.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Goodbye, Karsten Heuer. thenarwhal.ca/rocky-mounta...
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Rockies conservation icon Karsten Heuer reflects on life and death | The Narwhal
Karsten Heuer has lived beyond limits, fought fiercely to protect Rocky Mountain wild places and now prepares for his final journey
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
So many new folks! Hi! 😀 My work is about how snow and ice contribute to our water resources 🏔️ Outside of science, I'm usually skiing and climbing. These days, I'm at home with my new-ish baby 🐣 I share about science, mountains, water, climate, and occasionally, about social and gender issues.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
How it started -> How it's going Now a few months into my maternity leave and loving it! I'm really enjoying the slow life with my little one, and simultaneously really excited by what's going to happen once I get back to science and university life next summer!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
How it started -> How it's going Now a few months into my maternity leave and loving it! I'm super grateful to have this time with my little one and enjoy the slow life, and simultaneously really excited by what's going to happen once I get back to science and university life next summer!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
🔗https://www.inspiringgirls.org/work-with-us
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Work With Us — Inspiring Girls Expeditions
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
Girls* on Ice Canada @insp_girls_exp is hiring a 5 month, part time fundraising and sponsorship manager position! Help us to make our youth expedition merging science, art and exploration happen next summer! Application details on our website!...
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
With @immerzeel @philipkraai @varyabazilova @ppwater_94 And if you want even more mountain hydro, check out the EGU schedule for all the other talks/posters with collaborators such as @Marit_vanTiel and @cryohydrogeo which will also be awesome 😎
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 10/04/2024
In a frenzy to get ready for @EuroGeosciences ? Don't worry about making a schedule, just attend our @UU_PhysGeog mountain hydro presentations - with topics from the peak water myth, to groundwater, debris flow and crevasses, there's something for everyone! See you soon🎉😄
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
And what's happening until July 2025? First up, finishing my postdoc with the Mountain Hydro group at Utrecht University, and then... Let's say another big adventure is starting with a new member joining our little family!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
In July 2025, I will be joining the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Lethbridge as an Assistant Professor. Super excited to continue sharing my passion for science, researching how snow and ice contribute to our water resources... and staying close to the mountains!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Something farther with transit. It's so easy and quick to get around on transit - and transit pass is included in the registration. And you probably would transit to the conference center to downtown anyway?
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
And what's happening until July 2025? First up, finishing my postdoc with the Mountain Hydro group at Utrecht University, and then... Let's say another big adventure is starting with a new member joining our little family!
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
I am incredibly happy about it - I get to continue sharing my passion for science and the natural world, researching how snow and ice contribute to our water resources, and I get to stay close to the mountains - while joining a department filled with really nice folks.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Life Update! In July 2025, I will be joining the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Lethbridge @uLethbridge as an assistant professor.
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Caroline Aubry-Wake @cryocaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
A 32-month postdoc position is open in the Mountain Hydrology group at Utrecht University! Come work with us :) Topic: How mountain cryosphere helps buffer extreme droughts in Europe Deadline to apply: 15 April 2024 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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