About

Research Area: Forest Hydrology

Awards

• Alberta Emerald Award: Challenge Award in Water (2014) - Southern Rockies Watershed Project
• Canada Council of the Federation Excellence in Water Stewardship Award (2014) - Southern Rockies Watershed Project 
• Canadian Institute of Forestry Tree of Life Award (2011)
• Teacher of the Year Award, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences (2020, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2010, & 2004)
• Faculty Teaching Award, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences (2009)
• ECSA Teacher of the Year Award (2018)

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Research

Research Focus: Forest hydrology and Eco-hydrology focusing on impacts of climate associated forest disturbance (wildfire, Mountain Pine Beetle) and forest management including forestry operations on hydrology, water quality, and aquatic ecology of riverine environments. Research focuses on snowpacks, evaporative processes, surface- and sub-surface hillslope processes, erosion, biogeochemistry, streamflow dynamics, and aquatic ecology.

Research Platforms: Established and leads leads the Southern Rockies Watershed Project; a large instrumented watershed research platform in the Crowsnest Pass and Waterton Lakes region of southwest Alberta. This watershed research observatory includes a network of 36 current/historic gauged watersheds with a network of 19 climate stations stations. Co-leads the NSERC forWater network; a national network of instrumented watershed platforms and researchers focused on protecting drinking water sources from Canada's forested regions coast to coast.

• Southern Rockies Watershed Project
• forWater NSERC Strategic Research Network

REN R 100 - Forests: Ecology, Use and Society

An introduction to forest trees, plants, insects, fungi, fire, biodiversity and ecology. Discusses the use of forests for wood products recreation, watersheds, wildlife, carbon, and overall management and policies in Alberta and elsewhere.

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REN R 350 - Physical Hydrology

Principles of physical and land-use hydrology. The interaction of vegetation, soils, and storage processes with physiography and climate in regulation of hydrologic processes and hydrologic response of watersheds including effects of disturbance on these functions. Prerequisite: REN R 210.

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REN R 730 - Physical Hydrology

Principles of physical and land-use hydrology. The interaction of vegetation, soils, and storage processes with physiography and climate in regulation of hydrologic processes and hydrologic response of watersheds including effects of disturbance on these functions. Not to be taken if credit received for REN R 350.

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Browse more courses taught by Uldis Silins

Goodbrand A, Anderson AE, Devito KJ, Silins U

Hydrological Processes. 2022 January; 36 (2):e14479

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Watt C, Emelko MB, Silins U, Collins AL, Stone M.

Water. 2021 January; 13 (22):3151

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Stone M, Krishnappan BG, Silins U, Emelko MB, Williams CHS, Collins AL, Spencer SA.

Water. 2021 January; 13 (17):2319

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Spencer SA, Anderson AE, Silins U, Collins AL.

Hydrology and Earth Systems Sciences. 2021 January; 25

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Puntenney-Desmond KC, Bladon KD, Silins U.

Journal of Hydrology. 2020 January; 582

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Collins AL, Blackwell M, Boeckx P, Chivers CA, Emelko MB, Evard O, Gellis A, Gholami H, Granger S, Harris P, Horowitz AJ, Laceby JP, Martinez-Carreras N, Minella J, Mol L, Nosrati K, Pulley S, Silins U, da Silva YJ, Stone M, Tiecher T, Upadhayay HR, Zhang Y.

Journal of Soil & Sediments. 2020 January; 20

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Emmerton CA, Cooke CA, Hustins S, Silins U, Emelko MB, Lewis T, Kruk MK, Taube N, Zhu D, Jackson B, Stone M, Kerr JG, Orwin JF.

Water Research. 2020 January; 183

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Spencer SA, Silins U, Anderson AE.

Water Resources Research. 2019 January; 55 (12):10690-10706

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Robinne FN, Bladon KD, Silins U, Emelko MB, Flannigan MD, Parisien MA, Wang X, Kienzle SW, Dupont DP.

Forests. 2019 January; (10):384

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Williams CHS, Silins U, Spencer SA, Wagner MJ, Stone M. Emelko MB.

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2019 January; 28 (10):750–760

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Martens AM, Silins U, Proctor HC, Williams CHS, Wagner MJ, Emelko MB, Stone M.

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2019 January; 28 (10):738-749

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Rhoades CC, Nunes JP, Silins U, Doerr SH.

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2019 January; 28 (10):721-725

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Nunes JP, Doerr SH, Sheridan G, Neris J, Santín C, Emelko MB, Silins U, Robichaud PR, Elliot WJ, Keizer J.

Hydrological Processes. 2018 January; 32 (5):687-694

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Devito KJ, Hokanson KJ, Moore PA, Kettridge N, Anderson AE, Chasmer L, Hopkinson C, Lukenbach MC, Mendoza CA, Morissette J, Peters DL, Petrone RM, Silins U, Smerdon B, Waddington JM.

Hydrological Processes. 2017 January; 31 (15):2737-2751

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Silins U, Anderson A, Bladon KD, Emelko MB, Stone M, Spencer SA, Williams CHS, Wagner MJ, Martens AM, & Hawthorn K.

Forestry Chronicle. 2016 January; 92 (1):39-42

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Mahat V, Silins U, Anderson AE.

Catena. 2016 January; 147

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Emelko MB, Stone M, Silins U, Allin D, Collins AL, Williams CHS, Martens AM, Bladon KD.

Global Change Biology. 2016 January; 22 (3):1168-1184

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Robinne FN, Miller C, Parisien MA, Emelko MB, Bladon KD, Silins U, Flannigan MD.

Forests. 2016 January; 7

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Glasbergen K, Stone M, Krishnappan BM, Dixon J, Silins U.

Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. 2015 January; 367

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Mahat V, Anderson AE, Silins U.

Hydrological Processes. 2015 January; 29 (17):3687-3698

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Dixon D, Boon S, Silins U.

Hydrological Processes. 2014 January; 28 (3):1294-1306

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Silins U, Bladon KD, Kelly EN, Esch E, Spence JR, Stone M, Emelko MB, Boon S, Wagner MJ, Williams CHS, Tichkowsky I.

Ecohydrology. 2014 January; 7 (6):1508-1523

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Wagner MJ, Bladon KD, Silins U, Williams CHS, Martens AM, Boon S, MacDonald RJ, Stone M, Emelko MB, Anderson AE.

Journal of Hydrology. 2014 January; 517

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Macdonald RJ, Boon S, Byrne JM, Silins U.

Hydrological Processes. 2014 January; 24 (4):2338-2347

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Stone M, Collins AL, Silins U, Emelko MB, Zhang YS.

Science of the Total Environment. 2014 January; 473-473

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Brown SM, Petrone RM, Chasmer L, Mendoza CA, Lazerjan MS, Landhäusser SM, Silins U, Leach J, Devito KJ.

Hydrological Processes. 2014 January; 28 (15):4449-4462

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Bladon KD, Emelko MB, Silins U, Stone M.

Environmental Science and Technology. 2014 January; 48 (16):8936–8943