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

这个NSERC催化剂项目是与世界顶级火灾水文学研究员Artemi Cerdà教授的新合作。通过实地访问和面对面的合作会议，我将从这些团体那里了解他们在西班牙实地进行的实验的第一手资料。然后，我将进口这些方法，方法和知识回到加拿大的研究将在不列颠哥伦比亚省跨流域应用。作为与这些团体的交流，我将分享使用同位素水文示踪的研究方法，他们还没有尝试过在被烧毁的土地上追踪降雨的命运。该项目的具体目标是：（一）开始在Sierra de恩格拉土壤侵蚀实验站收集同位素数据;（二）计划在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省最近被烧毁的土地上设计类似的径流小区;（三）在萨斯喀彻温大学的多用途坡度测试设施用进口的西班牙土壤进行实验室实验。我计划利用我的休假的一部分从2023年9月至2024年4月访问教授Artemi Cerdà的实验室以及其他几个小组在瓦伦西亚地区谁专门从事野火对水文的影响。 我计划访问的其他人包括卡斯蒂利亚-拉曼查大学的埃丝特·佩尼亚-莫利纳和曼努埃尔·埃斯特万·卢卡斯-博尔哈;以及瓦伦西亚理工大学的安东尼奥·德尔·坎波和他的同事。这项工作对加拿大具有重大意义，因为气候变化加剧了火灾，这是一个迅速增长的威胁。卑诗省2021年秋季的洪水成为国际头条新闻，很可能是加拿大最大的可保灾难。今后几年还会有更多的人这样做。该催化剂项目将重点关注火灾洪水灾害的关键因素，即火灾对土壤渗透性的影响，以及由此导致的地表径流增加和降雨快速流入河流

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