Tue, August 26, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Engineering, Management and Education Building. WHERE: room EME 1153
Open to the Public
Quesnel Lake is a fjord-type lake that supports the second largest Sockeye salmon run in Canada.
On August 4, 2014 the Mount Polley tailings storage facility released millions of litres of water and tailings. The combined flow first entered Polley Lake then flowed down Hazeltine Creek and into the West Basin of Quesnel Lake.
This presentation summarizes the physical limnology of Quesnel Lake and discusses implications for the fate of the Mount Polley spill in Quesnel Lake.
Speaker Bio
Bernard Laval is a professor in the department of civil engineering at UBC's Vancouver campus. Laval joined the department in June 2002, and currently serves as associate head.
Laval’s current research interests include the spatial structure of physical transport mechanisms in lakes, the application of autonomous underwater vehicles to aquatic research, and the study of unique freshwater microbialites at Pavilion Lake, BC.