[All] Fw: Last call to contribute to the Hugh Whiteley Lifetime Achievement Award short documentary Film.

[Lanteigne]

 Hi everyone
Just sharing a preview of a beautiful film  to honor the many years that Dr. Hugh Whiteley has dedicated to advocate for the waters of the Guelph area. Sponsorship is being asked to support this film via this email provided by Wellington Water Watchers. I though it might be a for GREN to be a part of this effort. 
Check it out. It's really lovely. 

Lulu 
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Louisette --

Arlene here. I hope you and your families are all faring wellenough in these unprecedented times.

One special event that we had to postpone was our World Water Day2020 event where we planned to screen a shortdocumentary film to honour the many years that Dr. Hugh Whiteleyhas dedicated to advocate for the waters of the Guelph area. Thisnewly commissioned film was to be presented along with a LifetimeAchievement Award. We look forward to rescheduling this event soon. 

WWW commissioned this short documentary film and are looking for afew additional fiscal sponsors. If you personally or your organizationhave been inspired by the lifetime of teaching and influence of Hugh,please consider donating to cover the costs of this mini-documentaryfilm.

Donationsof $250 or more, will receive a Charitable tax receiptand we will list your name in the credits of the film.

Donationsunder $250 will have your name included in a card to Hughwhen he receives the award.

If you prefer to mail in a cheque, please emailarlene.slocombe at gmail.com.

Watchthe Trailer here.



WWW has created the Hugh Whiteley Lifetime Achievement Award. Ourgoal in creating this award are twofold:
   
   - to honour Hugh’s immense contributions and
   - to inspire a new generation of water protectors.

This will be an annual award given to one person each year whodemonstrates an extraordinary passion and dedication to waterprotection. The first recipient will be Hugh himself.

To read a bit more about Hugh and his lifetime of accomplishments,please read the bio below.

Best,

Arlene Slocombe – Executive Director

Wellington Water Watcher

 

Bio:

Rivers Advocate Dr. Hugh Whiteley:

By Janet Baine - GRCA Communications Specialist

Taken from GrandActions – The Grand River watershed newsletter. January/February2016. Volume 21, Number1.

University of Guelph engineer and hydrologist Dr. Hugh Whiteley isa passionate advocate for the rivers in his community. For his yearsof dedication, especially to local waterways, he received a 2015Watershed Award from the GRCA.

Whiteley's interest in water is rooted in genetics. One grandfatherwas a sea captain, the other operated a summer resort on Mara Lake inB.C. At age four he received his first paddle and accompanied hisparents on many canoe trips.

As a child, he built snow dams in the spring and raced matchstickboats in the runoff streams in front of his Ottawa home. This led to astudy of engineering at Queen’s University with a fourth yearundergraduate thesis on flood prediction. Thirsty for more knowledgeof water, he studied at Imperial College in London (Diploma inHydrology) and at the St. Anthony Falls laboratory at the Universityof Minnesota (M.Sc.). Whiteley then applied his training in Guyana(Land of ThreeRivers).

He arrived at the University of Guelph in1966 to teach and alsocomplete his Ph.D. in hydrology. His teaching and research focused onwater flow within the landscape.

“A great contribution Hugh made to the GRCA is likely thedevelopment of the hydrologic modeling system that we use to run allour flood forecasting,” said James Etienne, the GRCA’s senior waterresources engineer. “And he probably taught half of the engineeringstaff at the GRCA.”

 

Flood forecasting model

Flood forecasting is a key activity of the GRCA, especially duringthe spring. Whiteley’s stream flow modeling system is called theGuelph All-Weather Storm-Event Runoff Model (GAWSER). It was developed35 years ago as a tool for research on causes of pollution in theGreat Lakes when Whiteley was part of an international group- thePollution from Land Use Activities Reference Group (PLUARG).

The GAWSER model examined the impact of agricultural drainage onwater quality of streams flowing into the Great Lakes. Whiteleyapplied this model in the Canagagigue Creek watershed, a tributary ofthe Grand River flowing through Elmira. When floodplain mapping wasbeing updated by the GRCA in the mid ’80s, Lorrie Minshall, Whiteley’sformer student and an employee of the GRCA (now retired), asked him toadapt his model to estimate flood flows for floodplain mapping. Twoformer students — Dwight Boyd, now the GRCA’s director of engineering,and Dr. Harold Schroeder — adapted GAWSER for use in the Grand Riverwatershed. Several other conservation authorities in southern Ontarioalso use it.

“The model did such a great job of modelling the hydrology of theSpeed and Eramosa River and later the Grand River, it was adapted intothe forecast model used by GRCA today to help manage and forecastfloods,” said Boyd.

When it comes to finding engineering solutions, Whiteley has alwaysadhered to the mantra of the undergraduate engineering students at theUniversity of Guelph – “all of us are smarter than any of us.” Forthis reason, he said his achievements have all been collaborativeefforts with the contributions and support of his colleagues.



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