A Laurentian University student working towards a Ph.D. is developing a computer model of the northeastern Ontario water system to use in predicting climate change.
Arghavan Tafvizi is developing the model as part of her work at the university’s Living with Lakes Centre.
She spent her first two years in Sudbury collecting and studying data on 26 catchments in the Sturgeon River, Lake Nipissing, French River and Muskoka River watersheds.
She says from that research she has developed the hydrologic model that can simulate changes in the environment.
Tafvizi adds if they can predict what could happen, it allows professionals to manage water resources better and to adopt strategies for reducing the inverse impacts of climate change on people’s lives.
She says she is about halfway through the project right now and expects the model to be completed by next summer.