Dr. Tricia Stadnyk

Zombie water apocalypse: Is Trump’s rhetoric over Canada’s water science-fiction or reality?

by Stadnyk, T.A.

Published by The Conversation

March 11, 2025

From debates over water export to the largest ‘zombie water project’ in North American history, there's a long history of Canadian water export to the U.S.

URL: https://theconversation.com/zombie-water-apocalypse-is-trumps-rhetoric-over-canadas-water-science-fiction-or-reality-250451

Climate change is fuelling Trump’s desire to tap into Canada’s water and Arctic resources

by Stadnyk, T.A.

Published by The Conversation

January 21, 2025

Rising temperatures, a melting Arctic and increasing global water and resource scarcity are behind United States President Donald Trump’s threats to make Canada the 51st American state.

URL: https://theconversation.com/climate-change-is-fuelling-trumps-desire-to-tap-into-canadas-water-and-arctic-resources-247538

Canada’s water governance and management systems threaten the country’s water supply

by Stadnyk, T.A.

Published by The Conversation

January 15, 2025

It’s time to challenge our wasteful ways and accept that even in Canada, water must be managed effectively to sustain economic development and societal growth under increasing climate pressures, and our current system of fragmented oversight and privileged licences is not an effective means to ensure Canada’s long-term water security. In every challenge there lies opportunity, however, and transformative adaptation of water policy is required to secure Canada’s water future.

URL: https://theconversation.com/canadas-water-governance-and-management-systems-threaten-the-countrys-water-supply-233608

Overstaying our welcome: On the rise of women's seniority in the academy

by Stadnyk, T.A.

Published by Hydrological Processes

May 12, 2024

Issues surrounding gender equality are—and should be—front and centre in the water resources community, and other science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Very necessarily, the focus tends to be on recruitment, offering support for students and early career academics. The leaky pipeline concept used to describe the incremental loss of women from STEM fields with career duration describes a disproportionate loss of senior women, creating a parallel problem where highly qualified, top tier academics are lost from the system after significant financial and personnel investment by institutions. Ultimately, the leaky pipeline undermines the extensive investment of the hydrology and other STEM communities in equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility (EDIA) recruitment and retention programmes by cutting short career ambitions and the trajectories of diverse top performing individuals, resulting in no net benefit of EDIA policy investments and a lack of diversity with seniority. Addressing this critical gender gap requires the attention and support of the hydrology community of practice with specific focus on generating opportunities for advancement, confronting systemic and structural biases and improving education around allyship.

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.15166

Leveraging global climate models to assess multi-year hydrologic drought

by Vieira, M., Stadnyk, T.A.

Published by Nature Climate and Atmospheric Science

November 7, 2023

URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-023-00496-y

Peak Flow Assessment under a Changing Climate: Recommendations for the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code

by Stadnyk, T., van der Eerden, J.

Published by Canadian Standards Association Group

April 2, 2024

URL: https://www.csagroup.org/article/research/peak-flow-assessment-under-a-changing-climate-recommendations-for-the-canadian-highway-bridge-design-code/