Spring Network Meeting 2026
Tuesday May 12th, 2026
12:00-2:00pm
Via Microsoft Teams
Our spring 2026 Network meeting was attended by twenty participants from groups across the east coast of Vancouver Island and surrounding islands, including many of our core partner groups and several new folks interested in becoming involved.
We started off with a brief program update information on new resources including an updated data sheet (Version 5.2) and Flowtracker2 Field Guide, station data summaries, and an update to the Knowledge Tracking Survey. Details of a new BCCF pilot project, Trialing the use of trail cameras to assess urban stream connectivity, were discussed. Anyone interested in becoming involved or learning more about the project can reach out to Ally or Joe for more information.
We also discussed a new Rapid Drought Assessment program led by the BC Ministry of Water Land and Resource Stewardship in partnership with Pacific Salmon Foundation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the First Nations Fisheries Council of BC. This project aims to expand our understanding of how and where drought is affecting aquatic ecosystems by engaging groups already working in water stewardship across the province to provide observations and data through an app based rapid drought assessment survey. Click here for more info. Further links and information about upcoming webinars are expected to be made available shortly. For now, organizations interested in supporting this project are encouraged to contact Recovery.restoration@gov.bc.ca.
We received a guest presentation from Russell Smith, hydrologist and owner of WaterSmith Research Inc. entitled Image Velocimetry: An Emerging Method for Measuring Streamflow. Russell also shared a summary document that briefly outlined the methodology for image velocimetry including site constraints and considerations for use, and further resources. This document, as well as several others outlining commonly used flow monitoring methods were developed in partnership with PSF and are expected to be made available through the PSF Resource library later this year.
To round out the meeting, Provincial Hydrometric Specialist Sarah Hardy gave a data update for all CFMN supported stations. She included details of recent measurements, and showed examples of rating curves for many of the stations.
Many thanks to everyone who took the time to attend this meeting, and a big thank you to Russell Smith and Sarah Hardy for their excellent presentations and contributions to the meeting, and all others who took the time to speak.
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