Whistler panel explores how melting glaciers shape future water quality—from mountaintop to ocean

Pique News Magazine
Liz McDonald
2025 04 15

Joining the panel is Dr. Peter Ross, senior scientist and co-founder of the Healthy Waters program. Ross will shift the lens downstream, highlighting how pollutants from roads, yards and even windshield washer fluid enter freshwater systems. “We’ll start up in glacial snowpack and go down through streams, rivers and lakes,” Ross said. “As snowmelt transitions through the built environment, we see evidence of human activities—cosmetic pesticides, Teflon-based chemicals, pharmaceuticals.”