Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt is a professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the School of Environment and Sustainability and the Global Institute for Water Security. His area of research is surface water modelling with specialties in modelling water quality and river ice flooding. Karl is originally from the Canadian prairies and worked in Europe for 16 years at several consultancies and research facilities, where he gained experience in water quality and quantity modelling of rivers and their basins such as the Elbe, Saale, Havel and Spree Rivers in Germany, including modelling in the areas of catchment hydrology, sediment and nutrient transport, groundwater hydrology, river hydraulics, eutrophication and contaminant transport and flood risk management. Before his appointment at the University of Saskatchewan in 2012, Karl was with Manitoba Water Stewardship as a Hydrologic Modelling Research Engineer where his main research foci were modelling river ice processes and geospatial modelling of geomorphological processes along rivers to establish instream flow needs for fish habitat. His river ice research consists of developing new methods to process space-borne remote sensing imagery to help characterise river ice properties
and behaviour. He also has extensive experience in modelling river ice freeze-up and ice jamming occurrences and carries out research to predict ice-jam flood hazard and risk.
