Robert Metcalfe

I divide my time between the arts and sciences, disciplines that I unknowingly began to marry in my formative years. As a hydrologist, I have researched glaciers in Switzerland, snowmelt processes in the boreal forest of northern Manitoba, and, more recently, the impacts of flow alteration on river ecosystems and the effect of climate change on the regional hydrology of Ontario – a continued weaving of scientific curiosity and an artistic appreciation of those same natural elements. Increasingly, travel influenced my photography as I began to wander further from southern Ontario and spend significant time in Sweden, where not only the natural landscape but the cultural landscape caught my eye.