The PhD research of Olena Volik, a student with CGU Hydrology Section member Rich Petrone (University of Waterloo), was featured in a recent issue of the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) EOS journal. Volik was interviewed at the AGU’s 2015 meeting in San Francisco about her research into the effects of rainfall on peatland salinity – and the implications for reclamation … Read more…
Director of McMaster Centre for Climate Change, Altaf Arain interviewed by CHCHNews in regards to the COP21Paris Climate talks. Read more and watch the interview on CHCH here:Altaf Arain on CHCH News
“Glaciers get bigger and smaller — or advance and retreat — in response to changes in climate over time scales from decades to centuries. Glaciers thus respond to long-term changes in climate. This indicator measures changes in area of glacier ice coverage from 1985 to 2005 and changes in volume of glacier ice coverage from 1985 to 2000 in British … Read more…
“Can we realistically hope to change the steady increase in greenhouse gas emissions?” Tom Spears of the Ottawa Citizen talks to Mike Wilson, executive director of a green energy think tank called Sustainable Prosperity; and CGU member Brian Branfireun, a Western University professor with a Canada Research Chair in environment and sustainability, about the science and politics of climate change. … Read more…
Congratulations to Dan Moore who has been awarded the Meritorious Achievement Award by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC (APEGBC). A nice APEGBC video about Dan here.