Tour Speakers
2022 CMOS & TOUR SPEAKER - Dr. Robert Way
Date: November 17, 2022 - 1:00pm ET
Presentation Title: Climate Services in Canada's North: Are we doing enough? |
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Abstract :
Climate change is a preeminent threat to the cultural, economic and social vitality of Canada’s northern communities. Many of these regions lack appropriate infrastructure and climate services, and continue to cope with the burdens introduced by the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. Anticipating and preparing for the risks of contemporary and future climate change requires integrated multidisciplinary research that incorporates Indigenous Knowledge but the success of future climate adaptation is contingent on core baseline information that is often lacking across much of the North. Many of Canada’s most at risk communities lack sufficient climate and weather monitoring infrastructure creating an ever increasing likelihood that unanticipated future environmental changes will lead to maladaptation and negative outcomes on communities. Building on over a decade of research in Canada’s North, Dr. Way offers commentary on the real world challenges for researchers and communities introduced by inadequate climate and weather monitoring infrastructure across the North. Providing insights and perspectives ranging from working with Arctic climate datasets to installing remote weather stations in Labrador Inuit communities, this talk will explore the gaps and potential opportunities for observing and preparing for changes in northern Canada’s climate.
Speaker :
Dr. Robert Way is a Kallunângajuk (Nunatsiavut) from central Labrador. He is currently an Assistant Professor and leads the Northern Environmental Geoscience Laboratory in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Way’s research programs focus on understanding and predicting the impacts of climate change on northern communities and ecosystems with a particular focus on northern Labrador. As an Indigenous northerner, Dr. Way’s experiences and relationships with community have profoundly shaped the 10+ years he has been working on issues related to climate change in Labrador. |
Past Tour Speakers
Year | Name | Topic |
2022 | Eric Oliver | Bridging knowledge systems: Scientific and Inuit knowledge of the ocean and sea ice |
2021 | Katja Fennel | Scientific Lecture topic: Autonomous observing technology ushering in a new era in biogeochemical ocean observation and prediction Public Speaker topic: What lies beneath? Views from a global fleet of ocean robots |
2020 | Various | Canada's Changing Climate Report |
2019 | Roberta Hamme Laxmi Sushama |
Ocean Oxygen Cycling from Robotic and Shipboard Observations Climate-Engineering Dialogue in the Context of Arctic Engineering Systems |
2018 | Gilbert Brunet | Toward Seamless Weather and Climate Earth-system Prediction tps://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/pers/pages/brunet_gilbert/en/ |
2017 | Richard Dewey | Anomalies récentes dans le Pacifique : les oscillations, El Niño et le fameux « Blob » |
2016 |
Francis Zwiers Prof. Ronald Stewart |
Changing extremes - is it real, or just imagined? Hazardous Near 0°C Precipitation |
2015 2015 |
Kumiko Azetsu-Scott Dr. Charles Hannah |
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2014 | Tom McElroy | Ozone Science: From Discovery to Recovery - and Beyond |
2013 | Denis Gilbert | Oceans and Climate Change |
2012 | Eyad Atallah | Where's the rain? A talk on the connection between tropical cyclones in the North Pacific and drought in Western Canada |
2011 | Thomas F. Pedersen | Climate Change and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions: Blending Science, Social Science, Politics and Opportunity |
2010 | Jim Drummond | Our PEARL Near the Pole: Atmospheric Research at 80oN |
2009 | Ken Denman | Climate Change: a Collision of Science, Politics, Economics and Ethics |
2007-2008 | Ed Hudson | Arctic Weather |
2006-2007 | Fraser J.M. Davidson & Dan Wright * | Ocean Forecasts for Canadians: Improving safety at sea through prediction of ocean behaviour |
2005-2006 | Phil Chadwick | |
2005 | Maurice Levasseur | Testing the Iron-DMS-Climate Connection in the Subarctic Pacific |
2004 | M.A. Jenkins | Coupled Wildfire-atmosphere Modelling |
2003 | Geoff L. Holland | The Challenges, Past, Present and Future of Ocean Observing Systems |
2002 | Michel Jean | Non-traditional Applications of Meteorological Modelling |
2001 | Howard J. Freeland | Argo Armada - a Global Array of Profiling Floats |
2000 | Robert S. Schemenauer | Fog and Fog Collection - Exploring this Hidden Water Resource |
1999 | Greg Flato | The Cryosphere and Climate Change |
1998 | Natalie Gauthier | The |
1996-1997 | William Hsieh | Neural Networks for Short-Term Climate Prediction |
1995-1996 | Ambury Stuart | How to Establish a Small Scientific Consulting Business |
1994-1995 | J.R.N. Lazier | The North Atlantic Oscillation versus the Cold Fresh Fishless Labrador Sea |
1993 | A. Staniforth | Numerical Forecasting of the Atmosphere |
1992 | Jim Gower | Satellite Images - Where are we after 20 years? |
1991 | J.-P. Blanchet | Global Climate Modelling |
1990 | M.I. El-Sabh * | The International Decade for Natural Hazard Reduction - A Challenge for Canadian Meteorologists and Oceanographers |
1989 | David Phillips Peter Zwack * |
Canadian Weather Legends - Facts, Fallacies and Fables |
1988 | Trevor Platt * | The Role of Marine Plant Life |
1987 | M. Khandekar - W. Canada L.A. Mysak - E. Canada |
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1986 | D. Farmer | Uses of Acoustic Techniques in Meteorology and Oceanography |
1985 | R. Portelli, B. Weisman | |
1984 | Warren L. Godson * | Diagnosis and Prognosis of Atmospheric Science Controversies |
1983 | R.O. Ramseier * | Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Sea Ice |
1982 | P.A. Taylor | Wind Power in Canada - Some Meteorological Aspects |
1981 | G.L. Austin, W.J. Emery | |
1980 | M. Glanz | |
1979 | A. Fraser | |
1978 | D.S. Davison | |
1976 | J. Maybank * | |
1975 | P.E. Merilees * | |
1974 | A.G. Davenport | |
1973 | W.R. Frisken | |
1972 | M.B. D |
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1971 | F.K. Hare * | |
1970 | T.R. Oke | |
1969 | K.M. King |
* = Deceased
Note: For many years these Tour Speakers were supported by AES and DFO.