Canada's water and our changing climate
捆绑SM社区 and GEC3 host lecture by IPCC author, Environment Canada researcher
Climate change brought about by human activity will have wide-ranging implications for the quality, availability and management of water as a resource. Since Canada has some of the largest freshwater reserves in the world, climate change could have particularly dramatic and unpredictable effects here and abroad.
On April 30, 捆绑SM社区 and the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) present a free public lecture by Linda Mortsch, Co-ordinating Lead Author for the North America Chapter of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
Since 1989, Mortsch has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world鈥檚 leading forum for assessing climate change that was the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Mortsch will discuss water-related findings from the IPCC report and some of the emerging challenges for water resource management in the context of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River system.
This free lecture is open to the public and will take place at 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 New Residence Hall, Ballrooms A, 3625 avenue du Parc, at 6 p.m.
Mortsch is a Senior Researcher with the Adaptation and Impacts Research Division of Environment Canada and an adjunct in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo. She has 20 years of research experience in the climate change impact-assessment field. Her research interests include climate change vulnerability, impact, and adaptation assessments of water resources and wetlands, climate change scenario development and 鈥渆ffective鈥� communication of climate change.
The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) is a cross-disciplinary, multi-university research centre bringing together more than 40 researchers from six Quebec universities (捆绑SM社区, Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al, Universit茅 de Sherbrooke, Universit茅 Laval, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Rimouski) to study processes, modeling and the effects of environmental and climate change.
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