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GEC3 Seminar

Understanding variability and temporal
trends in biosphere-atmosphere CO2
exchange through integrating
models with data

Dr. Trevor Keenan
Postdoctoral fellow, Richardson Lab
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University

 

Friday, February 17, 2012
3:30 p.m.
Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University
805 Sherbrooke Street West

 

All are welcome to attend.

 

 

GEC3 Seminar

California delta wetlands: land-use change,
greenhouse gas emissions and subsidence

Dr. Oliver Sonnentag
Professeur adjoint
Département de géographie
Université de Montréal

 

Friday, February 3, 2012
3:30 pm
Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University

All are welcome to attend.

 

GEC3 Seminar

Coastal environments, sea level change,

and ancient hurricanes in Cuba

Dr. Matthew Peros

Assistant Professor, Bishop’s University
Canada Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change

Friday, January 20, 2012
3:30 pm
Room 426, Burnside Hall
McGill University

All are welcome to attend.

GEC3 Seminar

Vinaigrette or Oil and Vinegar?

Comparing Public Rationales for

Justice in Mitigation and Adaptation

Climate Policy Dilemmas

Dr. Sonja Klinsky

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge

The ideal relationship between climate change adaptation and mitigation policy has [...]

Seminar

Lessons from Canada’s Failed Climate Policies

John Nyboer

Executive Director, Energy and Materials Research Group and the Canadian Industrial Energy End-use Data and Analysis Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

www.cieedac.sfu.ca , www.emrg.sfu.ca
http://www.emrg.sfu.ca/people/John–Nyboer

Abstract

If we look at Canada’s historic commitments and Canada’s [...]

Seminar

Wagging the greenhouse dog?
Past climate changes,
ocean biogeochemistry and atmospheric feedbacks

Eric Galbraith

Assistant Professor, McGill Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

http://eps.mcgill.ca/Faculty/faculty_personal.php?loginid=egalbrai

Natural variations of global climate across the recent ice age cycles were correlated with changes in greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. However, [...]

Seminar

Ozone Hole and Southern Hemisphere Climate Change: Climate Impact of the Montreal Protocol

Seok-Woo Son

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University

Abstract

Climate change in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) has been robustly documented in the last several years. It has altered the atmospheric circulation in a surprising number of ways: a rising global [...]

The Winter 2010 GEC3 Seminar Series Schedule is now available

Seminar Series

An Analysis of a Technology-led

Climate Policy as a

Response to Climate Change

Isabel Galiana

&

Chris Green

Department of Economics, McGill University

Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3)

We analyze a [...]

Seminar

Abstract

The Arctic’s climate is changing rapidly, to the extent that ‘dangerous’ climate change as defined by the United Nations Framework on Climate Change might already be occurring. These changes are having implications for Canada’s Inuit population and are being exacerbated [...]