The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre hosts a number of events, workshops, seminars, and public events, as well as a summer school. Upcoming public events are posted on our blog as they develop, and archived monthly in the Archives section. Specific information on workshops and summer schools will be posted here as it becomes available.
GEC3 Annual Centre Day
4 May 2011
Holiday Inn Montreal Downtown
420 Sherbrooke Street West(Restricted to GEC3 Members)
Workshop: Probabilistic Assessments of Regional Changes in Climate Variability and Extremes
16-17 March 2011
McGill New Residence Hall (3625 Parc Avenue)The main objective of the workshop is to present the result of the 3-year project funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Counsil (NSERC) – Special Research Opportunity Program. This collaborative research work was carried out by research teams from McGill University, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre Eau Terre Environnement, Université du Québec à Montréal, University of Columbia, and Environment Canada in collaboration with parrtners from the European ENSEMBLES and the American NARCCAP projects.
Sustainability Symposium
9h30 to 5h 4th March 2011
Thompson House Ballroom (3650 McTavish, McGill Campus)We welcome faculty, students, alumni and the general public to this all day event to take place at the ballroom of Thomspon House. The symposium will feature inspirational guest speakers, a poster session for graduate and undergraduate students to showcase current research or class projects, and a “world-cafe” discussion. The keynote speaker for this event is Jonathan Foley, current director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, whose work focuses on the complex global environmental systems and their interactions with human societies.
To register for the event or to learn more about us, please visit our website or our Facebook page. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at sustainability.symp@gmail.com.
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McGill School of Environment, Global Environment and Climate Centre (GEC3) and Situating Science: Science in Human Contexts are proud to present:
Dr. Naomi Oreskes
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
10th February 2011
6:00 pm
McGill New Residence Ballroom(3625 Ave du Parc)Naomi Orekes (Ph.D., Standford) is a professor of History and Science Studies and the Provost at University of California, San Diego’s Sixth College. Her research highlights the disconnect between the state of scientific debate and the way it was being presented in the mass media and perceived by the American public.
Sponsored by Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre, Earth System Science, Geography, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Earth & Planetary Sciences, and McGill School of Environment
Dr. James R. Fleming
Fixing the Sky: Historical perspectives on weather and climate control
4th November 2010
6:00-7:30 pm
Leacock 219, McGill UniversityThis presentation examines the tragicomic history of rainmakers, weather warriors and climate engineers, arguing that “history matters” in pressing issues of current public policy cencern and technical decision-making. James Rodger flmeing is a Historian of Science and Technology and Society at Colby College. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Adavncement of Science (AAAS), elected “for pioneeing studies on the history of meteorology and climate change and for the advancemnent of historical societies”…
24th September 2010
Thomson House, McGill University
3650 McTavish Ave., Montreal(Restricted to GEC3 Members’ Students)
Measuring Carbon: How much do we quantify carbon budgets?
2nd October 2010, Saturday
08:00 – 18:00
Mer Bleue Bog, OttawaWith follow-up lab analysis on Sunday, 3rd October from 09:00 to 12:00 at Geography Dept (optional)
Available to all GEC3 students. For more information, click here.
The Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium Series
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Chnage: Geoengineering or Mitigiation?
The Symposium and Related Events
Thursday, 19 November 2009
07:00 – 08:00pm: Public Reception, hosted by Dr. Lorne Trottier and Dean Grant Leacock lobbyFriday, 20 November 2009
09:30 – 11:30am : Earth System Science host talks – panellists and ESS experts – Burnside Hall #42601:00 – 02:30pm: Trottier Symposium Roundtable – panellists and other scientific experts Leacock room 232
Understanding Global Climate Models: Basics for the Non-Climate Scientist
A Free Lecture Series
Mondays and Wednesdays: 12-28 Jan 2009
Room 306, Burnside Hall
805 Sherbrooke Street West
McGill UniversityDid you ever think,“Where did Al Gore get the information to show those global climate change predictions in his documentary, An Inconvenient Truth?” Do you ever wonder how the figures are actually generated? OK, so you may know that the “data” comes from complex, expensive, computer-driven global climate change models, but did you know that there are many models and their predictions may vary? And, how can we interpret the output of these models on a regional scale when they produce a single data point for an area ~ the size of New Brunswick? By answering all of these questions, and then some, this special crash course aims to give academics, NGOs and policy-makers a better appreciation of the science of climate prediction and its utility for policy-makers across all disciplines.