The Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre has five main research themes:
- Global climate system variability and change
(Martin Aubé, Parisa Ariya, Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Gilbert Brunet, Jacques Derome, Eric Girard, René Laprise, Damon Mathews, Lawrence Mysak, Norman O’Neill, Alain Royer, Laxmi Sushama, David Straub)
- Regional climate modelling and analysis
(Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Daniel Caya, Eric Girard, Hardy Granberg, René Laprise, Marie Larocque, Norman O’Neill, Alain Royer, Michel Slivitzky)
- Climate and environmental change impacts on ecosystems
(Gail Chmura, Hardy Granberg, Hank Margolis, Tim Moore, Lawrence Mysak, Chang Hui Peng, Wayne Pollard, Catherine Potvin, Navin Ramankutty, Pierre Richard, Nigel Roulet, Alain Royer, Ian Strachan)
- Response of hydrological systems to environmental changes
(Vincent Chu, François Courchesne, Susan Gaskin, Subhasis Ghoshal, Marie Larocque, Bernhard Lehner, Chandra Madramootoo, Tim Moore, Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen, Pierre Richard, Nigel Roulet, André St-Hilaire, André Roy)
- Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability assessment: An integrated approach to sustainable water management
(Peter Brown, Luc Chouinard, Vincent Chu, James Ford, Susan Gaskin, Subhasis Ghoshal, Christopher Green, Chandra Madramootoo, Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen, Taha Ouarda, Shiv Prasher, André Roy, René Roy, Patrick Selvadurai, Raja Sengupta)