The GEC3 seminar series is held in Room 426 of Burnside Hall (805 Sherbrooke Street West), on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 p.m. (unless otherwise indicated). All are welcome to attend.
GEC3 Seminars Winter/Spring 2012
January 20
Matthew Peros
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Geography Department, Bishop’s University (Website)
Title: Coastal environments, sea level change, and ancient hurricanes in Cuba
February 3
Dr. Oliver Sonnentag
Professeur adjoint, Département de géographie, Université de Montréal (Website)
Title: California delta wetlands: land-use change, greenhouse gas emissions and subsidence
February 17
Dr. Trevor Keenan
Richardson Lab, Dept. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (Website)
Title: Understanding variability and temporal trends in biosphere-atmosphere CO2 exchange through integrating models with data
March 2
TBA
March 16
Dr. Petra Döll
Institute of Physical Geography, University of Frankfurt, Germany (Website)
Title: Impact of water withdrawals, dams and climate change on ecologically-relevant river flow characteristics: Results of a global-scale modeling study
March 30
Dr. Andrew Paterson
Research Scientist, Dorset Environmental Science Centre, Ontario Ministry of the Environment (Website)
Title: Evidence of recent environmental change in lakes in the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Ontario
GEC3 Seminars Winter/Spring 2011
January 14
Robert W. Howarth
David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Cornell University (http://www.eeb.cornell.edu/howarth/)
Title: What Questions Should We Be Asking About Gas Shale?
This presentation examines the wisdom of viewing natural gas as a transitional fuel over the coming decades, considering the pollution effects of hydraulic fracturing and the likelihood that the greenhouse gas footprint exceeds that of oil and perhaps even coal.
February 11 (Friday 11:00 am)
Jacques Pelon
LATMOS/IPSL, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-UVSQ, Paris, France
Title: Contribution of the CALIPSO Mission in the A-Train to the Characterization of Aerosol and Cloud Radiative Properties
March 11
Katharine Hayhoe
Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University (http://www.katharinehayhoe.com/)
Title: High-Resolution Climate Projections: Connecting Global Change to Local Impacts
March 25
Sonja Klinsky
Post-Doctoral Researcher/ Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge
Title: Vinaigrette or Oil and Vinegar? Comparing public rationales for justice in mitigation and adaptation climate policy dilemmas
GEC3 Seminars Fall 2010
September 20 (MONDAY, 10:00 a.m)
Gwyn Prins
Research Professor and Director, London School of Economics, Mackinder Programme for the Study of Long Wave Events
Title: Why Climate Policy Crashed and What to do about it?
October 8
Shaun Lovejoy
Professor, Department of Physics, McGill University
Title: What is the climate?
December 3
Sarah Finkelstein
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto (http://faculty.geog.utoronto.ca/finkelstein/index.html)
Title: Paleo-Climates and Cultural Change in the Eastern Canadian Arctic
GEC3 Seminars Winter 2010
Feb 12
Chris Green and Isabel Galiana
McGill Department of Economics & GEC3 (http://www.mcgill.ca/economics/)
Title: An Analysis of a Technology-led Climate Policy as a Response to Climate Change
Feb 19
Seok-Woo Son
Canada Research Chair in Global Climate Change and Variability & Assistant Professor, McGill University Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (http://www.mcgill.ca/meteo/faculty_staff/faculty/son/)
Title: The Ozone Hole and Southern Hemisphere Climate Change: Climate Impact of the Montreal Protocol
March 12
Maarten Eppinga
University of Utrecht Department of Innovation and Environmental Sciences (http://mk.geog.uu.nl/homepages/AIOs/Maarten/maartenhome.htm)
Title: Amazing Pattern: Spatial Self-organization of Peatlands, and its Effects on Carbon Dynamics
March 26
Eric Galbraith
Assistant Professor, McGill Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (http://eps.mcgill.ca/Faculty/faculty_personal.php?loginid=egalbrai)
Title: Wagging the greenhouse dog? Past climate changes,
ocean biogeochemistry, and atmospheric feedbacks
April 9
John Nyboer
Executive Director, Energy and Materials Research Group and the Canadian Industrial Energy End-use Data and Analysis Centre, Simon Fraser University (http://www.emrg.sfu.ca/people/John–Nyboer)
Title: Lessons from Canada’s Failed Climate Policies