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CMOS Ottawa Centre
IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW
CMOS is the national society of individuals and organizations dedicated to advancing atmospheric and oceanic sciences and related environmental disciplines in Canada. The Ottawa Centre has about 90 members of CMOS. Most activities of the Centre include organizing monthly lunch hour talks and conducting outreach activities aimed at high school, university and post graduate students, and the public. We judge and provide prizes at two regional science fairs in Ottawa and Gatineau. In addition we promote and occasionally host the annual CMOS Congress.Our talks continue to be streamed using Zoom.
Our meetings are open to members and the public, but it is important to register on this page in order to receive your Zoom co-ordinates for each meeting. The registration link will be found under RSVP in the notice below. Meetings will be planned at lunch time - to sign in via Zoom - after 11:45 am, followed by the presentation at 12:00 noon by an invited speaker, questions after and discussion. Occasionally our meetings will be joint collaborations with other groups or societies.Most of the talks are recorded and then made available on the CMOS YouTube Channel
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Title: What the Future Holds for Wildfires in a Future Climate
Abstract: Wildfires are one of the most important natural disturbances in Canada. Anthropogenic climate change is significantly impacting fire regimes across the country. Increasing temperatures, more severe and prolonged drought conditions, and the lengthening of the fire season makes the vegetation drier and much more flammable while causing fire prone weather conditions to be more severe and more frequent. The consequences of these changing fire regimes are numerous, affecting the several aspects of the socio-ecological realm. Adaptation is needed as we will need to learn to live in world where fire is much more prevalent.
Biography:
Yan Boulanger holds a Ph.D. in Biology from the Université du Québec à Rimouski. Between 2010 and 2013, he was a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Dr. Sylvie Gauthier and Phil Burton at the Laurentian Forestry Centre where he worked to define homogeneous fire regime zones in Canada. Since then, he has been a researcher in forest ecology. His research interests include 1) the projection of natural disturbance regimes in Canada (mainly fire and spruce budworm) in relation to climate change, 2) the projection of forest landscapes and wildlife habitats, and 3) the dynamics of spruce budworm dispersal using weather radar. Dr. Boulanger is an associate professor at the Université du Québec à Rimouski, at Laval University and at the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. |
Location : Virtual presentation via Zoom.
Time: Thursday 21 March 2024, 11:45 AM, EDT
RSVP: Meeting will take place on Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting. If you have registered and lost your Zoom credentials, search your inbox or already-read mail for this exact phrase: CMOS Ottawa Centre Luncheon Meeting in the subject line.
Thursday 18 April 2024 - Joanna Dean on Teaching climate as a historian
Monday 3 June to Thursday 6 June 2024, CMOS Annual Congress, virtual from Winnipeg, theme: Extreme Events in a Changing Climate
RECORDINGS OF PAST MEETINGS BY YOUTUBE PLAYLIST:
Ottawa Centre Season - Current 2023 / 2024
Ottawa Centre Season 2021 / 2022
Ottawa Centre Archives - Please follow this link for past meeting notices, executive members, previous speakers by topic and year, minutes of executive meetings and much more.
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Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) (collaborator with CMOS Ottawa)
CACOR presents Zoom meetings weekly on Wednesdays at 1:30 pm.
Many of these are of interest to CMOS Ottawa and often include topics like climate change. Occasionally speakers are CMOS members.
Please follow the links below for meeting schedules and more information:
- For future CACOR events, go to their Presentation schedule update (canadiancor.com)
- For registration information, contact Art Hunter at art.cacor@gmail.com
- For YouTube videos of past CACOR presentations and discussion click here
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Meeting Notices from Science Exchange Societies
none at present
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