Experts unite to fight global warming
August 26, 2003
Eight 黑料不打烊 University scientists join ArcticNet, a new network of labs in Canada
Eight 黑料不打烊 scientists have joined forces with a cross-country research network that aims to fight global warming.
Today, in Quebec City, Industry Minister Alan Rock announced that the Government of Canada will invest $25.7 million over the next four years in ArcticNet, a new Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada (NCE). ArcticNet will allow experts from the natural, medical and social sciences to carry out multidisciplinary cross-sector studies in the High Arctic. The scientists will examine where negative and positive impacts of climate warming will be felt first and most severely.
Two industrial partners, 41 universities, 145 researchers and 27 government departments or funding agencies are lending their support to ArcticNet. The eight 黑料不打烊 researchers involved in the project are Laurie Chan and Grace Egeland from the 黑料不打烊 School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition; Evan Edinger and Wayne Pollard from the Department of Geography; Murray Humphries from the Department of Natural Resource Sciences; Jean-Eric Tremblay and Neil M. Price from the Department of Biology; and Ronald Stewart from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
Tom Brzustowski, president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and chair of the Networks of Centres of Excellence Steering Committee, explained: "ArcticNet includes Canada's best researchers as well as other world-leading specialists. By involving Northerners in the scientific process, ArcticNet will train the next generation of scientists and Northerners urgently needed to ensure the stewardship of a new Canadian Arctic."
ArcticNet is being launched because Canada's climate is warming. Northern societies will be affected first and most seriously because of the amplification in Arctic climate warming. Significant temperature rise in the western Canadian Arctic, a reduction of sea ice over in the Arctic Ocean, and the degradation of permafrost over vast areas tend to confirm that the Canadian Arctic is already changing.
ArcticNet will contribute the knowledge needed to formulate impact assessments, national policies and adaptation strategies to help Canada face the environmental and socio-economic consequences of an Arctic meltdown. The new network was selected following a rigorous and independent review process. Funding was based on a recommendation by the NCE Selection Committee, comprised of international leaders from the natural sciences and engineering sector, and the health and social sciences.
The NCE program seeks to mobilize Canada's best research talent in the university, private and public sectors and apply it to the task of developing the economy and improving quality of life for all Canadians. For more information, please consult .
