Organization: Environment Canada

Environment Canada supports 14 weather research projects

Environment Canada has awarded $2. million to 14 research project addressing various facets of weather and environmental services. The awards range from $15,000 to $450,000, with the latter going to Météo-France for a project entitled Studies for improving coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice prediction. For a complete list of awards, go to www.news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid= 876379….

DRDC funds 26 safety and security projects

Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) has announced $20 in funding for 26 industrial, academic and government projects aimed at enhancing safety and security. Project leads include DRDC, the Communications Research Centre, Environment Canada, London Police Service, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Transport Canada and the Yukon government. The projects are funded under the Canadian Safety…

Environment Canada to lose 700 positions

Environment Canada is the first major federal department to receive news of major staff reductions. The government will eliminate 700 positions through attrition and reassignment, reducing the department’s workforce by 11%. The cuts include 92 physical scientists, 37 engineers, 45 computer scientists, 19 meteorologists, seven chemists and two biologists. The government says the cuts will…

EC funds global water system data management

Environment Canada (EC) is contributing $2.5 million to the United Nation‘s Global Environment Monitoring System GEMS/ Water to support data management activities. The contribution has been criticized as inadequate in an area where Canada has previously demonstrated global leadership. GEMS/Water is based at the National Water Research Institute in Burlington ON….

BC-China projects receive $4 million in funding

A joint British Columbia-China program has announced $4 million in funding for eight projects aligned with priority areas in the province’s new Research and Innovation Strategy (R$, July 3/07). The projects were funded under the Innovation and Commercialization Strategic Development Program (ICSD), an initiative of the BC Innovation Council. The majority of projects are university-to-university…

Laval-based Canadian Carbon Program launched

The Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences is providing $4.4 million over three years to launch the Canadian Carbon Network (CCN) to conduct research that will assist the formation of strategies to mitigate and adapt to the impact of climate change. Based at Laval Univ‘s faculty of forestry and geomatics and headed by Dr…