Abstracts:
CMOS
Ottawa, 2025-2026
(in
language
given)
Brklacich
Gloom about climate change is all around: dangerous levels of
atmospheric GHGs, more frequent and intense extreme events such as
droughts and wildfires, the breaching of the 1.5°C warming
threshold and the failure to curb global GHG emissions all engender
despair.
There
are
glimmers of hope that collectively suggest we may be able to reduce
human impacts on climate and enhance our capacity to live with change.
Key environmental and human factors contributing to the emerging
climate crises set the foundation for this seminar. We then review
recent events that offer hope, ranging from international activities
(e.g. emergence of loss and damage initiatives) through to efforts that
touch our daily lives (e.g. municipal engagement in climate action
plans). Overall, preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with
the climate system (i.e. a goal from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol) and
learning to live with climatic change (hopefully) continue to be within
our reach.
Wayne
Jenkinson
The National
Hydrological Service (NHS), a directorate within the
Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC), serves as the federal lead in
Canada's National Hydrometric Program. It has a network of 2,900
stations providing water quantity data essential for weather and
hydrological forecasting, flood management, and economic planning. The
NHS has implemented innovative solutions in deploying advanced
hydrometric technologies, continuous data production systems to provide
real-time data and predictions and to predict and manage floods and
droughts. Dr.
Jenkinson will present these operational innovations and their
applications, demonstrating how technological advancement enables
enhanced service delivery despite geographic and resource challenges
facing Canada's water monitoring enterprise
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