MSC - Spokespeople

Stewart J. Cohen

Stewart J. Cohen is a scientist with the Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Meteorological Service of Canada of Environment Canada, and an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1981. He works primarily on the regional impacts of climate and climate change, and has organized case studies throughout Canada, including the Great Lakes, Saskatchewan River, Okanagan region, and the 1990-1997 Mackenzie Basin Impact Study, published by Environment Canada (1997). He was a coordinating lead author of the chapter on North America in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report volume Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2001). He currently serves on the editorial boards of Climatic Change, and Integrated Assessment, and is the Science Director of the British Columbia region of the Canadian-Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN B.C.). He has also served as an adviser and lecturer for various research and training programs in China, Norway, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the United Nations Environment Programme, and the European North impacts research course (IRISEN) in Sweden.

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