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Proactive disclosure Print version   | |  National Glaciology Group Our science and links to the scientific community
The National Glaciology Program is the result of a recent realignment of glaciological expertise and resources existing at Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada. The National Glaciology Program is Canada's lead federal glaciological research agency and the agency responsible for maintaining Canada's national and international glacier monitoring, assessment and reporting obligations, including those to UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme, the World Glacier Monitoring Service and the Global Climate Observing Network of the World Meteorological Organization. Using ice cores, the results of glacier mass balance assessments, tree-ring data, pollen and other sources of climate information, the National Glaciology Program conducts monitoring and research of national and international significance describing past, present and future climates in the circumpolar Arctic and the Canadian Cordillera and their relation to global and regional climate change, atmospheric circulation, the transport of contaminants, sea-level change and water resources (click for article). Its science is communicated and promoted by active participation in various scientific bodies such as the CRYSYS (Use of the CRYospheric SYStem to Monitor Global Change in Canada) of NASA's Earth Observing System Program, the Canadian Geophysical Union, the Mars Ice Cap and leads the Ice Core Circum Arctic Paleoclimate Program (ICCAPP) of International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. The National Glaciology Program is also home to several scientific offices including the:
NRCan and Environment Canada, through the National Glaciology Program, co-manage the Canadian Glacier Information Centre holdings at the National Hydrology Research Centre
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