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This information represents activities in the Earth Sciences Sector Programs (2002-2006). Please refer to
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Themes
Theme: Canada's landmass
Theme: Ecosystems
Theme: Infrastructure
Theme: Past climate changes
Theme: Cryosphere (glaciers, permafrost)
Theme: Coasts
Theme: Carbon sequestration
Theme: Costs
Research topics by location
The projects
Project: Paleo-environmental records of climate change
Activity: National paleo-environmental records of climate change
Sub-activity: National quaternary paleo-environments synthesis
Sub-activity: Vegetation history, glaciated North America
Sub-activity: Deglaciation of North America
Sub-activity: Paleo-geographic and paleo-tidal modeling of Atlantic Canada
Activity: Regional-scale high resolution reconstructions of climatic variability
Sub-activity: Paleo-climatic and paleo-environmental reconstructions of the Northwest Pacific region from Mt. Logan ice cores
Sub-activity: High-resolution paleo-climatic records from West coast marine and terrestrial sediment records
Sub-activity: Past hydroclimatic change in the Eastern Canadian Prairies
Sub-activity: Reconstruction of past temperature and water regimes using tree-ring tracers in the Canadian Boreal zone
Activity: Critical process thresholds from past climate changes
Sub-activity: Great Lakes sensitivity of hydrologic response to paleo-climatic change
Sub-activity: Western interior sensitivity to climatic variability and paleo-drought
Posters
Project: Earth science for national action on climate change
Activity: Cryosphere changes: Glaciers and permafrost
Activity: Coastal zone changes
Activity: Ecosystem impacts
Activity: Surface water availability
Activity: Radiation budget and surface albedo
Activity: Canada's landmass response to climate change from satellite records
Posters
Project: Socio-economic vulnerability and integrated assessment
Activity: Coastal impacts - Cost assessment
Activity: Permafrost impacts - Cost to communities
Activity: Prairie water use: Cost assessment
Posters
Project: Regional climate change impacts: Geoscience information for OGDs
Activity: Coastal hazards assessment
Activity: Permafrost response to climate change: Regional impacts and adaptation
Activity: Climate change and sea ice in the NW Passage
Activity: Impact of climate change on regional snow/ice-dependent water supply
Posters
Project: Monitoring methods and assessment of carbon sequestration over Canada's landmass
Activity: Satellite monitoring methods and products for improving biological carbon budget estimates
Sub-activity: Mapping land cover, land cover change and disturbances for carbon
Sub-activity: Mapping vegetation structure and biophysical parameters for carbon
Sub-activity: Methodology development for the wetland mapping and monitoring
Activity: Assessment of biological carbon sequestration
Sub-activity: National-scale biological carbon cycle modeling
Sub-activity: Impacts of air pollution on ecosystems health and biological carbon sequestration potentials
Activity: In-situ monitoring methods for geological carbon sequestration
Activity: Assessment of geological carbon sequestration potential
Sub-activity: The carbon storage potential of Canada's coal beds
Sub-activity: Assessment of the feasibility of CO2 sequestration as stable gas hydrate in sub-aquatic environments and terrestrial geologic reservoirs
Sub-activity: CO2 storage by mineral carbonation reactions: kinetic and mechanical insights from natural analogs
Posters
Project: Municipal case studies: The planning process and climate change
Activity: City of Calgary case study: Municipal water supply
Activity: Corporation of Delta case study: Impacts of sea level rise
Activity : South-eastern New Brunswick coastal communities case study: Impacts of sea level rise
Activity: Graham Island, BC case study: Impacts of sea level rise
Activity: Salluit case study: Impacts of degrading permafrost
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