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Greetings from C-CIARN Agriculture, Best wishes for a prosperous new year to all our network members. No doubt the weather will be a major topic in 2006 and interest in climate change and agriculture will continue to grow. 1. Climate Change and Water in the Prairies June 21-23, 2006 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Details here Conference themes:
Abstracts for papers and posters focusing on the topics listed here will be reviewed and selected by the Program Committee, with: Deadline for Abstract Submission: February 13, 2006 Authors’ Acceptance Notification: March 6, 2006 Deadline for Paper Submission: June 8, 2006 2. Socio-Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Regional Communities. The Australian Government has now accepted that Climate Change is occurring and that governments, business and the community should be developing responses to manage the variability we expect to occur in our climatic conditions. The Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities is calling for abstracts by 27 February from academics and practitioner for papers addressing the socio-economic impacts of climate change on regional communities. We will arrange for these papers to be refereed and presented at a conference on this topic to be held in Bendigo in the middle of 2006. Selected papers will be published in a book by the CSRC. Our aim with the conference and subsequent publications is to provide direction for the development of socio-economic strategies to cope with the regional impacts of climate change. For further information on this call for abstracts and the conference please contact Dr Maureen Rogers, Research Fellow, CSRC, Maureen.rogers@latrobe.edu.au 3. The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable convention is highlighting climate change for the opening day of their meeting. (Feb 15-16/06 in Brock University, Ste. Catherine's) Check this link for program and registration details. 1. Drought and the Drought Research Initiative (DRI) The Drought Research Initiative (DRI) is a research network that brings together many university and federal/provincial government researchers to address this issue with expertise encompassing the atmospheric, hydrologic, land surface, and predictive aspects of droughts at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. To make progress on this critical issue, DRI will focus, although not exclusively, on the recent drought over the Prairies. It has been suggested that this was Canada’s worst natural disaster. Access website 2. An update on U.S. public opinion survey data for 2005 regarding attitudes toward climate change, is now available. The update includes: charts that highlight key patterns and trends; tables of detailed results from five national surveys; and tables and charts from surveys in the state of California. The update can be downloaded here All for now, Ellen Wall ewall@uoguelph.ca Co-ordinator, C-CIARN Agriculture (Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network for Agriculture) Blackwood Hall (Room 202) University of Guelph. Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1 Phone: 519 824 4120 ext 58480 Fax: 519 763 4686 http://www.c-ciarn.uoguelph.ca |
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