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Greetings from C-CIARN Agriculture, Presentations from the C-CIARN meeting on managing climate risks in the Peace River District (Feb. 6-7, 2007) are now available here A report summarizing the event will be distributed soon. Our C-CIARN roundtable on managing climate risks in Atlantic Canada (Mar. 14, 2007) was highly successful. A summary report for that event will be available soon. 1. Call for Proposals on understanding adaptation and adaptive capacity for the Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program. The objective is to fund and promote research that contributes to understanding and enhancing adaptation and adaptive capacity in support of climate change decision-making and policy development in Canada. More details here. Proposals must be submitted electronically to the address below by the close of business on April 10, 2007. Any questions should be directed to: Dr. Nancy Kingsbury, Research Manager Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Directorate Earth Sciences Sector, Natural Resources Canada 613-943-4829 adaptation@NRCan.gc.ca 2. Canadian Water Network, Supplemental Call for Research Proposals Water Management Adaptations for Climate Change Full proposals due: March 23, 2007 More information here 1. A website featuring powerpoint presentations, reports and other resources for climate change and agriculture issues in the Northeast United States is available here 2. The second international Community-Based Adaptation workshop took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 24-28 February 2007. A summary report of the workshop is available here 1. IIASA is seeking a scientist for conducting socio-economic research on adaptation to climate change, disaster risk management and financial instruments. More information on the position can be found here Closing date for applications: 30 March 2007. Contact person: Reinhard Mechler: mechler@iiasa.ac.at 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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