On June 10, 2022 at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation (CCCCA), Dr. Xander Wang presented to undergraduate students about the courses that will be offered at the School of Climate Change and Adaptation. He also introduced several tools and equipment that are available at the centre to Read more…
As a part of the CSBE conference field trip on July 24-27, 2022, participants had made a visit to the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation in St. Peter Bay, PEI. On behalf of the Climate Smart Lab members, Dr. Quan Dau gave a brief presentation to introduce the Read more…
The Climate Smart Lab team presented and volunteered at the Canadian Society for Bioengineering 2022 Annual General Meeting, held July 24-27, 2022 in Charlottetown, PEI. Dr. Xander Wang served as committee member and technical chair for the Water and Soil Management session Dr. Pelin Kınay served as a coordinator for Read more…
Dr. Quan Dau and his co-authors have recently contributed a book chapter on water and climate change: Sustainable Development, Environmental and Policy Issues. Full access: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-99875-8.00004-5 Abstract: Climate change has many effects on the hydrological cycle, intensifying the discordance between historical and operational hydrology. Simultaneously, rapid population growth and economic Read more…
Dr Aminur Shah and his co-authors contributed interesting research on how ecosystem-based adaptation can help to archive sustainable development goals. Climate change is here, and the impacts we are already being seen around the world, from higher temperatures, rising sea levels, more frequent and intense droughts, floods, and wildfires, and Read more…
Dr. Pelin Kınay and her co-author conducted a review research on evidence of greenness co-benefits on health, climate change mitigation, and adaptation which is recently published in Environmental Research: Climate journal. Read more: https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/ac4da2 This systematic review aims to appraise the quality of evidence on greenness co-benefits of climate change Read more…
The UPEI Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation was officially opened in St. Peter’s Bay by Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of Defence and Member of Parliament for Cardigan, on behalf of Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities, and Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Read more…
On May 16-20, 2022, Climate Smart Lab team has an opportunity to explore the whole Prince Edward Island, thanks to Dr. Xander Wang. The schedule of these trips began from the East, Central, West, and Down East regions, as illustrated below:
The simplest method is Arithmetic-mean method it is good in flat country, gages are uniformly distributed and the individual gate catches. The Thiessen method to allow for non-uniform distribution of gages by providing a weighting factor for each gage. The limitation is its inflexibility, not allow for orographic influences) The Read more…
E-mail: vengelkedasilva@upei.ca “Vanessa completed her Master’s Degree in Geology at Unisinos (Brazil), specializing in Stratigraphic Modelling. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Science at UPEI, focusing on the climate variables that impact cancer rates in Canada. She worked for twelve years as a researcher in Geostatistical Modelling, Sedimentology Read more…