An Update on CMOS’s 2021 Virtual Congress

Update 9 November 2020

1. The 2021 Congress will be entirely on-line, over the 2-week period: 31 May – 12 June. To accommodate different time zones across Canada, the daily conference hours will be shorter: 0800-1300h Pacific Time; 1100h-1600 Eastern Time.

2. We are pleased to announce that the following people have accepted invitations to give Plenary Talks at CMOS 2021:

• Paul Snelgrove, Memorial University, Science Advisor to DFO
• Shawn Marshall, U. Calgary, Science Advisor to ECCC
• Andrew Weaver, U. Victoria, Climate science and politician
• Lisa Loseto, DFO Winnipeg, Arctic
• Johanna Wagstaffe, CBC Meteorologist, Vancouver
• Mark Jaccard, Simon Fraser University, Economics of addressing climate change
• Erin Bertrand, Dalhousie University, Ocean biogeochemistry

3. The Call for Proposals for Special Sessions has been emailed to all CMOS members, submissions to be guided by the following Themes:

• Advances in meteorology, weather observation and forecasting
• Arctic change
• Biogeochemistry
• Circulation in large lakes and the oceans
• Climate change from seasons to centuries
• Climate change: risks, impacts, resilience, and responses
• Dynamics of the atmosphere, oceans, and climate
• Hydrology, the cryosphere, and sea-ice forecasting