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Black History Month for the Sciences

Written on February 10, 2021.

On May 25, 2020, Amy Cooper—a white Canadian woman—called the police on Christan Cooper—a black birdwatcher—after he asked her to leash her dog in an on-leash part of Central Park, New York City. From...

2021 CMOS Congress – Call for Session Proposals

Written on November 30, 2020.

Dear CMOS member or past Congress participant, The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) 55th Congress will be held 31 May to 11 June, 2021, hosted by the Vancouver Island Centre....

Micrometeorological Variables and Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling in Two Climate Regions of Quebec

Written on July 27, 2020.

– By Richard Leduc, Ph.D., AirMet Science Inc., and Jean-François Brière, Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques The US-EPA (2019a) AERMOD dispersion...

skyscraper view of traffic lights and Vancouver tower

Air Pollution in the Time of COVID-19

Written on May 6, 2020.

– By D.G. Steyn, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., and Kyle Howe, Air Quality and Climate Change, Metro Vancouver Regional...

Blue Sky Blues or the Three Degrees of Aircraft Pollution

Written on April 10, 2020.

– By Phil Chadwick – The title of this 2012 painting below, numbered 1260 in my artistic journey, is “Three Degrees”. That title might sound cryptic. Let me explain. All air...

Toward Quantifying Area-fugitive Greenhouse Gas
(GHG) Emissions from Open-pit Mines

Written on February 12, 2020.

– By Amir Nazem, Md. Rafsan Nahian, Ryan Byerlay, Manoj K. Nambiar, and Amir A. Aliabadi- Conventional techniques to quantify area-fugitive Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from an open-pit...

MOPITT – Measuring Pollution in the Troposphere for 20 Years

Written on December 21, 2019.

– By Prof. James R. Drummond, FRSC, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University – Most scientific projects run for a few years and then the people involved move...

Revitalization of UQAM Atmospheric Science Undergraduate Programme

Written on November 18, 2019.

– By René Laprise and Julie Mireille Theriault – Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), laprise.rene@uqam.ca, theriault.julie@uqam.ca The...

Radar Events Initiative

Written on November 12, 2019.

– By Phil Chadwick, Meteorologist and Eco-Artist – Tenacity may be a good thing especially if it is well intentioned – the objective analysis of the weather services provided by Environment...