Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience
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Research Nova Scotia and CANSSI Atlantic Announcing Over $273,000 in Climate Change Funding
(Halifax, NS) In 2022, Research Nova Scotia (RNS) and the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) Atlantic launched the Atlantic Climate Research Collaboration (ACRC) to fund research that will tackle complex data-focused problems related to climate change and its impact on coastal communities. “Since launching this research fund, our region has experienced unprecedented climate-related events including…
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Dalhousie Forestry Research Team Receives $1.57 Million to Study Nova Scotian Forests
May 9, 2023 (Halifax, NS) – A team of forestry researchers led by Dalhousie University is receiving $1.57 million to undertake research on Nova Scotia’s forests and the industries and communities who depend upon them. The new project forms the cornerstone of Research Nova Scotia’s (RNS) forestry research program, which seeks to identify and convene…
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Ukrainian Researcher Spotlight: Kateryna Rudenko
“My parents lost their jobs, and they didn’t have any savings prepared for the war,” says Kateryna Rudenko. “I have to financially support my whole family at this point, simultaneously trying to build my network here, people I know, and trying to establish myself here in Canada, somehow, to be able to help them further…
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Tracking whales and pinpointing cells
Oceanographer Dr. Sarah Fortune looks out to the expanse of the ocean and wonders how climate change is impacting the movements of the creatures that swim below the surface. Dr. Tobias Karakach looks within, focusing his sights on the blueprints of our cells, the smallest physical units that define us.
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The technology of conservation: how ocean-going robots are protecting the critically endangered right whale
Since 2008, collaborators in Canada and around the world have been using OTN’s infrastructure and analytical tools to document the movements of more than 300 keystone and commercially and culturally valuable aquatic species in the context of changing ocean and freshwater environments.
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Research Nova Scotia and CANSSI Atlantic offering up to $400,000 toward climate change research.
Research Nova Scotia and the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) Atlantic have launched the Atlantic Climate Research Collaboration (ACRC) to fund research that will tackle complex data-focused problems related to climate change and its impacts on coastal communities.