We are excited to invite everyone to visit the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation for an Open House on Thursday, July 13th from 9:00am – 12 noon at the new facility in St.Peters Bay. Open to the public, students, community members, and anyone interested in learning about the Read more…
A group of students from Cardigan Consolidated visited the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation on World Environment Day and to participate in an announcement with the Hon. Steven Myers and Dr. Aitazaz Farooque. (Photo: Government of Prince Edward Island) World Environment Day, one of the biggest international days Read more…
Dr. Xiuquan (Xander) Wang, associate professor and director of the Climate Smart Lab at UPEI’s Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation, is the recipient of the E. Whitman Wright Award for Excellence in Information Technology in Civil Engineering from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE). The award was Read more…
Changed By Fiona: Coasts and forests (source by CBC News) It’s definitely kind of given us a little bit more reason to work, to push forward.— Genevieve Keefe, coastal erosion researcher Other questions posed after Fiona are difficult to answer, but some information about what happened along the coast is Read more…
A drone’s eye view of P.E.I.’s shoreline has served as the inspiration behind a new exhibit of handwoven art, including two pieces depicting damage to the Island’s coast caused by Fiona. The drone port at UPEI’s Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation in St. Peter’s Bay is not far Read more…
On March 10th, 2023, the PEI Section of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) has been officially launched by its inaugural executive committee in the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation (CCCCA) at UPEI in St. Peter’s Bay. The CSCE PEI Section’s executive committee meeting in the CCCCA, Read more…
Dr. Wang has been recently inducted as a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) in the 2022 Celebration of Excellence and Engagement meeting held in Calgary on November 23-23, 2022. The RSC College is Canada’s first national system of Read more…
On November 24, 2022, Bill Blair, the Minister of Emergency Preparedness held a news conference at the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation (CCCCA) in St. Peter’s Bay, Prince Edward Island, for the release of Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy, which aims to prepare the country for the impacts of Read more…
Dr. Aitazaz Farooque, interim associate dean of the UPEI School of Climate Change and Adaptation recently attended the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC), “COP27.” It was the 27th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from November 6 to 18, 2022, in Read more…
On November 22, 2022, the Canadian Centre for Climate Change and Adaptation (CCCCA) hosted guest speakers from Island Studies, UPEI. Dr. Xander Wang, director of the Climate Smart Lab, welcomed all Island Studies participants visiting the CCCCA for research exchange. This visit was intended to introduce participants to the Centre, Read more…
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