What is the human face of climate change in Canadas Arctic?
Five years of social science research in Canada’s arctic has taught one University of Guelph geography professor a thing or two about climate change’s “human face.” Barry Smit is the Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Change, and since 2005 he’s studied how Arctic communities have tried to adapt to the rising temperatures caused by major shifts in global weather patterns. More information on Barry Smit is available online here. Get more from Canada’s top research talent Nearly 1000 researchers, scholars and members of Canada’s scientific community are meeting in Toronto this week as part of the Canada Research Chair 10th year anniversary conference. The conference media team can offer you unprecedented access to researchers from the social sciences, humanities, health and natural sciences. Representing more than 50,000 researchers and graduate students in 69 scholarly associations, 75 universities and colleges, and seven affiliates, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities
