Graduate Research Poster Competition
As a part of the OCC’s second annual climate change research symposium, graduate students were invited to submit research poster presentations with either a science or a social science focus related to climate change adaptation, mitigation, communications or policy. We are pleased to make the selected presentations available below.
- Biochar Soil Amendments for Remediating Industrialized Landscapes | Nigel Gale | University of Toronto
- Bridging the Gap Between Science and Policy with Film: Introducing a New Communications Tool for Climate Scientists | Mark Terry | York University
- Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Coastal Municipalities | Brennan Vogel | Western University
- Climate Change in Sustainability Planning | Laura Tozer | University of Toronto
- Climate Change and Evolutionary Adaptation: The Resilience of Salmon in a Warming World | Kayla Gradil | Western University
- Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Tourism Destination Communities: Comparing Indicator and Community-Based Approaches | Zainab Moghal | University of Waterloo
- Evaluation of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for an Urban Sewershed in Windsor, Ontario | Kyle Eckart & Dr. Tirupati Bolisetti | University of Windsor
- Global Patterns of Terrestrial Carbon, Water and Energy Fluxes Simulated by a Carbon and Nitrogen Coupled Model | Suo Huang | McMaster University
- Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Disaster Risk Reduction in Manila | Jeffrey Chan, Zoe Abrahams, Ayesha Jamil, Anne Tadgell & Dr. Brent Doverstein | University of Waterloo
- “I don’t see it changing anything in sport”: Exploring Climate Change and Health in Youth Team Sport in Ontario | Francesca Cardwell & Dr. Susan J. Elliott | University of Waterloo
- Optimization of Forest Regeneration Under Climate Change In Ontario | Jing Yang & Dan McKenney | University of Guelph
- Radiative Forcing Response to Land-use Changes in GTA, Canada | Md. Abdul Halim, Jillian Bieser & Sean C. Thomas | University of Toronto
- Rapid Adaptation of Early Life History Traits in Great Lakes Chinook Salmon | Michael Thorn and Steve Sharron | Western University
- The Impact of Climate Change and Seasonal Drought upon Different-aged Temperate Coniferous Forests | Rachel Skubel & Dr. Altaf Arain | McMaster University
- The Impact of Urban Form on Heat Absorption | Ivan Lee & Dr. James Voogt | Western University
- Trends in Frequency of Extreme Precipitation Events over Ontario from Ensembles of Multiple GCMs and RCMs | Ziwang Deng & Dr. Huaiping Zhu | York University
- Uncovering the Potential of the Urban Roofscape | Richard Hammond | University of Waterloo