Reps with a new climate research centre at StFX say they want to help community leaders prepare for climate change.
Richard Isnor, the university’s associate vice-president of research and graduate studies, says the Climate Services and Research Centre can make climate change predictions on a very small scale.
Isnor tells The Hawk the centre’s staff members build models to show the local impacts of climate change, and work to make that information accessible.
“(They’re) doing knowledge translation, (which is) translating fairly complex scientific information into much more easy to digest and publicly accessible forms of information to take appropriate action, or to have for planning purposes.”
Isnor says they take a multi-discipline approach to give local decision-makers the most useful information possible.
He says the goal is to create information and tools members of local groups can use for planning and infrastructure development in the face of climate change.
Isnor says the Climate Services and Research Centre opened at the end of October, but the official reception will be held as part of Climate and Democracy Week, which runs from Nov. 14-21.
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