On March 29, Yukari gave an invited talk entitled, “Climate Change Impacts on Winter Road System and Remote Indigenous Communities” at the School of Cities, University of Toronto. Here is the description of her talk: A network of winter roads in northern Canada connects a number of remote Indigenous communities to all-season roads, rails, airports, and… Read More


Congratulations to Andrew Zajch whose DPES Departmental Defence was successfully approved by the PhD departmental defence committee on February 12, 2021. His Final defence will be on April. Congratulations and good luck, Andrew Z!… Read More


Our regular CL@UT meeting for the winter semester 2021 was virtually held on January 28. Zahra Noorisameleh (former visiting Ph.D. student) presented her Ph.D. study, entitled “Impact of climate change on sustainable development of surface water resources with emphasis on the climactic drought“. Zahra recently completed the Ph.D. program at her home institution in Iran.… Read More


Yukari has contributed to the development of the winter road contents for the Indigenous climate change adaptation planning toolkit that is created by Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER).   Indigenous Climate Change Adaption Planning Toolkit Launch Dec 11, 2020 We’re excited to announce the launch of the Indigenous Climate Change Adaption Planning Toolkit, created with… Read More


Slippery Slopes: Canadian Recreation Meets Climate Change Dec 14, 2020 This week climatologist Micah Hewer and economist Pat Lloyd-Smith tell Jay about the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of global warming on Canada’s outdoor recreation sector. On the bad side of the ledger: shorter downhill skiing and skating seasons and slime-covered lakes in… Read More


Our regular CL@UT meeting for the fall 2020 semester was virtually held on December 7. Ana Zaknic-Catovic presented her latest PhD study, entitled “Identification and analysis of physical heterogeneities in Canadian high frequency temperature time series“. See the information for her dissertation at the July 7th post.… Read More


Our regular CL@UT meeting for the fall 2020 semester was virtually held on November 2. Bill presented his latest published study, entitled “Thermal Signatures of peri-urban landscapes“. The study included updated work that he revisited the Mohsin and Gough 2012, Impact of Climate Change on the Extremes of Observed Daily Temperature Data in the Greater Toronto Area, and… Read More


Our regular CL@UT meeting for the new fall 2020 semester was virtually on 14th Monday. Bill reported his latest publications with Climate Lab members, and also introduced new PhD and undergraduate students.   Taylor, Adam, Sam, and Weiqing – Welcome to Climate Lab!   Yukari Hori, PhD (aka Hannah) presented her new project with Bill… Read More