The Ottawa-Carleton Student Northern Research Symposium is an annual one-day conference that brings together undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University who are involved in northern research. It provides an opportunity for students to present their research, network, and to broaden their knowledge of the polar regions. Students from any discipline are welcome, given that their research takes place to the north of the southern limit of discontinuous permafrost.
The Ottawa-Carleton Student Northern Research Symposium is an annual one-day conference that brings together undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University who are involved in northern research. It provides an opportunity for students to present their research, network, and to broaden their knowledge of the polar regions. Students from any discipline are welcome, given that their research takes place to the north of the southern limit of discontinuous permafrost.
Dr Matthew Kurtz is a research consultant and a part-time professor at University of Ottawa will discuss: Job-Tenure among Immigrants in Canada. How long highly qualified immigrants in permanent positions and similarly situated Canadian-born employees stay with a company? HR professionals have stated that immigrants tend to stay with them longer.
Dominique Souris, Executive Director, Youth Climate Lab will discuss how significant finance and investments are required to help the world’s most vulnerable countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed countries have committed to mobilizing USD 100 bn/y by 2020. It is increasingly clear these countries are far from achieving their commitments.
Dominique Souris, Executive Director, Youth Climate Lab will discuss how significant finance and investments are required to help the world’s most vulnerable countries mitigate and adapt to climate change. Under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, developed countries have committed to mobilizing USD 100 bn/y by 2020. It is increasingly clear these countries are far from achieving their commitments.
Will Kochtitzky, PhD student in the Laboratory for Cryospheric Research, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, uOttawa will discuss outburst floods and surges of Donjek Glacier, Yukon. The glacier has undergone eight surge events since the 1930s where the glacier rapidly advances after years of stagnation. Most recently, a surge event created a lake that drained in summer 2017, and refilled and drained again in both summer 2018 and summer 2019. We used a suite of remote sensing observations to quantify the impact of surge events.
Le conférencier Mark Kingwell est professeur de philosophie à l’Université de Toronto. Contributeur pour le Harper’s Magasine, This Magazine et le Globe and Mail notamment, ses publications visent tout autant le milieu académique que le grand public. Il a été récompensé entre autres par le Spitz Price for Political Theory, le Drummer’s General Award et par un doctorat honorifique des beaux-arts du Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Keynote Speaker, Mark Kingwell, is a University of Toronto professor and a contributor for the Harper’s Magazine, This Magazine and the Globe and Mail notably. He not only publishes in academia but also for a general audience. He was awarded with the Spitz Price for Political Theory, the Drummer’s General Award and he received an Honorary Doctor of Fine art Degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
The University of Ottawa, in partnership with UN-Habitat, is pleased to announce the first ever International Conference on Chinese and African Sustainable Urbanization (ICCASU): A Canadian and International Perspective, taking place October 24-25,2015 at the University of Ottawa.
