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Session #1: Welcoming remarks and introduction to the objectives of the Workshop
- Motivation and Goals of the Workshop: Ron Stewart
Session #2: Overview Presentations
- Opportunities and Challenges of the International Disaster Reduction: Gordon McBean
- Changes in Weather and Climate Extremes and Their Causes: Francis Zwiers for Xuebin Zhang
- Overview of phenomenological approaches to the study of Extremes: Ron Stewart
Session #3: The Impacts of Extremes on socio-economic sectors
- The Impacts Of Extremes On Socioeconomic Sectors: An Agricultural Perspective: Harvey Hill
- Storm Warning:The Public Policy Implications of the Loss of Hydro-Climatic Stationarity: Bob Sandford
- Water Rights Licensing In Times of Scarcity:Rob Matthews
- Effects of Extreme Wind Storms on Residential Structures: Gregory Kopp
- Drought Impact Collection: Activities at the National Drought Mitigation Center: Mark D Svoboda
Session #4: Policy Issues
- Economic Cost of Extreme Events: Some Issues: Suren Kulshreshtha
- Red Earth First Nation: Flood Preparedness: Zachery Whitecap
Session #5: The Science of Extremes
- High resolution modeling of physical and ecological processes in diverse landscapes: Jim Byrne
- Detection and attribution of changes in extremes - current approaches: Francis Zwiers
- Storm tracks activities over the Hudson Bay area and links with surface extremes: past and future changes: Philippe Gachon
- The role of explosive cyclogenesis in the northeastern Pacific, and its attendant latent heating, in producing a Beaufort coastal storm surge: John Gyakum
- Is the SPI gamma function consistent in time and space for calculating extreme values of precipitation across Canada?: Aston Chipanshi
- The Association between Canadian Climatic Extremes and Interannual and Interdecadal Oscillations: Amir Shabbar
- Changing summer climate on the Prairies: From droughts to floods- An assessment of the causes and consequences since 1990: Ray Garnett
- Drought Research Initiative (DRI) Summary of the 1999-2005 Drought: John Hanesiak
- Characterizing the Surface Features of Canadian Prairie Droughts: Barrie Bonsal
- Towards A Better Understanding and Improved Predictions of Hydroclimate Extremes in the Canadian Prairies: Kit Szeto
- Real-Time Soil Moisture Estimation in Western Canada: Needs and Issues: Paul Bullock
- Hazardous Winter Precipitation Events: William Henson
- Floods in BC: Stephen Dery
- Investigation of the 2006 Drought and 2007 Flood Extremes at the SGP Through an Integrative Analysis of Observations: Xiquan Dong
- Prediction of Forest Fire Severity from Large-Scale Climate Patterns: Amir Shabbar
- Exceptional cloud-to-ground lightning during a season of extreme wildfire activity in Yukon, Canada: Bob Kochtubajda
- Challenges and Opportunities in Using In-situ Data to Address Extremes: Steve Williams
- Application of Remotely Sensed Precipitation Data in Monitoring and Analysis of Extremes: Challenges and Opportunities: Amir AghaKouchak
Session #6: Extremes including their trends by region
- Activities related to extremes: Francis Zwiers
- Atmospheric Hazards in Prairie and Northern Region: Bob Kochtubajda
- The Lake Winnipeg Basin Summit: Hank Venema
- A preliminary analysis of hydrological extremes in the Fraser River Basin: Stephen Dery
- Extreme Events in a changing climate: Central Canada: Jim Bruce
- U.S. Climate Extreme Trends: 2011: Mark Svoboda
- Storms and Weather Extremes in the Arctic: John Hanesiak
Session #7: Breakout groups
- NSERC: Strategy for Partnerships and Innovation: Frank Nolan
- Breakout Groups: Ron Stewart
Session #8: Current Activities related to Extremes
- World Climate Research Program: Extremes: Ron Stewart
- U.S. Climate Extreme Monitoring Activities (a non-exhaustive effort!): Mark D Svoboda
- NASA NEWS Extreme Working Group: Xiquan Dong
- IISD Research on Extremes: Matt McCandless
- The Global Water System Project (GWSP) and Extremes: Rick Lawford
- WeatherFarm: Monitoring Extreme Weather Events: Guy Ash
- Contributions of GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) to monitoring global extremes: Rick Lawford
- DRI Data Services: Phillip Harder
- Overview of NCAR Data Services: Steve Williams
- Collaborative activities between EC and other Quebec organizations: key projects on extremes and hazards: Philippe Gachon
- Preparing Agriculture for Climate Extremes: Harvey Hill
- The Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Division: Facilitating Coordinated, Targeted and Sustained Adaptation: Brian Horton
- EC Adaptation and Impacts Research: Grace Koshida
- Manitoba Water Stewardship’s Current Activities Related to Extremes: Bob Harrison
- Manitoba-Wisconsin Climate Workshop Series and Manitoba Climate Modelling Initiative: Avery Jodoin
- An Introduction to the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS): Stephen Dery
- Prairie Regional Adaptation Collaborative (PRAC): Ramon Sales
Sesion 9: Wrap-up
- Closing Session: Ron Stewart