Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium

10/23/2024

This is a reminder for today’s talk at three, titled, Climate Change and Wildfires in BC – a hot and smoky future? to be held as part of the Pacific Climate Seminar Series. This talk will discuss wildfires in British Columbia, the increase in fire activity in the province since 2017 and whether this trend is expected to continue.

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12/04/2023

This is a reminder for tomorrow's talk at the Pacific Climate Seminar Series, titled, Record-shattering extremes - Challenges and opportunities for attribution and event storylines, to be given by Dr. Erich Fischer, senior scientist at ETH Zürich. For more information on the talk, including an abstract, bio, the time and attendance information, please see the talk's page on our site:

Meeting URL: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/89710257099?pwd=ZjFCMjQxYTlldmFydnpsbkwxTzdnZz09Meeting ID: 897 1025 7099Meeting password: 169150

11/22/2023

This is a reminder for today’s talk titled, Clustering for Climate Science Insights, part of our Pacific Climate Seminar Series.

This talk will be delivered by Dr. John R.J. Thompson, an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) whose areas of expertise are nonparametric and applied statistics and machine learning. This talk will be held today, Wednesday, November 22nd, between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Pacific Time, via Zoom meetings. For more on this talk, attendance information, a bio and an abstract, see the talk’s page on our site.

Meeting URL: https://uvic.zoom.us/j/83148399185?pwd=VVliY1VlcUVRN1hsd1BSOFM1R0VDQT09Meeting ID: 831 4839 9185Password: 123289

10/04/2023

PCIC is seeking a Programmer/Analyst (Full stack).

The Programmer/Analyst (Full stack) works to develop and maintain online applications for serving and analyzing climate data. The successful applicant will be a part of a talented and dedicated team that enables access to PCIC's flagship data products and innovative web-based analysis tools. They will play a key role in building applications that provide public access to and creative visualization of open and big data. Their highly sought products will serve an engaged base of stakeholders and will be used immediately to study Canada's changing climate.

For more information see the job posting on our site:

09/29/2023

The September 2023 edition of the PCIC Update newsletter is now available online, here:

06/26/2023

PCIC is pleased to announce the release of the June 2023 edition of the PCIC Update. This issue of the PCIC Update contains the following stories: Climate Projections for the City of Terrace Released and A Mystery Gremlin Resolved! It also contains an update on the Pacific Climate Seminar Series, staff changes at PCIC and PCIC's most recent publications. The staff profile in this issue is on Tom Kunkel.

05/17/2023

PCIC is seeking a Programmer/Analyst

The Programmer/Analyst will collaborate with PCIC's provincial and national partners to provide accessible climate science to advance disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation activities. They will work to add to the information, tools and guidance available for considering climate change in risk assessments and mitigative works in BC. They will be a part of a dedicated and experienced team that enables access to PCIC data products and innovative web-based analysis tools like Plan2Adapt and the PCIC Climate Explorer. Their open source software will play a key role in informing government policy and supporting new stakeholders considering climate data: Indigenous Nations, critical infrastructure operators, and services organizations for equity-denied populations.

For more information see the job posting:

05/17/2023

PCIC is seeking a Research Hydrologist

The Research Hydrologist will undertake hydrologic model development and application and related research to quantify future climate-driven changes in river discharge and temperature. The modelling will be undertaken at very high spatial resolution throughout a region spanning all Pacific-draining watersheds in BC. The Research Hydrologist will work at PCIC under the supervision of the Lead for the Hydrologic Impacts theme and will collaborate with other members of PCIC.

For more information see the job posting:

05/15/2023

Dr. Myles Allen on Geological Net Zero: How we will stop fossil fuels from causing global warming Join us in person or online for this illuminating presentation and discussion with Dr. Myles Allen, "the physicist behind Net Zero".

05/09/2023

Attention buildings sector professionals! Join PCIC, the Canadian Center for Climate Services (CCCS), and Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia on June 8, 2023 at 10:30 am PT for an interactive climate change training session on PCIC’s newest analysis tool - the Design Value Explorer (DVE). The DVE provides revised climatic design data relevant to the National Building Code of Canada and the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code. This session will examine the unique data and features of the tool that will aid building and infrastructure design professionals in the incorporation of climate change into their work. It will include an in-depth demonstration of the DVE, as well as an interactive exercise. Feel free to explore the Design Value Explorer ahead of time using the link in the comments, and come with your questions! Learn more about the event and register here:

This event will be held over Zoom Meetings. Please register using the form below in order to receive the attendance information for this event.

03/21/2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the Summary for Policymakers for its upcoming Synthesis Report of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The new report opens with a high-level summary that brings together key points from the IPCC’s three working groups, which examine: (1) the physical climate science, (2) adaptation and vulnerability, and (3) mitigation. With each successive report, the confidence in the trends, attribution and impacts of anthropogenic climate change grows stronger, as does the language outlining the need for, and benefits of, strong mitigation and adaptation measures to avoid the worst of the projected future impacts.

The report highlights the most important messages from the three reports that it draws upon. It explains that human activities are responsible for the current warming (about 1.1 degrees compared to the 1850-1900 period) and associated widespread changes and impacts, including effects on weather and climate extremes. It also shares projections for what the future may hold, dependent on emissions pathways, with increased warming following continued emissions and bringing with it impacts that escalate as warming increases. This warming will also be greater in high-latitude regions, such as our province. The report indicates that, while adaptation and mitigation measures have expanded over time, these still fall short of what will be needed to meet the challenges that climate change presents. But the report also shares the wealth of opportunities available to address climate change across multiple areas and how these will reduce the costs of climate change and provide co-benefits.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change