Adaptation and Impacts Research Division research activities are listed below:
Dr. Stewart Cohen
Adjunct Professor, AIRD Senior Researcher
Dr. Stewart J. Cohen is a senior researcher with AIRD/Environment Canada, and an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Forest Resources Management of the University of British Columbia. Dr. Cohen’s research interests are in climate change impacts and adaptation at the regional scale, and exploring how climate change can affect sustainable development. Recent and ongoing studies include climate change and water management in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, climate change visualization, and methods for incorporating climate change adaptation into municipal planning and forest management including ongoing projects in Williams Lake <http://sanjosewatershed.com/> and Kamloops <http://k2kamloopstsa.com/>. He is currently a member of the advisory committee for the Fraser Basin Council, and the Columbia Basin Trust program, Communities Adapting to Climate Change. Previously, he led the Mackenzie Basin Impact Study, a 7-year effort focused on climate change impacts in the western Canadian Arctic. His earlier work also included research on climate change impacts in the Great Lakes and Saskatchewan River Basins, and advising the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network (C-CIARN). He has been an author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third and Fourth Assessment Reports, and the US Climate Change Science Program report, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States, published in 2009. Also in 2009, he has published a textbook, Climate Change in the 21st Century, a study guide for promoting interdisciplinary collaboration. This is based on a graduate course that he offers at UBC, GEOG512/RMES520, Climate Change in the 21st Century.
Dr. Stewart Cohen
Adaptation & Impacts Research Division Section (AIRS)
Environment Canada
Dept. of Forest Resources Management
University of British Columbia
Forest Sciences Centre
4617 - 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z4
TEL: 1-604-822-1635 FAX: 1-604-822-9106
stewart.cohen@ec.gc.ca; scohen@forestry.ubc.ca
Dr. Yongyuan Yin
Adjunct Professor, AIRD Researcher
Dr. Yongyuan Yin is an environmental scientist with AIRD and an adjunct faculty member of Dept. of Forest Resources Management. Educated both in China and Canada, he has research experience and contacts in both countries and has been providing bridge functions to link research and exchange activities between the two countries. His research interests cover climate change impacts and adaptation, sustainability evaluation, environmental and resource management, land use and planning, and decision support systems. He designed and applied integrated assessment (IA) methods to study the impacts of climate change and adaptation in the Georgia Basin and Mackenzie River Basin of Canada, and many regions in China. Dr. Yin is the principal investigator of the AIACC AS25 project funded by UNEP/GEF to study climate vulnerability and adaptation in Western China. He is also leading the impacts and adaptation component of a CIDA project on carbon sequestration in China.
Dr. Yongyuan Yin
Adaptation & Impacts Research Section (AIRS)
Environment Canada
Dept. of Forest Resources Management
University of British Columbia
Forest Sciences Centre
4619 - 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z4
TEL: 1-604-822-1620 FAX: 1-604-822-9106
yongyuan.yin@ec.gc.ca; yyin@forestry.ubc.ca
Robin Bing Rong
AIRS Researcher
Mr. Robin Bing Rong has been the coordinator for the Canada-China Cooperation in Climate Change (C5) project for the past 4 years and focused on assessing the vulnerability to climate change on agriculture. He has over 8 years experience in the application of GIS in support of environmental planning and management.
Robin Bing Rong
Adaptation & Impacts Research Section (AIRS)
Environment Canada
Department of Forest Resources Management
Faculty of Forestry
University of British Columbia
Forest Sciences Centre
4615 - 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z4
TEL: 1-604-822-6157 FAX: 1-604-822-9106
robin.rong@ec.gc.ca, brong@forestry.ubc.ca