Sally Aitken, University of British Columbia Thursday January 30, 2014 As the climate changes, the health of Canadian forests is in decline, threatening Canada’s wood supply, impacting jobs, and decreasing the ability of forests to play their role in maintaining global temperatures by storing vast quantities of carbon. To help maintain forest health, Dr. Sally […]
John Valliant, McMaster University Thursday February 27, 2014 The way we diagnose and treat diseases like cancer is changing. Where once we settled for comparatively simple X-ray images, today medical isotopes and molecular imaging probes give us far more comprehensive views of the human body’s inner workings. These new technologies enable us to detect cancer […]
Christiane Hudon, Environment Canada Thursday March 27, 2014 Reservoir to a fifth of the world’s surface freshwater and support system to some 59 million people, the Great Lakes - Saint Lawrence River Basin is central to Canada’s identity. But these are troubled waters. Average temperatures are rising, water levels falling. The public feels the pain […]
Jeff Casello, University of Waterloo Zachary Patterson, Concordia University Thursday May 1, 2014 From large suburban developments to gentrification of downtown cores, growing urban centres create new challenges for how people get around within cities. And the challenges aren’t only about moving people – they include issues around funding infrastructure projects, land-use designations, engineering considerations, […]
*Dr Cullen was aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship Amundsen when it was photographed to be on the $50 bill. Sadly Dr Cullen's research equipment did not make the final edit! || Le Dr Cullen était à bord du navire de la Garde côtière canadienne Amundsen lorsqu'il a été photographié comme étant sur le billet de […]
Yusuf Altintas, The University of British Columbia Thursday November 20, 2014 In manufacturing, even the slightest error in cutting, or "machining", a part can cost thousands of dollars in materials and lost production time. Dr. Yusuf Altintas has eliminated costly physical trials through made-in-Canada virtual cutting software that enables manufacturers in key sectors like automotive […]
Denis Lavoie, Natural Resources Canada Tuesday February 3, 2015 The search for oil and gas is taking us to new settings on the Canadian landscape, testing the limits of our technology and geological knowledge. Among the more publicly discussed of these innovative ventures has been the exploration in shale, where large quantities of natural gas […]
Ronald Stewart, University of Manitoba Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo Thursday March 26, 2015 In Canada and around the world, extreme weather phenomena are becoming more frequent and more damaging. As the costs to people, protected areas, and infrastructure rise, governments are increasingly being called upon to mount coordinated responses to droughts, wildfires, storms and […]
Gerry Wright, McMaster University Thursday April 23, 2015 As near daily headlines warn us, the rise of drug resistant microbes, or “superbugs”, – is impacting public health. We need antibiotics not only to treat infections, but to control them. Antibiotics are likewise the basis of modern-day medical miracles, from organ transplants and joint replacement, to […]
Chistopher Burn, Carleton University Thursday February 4, 2016 Climate change is the talk of the town these days. Not a day goes by without news about its effects. Much attention focuses on the potential release of organic carbon as frozen ground melts. In Canada, where a third of the country is underlain by permafrost, the […]
Ted Sargent, University of Toronto Thursday February 26, 2015 Humankind consumes electrical power at an average annual rate of 15 Terawatts (trillions watts). We meet this demand primarily by burning CO2-emitting stored fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the world’s trees, bacteria, and algae capture ten times that amount of power from the sun through the process of […]
Scott Knight, Royal Military College of Canada Thursday, March 10, 2016 Although cyber security regularly makes news headlines, the resulting discussions often fail to make crucial distinctions between cyber-crime, cyber-espionage and cyber-attack. This presentation will focus on the technology and methods used in cyber-attacks. Although these attacks happen in the virtual setting of computer networks, […]
