Our climate is changing. What impacts will there be? What are our options? (Photograph of Emerald Lake, Yoho National Park)

CCIRC (Climate Change Impacts Research Consortium) is a group of researchers at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. We are investigating impacts of climate change on our environment, our economy, our health and our quality of life.

Our mission is to advance scientific research on the effects of climate change while improving our ability to communicate levels of risk.

The results of our project will provide us with a greater understanding of climate change impacts, enabling decision-makers to better manage associated risks.

At the same time we will be contributing to the global community of scientists who specialise in climate change and its effects.
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FEATURE PROJECTS

Glaciers play an important role in the annual hydrologic cycle of many river basins in British Columbia, exerting controls on runoff timing and magnitude as well as downstream temperature. Glaciers are known to delay the onset of runoff at the beginning of the melt season, and to augment runoff in mid- to late summer with the melting of the ice reservoir. Glacierized river basins stand to be affected by climate directly through changes in precipitation/evaporation and indirectly through changes to the glaciers themselves. It is this latter change that we are endeavoring to understand and...
The overall objective of this research program is to assess climate change and related water-use risks to aquatic ecosystems in mountain regions.

CCIRC NEWS & EVENTS

A paper describing Vismon's design [1] was recently honored with the "2nd Best Paper" award at the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (...
On November 5, 2010, CCIRC organized a half-day CCIRC workshop to examine climate change impacts research-needs from community disaster risk reduction and...
On April 12, 2010, CCIRC held a student workshop. The goal of this workshop was to provide a platform for the CCIRC students to present their research and...
On November 6, 2009, CCIRC held a mini workshop on Climate Data, Models and Downscaling. The goal of this workshop was to provide an overview of climate models...