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World Oceans Day Technical Speaker Program
Sunday June 11, 2-3 PM, St. Columba Parish Hall
Àros na Mara World Oceans Day Festival
June 8 to 11, 2016 Port Of Iona. Cape Breton
Theme: Weather and Climate over Cape Breton’s Inland Sea
- MC - Fred Baechler, (Hydrogeologest, EXP)
- Opening remarks: Dr. Bruce Hatcher, (Professor/Researcher, Bras dÒr Institute, CBU
- Speaker 1 – Shelley Hessian Executive Director, Start-Up Yard at COVE
Title: Introducing the Centre for Ocean Ventures and
Entrepreneurship (COVE) as a global centre for ocean
innovation and collaboration with an incubator, Start-Up Yard,
being developed at the Halifax Harbour.
3. Speaker 2 – Jonathan Buffet –Weather Instrumentation Technician, Environment Canada – Saskatoon,
Title: Developing Capebretonweather.ca , an array of amateur
weather stations
4. Speaker 3 - Bill Danielson - Retired Meteorology professor, forecaster and climate writer
Title: Weather Prospecting on Cape Breton: Seeking The Wettest and The Warmest, The Fastest and The Finest
5. Speaker 4– Jim Abraham - Meteorologist, Halifax Weather Guy
Title: Climate Change and Weather extremes in Cape Breton: is weird weather the new norm
6. Closing Remarks: Vince Maclean, Àros Na Mara
We are also in the early stages have planning a Think Tank Breakfast Sunday June 11 at Grand Narrows Waterfront 9 am to 11 to explore what are the near term and long term possibilities for making good use of the weather data that can be gathered from an extensive array of monitoring stations around Cape Breton that is coming from Jonathan Buffet’s Network http://www.capebretonweather.ca/. It would be nice to explore how a well instrumented island can offer research and development opportunities. The objective is to solicit input into how to make good use of the data from such a network.
Randy J.Pointkoski P.Eng.
WOD 2107 Speaker Coordinator
www.arosnamara.com
Speaker Bios:
Fred Baechler is the Chief Hydrogeologist and a Senior Hydrologist for Exp Services Inc, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Cape Breton University.
Over the last 15 years he and his wife Lynn have been gathering together all the available information on the water resources of Cape Breton to aid in determining how to best to manage them, especially in light of our changing climate.
Dr. Bruce Hatcher is a marine ecologist interested in the dynamics of marine ecosystems. He holds the Cape Breton University Chair in Marine Ecosystem Research, and is Director of the Bras d'Or Institute. His research is supported by grants from the CFI, NSERC, government and industry partners. He teaches Biology, Theoretical Ecology, and supervises student research involving oceanographic and fisheries sampling at sea, scientific diving, remote sensing and GIS.
Shelley Hessian has more than 20 years of experience working with small and medium-sized business enterprises. Before becoming executive director of Start-Up Yard at COVE, Shelley was Innovacorp’s manager of programs and business acceleration working one-on-one with Innovacorp's early stage technology client companies and led the organization’s many acceleration programs and other initiatives. Previously, Shelley was manager of consulting and skills development at Saint Mary’s University Business Development Centre, which offers professional business consulting services, skills development and customized training programs to entrepreneurs. Shelley holds a bachelor of commerce and an MBA with a concentration in information technology from Saint Mary’s University and she is also a certified project management professional.
Jonathan Buffet grew up in North Sydney. Jonathan became a Instrumentation technologist and through his work with Environment Canada has developed a strong interest in weather monitoring networks. His pastime has evolved to developing an impressive array of weather station around Cape Breton Island.
Bill Danielson has worked as a weather forecaster, professor of meteorology, and author of books related to weather and climate, including “Cape Breton Weather Watching” (CBU Press). He has fielded weather questions on CBC-Cape Breton and writes a weather column for the Victoria Standard. He holds a B.A. in astronomy from Harvard and a MSc. In meteorology from McGill.
Jim Abraham has spent about 40 years studying weather and climate business. As an operational meteorologist with Environment Canada in cities from Halifax to Whitehorse, Jim has developed a thorough understanding of the weather and climate regimes across this country.
Much of Jim’s work with research has been collecting and analyzing data related to weather extremes. In the 1990’s, Jim started the Canadian Hurricane forecast and research program, which included being lead investigator for several reconnaissance flights into tropical cyclones threatening Canada.
Jim is currently the Atlantic Director for the Canadian Climate Forum, the president of the Halifax chapter of the Canadian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society, a partner in Climaction Services, and a part-time meteorologist on CBC radio. He is also an ambassador for the US NOAA Weather ready Nations initiative. Most of his contract and volunteer work is advising stakeholders (e.g. insurance, government, First Nations) on the effective use of scientific climate and weather data and information to enable resilient communities.
Vince Maclean –Vice President Central Cape Breton Community Ventures. Vince has been a long term dedicated community supporter of the proposed Àros Na Mara Marine Science Centre.
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