Creating a Climate Centre for McGill
摘要
In 1990, I proposed to the McGill senior administration that an interdisciplinary Centre for Climate and Global Change Research (C2GCRCentre for Climate and Global Change Research (C2GCR) at McGill, proposal for) be established. The Centre would bring together 13 professors and their graduate students from four departments who did research into various aspects of climate variability and terrestrial global change. C2GCR was supported by McGill, the Canadian Atmospheric Environment Service, NSERC and the Québec government, and it quickly became recognized nationally and internationally as a “go-to” place for research and graduate studies in these areas. After I served as founding director for six years, the Centre was admirably led by Nigel RouletC2GCR directors: Nigel Roulet, Gail Chmura, Wayne Pollard, Charles Lin, Gail Chmura, Wayne Pollard, and Charles Lin. However, due to changes in provincial government funding and other scientific developments in Québec, the Centre disbanded in 2015, in its 25th year.