Round 2

Grants awarded October 1, 2001

Principal Investigator	University	Project Title	Funding
Calvert, S.	British Columbia	Temporal and Spatial Variability of CO₂ Efflux in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific During the Last 200,000 Years as Monitored by Sedimentary Nitrogen Isotope Ratios	$279,900 over 3 years
Chylek, P.	Dalhousie	Molecular Simulations of Black Carbon Aerosol Interfacial Processes	$270,800 over 3 years
Donaldson, J.	Toronto	Improvements to Air Quality Models: Airborne Pollutant-Surface Film Interactions	$320,000 over 3 years
Drummond, J.	Toronto	Measurements of Atmospheric Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation	$259,500 over 3 years
Greatbatch, R.	Dalhousie	Development of a Coupled Atmosphere-ocean Modelling System with Application to the Extratropical Transition of Atlantic Hurricanes	$206,000 over 2 years
Gyakum, J.	McGill	Diagnostic Analyses of Water Vapour and its Dynamical Impact on Extratropical Transitions Affecting Eastern Canada	$213,000 over 3 years
Hastie, D.	York	Mass Spectrometric Studies of Atmospheric Particulate Matter	$255,400 over 3 years
Hillaire-Marcel, C.	UQAM	An Oscillatory Arctic Sea Ice Cover: The Millennial Year Scale Factor Controlling the Rates of Intermediate vs. Deep North Atlantic Water Formation	$417,000 over 3 years
Hsieh, W.	British Columbia	Equatorial Coupled Models	$227,500 over 3 years
Lohmann, U.	Dalhousie	Laboratory Testing of an Anthropogenic Role in Ice Nucleation	$412,000 over 3 years
Luckman, B.	Western Ontario	Developing a Proxy Climate Database for the Last 300 Years in the Canadian Cordillera	$418,600 over 3 years
McBean, G.	Western Ontario	Evaluating the Performance of Weather and Environmental Prediction Systems	$119,500 over 3 years
O’Neill, N.	Sherbrooke	Aerosol Remote Sensing Using Passive and Active Radiometry; Ground Based Investigations into the Information Content of a Multi-year Combined Data Set	$246,000 over 3 years
Patterson, T.	Carleton	High Resolution Holocene Paleoclimatic and Paleoceanographic Records from Anoxic Basins Along the British Columbia Coast	$598,800 over 3 years
Peng, C.	Lakehead	Effects of Climate Change on Ontario’s Boreal Forest Ecosystems: Assessment of Impacts and Consequences to Carbon Budgets	$210,000 over 3 years
Quinton, W.	Simon Fraser	Snow and Soil Moisture Representation and Scaling in Climate Model Land-surface Schemes for Cold Regions	$360,000 over 3 years
Roscoe, J.	Acadia	Kinetic Studies of Reactions of Atomic Bromine with Polar Organic Halides, Alcohols and Ketones	$78,900 over 3 years
Ruddick, B.	Dalhousie	Observational Testing and Comparison of Turbulence Closures on the Scotia Shelf	$118,929 over 3 years
Sauchyn, D.	Regina	Climate Variability in the Canadian Interior: Coupling Proxy Data and GCM Simulations	$102,000 over 3 years
Schiff, S.	Waterloo	Reservoirs and Flooded Landscapes: An Important Source of Greenhouse Gases in Canada	$267,446 over 3 years
Sheng, J.	Dalhousie	A Relocatable Nested Shelf Circulation Model with Application to the Eastern Canadian Shelf	$116,500 over 3 years
Strachan, I.	McGill	Reducing the Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Farms by Making Use of Nocturnal Boundary Layer Properties	$222,570 over 3 years
Swayne, D.	Guelph	Cross-Evaluation of the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) and Lake Thermal Models Using Observations and Objective Analysis	$599,850 over 3 years
Waddington, J.	McMaster	Vegetation and Hydroclimatological Controls on Greenhouse Gas Exchange in a Changing Climate: Peatlands as Sensitive Ecosystems	$371,000 over 3 years
Weaver, A.	Victoria	Vegetation/Carbon Cycle Feedbacks on Quaternary Climate	$429,000 over 3 years
Wilson, J.	Alberta	Numerical and Field Experiments in Source Quantification by Inverse Lagrangian Dispersion	$253,000 over 3 years

October 1/01