Dear IACPES Students:
The 8th Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC) is announced. It will take place on November 8-10, 2016, Ottawa, Ontario.

The CSPC has announced its 7th annual conference to be held in Ottawa, Nov. 25-27th, 2015.

Attention IACPES participants – please note the date of this event.

Prof. Robert McLaren is currently accepting applications for graduate students in atmospheric chemistry. Excellent applicants should apply to the IACPES Program.

Prof. McLaren is also accepting applications for a post-doctoral position, with a focus on aerosol formation studies in collaboration with Environment Canada. Experience with aerosol mass spectrometry, PTR/MS and physical measurements of aerosols is an asset. Excellent applicants should apply to IACPES.

Mark your calendar for the upcoming CSPC 2013 conference, to be held at the Allstream Centre in Toronto, Ontario from November 20 to 22, 2013.

After 5 years, CSPC is returning to Toronto to host an expanded, diversified and richer science policy conference.  The conference offers a unique platform for diverse groups of stakeholders to connect at the national level, to exchange ideas on key issues in science, technology and innovation policy, and to craft a future based on strong, dynamic, and innovative policy-making for the benefit of all Canadians.  Under the title of “ScienceNext: Incubating Innovation and Ingenuity“, the conference will provide a unique opportunity to facilitate discussion among diverse groups of science policy stakeholders.

For more information, click here

OME Mobile Air Monitoring Unit Vehicles

During the week of June 10-14, 2013 the NSERC CREATE Integrating Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from Earth to Space (IACPES) Program at York University hosted a Training Week. Funding for this program is provided by NSERC. This 2nd annual Training Week is intended for all trainees supported by the NSERC CREATE IACPES Program, and also for undergraduates, graduates and PDF and professions who wish to attend. This week long training consist of an intensive 3-day summer school, a symposium/poster day and a day of hands-on training on IGOR PRO Scientific Software.  For more information on each of these aspects click here. 

 

Inside the OME Mobile Air Monitoring Unit Van

OME Personnel giving tour to IACPES participants

37 participants from various affiliations registered for the summer school (19 YU; 6 UoT; 3 U Cal; 3 OME; 3 EC; 1 UG; 1 UBC; 1 UWO),  29 participants registered for the symposium/poster day (12 presented talks; 7 posters), and 24 registered for the hands-on training which was the maximum allowed in the lab. 8 Professors from various universities and 4 professionals from Environment Canada (EC) lectured at the summer school as well as there were  representatives from EC, OME and City of Toronto who participated at an atmospheric policy panel discussion session. On the 1st day of summer school 5 OME personnel gave the students an impressive tour/hands-on session of their operational Mobile Air Monitoring Units (van and truck)

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York awarded $3.3 million by NSERC for research funding. Read more here.  

IACPES program provides undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral fellows with exceptional research opportunities. Watch Professor McLaren and Professor Rudolph introduce the program here.