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DESCRIPTION:With Nigel Roulet\n	Distinguished James McGill Professor of Biog
 eoscience\n	Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy (TISPP) Fellow
 \n	Chair\, Department of Geography\, McGill University\n\nEarly in the 20th
  century\, it was apparent that human activity was determinately affecting
  the environment locally and over the entire globe. Substantial scientific
  evidence and environmental activism have resulted in the recognition and 
 remediation of many of the problems we have created. Still\, sustained pop
 ulation and economic growth and the scale of the accompanying environmenta
 l degradation outpace our ability to comprehend and solve problems. Our mo
 st pressing environmental issues transcend political boundaries\, and we h
 ave entered an era of truly ‘wicked’ issues whose solutions challenge the 
 human imagination.\n\nDr. Nigel T. Roulet obtained a joint Honours B.Sc. i
 n Biology and Geography (1979) and a M.Sc. in Watershed Science (1981) fro
 m Trent University\, Peterborough\, Ontario\, and his PhD in Physical Geog
 raphy from McMaster University\, Hamilton\, Ontario. He started his academ
 ic career in the Department of Geography at York University\, Toronto in 1
 985 and moved to McGill University in 1994 as an Associate Professor. He w
 as the Director of the McGill School of Environment (2003 – 2008) and the 
 Director of the Centre for Climate and Global Change Research (1996-2002) 
 and the Director of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Research C
 entre (2011-2014) at McGill University. He became the Chair of the Departm
 ent of Geography in 2014 and is continuing until 2024. He has served in va
 rious grant and scholarship review panels for Natural Sciences and Enginee
 ring Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Nigel’s research interests focus 
 on the interactions among hydrology\, climatology\, and ecosystems process
 es in peatlands and forested catchments of the temperate\, boreal\, and ar
 ctic regions. He has published over 200 scientific papers\, book chapters 
 and monographs and was a contributing author to the 2nd through 4th scient
 ific assessments of climate change by the United Nation’s Intergovernmenta
 l Panel on Climate Change that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He served a
 s a member of the Ontario Far North Act Science Advisory Panel from 2010 t
 o 2014. His teaching includes introductory physical geography and environm
 ental systems\, environmental hydrology\, systems modelling for sustainabi
 lity\, and global biogeochemical cycles. He is currently an Associate Edit
 or of Global Biogeochemical Cycles\, and Ecosystems. In 2014\, Nigel was e
 lected to the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada.\n\nWatch 
 the recording Discover the Mini-Science series\n\n\n\n	\n		Mini-Science is br
 ought to you with the generous support of the Trottier Family Foundation.
 \n\n\n\n	\n		Mini-Science has been certified a Virtual Sustainable Event by t
 he McGill Office of Sustainability.\n\n
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SUMMARY:Bicentennial Mini-Science: The future of the environment
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/science/channels/event/bicentennial-mini-science-
 future-environment-326932
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