All CREATE graduate students - see Trainees pageComponents of the NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science
CREATE trainees have had numerous opportunities to expand their understanding of Arctic atmospheric science, and the climate-related challenges related to rapidly changing conditions in the Arctic. Training was provided through the following components.
1. Formal and informal supervision
Every trainee had a well-defined project with a supervisor, working at one of the participating institutions. In many cases, the trainees were also mentored by other CREATE co-investigators and collaborators. A total of eight postdoctoral fellows/research associates received stipend funding from CREATE, two fully funded (Jai Chaubey, Uma Das) and six partially supported by CREATE (Preeti Bhaneja, Stephanie Conway, Inseon Kim, Jeff Langille, Jerusha Lederman, Alexey Tikhomirov) and another 12 PDFs and RAs were funded from other sources (Ralf Bauer, Richard Damoah, Gerrit Holl, Zhenhua Li, Andrei Lindenmaier, Alexander Lupu, Graeme Nott, Frans Olofson, Auromeet Saha, Sophie Tran, Camille Viatte, Xiaoyong Xu).
A total of 26 graduate students received stipend funding from CREATE (Cristen Adams, Christian Akpanya, Konstantin Baibakov, David Daou, Anthony Dineen, Ghazal Farhani, Jonathan Franklin, Shayamila Gamage, Shannon Hicks, Liviu Ivanescu (PhD), Ali Jalali, Samuel Kristoffersen, Jeffery Langille, Erik Lutsch, Zen Mariani, Emily McCullough, Melissa Olsthoorn, Chris Perro, Sebastien Roche, Niall Ryan, Chris Vail, Jeffery Vankerkhove, Dan Weaver, Robin Wing, Melanie Wright, Xiaoyi Zhao), and another 16 were involved in the program but supported from other funds (Yasmin Aboel Fetouh, Yann Blanchard, Kristof Bognar, Brendan Byrne, Lin Dan, Debora Griffin (née Doeringer), Sareh Hesaraki, Liviu Ivanescu (MSc), Jaya Khanna, Felicia Kolonjari, Rodica Lindenmaier, Joseph Mendonca, Colin Pike-Thackray, Anthony Pugliese, Keyvan Ranjbar, Jeff Seabrook).
As of December 2016, 17 trainees have completed an MSc degree and 11 have completed a PhD, with another 20 in progress.
All CREATE graduate students - see Trainees page
2. Undergraduate Summer Internship Program
This program provided undergraduate students with a summer research experience of approximately 16 weeks. A total of 35 undergraduate students were supported, starting with four in 2010 (Stephen Doyle, Anthony Dineen, Matthew Walker, Tony Xie), increasing to seven in 2011 (Justin Bandoro, Marine Favier, Jenny Kliever, Camille Pagniello, Alessio Spassiani, Andrei Vovk, Tian Xia), eight in 2012 (Peter Argall, Ryan DeVries, Chieh Ting (Jimmy) Hsu, Erik Lutsch, Steven McLaughlin, Mark Semelhago, Alessio Spassiani, Mitchell Wolf), eight in 2013, (Peter Argall, Chia Cheng Chen, Kostya Golovan, Sean Hartery, Mathilde Jutras, Bradley Kloostra, Valerie Losier, Meike Rotermund), and eight in 2014 (Maura Dewey, Sean Hartery, Gaige Kerr, Carmen Lee, Peter McGovern, Kevin O’Hearon, Sebastien Roche, Kevin O’Hearon, Sebastien Roche, Meike Rotermund).
CREATE interns - see
Trainees page
A presentation on Undergraduate
Opportunities from the CREATE Trainees' Advisory Committee
3. Trainee Exchange Program
Our Exchange Program allowed trainees to broaden their research experience through collaborative visits to other team members and institutions that were involved in their project, including international colleagues and circumpolar groups. The Exchange Program also supported attendance at conferences at which trainees gave presentations on their CREATE-related research. This provided the trainees with opportunities to broaden their scientific expertise and to learn about the different techniques used to study the Arctic atmosphere. In summary, thirty-six visits were supported by the Exchange Program.
4. Industrial Partnership Program
Our Industrial Partnership Program supported visits to companies providing instrumentation for PEARL. This provided trainees with direct exposure to the Canadian and international industrial sector, giving them experience in companies working in science and technology. In practice, there was not a large demand for such visits, as many of the instruments at PEARL were in place and operational by the time CREATE funding was in place. Four visits were undertaken under this program.
Previous
industrial partnership visits
5. Annual Summer School
We have held five Summer Schools,
and all have been well received and highly successful; these are a
highlight of our CREATE Training Program. The Summer Schools have brought
together the trainees, co-applicants, collaborators,
stakeholders, and invited guests. The latter has included
distinguished
educators who are invited to give a series of lectures on a particular
topic.
This
has provided the
trainees
with specialized instruction, while also fostering interdisciplinary
training and promoting networking between participants.
2014 Connaught Summer Institute
2016 Connaught Summer Institute
2017 Connaught Summer Institute
6. Annual Research Symposium
We have held five Research Symposia to provide students and postdoctoral fellows with the opportunity to present their research to their peers and to all team members. All five took place concurrently with CANDAC/PAHA Workshops.
7. Co-operative Education Program
This program was intended to hire one Northern college student and one student from Southern Canada each summer to work as a CANDAC Operator Assistant, with a placement in Eureka and in a university laboratory with one of the team members. However, CREATE funds cannot be used to support college students, and so this component of the Training Program was discontinued. One student did participate in summer 2011, supported by non-CREATE funds.
CREATE co-operative students - see
Trainees
page
8. Public Outreach
CREATE-AAS trainees participated in the CANDAC Outreach Program, giving them opportunities to develop their communications skills through visits to schools and participation in public outreach events. This outreach program is led by Prof. Kaley Walker and allowed trainees to engage with students, teachers, and community members in northern and southern Canada. Our program began with a visit to Qarmartalik School in Resolute Bay, Nunavut in 2004, and has expanded to schools in Hall Beach, Igloolik, Grise Fiord, Iqaluit, Pond Inlet, and Resolute Bay, as well as more than a dozen schools in Ontario. It includes hands-on activities for grades 1 to 12, on topics such as air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change, Canadian satellites, space science, and weather, connected to topics in the science curriculum. CREATE-AAS trainees visited more than 25 schools between April 2010 and December 2016, with most involving visits to multiple classrooms, reaching more than 2,500 students and their teachers. They also participated in activities such as demonstrations at Science Rendezvous (engaging ~1000 people at our University of Toronto booth over five years), as well as public lectures, science camps, and workshops (e.g., Canadian Association for Girls In Science, Lego League of Toronto, Ontario Science Centre, Let’s Talk Science, Toronto Catholic District School Board’s Gifted Students Conference, Toronto Public Library, Sigma Xi Distinguished Speaker Series, the SuperNOVA Summer Camp at Dalhousie, U Toronto’s Science Unlimited Summer Camp). Trainees were involved in 73 outreach activities over the course of the Training Program.
CANDAC Outreach
Program:
http://candac.ca/candac/Outreach/CANDACcollaboration/
Student-Researchers Atmospheric Collaboration blog:
http://candacstudentresearchers.blogspot.ca/
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