CREATE Arctic News

The Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate is taking place from July 17 to 21, 2017 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. The Summer Institute is supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund and builds on the Summer School program developed by the NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science (CREATE-AAS). It is affiliated with three NSERC-funded networks: Probing the Atmosphere of the High Arctic (PAHA), the Network on Climate and Aerosols (NETCARE), and the Canadian Sea Ice and Snow Evolution (CanSISE) Network.

Forty-three graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from Canada and the USA are attending. This year, the program will be linked to the North2Warm initiative, which is examining the impact of 1.5°C or greater global warming on Canada’s North. Topics will include the Arctic climate system, observed changes, projected changes under different warming scenarios, and impacts and adaptations underway and anticipated, as well as high-latitude climate dynamics, sea ice observations, lake/land–atmosphere interactions, atmospheric composition and air quality, Arctic aerosols, permafrost engineering, climate modelling, and more.

Speakers and panelists include Amir Aliabadi (U Guelph), Lukas Arenson (BGC Engineering Inc.), Rachel Chang (Dalhousie), Claude Duguay (U Waterloo), Dan Falk (Science Journalist), David Hudak (Meteorological Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada - ECCC), Steve Howell (Climate Research Division, ECCC), Alexandra Jahn (U Colorado Boulder), Paul Kushner (U Toronto), Kent Moore (U Toronto), Kerri Pratt (U Michigan), Michael Sigmond (Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, ECCC), and Francis Zwiers (Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium). Students are also participating in an introductory Jamboree, a science writing workshop, and a career panel discussion, and presenting their own research during a poster session.

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The 2017 Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate, will take place 17-21 July at the beautiful Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. Online application forms are available below. Applications are due on Monday, May 29, 2017. These Summer Institutes follow on our three previous NSERC CREATE Summer Schools in Arctic Atmospheric Science, and are supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund.

2014 Connaught Summer Insitute lectures, photos, and posters are available here.

2016 Connaught Summer Insitute lectures, photos, and posters are available here.

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The Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate took place from July 18 to 22, 2016 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. The Summer Institute is supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund and builds on the Summer School program developed by the NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science (CREATE-AAS). It is affiliated with three NSERC-funded networks: Probing the Atmosphere of the High Arctic (PAHA), the Network on Climate and Aerosols (NETCARE), and the Canadian Sea Ice and Snow Evolution (CanSISE) Network. hirty-three graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from across Canada and the USA attended. A wide variety of topics covered include Arctic sea ice trends and changes, Arctic tropospheric chemistry and climate, Arctic snow, composition-climate interactions, Arctic aerosols, Inuit heritage and archaeology, Antarctic ClO measurements, the Arctic’s role in the global carbon cycle, science writing and journalism, remote sensing in the oil and gas industry, monitoring Arctic weather, instrumentation for remote sensing of the atmosphere, and career planning. Speakers and panelists included Peter Braesicke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Henry Buijs (ABB Inc.), Peter Calamai (communications consultant and freelance writer), Ray Clement (EnviroAnalysis, formerly with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment), Brian Connor (BC Consulting Ltd., NZ), Chris Derksen (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Sarah Finkelstein (University of Toronto), John Fyfe (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Gabrielle Gascon (Environment and Climate Change Canada), Dorothy Gordon (Senior HR Consultant), Patrick Hayes (Université de Montréal), Bob Holmes (New Scientist magazine), Bill Simpson (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Boyd Tolton (Synodon Inc.), Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Author and Heritage Researcher), and Debra Wunch (University of Toronto).

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Our fifth and final CREATE Research Symposium was held at the Yorkdale Holiday Inn in Toronto, Ontario, from 2-3 May 2016 concurrent with the PAHA/CANDAC Workshop. Talks were given by 16 students and 5 postdoctoral fellows. These included recipients of CREATE support, along with other PAHA/CANDAC trainees.

The CREATE Student Presentation Awards were announced at the close of the Research Symposium. All student presentations were considered, and the awards were judged on the basis of content, presentation, and context and connections. This year the CREATE and PAHA PDFs were asked to judge the presentations. The five judges were, Ralf Bauer (University of Toronto), Jai Chaubey (Université de Sherbrooke), Zhenua Li (University of Saskatoon), Quentin Libois (Université du Québec à Montréal), and Sophie Tran (University of Toronto). The winners of the two awards were: Shannon Hicks (PhD, University of Western Ontario) for her talk on "Developing the RALMO Water Vapour Climatology using an Optimal Estimation Method" and Erik Lutsch (PhD, University of Toronto) for his talk on "Long-range Transport of NH3, CO, HCN and C2H6 from the 2014 Canadian Wildfires." Congratulations to both!

The CREATE Trainees' Advisory Committee also hosted a CREATE Social Networking Event at Milestones Restaurant on Monday evening.

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The 2016 Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate, will take place 18-22 July at the beautiful Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. Online application forms are available below. Applications are due on Monday, May 30, 2016. This Summer Institute follows on our three previous NSERC CREATE Summer Schools in Arctic Atmospheric Science, and is supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund.

2014 Connaught Summer Insitute lectures, photos, and posters are available here.

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The NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science began in 2010 supported by NSERC's Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program. Our Program provided students and postdoctoral fellows with training in Arctic atmospheric science, including the use of state-of-the-art instrumentation and analysis of large data sets. For a summary of the CREATE-AAS program components, please visit our Training Program page.

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8-12 June 2015 - CREATE trainees participate in the annual NDACC-IRGW & TCCON meeting hosted at U of T

This past June, the Physics Department at the University of Toronto was host to a gathering of approximately 70 scientists from around the world. This was one of a long-running series of annual meetings that bring together scientists from the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) and the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition (NDACC) Infrared Working Group (IRWG). This year, the meeting was hosted by Professor Kimberly Strong and held at the Historic Hart House of the University of Toronto. Network members, who use Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometers to measure atmospheric composition, gathered to discuss improvements to techniques, hear about new sites, talk about the latest science, and show how their data is being used to validate new satellite missions. More than 65 talks and 20 posters were given over five days, accompanied by topical discussion sessions, and including site reports from stations spanning the globe.

Sixteen faculty and students from the University of Toronto Physics Department, including CREATE trainees, attended the Joint TCCON-NDACC IRWG meeting, helped out with the organization, gave talks, and participated in a poster session. Attendees were given the opportunity to visit the Physics Department, including a visit to the University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory, the atmospheric spectroscopy labs, and the Space Instrument Characterization Facility, as well as a virtual tour of PEARL, created by PhD student and CREATE trainee, Dan Weaver. After experiencing near torrential June rainfall while making their way to Lake Ontario, guests also took in a spectacular sunset cruise and dinner banquet around the Toronto harbour.

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Our fourth CREATE Research Symposium was held at the Yorkdale Holiday Inn in Toronto, Ontario, 11- 12 May concurrent with the PAHA/CANDAC Workshop. Talks were given by 17 students and 5 postdoctoral fellows. These included recipients of CREATE support, along with other PAHA/CANDAC trainees.

The CREATE Student Presentation Awards were announced at the close of the Research Symposium. All student presentations were considered, and the awards were judged on the basis of content, presentation, and context and connections. This year three of the CREATE and PAHA PDFs were asked to judge the presentations. The four judges were, Jai Chaubey (Universite de Sherbrooke), Zhenua Li (University of Saskatoon), Sophie Tran (University of Toronto), and Stephanie Conway (University of Toronto). The two presentation winners were Jonathan Franklin (PhD, Dalhousie) for “The Community Solar Tracker -- development of an open-design tracker" and Jeff Langille (PhD, UNB) for “Imaging mesospheric winds with the Michelson Interferometer for Airglow Dynamics Imaging” Congratulations to both!

The CREATE Trainees' Advisory Committee also hosted a well-attended CREATE Social Networking Event at Milestones Restaurant on Thursday evening.

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Due to complications involving the timing of our Summer School and the Pan Am Games in Toronto, The Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science has been postponed to July 2016. Please check back in early 2016 for news on the 2016 Connaught Summer Institute.

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February 2015 - The Canadian ACE Arctic Validation Campaign 2015

Each spring, as the sun comes up at Eureka for the first time in four months, a group of researchers from the Universities of Toronto, York and Western Ontario travel to Eureka to make measurements of the atmosphere. The Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign has been running at Eureka since 2004, and is now complemented by the suite of instruments installed at PEARL. Measurements made with CANDAC and ACE campaign instruments allow us to validate the measurements made by the ACE and OSIRIS satellite instruments and to study the processes occurring in the stratosphere. To follow the progress of this year's campaign, please visit our website: http://acebox.uwaterloo.ca/eureka/

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The Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science: Atmosphere, Cryosphere and Climate, is underway from July 14 to 18, 2014 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. The Summer Institute is supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund and builds on our CREATE Summer School program. It is affiliated with three new NSERC-funded networks: Probing the Atmosphere of the High Arctic (PAHA), the Network on Climate and Aerosols (NETCARE), and the Canadian Sea Ice and Snow Evolution (CanSISE) Network. Forty-two graduate students and post-doctoral fellows from across Canada, the USA, and Europe are attending. Topics being covered include environmental change in the Arctic, limnology, aerosol-cryosphere-climate interactions, climate modelling, aerosol radiative forcing, cryospheric processes, Arctic sea ice geophysics and ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions,, paleoclimatology, Arctic ocean dynamics, carbon capture and storage, ocean biogeochemistry and carbon cycling in Arctic waters, Arctic atmospheric composition, ozone science, and Inuit history and culture. Speakers and panelists include Richard Berman (Spectral Applied Research), Marianne Douglas (Queen’s University), Mark Flanner (University of Michigan), Chris Fletcher (University of Waterloo), Christian Haas (York University), Emanuel Istrate (Impact Centre, University of Toronto), Jochen Halfar (University of Toronto), Richard McAloney (Impact Centre, University of Toronto), Cameron McNaughton (Golder Associates), Lisa Miller (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), David Serkoak (Inuit elder and educator), and David Tarasick (Environment Canada). Students are also participating in an introductory Jamboree, professional development activities, and a career panel discussion, and presenting their own research during a poster session.

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Eight new CREATE-funded undergraduate interns began working with CREATE Investigators in May. The interns are Maura Dewey (U Vic, working at U of T), Sean Hartery (Dalhousie), Gaige Kerr (Cornell, working at U Sherbrooke), Carmen Lee (Dalhousie), Peter McGovern (U of T), Kevin O'Hearn (Dalhousie), Sebastien Roche (Lyon, France, working at U of T), and Meike Rotermund (Dalhousie). More information about these new recruits and their summer research projects can be found on the Trainees webpage.

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Our third CREATE Research Symposium was held at the Yorkdale Holiday Inn in Toronto, Ontario, from 24-25 April 2014 concurrent with the PAHA/CANDAC Workshop. Talks were given by 19 students and 6 postdoctoral fellows. These included recipients of CREATE support, along with other PAHA/CANDAC trainees.

The CREATE Student Presentation Awards were announced at the close of the Research Symposium. All student presentations were considered, and the awards were judged on the basis of content, presentation, and context and connections. This year the CREATE and PAHA PDFs were asked to judge the presentations. The six judges were, Daphne Buiron (Dalhousie University), Jai Chaubey (Universite de Sherbrooke), Uma Das (University of New Brunswick), Gerrit Holl (University of Toronto), Zhenua Li (University of Saskatoon), and Sophie Tran (University of Toronto). The winners of the two awards were: Shayamila Gamage (MSc, University of Western Ontario) for her talk on "Water vapour retrieval using Raman lidar, Eureka, Nunavut" and Emily McCullough (PhD, University of Western Ontario) for her talk on "Calibrating the CRL for depolarization measurements." Congratulations to both!

The CREATE Trainees' Advisory Committee also hosted a well-attended CREATE Social Networking Event at Milestones Restaurant on Thursday evening.

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The 2014 Connaught Summer Institute in Arctic Science: Atmosphere, Cryosphere, and Climate, will take place 14-18 July at the beautiful Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. Online application forms are available below. Applications are due on 30 May 2014. This Summer Institute follows on our three previous NSERC CREATE Summer Schools in Arctic Atmospheric Science, and is supported by the University of Toronto's Connaught Fund.

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Dr. Uma Das comes from Bhimavaram, a small township in Andhra Pradesh, India. She received her PhD from Gujarat University in 2009 for her research work on “Rocket borne studies of Mesosphere and Airglow” at the Physical Research Laboratory, India. Her doctoral research included fabrication of sounding rocket payloads consisting of Langmuir probes and airglow photometers and their subsequent launch from Sriharikota and Thumba (two rocket launching stations in India) to investigate the low-latitude mesospheric turbulence. She completed two post-doctoral terms, one at the Physical Research Laboratory, India, where she worked on thermospheric dayglow emissions and the other at National Central University, Taiwan where she worked on equatorial atmospheric Kelvin waves. Uma joined the University of New Brunswick in December 2013 as a CREATE postdoctoral fellow with Prof. William Ward and is working on mesospheric observations. Her current work includes the analysis and interpretation of data from satellite and ground-based instruments to determine dynamical and constituent signatures in the mesosphere with emphasis on polar regions. During her career, Uma gained expertise in various spectral analysis techniques such as continuous wavelet transform and Hilbert-Huang transform which will be utilized in her current research.

Dr. Jai Prakash Chaubey obtained his PhD in Physics from the Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, and Indian Space Research Organization, in Thiruvananthapuram, India. His PhD work involved aerosol characterization research using ground-based and in-situ measurements acquired within the pristine polar (Antarctica and Arctic) and Himalayan regions. He planned, participated, and executed aerosol experiments for national scientific expeditions to Antarctica during the International Polar Year (2007-2009) and contributed significantly to the mean sea level archive of long-term Indian aerosol data for the Arctic (Ny Alesund, Svalbard). He was an active participant in the collection and scientific analysis of the data collected from the high-altitude (~ 4.52 km asl) western Himalayan region, as a member of the Regional Aerosol Warming Experiment of ISRO-Geopsphere Biosphere Program. His research interests include spatio-temporal characterization of aerosol properties (regional distribution, microphysics, sources and transport), aerosol scavenging and its deposition on snow, and the remote sensing of aerosols using passive and active techniques. He is now working as a CREATE postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Norm O'Neill at the Université de Sherbrooke on the remote sensing of Arctic aerosols, clouds and precipitation.

Another three postdoctoral fellows have also been recruited through our related PAHA (Probing the Atmosphere of the High Arctic) project, supported by NSERC's Climate Change and Atmospheric Research program: Dr. Gerrit Holl (working with Prof. Kaley Walker at U Toronto), Dr. Zhenua Li (working with Prof. Alan Manson at U Saskatoon), and Dr. Sophie Tran (working with Prof. Kimberly Strong at U Toronto).

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Our CREATE Training Program was featured in an article published in the August issue of International Innovation. International Innovation is the leading global dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research communities, dedicated to disseminating the latest science, research and technological innovations on a global level. More information and a complimentary subscription offer to the publication can be found at: http://www.international-innovation-northamerica.com

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Our third Summer School in Arctic Atmospheric Science is underway from July 15 to 19, 2013 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. Forty-five students from across Canada, the USA, and Europe are attending. Topics covered included ozone science; polar halogens; clouds, aerosols and radiation; the carbon cycle; greenhouse gas observations and modelling; atmospheric chemistry; remote sounding instrumentation (e.g., LIDAR and DOAS); systems engineering; Inuit history and culture; the Inuktitut language; science and policy; uses of satellite data; science journalism; and resume writing and interview skills. Speakers and panelists include Thomas Davis (Canadian Space Agency), Jim Drummond (Dalhousie University), Ed Eloranta (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Udo Friess (University of Heidelberg), Craig Haley (COM DEV), Glen Lesins (Dalhousie University), Noel McDermott (Queen’s University, Tom McElroy (York University), Jennifer Murphy (University of Toronto), Ray Nassar (Environment Canada), Ivan Semeniuk (Globe and Mail), and Sarah King, Ruth Louden, and Sheryl Stevenson (University of Toronto Scarborough). Students are also participating in an introductory Jamboree, a video-editing exercise, a poster session, an interactive professional development workshop, and a career panel discussion.

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Eight new CREATE-funded undergraduate interns began working with CREATE Investigators in May. The interns are Peter Argall (UWO), Chia Cheng Chen (York U), Kostya Golovan (U of T), Sean Hartery (UWO), Mathilde Jutras (Dalhousie), Bradley Kloostra (U of T), Valerie Losier (UNB), and Meike Rotermund (Dalhousie). More information about these new recruits and their summer research projects can be found on the Trainees webpage.

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CANDAC and CREATE-AAS are advertising post-doctoral positions in Arctic Atmospheric Research. Review of applications will begin on 15 May 2013.

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The 2013 NSERC CREATE Summer School in Arctic Atmospheric Science will take place 15-19 July at the beautiful Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. Online application forms are available below. Applications are due on 31 May 2013.

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Our second CREATE Research Symposium was held at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Toronto, Ontario, from 8-9 November 2012, concurrent with the Annual CANDAC Workshop. In addition to presentations by CANDAC co-investigators, invited speakers Sandy Starkweather (International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere) and David Hudak (Environment Canada), talks were given by 18 students and postdoctoral fellows. These included recipients of CREATE support, along with other CANDAC/CREATE trainees.

The CREATE Student Presentation Awards were announced at the close of the Research Symposium. All student presentations were considered, and the awards were judged on the basis of content, presentation, and context and connections. The judges this year were Pierre Fogal (PEARL Site Manager), David Hudak (CANDAC collaborator), and Marianna Shepherd (CANDAC co-investigator). Honourable mentions were awarded to Zen Mariani for his talk on "Measuring radiation and trace gases at Eureka year-round using the Extended-range AERI," Chris Perro for his talk on "Pan-Arctic water vapour measurements using the Microwave Humidity Sounder," and Xiaoyi Zhao for his talk on "A preliminary bromine explosion case study at PEARL." The winners of the two awards were: Niall Ryan (University of Toronto) for his talk on "Observation system simulation experiments for SPÉIR: A mm-wave receiver for atmospheric research" and Dan Weaver (University of Toronto) for his talk on "Intercomparison of atmospheric water vapour measurements at Eureka." Congratulations to both!

The CREATE Trainees' Advisory Committee held a productive lunch-hour meeting during the Symposium. They discussed ideas for formal professional skills development for trainees, using Dropbox and email lists effectively, creating videos to describe one's research and instrument(s), and possible story contributions for the new CREATE blog. The Committee also hosted a well-attended CREATE Social Networking Event at the Madison Avenue Pub on Thursday evening.

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Our second Summer School in Arctic Atmospheric Science is underway from July 23 to 27, 2012 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. Thirty-eight students from across Canada, and Europe are attending. They will hear lectures on aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, Arctic halogen chemistry, polar stratospheric ozone, middle atmosphere dynamics, satellite remote sensing of pollution, global climate, glacier-climate interactions in the Arctic, carbon cycling in glacial environments, space and ground-based atmospheric instrumentation, science support management at South Pole Station, Inuit culture, teaching and education in the Canadian Arctic, and science journalism. Speakers and panelists include Jean-Pierre Blanchet (Université du Québec à Montréal), Florent Bouguin (ABB), Tim Canty (University of Maryland, College Park), James R. Drummond (Dalhousie University), Lynn Harvey (University of Colorado at Boulder), Brian Manning (Nunavut Arctic College), Chris McLinden (Environment Canada), Stella Melo (Canadian Space Agency), Margaret Munro (Postmedia News), Martin Sharp (University of Alberta), Paul Sullivan (Raytheon Polar Services), Christian Zdanowicz (Geological Survey of Canada), and organizers Ashley Kilgour and Kimberly Strong (University of Toronto). Students will also participate in a introductory Jamboree, present their own research in a Poster Session, participate in workshops on photochemical modelling and public outreach, and attend a career panel.

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Eight new CREATE-funded undergraduate interns began working with CREATE Investigators in May. The interns are Peter Argall (UWO), Ryan DeVries (UWO), Chieh Ting (Jimmy) Hsu (U Waterloo), Erik Lutsch (U Waterloo), Steven McLaughlin (UNB), Mark Semelhago (U Toronto), Alessio Spassiani (U Toronto) and Mitchell Wolf (UNB). More information about these new recruits and their summer research projects can be found on the Trainees webpage.

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The 2012 NSERC CREATE Summer School in Arctic Atmospheric Science will take place 23 - 27July at the beautiful Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. Please mark your calendars and stay tuned for this year's topics and speakers! Online application forms are available here.

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Thanks to the involvement of enthusiastic speakers and students, this year’s Summer School was a great success. Young Arctic scientists had the opportunity to learn from and interact with leading scientists in their field, which undoubtedly added to their understanding of many complex issues in Arctic research.

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Our first Summer School in Arctic Atmospheric Science is underway from July 11 to 15, 2011 at the Nottawasaga Inn in Alliston, Ontario. Thirty-six students from across Canada, Australia, and Europe are attending. They will hear lectures on Arctic climate change, Arctic ozone loss and climate, atmosphere-surface exchanges and impacts on permafrost and sea-ice, terrestrial ecosystem change in the Arctic, applied micrometeorology in the Arctic, high-latitude dynamics, modelling long-range transport, remote sensing, Arctic measurement networks, communicating science, and public outreach from invited speakers Peter Calamai (Carleton University), James Drummond (Dalhousie University), Pierre Fogal (Environment Canada), David Hik (University of Alberta), Matthew Hitchman (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Dylan Jones (University of Toronto), Markus Rex (Alfred Wegener Institute), Ralf Staebler (Environment Canada), and Taneil Uttal (NOAA), and organizers Ashley Kilgour and Kimberly Strong (University of Toronto). Students will also participate in a introductory Jamboree, present their own research in a Poster Session, and go on a field trip to Environment Canada’s Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments (CARE) in Egbert, Ontario.

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We are introducing a formal application procedure for our CREATE Exchange Program and Industrial Partnership Program, both of which provide travel funding to enable trainees to broaden their research experience. Applications may be submitted at any time.

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Seven new CREATE-funded undergraduate interns and one CREATE college co-op summer student begin working with CREATE Investigators this month. The interns are Justin Bandoro (at UWO), Marine Favier (UNB), Jenny Kliever (U Toronto), Camille Pagniello (Dalhousie), Alessio Spassiani (U Idaho), Andrei Vovk (U Toronto), and Tian Xia (U Waterloo, working at MPBC in Montreal). Michael Maurice, our first college co-op student, from Georgian College, is working at U Toronto. More information about these new recruits and their summer research projects can be found on the Trainees webpage.

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Applications are invited for our 2011 Summer School in Arctic Atmospheric Science - see poster - application deadline is 25 May 2011

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The federal Minister of Labour, the Honourable Lisa Raitt, visited the University of Toronto on November 22 to announce our NSERC CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science, one of the recipients in the 2010 CREATE program competition. The event was hosted by Vice President of Research, Prof. Paul Young, and held in the Department of Physics. Guests included CREATE Training Program Director Prof. Kimberly Strong, Training Program Coordinator Ms. Ashley Kilgour, CANDAC/PEARL Principal Investigator Prof. James Drummond, ABB Bomem industry partner Dr. Claude Roy, Vice Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Prof. Rob Baker, Chair of the Department of Physics Prof. Michael Luke, and students and postdoctoral fellows from the CREATE team.

The event began with welcoming remarks from Prof. Young, followed by a speech and announcement of the CREATE award by Minister Raitt, and an overview of the new Program by Prof. Strong. The Minister then toured the University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory, where students Cyndi Whaley, Rodica Lindenmaier, Zen Mariani, and Cristen Adams talked about their research and working at PEARL. This was followed by a visit to the Space Instrumentation Characterization Facility used for testing the MOPITT and ACE satellite instruments, where Prof. Drummond, postdoctoral fellow Patrick Sheese, and graduate student Joseph Mendonca described their research. It was a pleasure for us to have the opportunity to meet Minister Raitt and to tell her about some of the atmospheric science that we are doing both in Toronto and at PEARL.

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Our first CREATE Annual Research Symposium was held at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1-3 November 2010, concurrent with the Annual CANDAC Workshop. In addition to presentations by CANDAC co-investigators, invited speakers Nick Xenos (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada), Ed Eloranta (University of Wisconsin) and Elisabeth Levac (Bishop's University), talks were given by 22 students and postdoctoral fellows. These included recipients of CREATE support, along with other CANDAC/CREATE trainees.

The CREATE Student Presentation Awards were inaugurated at the Research Symposium. All presentations by students were considered, and the awards were judged on the basis of content, presentation quality, interest, and originality. The judges this year were CANDAC Board Members Tim Aston, Urs Baltensperger, and Martin Jarvis. Two awards were given: the winners were Cristen Adams (University of Toronto) for her talk on "Highlights of UV-visible measurements at PEARL" and Jeff Seabrook (York University) for his talk on "Tropospheric Ozone LIDAR in Eureka: An Update". Congratulations to both!

The CREATE Trainees' Advisory Committee held its first meeting during the Symposium. Emily McCullough was elected as Chair, Richard Damoah as Vice-Chair, and Cristen Adams as Secretary. Topics discussed included terms of office, creation of a mailing list for trainees, social events, networking, and surveys.

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8-12 June 2015 - CREATE trainees participate in the annual NDACC-IRGW & TCCON meeting hosted at U of T

February 2015 - The Canadian ACE Arctic Validation Campaign 2015