Calgary February Luncheon – Why have our Canadian Rocky Mountain Glaciers and Arctic Ice Receded?

The next CPANS Calgary Technical Luncheon presentation is Wednesday, February 15th. Please register by end of Friday, February 10th!

Presenter: Kurt J. Hansen. M.Sc., P. Eng., President of Green Inc.

Kurt graduated as a Civil and Environmental Engineer in 1974 at the Technical University of Denmark. He has 43 years of Canadian and international environmental service experience and is the author of many articles and presentations. He has been a volunteer for several community and technical organizations. Kurt’s exposure to weather station data processing and analysis started in 1976, with raw chart data processing for a station in Faro, Yukon. There were no digitized data and spreadsheet software easily available in 1976. Since then, he has worked with many atmospheric scientists and learned from them. Now semi-retired, he does his own climate change research, which is not funded or directed by any special interest organization

Topic: Why have our Canadian Rocky Mountain Glaciers and Arctic Ice Receded?

Long-term weather changes will be presented for the Rocky Mountains and western Canadian arctic. They are based on 14 Canadian stations with long-term records going back to the 1890s and early 1900s.Trend analyses are specific to seasonal precipitation and average temperature variables (using historic daily data publically available from Environment Canada web site, as well as monthly homogenized temperature and adjusted precipitation data). Indicators of climate change trends are developed for the warm and cold weather seasons respectively (approximately April through September and October through March for the Rocky Mountain stations). Major finding is that cold period snowfall has been declining slightly in the Rocky Mountains, but not enough to explain the receding of glaciers, which is due to increasing warm period temperatures. Preliminary findings of significant seasonal temperature trends in the prairie provinces (105 stations east of the Rocky Mountains, NE BC, and southern NWT & NU) will also be presented.

Registration and payment:
Please register by end of Friday, February 10th for the event, so that we can order the correct number of lunches. Register for this event with Paypal online registration and payment (there is an option for using a credit card, no Paypal account is required).

CPANS member cost is $35
Non-member cost is $45

You can also register by emailing CalgaryLuncheon@cpans.org and then we accept payment upon arrival to the luncheon by debit, credit card, cash or cheque. (Please note, the credit/debit card machine works slowly, and you are encouraged to register online, OR bring a cash or cheque, OR arrive 30 minutes before the presentation starts, to make sure we are able to register everyone on time). If you register and are not able to attend, please provide 24 hours notice so that we can adjust our numbers with the venue.

We are once again offering our remote webcast option for those who wish to attend the presentation but cannot get to Calgary. This service is offered at $15 per person or $75 for a group. Please let us know if you are interested by the Monday before the presentation so we can plan accordingly.

The presentation will start at 12pm, February 15th at the Ramada Hotel (708 8th Avenue Southwest, Calgary). Food will be served at 11.30am.

For Paypal Registration, click the links below:

CPANS Member Registration ($35)

Non-Member Registration ($45)