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Research Institutes, Centres & Projects

Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities

The Alberta Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities assists rural communities in meeting diverse challenges through fostering constructive dialogue, promoting interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and developing partnerships.

Characterizing climate change

Environmental Observation Project “ENVIRO-NET”

Enviro-Net is a not-for-profit project developed at the ¶®É«µÛ within the Departments of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Computing Science, and Engineering. The system can be used to monitor entire regions of a country rather than a small amount of hectares of forest, which can allow researchers to make accurate predictions of environmental conditions, like a drought, in advance of government declarations.

Future Energy Systems is a $75 million tri-agency funded research group that develops the energy technologies of the near future; examines the integration of these technologies into current infrastructure; and considers the social, economic and environmental impacts of energy innovations. Their renewable energy research includes innovations in biomass, hydrogen fuel cell, geothermal, solar, wind and smart grids.

New international network on climate change led by UAlberta scientist

Led by principal scientist Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, the Santa Rosa National Park and Environmental Monitoring Super Site in Costa Rica is looked to by researchers and policy makers the world over for best practices in environmental monitoring. The site monitors tropical dry forests' responses to climate change with carbon flux towers, wireless spectral networks, satellite technology, and drone research, producing more than 10 billion data points each year.

The UArctic Thematic Network on Local-Scale Planning, Climate Change, and Resilience an international network of scientists focused on building climate change resilience. This network, convened by UArctic, explores how communities confront climate change and adapt to impacts such as extreme weather and rising temperatures.

Climate Change Disasters and Early Risk Monitoring

The ¶®É«µÛ was a founding partner of Canada Wildfire and works with local and regional governments to understand, promote, and support wildfire management strategies. Canada Wildfire aims to inform policy makers about how to best respond to Wildfire related disasters.

Wildfire Analytics is a Wildfire Research Team at the ¶®É«µÛ. A number of their projects work to inform local governments about best practices for wildfire evacuation, a climate-change related disaster.

CARL Lab
The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Lab (CARL) works to promote resilience within urban settings for climate-related disasters. One of their projects works to ensure Urban Planners are adequately informed and prepared for climate change adaptation.

The University is a member of UArctic, a collaborative organization that informs local and regional governments about climate change related disasters that may occur in the arctic. UArctic works to preserve the world’s cold regions, and is committed to monitoring and developing solutions for changes in the arctic region that are largely due to climate change.