Congratulations to us

GEOIDE has just awarded us a team grant to research Participatory Geoweb for Engaging the Public on Global Environmental Change.

Our vision is a dynamic framework that applies the technologies of the Web 2.0, the Geoweb, to stimulate, mediate, facilitate, and advocate public understanding, engagement and finally action on the impacts of climate and environmental change. On the practical side, we seek a flexible framework of approaches, policy recommendations and techniques that embraces the Geoweb with its multifarious solutions instead of stand-alone models. On the theoretical side, we propose to address scientific, technical, and participatory issues that challenge the accomplishment of that vision through a variety of case studies that will test the use of the Geoweb for two-way communication on the impacts of climate and environmental change.

Our team spans Canada.  I am joined by Claus Rinner, Ryerson University (also deputy PI); Gail Chmura, McGill University; Dave Coleman, University of New Brunswick; Jon Corbett, University of British Columbia - Okanagan; Frederic Fabry, McGill University; Chris Gore, Ryerson University; Brian Klinkenberg, University of British Columbia; Pamela Robinson, Ryerson University; and Yolanda Wiersma, Memorial University.

This is the pilot phase of a four year grant. Wish us luck for the full grant at the end of the pilot year.