On Monday, July 29 in Castlegar, B.C., a landmark agreement to collaborate on the reintroduction of Pacific anadromous salmon into the Canadian portion of the Upper Columbia River Basin was signed by the Syilx Okanagan, Ktunaxa, and Secwepemc Indigenous Nations, British Columbia, and Canada. In […]

Adaptive Management and Climate Change Adaptation: Two Mutually Beneficial Areas of Practice, an article written by a team of ESSA scientists including David Marmorek, Marc Nelitz, Jimena Eyzaguirre, Carol Murray and Clint Alexander, was recently published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association […]

ESSA staff believe in the importance of supporting others in their career and professional growth. In May, Darcy Pickard joined statisticians from across Canada at the Statistical Society of Canada’s 2019 Annual Meeting in Calgary. An invited panel member, Darcy shared her personal journey and […]

ESSA is part of a consortium led by CowaterSogema selected as a provider of climate change expertise to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under their Communities of Practice (CoP) framework. Together with other partners Climatekos, Trinomics and Viresco Solutions, the consortium will provide expertise in five core thematic areas: […]

The Government of Jamaica, through its National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), has embarked on the production of the 7th National State of Environment (SOE) Report. The SOE report will provide Jamaicans a report card on the nation’s environmental performance between 2014 and 2017 and […]

As part of Canada’s Ocean Protection Plan and through their Cumulative Effects of Marine Shipping Initiative, Transport Canada is working collaboratively with Indigenous Peoples, local stakeholders and coastal communities to better understand the effects of shipping on coastal environments. One of the outcomes of this […]