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Acting Associate Dean of Science & Principal of the Richardson College for the Environment - Biography

Dr. Danny Blair

Blair is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UWinnipeg, where he has been a faculty member since 1987. He was Chair of the department in 1999-2004 and 2009-2011. He teaches courses related to weather, climate and natural hazards.  His main research interests are climate variability and change in Canada's western interior. Recent or current research projects include an evaluation of the effect of climate warming on the butterflies of eastern Manitoba, the impact of weather variability on blackbird reproduction, an assessment of short-period climate variability in Canada, the impact of climate change on transportation in the prairie provinces and the development of user-friendly synoptic map classification software.

For the last four years, he has been principal investigator of a GPS-based evaluation of driving and parking behaviour in and around Winnipeg, contributing to a federally-funded research project designing the next generation of batteries for plug-in hybrid vehicles.  For the period of 2004-2007, Blair was the PARC-MB Hydro Climate Change Research Professor at UWinnipeg. He was a contributing author of Canada's National Assessment of Climate Change published in 2008, and of The New Normal: the Canadian Prairies in a Changing Climate published in 2010. He is a frequent presenter at workshops and conferences about prairie climate change impacts and adaptation strategies.  He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Regina and his PhD from the University of Manitoba. He is co-chair of Climate Change Connection, Manitoba's principal climate change outreach organization.