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Danny Blair
Associate Professor of Geography
University of Winnipeg PARC-MB Hydro Climate Change Research Professor
(Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative)
Dr. Danny Blair’s research interests and activities are largely concerned with the detection and characterization of climate variability and change on the Canadian prairies. He is interested in the effects that large-scale teleconnections (i.e., ENSO, PNA, PDO, AO) have on the prairie climate and is very concerned about the impacts that global warming is having, and will have, on the region.
He is co-founder (with Bill Buhay) of the Manitoba Network for Isotopes in Precipitation (MNIP), which is using precipitation collected by Manitoba school-children to identify how weather and climate variability affects the isotopes in precipitation; the long-term goals are to enhance our understanding of climate variability in the past and to improve GCM simulations of the future.
He is also involved in the use of tree-rings to reconstruct the hydroclimatology of the Slave Delta region of the Northwest Territories, and is a collaborator on a project investigating the effect of synoptic conditions on river-ice breakup in the Peace-Athabasca region.
He is a professor in the Department of Geography at The University of Winnipeg and was named the PARC-Manitoba Hydro Climate Change Research Professor in 2004. Most recently, he became the Director of the Climate Studies Institute at The University of Winnipeg’s Global College. Blair is also an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba, Co-Chair of Manitoba’s Climate Change Connection, and a frequent contributor to newspaper, radio, and television stories about climate variability and global warming.
Dr. Blair has been the faculty lead on the QUEST: North team.
Danny Blair can be reached at d.blair@uwinnipeg.ca