Coastal Zone Canada Conference 2025
2025-06-09 - 2025-06-11
Charlottetown, PEI. “Strengthening Coastal Resilience and Relationships”
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Recognizing the importance of sharing different perspectives, knowledge systems, experiences, and efforts within coastal zones, the focus of this year’s conference is relationships. Whether the relationships are with land, water, ice, wildlife, or humans, their strength and diversity are critical in building collective resilience.
As Canada’s national conference for coastal zone management, we invite everyone who works within coastal zones to come and connect to share our passion for advancing knowledge building, best practices, and social and policy awareness. Drawing engineers, scientists, youth, artists, planners, climate change practitioners, community leaders, and more – this conference looks to push coastal zone management to new heights by bringing together different actors and knowledge holders to facilitate a better understanding of different pressures and opportunities as well as enable more impactful collaborations.

Voices from the Coast: Podcasting Risk, Resilience, and Communication
2025-06-18 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver)
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Have you considered podcasting as a way to communicate with your audience? Podcasting can be a great knowledge mobilization tool for any organization or individual – from students to researchers or research groups, to practitioners (like emergency planners), or NGOs. For coastal risk communication, it can be a ‘new-to-you’ way to reach your audience, for example, with emergency preparedness information or to build relationships by interviewing local communication or preparedness professionals and their audiences. It’s a great way for people to share their on-the-ground experiences as well, which helps messages to resonate. We have additional resources I’ll share with the registrants as well.
Join us online, June 18, 2025, at 10:00 am PT | 1:00 pm ET | 2:00 pm AT | 2:30 pm NL for Voices from the Coast: Podcasting Risk, Resilience, and Communication. We are excited to welcome two Canadian podcasters who will share their perspectives as podcast hosts and producers and discuss topics such as selecting platforms and technologies, generating podcast topics, selecting and interviewing guests, the successes and challenges they’ve encountered, and more. We will have ample time for discussion and questions during the one-hour webinar. You are welcome to forward this invitation to others whom you think might be interested.
PRESENTERS
Angela Antle is the 2025 Rachel Carson Writer in Residence at Germany’s LMU, a former CBC producer, and interdisciplinary PhD candidate at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland. She is the producer and host of the podcast GYRE and a member of Norway’s Empowered Futures: A Global Research School Navigating the Social and Environmental Controversies of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions. Her research intersects climate communications and justice, disinformation, petrocultures, energy futures, and political rhetoric. Featured Episode: GYRE-Nonhumans (offshore oil, North Atlantic, Right Whales, storytelling for empathy)
Michelle Brake is the Technical Marketing Manager at Esri Canada and the host of Geographical Thinking, the company’s podcast that highlights how geographic information systems (GIS) are transforming the way we understand and interact with the world around us. In her role, Michelle engages with GIS professionals and thought leaders from across industries to explore real-world applications of spatial technology. With a background in geography and a passion for clear, compelling storytelling, she brings a unique ability to connect technical concepts with practical insights. Michelle’s work focuses on making GIS more accessible and relevant to a broad audience—whether you’re a seasoned analyst or just discovering the power of place. Featured Podcast Episode: Episode 100 – Climate Action Plans with a Sunny Outlook

Systemic Risks and Climate Extremes Conference and Workshop
2025-09-24 08:00 - 2025-09-26 17:00 UTC
The Climate Extremes Research Group organizes an international conference and workshop in September 2025 on the topic of Systemic Risks and Climate Extremes. The conference and workshop are co-organized and funded by the EU Project – The HuT and the Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS) and supported by WCRP (Safe Landing Climates), UNDRR and the Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events – Reducing Disaster Risks under Environmental Change.
Find out more information in the journal article Climate-driven systemic risk to the sustainable development goals.
Event Website: https://www.fnk.uni-hamburg.de/2-research/research-group-climate-extremes/workshop-systemic-risks-2025.html

Adaptation Futures 2025
2025-10-13 - 2025-10-16
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The 8th international Adaptation Futures Conference (AF2025) will be held in Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand from 13 to 16 October, 2025. It is hosted by the University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha with regional Oceania and international partners.
Adaptation Futures is the flagship event of the United Nations World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP). The premier international climate change adaptation conference series enables practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and academics from across the world to gather to network, collaborate, learn, and inspire.

Living the Lessons: From Impact to Insight - CRNHet Symposium
2026-05-12 - 2026-05-15
The Symposium will take place from May 12-15, 2026 at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, Alberta. NAIT is located on Treaty Six territory, a traditional homeland for the First Nations and Métis Peoples, and today we acknowledge that all of us are part of treaty land. The traditional name is Amiskwaciy Waskahikan [A-misk-wu-chee-wah-sku-hee-gun], which is also known as the City of Edmonton.
This year’s theme “Living the Lessons: From Impact to Insight” reflects a growing urgency to not only learn the lessons of the past but evolve our approach to disaster risk reduction to prepare for a more uncertain future. The time for incremental improvement has passed. From wildfires and floods to pandemics and cascading system failures, we are living through an era of compounding risks and profound disruption. To meet this moment, we must turn impact into insight, and insight into action in order to build stronger, more inclusive communities.
We invite you to submit a proposal that reflects your work, research, or experience in advancing resilience and learning from disruption through sessions designed to spark conversation and encourage participation from all attendees.
This call for proposal describes the themes, session types, and submission guidelines. The symposium includes both in-person and online components.
NOTE: Theme: Understanding Risk and Reducing Impact
Effective disaster risk reduction begins with understanding risk. This theme focuses on how we assess, interpret, and communicate hazard and risk information to drive decision-making and meaningful action.
Possible topics include:

Risk assessment methods and findings
Integrating science and local knowledge
Translating insight into policy and practice

The deadline for applications is Sunday, November 2, 2025.
