DR. HUGO BELTRAMI AWARDED $1.4 MILLION FOR TIER I CRC IN CLIMATE DYNAMICS RENEWAL

Dr. Hugo Beltrami, a professor in StFX’s Department of Earth Sciences, has had his Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Climate Dynamics renewed for an additional seven years. e Honourable FrançoisPhilippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, recently announced the government investment of over $139 million to support 176 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs across 46 institutions in Canada. e CRC renewal carries $1.4 million in research funding. CRC Tier 1 chairs are awarded to outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their elds. Dr. Beltrami has held a Tier 1 CRC in Climate Dynamics since 2015. e focus of Dr. Beltrami’s CRC program for the next seven years will be on characterization of the heat and mass transfer regime between the lower atmosphere and the rst few hundred meters of the Earth’s crust. e proposed program is articulated around four axes: (1) Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI): e Temperature of the Earth. (2) Paleoclimate Modelling (3) Evolution of Permafrost (4) Land from Space. “ e renewal of Dr. Beltrami’s Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Climate Dynamics for a further seven-year period signi es the internationally recognized impact of the research he and his students have undertaken in an e ort to understand heat exchange near the Earth’s surface,” says Dr. Richard Isnor, StFX Associate Vice-President Research & Graduate Studies.

Marie Walsh is Chief Administrative O cer at Cape Breton Regional Municipality. She graduated from StFX with her BBA and received her CGA designation in 1992. Ms. Walsh recently served on the A ordable Housing Commission of Nova Scotia and currently sits on the Provincial/Municipal Service Exchange Renegotiation and Municipal Government Act Review. She is also treasurer of the Destination Cape Breton Board of Directors. She resides in Westmount, NS with her husband and is fortunate to have her three boys, their wives and two granddaughters all living in CBRM.