A new report published by ESSA scientists, in collaboration with the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), provides guidance for Indigenous communities developing regional hydro-climatic monitoring programs: “Hydro-Climatic Monitoring Roadmap: A guide to enabling hydro-climatic monitoring for Indigenous Communities”. This report (accessible via the CIER […]

We believe in the merits of adaptive management (AM) and ESSA has been practicing it since our origin as a company over 40 years ago. Recently, we have been motivated to find different ways of engaging with the people with whom we work and to […]

Jimena Eyzaguirre was appointed as a member of the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) Expert Panel on Natural Disaster Resilience. The distinguished, multidisciplinary panel is comprised of 13 members from across Canada with extensive expertise, experience, and leadership in emergency management, disaster risk assessment, preparedness […]

The week of October 28, ESSA’s Jimena Eyzaguirre, Natascia Tamburello, Hugh Stimson and Tim Webb delivered a five-day training workshop in Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, giving 14 Caribbean-based fisheries officers the opportunity to test out a Climate-Smart Fisheries Toolkit as part of the Pilot Program […]

In September 2019, ESSA’s Darcy Pickard participated in the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) event, Restore the Earth, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Marking the end of a historic Climate Week that saw cities around the world join in climate strikes and policymakers […]

As scientists, the urgency for more aggressive climate change mitigation and adaptation measures has been on our minds increasingly over the past few years. Climate scientists have estimated the remaining amount of CO2 that can be emitted into the atmosphere by human activities while still holding […]