It is Saskatoon’s turn to host the Annual Joint Congress of the “Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society” (CMOS) and the “Canadian Geophysical Union” (CGU) with an expected 400 researchers and scientists from across the country in attendance. The purpose of the conference is for attendees to network and share information, from their respective fields of study, to collaborate on climate change, which helps to create policy.

Meteorologists, oceanographers, climatologists, hydrologists, geodesists and biogeoscientists will be in attendance, and will gather to share information, and find ways to be proactive about climate change.

This year’s theme is ‘Resilient Futures’ and deciding a theme each year can be difficult, says Terri Lang, Meteorologist with CMOS.  Lang says the theme needs to be relevant to what’s going on right now, especially with all the changes going on around the globe.

Many sessions and lectures will run during the week with thirteen different themes covering Earth., Water, Ice and the Atmosphere planned.

The conference kicks off Sunday, May 25th at TCU Place with a free public lecture at 7 pm by University of Saskatchewan’s Global Institute for Water Security researcher Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace, who will discuss the issues and challenges associated with water and climate change, and how society can adapt.

A big number of attendees are students and there is a student career fair planned during the conference, giving them an opportunity to network and find out about the opportunities for employment in their field of study.

The conference runs May 25th to May 29th.