This session focuses on understanding relationships between climate and land-based resource sectors such as agriculture, forestry and water in order to ensure the resiliency of these sectors. We invite contributions that expand our knowledge base on how we can use past, present and future climates to better adapt and reduce costs associated with climate change, variability and extreme events. We encourage submissions related (but not limited to) any of the following sub-themes: Exploring productivity limitations under different climatic regimes. Integrating climate extremes in ecosystem models. Mainstreaming climate information in resource-based sectors. Trend, magnitude, frequency and severity analysis of sector specific climate indices under the past, present and future climate scenarios. Empirical/process-based methods for estimating climate variability impacts on ecosystems across multiple spatio-temporal scales. Translating weather forecasts into useful decision support tools for natural resource managers. Remote sensing applications in land surface meteorology, agriculture and forestry Modelling or measurement-based studies from the following sciences and fields are encouraged: agriculture, forestry, remote sensing, hydrology, climatology, geography, insurance, transportation, energy, actuary and media.

Conveners: Catherine Champagne, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Timi Ojo, Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Dev; Yinsuo Zhang, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

10:30am - 10:45am Long-term climate impacts on the conifer-hardwood forests of eastern North America    
Presenter(s): Konrad Gajewski

10:45am - 11:00am A Machine Learning Approach for Estimating Drought Extend and Severity in Canada    
Presenter(s): Catherine Champagne

11:00am - 11:15am Hydrological imapcts of virtual water trade under post-drought conditions in Western Canada: implications for cropping management    
Presenter(s): Monireh Faramarzi

11:15am - 11:30am Land Suitability Mapping of Specialty Crops in Southern Ontario: Examining the role of topographic factors    
Presenter(s): Aaron Berg

11:30am - 11:45am Unveiling surface and subsurface contributions to evapotranspiration in a snow-dominated watershed in western Canada    
Presenter(s): Luis Carlos Serrano Diaz

11:45am - 12:00pm Effectiveness of agricultural Best Management Practices under changing climate    
Presenter(s): Elmira Hassanzadeh