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

2:00pm - 2:15pm    Climate change impacts on soybean growth and expansion in Canada
Presenter(s): Ward Smith

2:15pm - 2:30pm    Assessing the impact of grazing management on pastureland albedo and biomass productivity using remote sensing    
Presenter(s): Liangui Liu

2:30pm - 2:45pm    Spatial opportunities and limitations for Southern Ontario specialty crops in current and future climates    
Presenter(s): Charlie Gibbs

2:45pm - 3:00pm    Near Real Time Testing of Vegetation Indices Derived From VIIRS Satellite for Operational Crop Yield Forecasting During 2023 Growing Season    
Presenter(s): Yinsuo Zhang

3:00pm - 3:15pm    Evaluation of a high-resolution L-band-UAV-based instrument for soil moisture characterization    
Presenter(s): Aaron Berg

3:15pm - 3:30pm    Increasing Worldwide Grain Yields in a Changing Climate: An Assessment
Presenter(s): Ray Garnett