David Sauchyn

Dr. David Sauchyn is Research Professor at the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC) at the University of Regina. Dave's main research interests are the climate and hydrology of the past millenium in Canada's western inerior and how knowledge of the past can inform scenarios of future climate and water supplies. Dave recently was a co-investigator in a five-year multi-disciplinary study of adaptation to climate change in northern Chile and the Canadian plains. He was a lead author of the Canada's National Assessment of Climate Change released in March 2008. Dave has been an invited expert witness on climate change in the Canadian Senate and House of Commons, and at forums hosted by provincial premiers and environment ministers.