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Finance committee No, I don't believe so. First, there's quite a disparity in location. Cambridge Bay is at approximately 69° north; Pearl is at 80° north. That separation is equivalent to the distance from Toronto to Memphis. You wouldn't tell me that the atmosphere is the same over the two of th
May 8th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Fogal
Finance committee No. We have a very advanced group of instruments. In fact, in the Arctic we use the same lab quality instruments that the top research labs in atmospheric science around the world use. We're as close to the cutting edge as we can be on that. I don't think CHARS is going to have a
May 8th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Fogal
Finance committee We're really the only lab outfitted the way we are that far north in the world. There are a couple of labs that are further north, one of them in Alert, but really there's nothing else in the world that does the level of work that we do. We lose sight of what's happening inside
May 8th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Fogal
Finance committee We are involved primarily in measuring atmospheric composition, and that has very important impacts on both global climate change and severe weather. The ozone layer, for example, is the primary engine of the atmosphere. It is where most of the energy goes in, so understanding wh
May 8th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Fogal
Finance committee As scientists, we'd like to think it's very important. You can't go back and measure yesterday's atmosphere, so the first question is: how long is the data record to which you're referring? We at PEARL have been measuring various atmospheric parameters since 2005. Before us, it w
May 8th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Fogal
Finance committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm Pierre Fogal, a senior research associate with the physics department at the University of Toronto, and I serve as site manager of the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory—usually called PEARL. I'm talking to you today in reference to th
May 8th, 2018Committee meeting
Pierre Fogal