Director - Adaptation and Impacts Research Division (AIRD)

4905 Dufferin Street (Toronto, ON)

CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH - Contributing to Environment Canada’s mandate to provide Canadian decision and policy makers, organizations, the private sector, and government with the information needed to achieve sustainability today and in the future

• Promotes and facilitates adaptation to atmospheric change and variability
• Assists in identifying the need for other response options (e.g., mitigation when impacts and/or adaptation responses are deemed unacceptable or insufficient)
• Provides international and national science leadership to help Canadians and Canada understand the impacts of atmospheric change and adapt to the effects

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / INTERESTS

Chair of the International Organizing Committee for World Climate Conference-3, Geneva

Author/Co-Author of more than 300 publications, including the Special Journal Issues of the IPCC Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change: Adaptive Management, 2000 and IPCC Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change: Methodological Issues, 1999; Editor-In-Chief of the Adaptation Science Newsletter and Occasional Paper Series, Environment Canada

Invited keynote addresses to numerous agencies, such as the Royal Society (UK), World Meteorological Organization, Conventions on Climate Change and Biological Diversity, World Forestry Congress, Inter-American Institute for Global Change, UNESCO-MAB, Smithsonian Institution, FAO, and bi-laterals with China, U.S., Caribbean and Panama

Elected Politician – Mayor for the Municipality of Amaranth and County Councillor, Dufferin County, Ontario

KEY PUBLICATIONS

MacIver D., J. Klaassen, M. Taylor, P. Gray, N. Comer, S. Fernandez and H. Auld. 2007. In D. MacIver and J. Klaassen (eds.), Coastal Zone Management Under a Changing Climate in the Great Lakes. Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 22p.

Karsh M., D. MacIver, A. Fenech and H. Auld. 2007. Climate-Based Predictions of Forest Biodiversity Using Smithsonian’s Global Earth Observing Network. Occasional Paper No. 8, Environment Canada, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Toronto, Canada. 10p.

Auld, H., D. MacIver, J. Klaassen, N. Comer and B. Tugwood. 2007. Planning for Atmospheric Hazards and Disaster Management under Changing Climate Conditions. Occasional Paper No. 12, Environment Canada, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Toronto, Canada. 16p.

Fenech, D. MacIver, H. Auld and T. Brydges (eds.), 2006. The Americas: Building the Adaptive Capacity to Global Environmental Change. Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 254 p.

MacIver, D., M. Karsh, N. Comer, J. Klaassen, H. Auld and A. Fenech. 2006. Atmospheric Influences on the Sugar Maple Industry in North America. Occasional Paper No. 7, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada. 21p.

MacIver, D. and E. Wheaton. 2005. Tomorrow's forests: adapting to a changing climate. Climatic Change. 70: 273-282.

Auld, H., D. MacIver, G. Koshida, B. Mills, D. Murray and L. Mortsch. 2005. Summary of Requirements for Agri-Environmental Water Conservation Standards. Report prepared for the Agricultural Policy Framework, Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Environment Canada. 30p.

MacIver, D. 2005. Mainstreaming Adaptation and the Impacts Science into Solutions. Occasional Paper No. 2, Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Environment Canada. 8p.

United Nations Environment Program. 2005. Integration of Biodiversity Considerations in the Implementation of Adaptation Activities to Climate Change at the Local, Subnational, National, Sub-regional and International Levels. Report of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. CBD Expert Report 25, (Expert Group included D. MacIver).

Wheaton, E., H. Auld, G. Koshida and D. MacIver. 2005. Agricultural Water Conservation in Canada: Scoping Pressures, Trends and Vulnerabilities. Report prepared for the Agricultural Policy Framework. Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) Publication No. 11926-1E05 and Adaptation and Impacts Research Group, Environment Canada. 51p.

Fenech, A., D. MacIver, H. Auld, B. Rong and Y.Y. Yin (eds). 2004. Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity. Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 426p.

Auld, H., D. MacIver and J. Klaassen. 2004. Heavy rainfall and waterborne disease outbreaks: the Walkerton example. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 67:1879-1887.

Auld, H., D. MacIver, J. Klaassen, N. Comer and B. Tugwood. 2004. Atmospheric Hazards in Ontario. ACSD Science Assessment Series No. 3, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario. 72p.

MacIver, D. 2004. Mainstreaming adaptation and impacts science into solutions. In A. Fenech, D. MacIver, H. Auld, B. Rong and Y.Y. Yin (eds), Climate Change: Building the Adaptive Capacity, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, p.47-55.

Mirza, M.M.Q., I. Burton, A. Maarouf, B. Taylor, B. Rong, B. Bass, B. Mills, D. Etkin, D. MacIver, G. Koshida, L. Mortsch, P. Gachon, S. Cohen, E. Barrow and R. Street. 2004. SCENARIOS - the long term challenges and looking forward. In E. Barrow, B. Maxwell and P. Gachon (eds), Climate Variability and Change in Canada: Past, Present and Future, ACSD Science Assessment Series No. 2, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, 114p.

Auld, H., D. MacIver, N. Urquizo and A. Fenech. 2002. Biometeorology and Adaptation Guidelines for Country Studies. Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology, October 28 - November 1. Kansas City, USA.