Background
The NSERC CREATE grant “Training for novel approaches in quantitative climate science” is an exciting opportunity for undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students to obtain funding to participate in an enhanced undergrad/grad school experience. The goal of this training program is to foster deep, long-term, cross-sector collaborations (i.e., academia, government and industry) in climate science that are rooted in quantitative tools and to provide a pipeline of trainees for these sectors to access.
Students studying within the broad scope of quantitative climate science (QCS) at the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, McGill University, and Dalhousie University are invited to apply. Participants will pursue interdisciplinary research with internationally-recognized researchers from these universities, in rapidly growing areas spanning data-centric/high-performance computing in QCS, artificial intelligence in QCS, and computational oceanography. You can learn more about the research team and their areas of expertise here.
Program highlights
Highlights of program participation are:
- an annual summer school where you will meet and interact with other CREATE participants,
- specialized training modules on topics not typically covered in grad school courses,
- professional development workshops to hone your writing and oral presentation skills, and other “soft skills,”
- opportunities for academic exchanges with partner universities, and paid internships,
- opportunities to obtain conference travel funding to present your research,
- networking with other CREATE trainees and experts from the participating universities, as well as from government and industry,
- and more!