{"id":15941,"date":"2012-03-28T12:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=15941"},"modified":"2012-03-28T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T18:56:48","slug":"president-of-world-meteorological-association-speaking-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/03\/president-of-world-meteorological-association-speaking-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"President of World Meteorological Organization speaking at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15943\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15943\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15943 \" title=\"dgrimes-image-from-bnews-article\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/dgrimes-image-from-bnews-article-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Grimes\" width=\"206\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Grimes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Brock are hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/calendar-events\/19051\">Distinguished Alumni Lecture<\/a> this Friday, March 30, at the University.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture will feature David Grimes, a Brock grad (BSc &#8217;75) who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmo.int\/pages\/governance\/president\/president_en.html\">President of the World Meteorological Organization<\/a> (WMO). He is also Assistant Deputy Minister and Head of Environment Canada&#8217;s Meteorological Service of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Grimes will deliver a public talk on climate variability and change and share his perspective on the challenges it presents.<\/p>\n<p>His talk, &#8220;Climate Variability and Change: An International Science and Policy Challenge,&#8221; takes place Friday, March 30 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Pond Inlet. This event is free and everyone is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Grimes will also be receiving an <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=15532\">Alumni of Distinction Award<\/a> at this weekend&#8217;s celebrations taking place Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> Environment Canada News Release (May 25, 2011): &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.gc.ca\/default.asp?lang=En&amp;n=714D9AAE-1&amp;news=21108326-AC72-4BAE-B850-37550EFD2AD5\">Canadian to Lead World Meteorological Organization<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Grimes, President of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), will speak at a Faculty of Mathematics and Science Distinguished Alumni Lecture this Friday, March 30 . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15941"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15948,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions\/15948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}