“Claude Labine studied and attained his MSc in Agrometeorology at the University of Guelph in 1974. He holds adjunct professorship positions at both University of Alberta and University of British Columbia. He has been involved in environmental monitoring for over 34 years. As an evaluation leader on several United Nations Development Projects, experts in a wide range of fields have called upon Mr. Labnine’s experience. An accomplished writer, researcher, presenter and instructor, Mr. Labine’s main duties at CSC include the support of specialty products such as Eddy Correlation and Bown Ratio systems, marketing, and advertising. He also teaches several “hands-on” instrumentation courses at Canadian universities across the country.” Source: www.campbellsci.ca
Claude’s connection to Polar Bear Pass (PBP) has been long-term. He is our industrial partner. Claude installed the main Automatic Weather Station (AWS) at Polar Bear Pass over 20 years ago. Claude graciously updated the weather station equipment in 2006 and he or one of his CS employees to check on the site, download data and to replace equipment. The site was updated with new equipment in 2012. We recently published a paper in Hydrology Research dealing with the summer climatology of this site and we have started work on a second paper looking at the fall-winter climatology of the site. Claude’s expertise in High Arctic climatology is invaluable and builds upon his 35+ years of working across the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
