Future Climate Change on the Southern Canadian Prairies:

Water and soil are critical to the prosperity of the southern Canadian prairies. Both have been strongly influenced by historic climate variability, and by even more significant cli-mate changes that have occurred during the Holocene. These observations, together with general circulation model projections of increasing aridity in this region, raise con-cerns about the potential impacts of futureclimate change. Collaborative, multidiscipli-nary research conducted over the past 5 years as part of the Palliser Triangle Global Change Project has focussed on geoscientif-ic aspects of climate change in the driest por-tion of the Canadian prairie provinces. Reconstruction of past climates, based o