ACCA Student Spotlights
Meet our Applied Climate Change and Adaptation students, and learn more about their UPEI experience!
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A team of four Charlottetown Rural High School students designed, built, and tested a solar-powered, eco-friendly buoy to collect oceanic data, working with technicians and instructors of UPEI's Applied Climate Change and Adaptation program.
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Zoe discovered a passion for studying climate change at UPEI after moving to the Island from New Brunswick.
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Third-year Bachelor of Science in Applied Climate Change and Adaptation student Elinor Haldane describes why she chose UPEI, and what's great about the program.
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PhD student Stephanie Arnold is helping farmers adapt to climate change by providing precision agriculture data from the air, thanks to the UPEI Climate Lab's fleet of drones.