{"id":22916,"date":"2022-12-19T15:10:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?post_type=cu-events&#038;p=22916"},"modified":"2024-07-03T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T00:56:37","slug":"observation-nation-shannon-lecture-2","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/event\/observation-nation-shannon-lecture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Observation Nation (Shannon Lecture #2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<h3 id=\"january-16-observation-nation\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22936 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-240x361.jpg\" alt=\"event poster\" width=\"240\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-240x361.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-400x602.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-160x241.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size-360x541.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Alan-MacEachern-poster-492-smaller-size.jpg 798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>January 16: Observation Nation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>7 PM Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan MacEachern, Western University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) was founded in 1871, it saw its principal duty as enlisting an army of ordinary Canadians in daily weather&nbsp;<em>observation<\/em>, with the long-term goal of a steadily improved understanding of the nation\u2019s weather and climate. But the government and public were so enticed by the possibilities of weather&nbsp;<em>prediction<\/em>&nbsp;that the MSC was soon drawn into that. Meanwhile, the observers continued jotting down both quantitative data (temperature, precipitation, etc.) and qualitative remarks (about the changing seasons, extreme weather, etc.) \u2026 but the MSC never found a way, or the time, to use the qualitative ones. With the Environment Canada meteorological collection now at Western University,&nbsp;Alan MacEachern&nbsp;is studying what these records can tell us about Canada\u2019s weather, climate, and people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biography\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biography:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan MacEachern&nbsp;teaches history at Western University. He is the author of&nbsp;<em>The Miramichi Fire: A History<\/em>&nbsp;(McGill-Queen\u2019s, 2020) and co-author of&nbsp;<em>The Summer Trade: A History of Tourism on Prince Edward Island<\/em>&nbsp;(McGill-Queen\u2019s, 2022). He is writing a book about the first century of the MSC\u2019s observation program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle2\">Co-presented with the support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/\">Department of Geography and Environmental Studies<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RSVP:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[151,57],"cu_event_audience":[163,164],"class_list":["post-22916","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-events","cu_event_type-lectures","cu_event_audience-alumni","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2023-01-16 19:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2023-01-16 00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"History Department","cu_event_email":"history@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22939,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/22916\/revisions\/22939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=22916"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=22916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}