Mission Mandate Objectives Policies Scientific Review Committee Louis LaPierre, Ph.D. Jean Huot, Ph.D. Gerry Parker Fred Roots, Ph.D. David Schneider, Ph.D. Bruce Turner Board of Directors Constitution Labrador	Frederick (Fred) Roots Fred Roots is a Science Advisor Emeritus, Environment Canada, Ottawa, He is a meteorologist, geologist, and ecologist. He has conducted field work and co-ordinated multi-disciplinary studies in northern Canada and polar regions since 1946. He is a founder, and director of Polar Continental Shelf Project from 1958-71. Fred Roots was a participant in UN Stockholm Conference on Human Environment 1972, in founding of UNEP, and in many UNEP and UNESCO activities. He was an Executive Secretary and then a member of the Executive Canadian Environmental Advisory Council from 1960-1992. He helped develop Federal Environmental Assessment and Review Office and served on first Canadian Environmental Assessment and Review Panel (Point Lepreau Nuclear Power Development) in 1974. Fred Roots was chairman of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council from 1986-91 and Co-chair of the Environmental Scientific Review Group, Nuclear Fuel Waste Environmental Assessment and Review Panel from 1990-1996. He is Chair of the UNESCO MAB Northern Sciences Network (1982-) and was Chair of the Advisory Board, Impact Assessment Centre, Carleton University, 1993-1997. Contact 6790 East Sooke Road Sooke, B.C. V0S 1N0 Tel: (819) 997-2393 Fax: (819) 997-5813 Email: fred.roots@ec.gc.ca Return to home page