Top 1% Scholar - Faculty of Arts and Science
Date awarded:
Awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University.
Posts by Collection
awards
Faculty of Arts and Science Graduate Fellowship Scholarship (Masters)
Date awarded:
Awarded by Concordia University. Period Held: 2019-2020.
Hydro-Quebec Master’s Scholarship
Date awarded:
Awarded by Hydro Quebec. Period Held: 2020.
NSERC CGS Master’s Scholarship
Date awarded:
Title: The Effect of Aggressive Mitigation of non-CO2 Emissions on the Effective Transient Climate Response to Cumulative CO2 Emissions
Principal Investigator: Mitchell Dickau
Period Held: 2020-2021
Faculty of Arts and Science Graduate Fellowship Scholarship (Doctoral)
Date awarded:
Awarded by Concordia University. Period Held: 2020-2024.
NSERC PGS-D Doctoral Scholarship
Date awarded:
Title: The Effect of Aggressive Mitigation of non-CO2 Emissions on the Effective Transient Climate Response to Cumulative CO2 Emissions
Principal Investigator: Mitchell Dickau
Period Held: 2021-2024
FRQNT - Master’s Scholarship (B1X)
Date awarded:
Title: L’effet de la mitigation des émissions de gaz autres que le CO2 sur les budgets carbone globaux
Principal Investigator: Mitchell Dickau
Period Held: 2021-2022
Graduate Research Communicator of the Year award for 2024
Date awarded:
Awarded by Concordia University as a part of the President’s Media Outreach Awards.
conferences
Projections of declining outdoor skating availability in Montreal due to global warming
Date:
Authors: Mitchell Dickau and H. Damon Matthews
Presented at the Sustainability in the City and Beyond Conference.
Related Publication
Projections of declining outdoor skating availability in Montreal due to global warming
Date:
Authors: Mitchell Dickau and H. Damon Matthews
Presented at the 27th IUGG General Assembly.
Related Publication
Are the planned rates of CO2 sequestration in the IPCCs aggressive mitigation scenarios achievable and sustainable?
Date:
Authors: Mitchell Dickau
Presented at the Sustainability and the Climate Crisis Conference.
Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario
Date:
Authors: H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, Mitchell Dickau, Alexander MacIsaac, Sabine Mathesius, Claude-Michel Nzotungicimpaye, Amy Luers
Presented at the EGU General Assembly 2022.
Abstract and more information
Investigating the path dependence of climate changes in a 200-member ensemble of overshoot scenarios
Date:
Presented at the EGU General Assembly 2024. More information
Application of tonne-year accounting to track the durability and climate impact of temporary land carbon storage
Date:
Authors: H. Damon Matthews, Amy Luers, and Mitchell Dickau
Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting 2024.
Session Information
The proportionality between tonne-years of temporary carbon storage and inertial climate variables
Date:
Presented at the EGU General Assembly 2025. More information
Effect of land carbon accounting methods on the climate response to cumulative CO2 emissions
Date:
Authors: H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, Alexander MacIsaac, Mitchell Dickau
Presented at the EGU General Assembly 2025.
Abstract and more information
portfolio
publications
Projections of declining outdoor skating availability in Montreal due to global warming
Published in Environmental Research Communications, 2020
Recommended citation: Dickau, M., Matthews, H. D., Guertin, É., & Seto, D. (2020). Projections of declining outdoor skating availability in montreal due to global warming. Environmental Research Communications, 2(5), 051001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab8ca8
Download Paper
Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 C scenario
Published in Communications Earth & Environment, 2022
Recommended citation: Matthews, H. D., Zickfeld, K., Dickau, M., MacIsaac, A. J., Mathesius, S., Nzotungicimpaye, C.-M., & Luers, A. (2022). Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 65. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00391-z
Download Paper
The Role of Remaining Carbon Budgets and Net-Zero CO2 Targets in Climate Mitigation Policy
Published in Current Climate Change Reports, 2022
Recommended citation: Dickau, M., Matthews, H.D. & Tokarska, K.B. The Role of Remaining Carbon Budgets and Net-Zero CO2 Targets in Climate Mitigation Policy. Curr Clim Change Rep 8, 91–103 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-022-00184-8
Download Paper
Frequent pro-climate messaging does not predict pro-climate voting by United States legislators
Published in Environmental Research: Climate, 2022
Recommended citation: Wynes, S., Dickau, M., Kotcher, J. E., Thaker, J., Goldberg, M. H., Matthews, H. D., & Donner, S. D. (2022). Frequent pro-climate messaging does not predict pro-climate voting by United States legislators. Environmental Research: Climate, 1(2), 025011. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/aca8c4
Download Paper
Perceptions of carbon dioxide emission reductions and future warming among climate experts
Published in Communications Earth & Environment, 2024
Recommended citation: Wynes, S., Davis, S.J., Dickau, M. et al. Perceptions of carbon dioxide emission reductions and future warming among climate experts. Commun Earth Environ 5, 498 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01661-8
Download Paper
Temporary land carbon storage can avoid slow-responding climate changes
Published in Nature Communications, 2026
Evaluating the impact of temporary land carbon storage on slow-responding climate variables.
Recommended citation: Dickau, M. & Matthews, H. D. (2026). Temporary land carbon storage can avoid slow-responding climate changes. Nature Communications (Under Review).
Download Paper
Irreversible climate changes driven by degree-years of temperature overshoot
Published in Communications Earth & Environment, 2026
This study investigates the irreversibility of climate changes following temperature overshoots.
Recommended citation: Dickau, M., K. Zickfeld, & Matthews, H. D. (2026). Irreversible climate changes driven by degree-years of temperature overshoot. Communications Earth & Environment (Accepted).
Download Paper
teaching
Geography 272 - The Natural Environment: Air and Water
Undergraduate course, Concordia University, Geography, Planning, and Environment Department, 2022
This course used systems thinking to explore the atmosphere and hydrosphere and to examine how the atmosphere and hydrosphere systems change over time and space. The first section of the course focused on solar energy, the Earth’s energy balance, temperature, and the atmosphere. The second section of the course focused on weather and the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean, water and atmospheric moisture, weather, and water resources. The third and final section of the course focused on river systems, groundwater, oceans, wetlands, the cryosphere, Earth’s climate system, and climate change.