René Brunet

Since 2000, René has worked for Environment Canada's Biosphere, an environment museum. He is a Distance Learning and Videoconference Coordinator for pedagogic and public programs concerning weather, climate and the environment. In autumn 2005, as Montreal welcomed the International Climate Change Conference, he served as scientific advisor to the International Youth Delegation. He has been speaker and specialist for thousands of presentations on Climate Change and related subjects to media outlets, schools, and the general public. With the Association professionnelle des meteorologistes du Québec, he gave presentations to hundreds of schools across Québec He became a Climate Leader in January 2007, and served on the Board of Directors of Climate Reality Canada in 2007 and 2008. He also served as mentor, science advisor and trainer for Al Gore's 3 day training seminar in Montreal in April 2008. More than 25 years of his career has been in television. He served as on-air weathercaster and specialist to Global Television Québec and CBC-TV-NewsWatch and CBC radio in Montreal. In association with a production company, he hosted, wrote, and co-produced a series of 13-2 minute reports about Climate Change which aired on CBC-NewsWorld and Radio-Canada. In his ten years with The Weather Network, he was a forecaster, trainer, on-air weathercaster and specialist. He hosted and co-wrote numerous educational, 'weather-info' type segments, as well as 2-one hour documentaries on El Niño/La Niña. Prior to 1989, he worked for several television stations in the United States where he was weathercaster and produced and hosted several documentaries on weather and hurricanes. In 1999, he was commissioned by St.Remi Press to design, research, and co-write a book about the weather/climate for the Discovery Channel. He was born and raised in New Orleans and has a bachelor's degree in Meteorology with a minor in television communications.