With the efforts of IEESC staff, a proposal entitled “Western Canada Integrated Environmental Simulation and Risk Assessment associated with Climate Modeling” was recently submitted to Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) for the 2012 Leading Edge Funds (LEF) competition. This proposal was prepared by Mr. Chunjiang An, Dr. Hua Zhang, Ms. Hua Zhu, Mr. Wei Sun, Ms. Jia Wei, Mr. Yao Yao, Mr. Yurui Fan, Mr. Guanhui Cheng, Mr. Xiuquan Wang, Ms. Zhong Li, Ms. Shan Zhao, Mr. Yang Zhou, Mr. Shuo Wang, Ms. Meiqin Suo, Mr. Jingcheng Han, Ms. Jiapei Chen, Mr. Jingyu Zhang, Mr. Lixun Li, Ms. Yuanyuan Zhai, and Ms. Xiujuan Chen. LEF aims to support leading-edge research or technology development activities that strengthen particularly successful and productive activities in areas of institutional strategic priority and enhance the institution’s competitive advantage in these areas.